Stop Helping Me: murder by auto-correct

[Sydde]

A Manchester man killed a friend over a text message that came out incitefully wrong. He meant to write "mutter" but the iPhone decided he meant "nutter". His friend stormed over to his flat, a fight ensued, much stabbing, death. Both of these guys seem to be/have been pretty grossly unbalanced.

Story in the Daily Mail

(Oddly, as I was typing this, I started typing "wite", meaning to type "write" and it offered me "witenagemot"??)

 

[gkarris]

wow, that's way too but.

 

[R94N]

I have made some badly spelt tweets with autocorrect but that's in a completely different league.

 

[redAPPLE]

i'd love to know what sentence he wrote with the word "mutter".

and what sentence would make a guy go berserk with a word "nutter" in it.

i can imagine, the sentence would not make a lot of sense.

 

[Fubar1977]

Sounds like there were much bigger issues here than a simple spelling error.

 

[velocityg4]

Sounds like there were much bigger issues here than a simple spelling error.

Perhaps he took being a grammar nazi too seriously.

 

[notjustjay]

Sounds like there were much bigger issues here than a simple spelling error.

Yeah, seriously. I don't think there's ANYTHING that anyone could text me, spelling error or no, that would cause me to fly into a murderous rampage.

 

[iowamensan]

I wonder if it will show up on damnyouautocorrect.com?

 

[iJohnHenry]

Yeah, seriously. I don't think there's ANYTHING that anyone could text me, spelling error or no, that would cause me to fly into a murderous rampage.

See the Asperger's thread.

 

[21stcenturykid]

The iPhone was clearly correct that man was a nutter!

 

[Merthyrboy]

Thats a pretty drastic reaction for a misspelt word. The amount of wounds that he inflicted as well to that spelling mistake.