I was watching
this report on crime that occurs inside Cleveland area public libraries and found all the bits with Mike Cooper to be extremely amusing. Mike Cooper is a 23-year-old from Berea, Ohio who has the bad habit of going into the public library and looking at porn sites while whacking it.
One day Carl Monday, an investigative reporter for WKYC, caught it all on tape and confronted Mike about it outside the library. Mike denied it for awhile, then finally admitted it. He didn't have the sense to run away from the cameras instead of just standing there admitting what a weird perv he is. Then the news crew went to Mike's House and spoke to his parents. His father, Larry Cooper, got extremely irate about the whole thing, grabbed the microphone and threw it, and made all kinds of threats to the cameraman and Carl Monday.
I think to myself, "I have to talk to these people!" I rewatched the video to find out that they lived in Berea, Ohio. Then by pausing the frames recorded at Mike's house, I could just barely make out the house number. I could tell it was 2 digits and started with a 7. A little searching on my CD-ROM phone books and I found Larry A. Cooper's complete address and phone number. Which I won't post here.
THEN I managed to find
Mike Cooper's Myspace! I browsed through all of his friends' profiles, hoping to find some pictures to confirm that it was him.
This guy has two pictures of Mike. They are
here and
here. In the 2nd picture, some guy from Cleveland actually makes a reference to the library incident in the comments section. And that picture is just begging to be photoshopped.
So why am I posting all of this? Well, because the news thing is damn funny. And I found him and his Myspace. And I bet he'd
love to have lots of new Myspace friends. Spessa & I pranked him and his father a lot yesterday but he refused to say very much. On the first call he told me that I had the wrong number. On most of the calls after that, he just sat there and listened. We're not sure if we were talking to Mike or Larry. Hmmm, maybe I
do have the wrong number...
