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As reported in El Reg:
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A Florida teen pleaded guilty to manslaughter this week after using his blog to confess to causing an alcohol-fueled car accident. Blake Ranking, 18, a passenger in a car who seized the wheel and caused a crash that killed his friend and left another seriously injured told police he had no memory of the incident. But he confessed to causing the crash on his blurty.com blog three days after the October 2004 accident that fatally injured his best friend, 17 year-old Jason Coker, local paper The Orlando Sentinel reports.
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Blogging can be a cathartic process but I am not sure I like the precedent of confessing to crimes and misdemeanours on a blog.

While I have nothing as juicy as DUI manslaughter to fess up to, there are certainly more than a few morally questionnable episodes. For example, I once [deleted] the [deleted] of a [deleted], which most people would agree is pretty reprehensible.

I guess the plus-side is that blog surfing would gain a certain frisson.

Perhaps, in the spirit of 'I'll show you mine if you show me yours,' there should be an International Confession Day. Everyone gets to confess an action that was illegal, immoral, shameful or plain ugly that they have done in the last year and then gets the rest of the year to misbehave.

Obviously I am too much of a slacker to set this up myself, but it would be cool if someone did. To get you started, I have checked whether www.internationalconfessionday.com and .org are available, and they are, so get to work.

Meanwhile I will get to work on some acts of turpitude.