Dutch football rioters turn themselves in following SMS

Following yesterday's post on the Dutch police sending out 17,000 text messages, requesting football fans to help track down the hooligans involved in the riot on the day of the Feyenoord-Ajax football match last April, Engadget reports that "the mobile carriers operating the airwaves on the premises, both tracked and divulged to the police the numbers and names of the accounts of all fans present with an active mobile phone".

And thinking they had been fingered, four suspects contacted the police after getting the SMS, and a fifth has just turned himself in.

emily | 8:40 AM | Citizens as Informants |
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