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February 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A high school football coach in Maine lost his job after accidentally posting a nude photo of himself to Facebook.
Paul Withee said he intended to send the photo privately to a friend but it ended up appearing on his Facebook page for his entire social network to see.
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Withee was the varsity football coach at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School and a middle school science and math teacher. He resigned from all three positions on Monday, a week after the photo went up, according to the Associated Press.
Withee said the photo was posted for less than half an hour before he realized his mistake and took it down. But a parent had already seen the nude shot and reported it to school officials.
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“I’m embarrassed, I’m ashamed, I’m humiliated,” Withee told Maine’s Sun Journal newspaper.
School Superintendant Rick Colpitts told the AP that he believes Withee’s claim that he did not intend for his students or players to see the photo. No students were among Withee’s Facebook friends, according to Colpitts.
“You have to be careful with what you do with social media,” Withee told the Sun Journal. “You can get yourself into a lot of trouble and something you love can be taken away from you just like this.”
Assuming this was an accident, do you think Withee should have lost his job? Why or why not? Let us know in the comments.
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Cappie Pondexter
After a tsunami devastated Japan this March, Cappie Pondexter of the WNBA’s New York Liberty tweeted, “What if God was tired of the way they treated their own people in there own country! Idk guys he makes no mistakes.” Later she continued hypothesizing with this tweet: “u just never knw! They did pearl harbor so you can’t expect anything less.” Predictably, Pondexter’s tweets sparked a strong backlash, and she eventually took to Twitter again, this time to apologize (left).
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This story originally published on Mashable here.
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