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Despite the fact that Adam Wheeler has been charged with larceny, identity fraud, falsifying an endorsement or approval, and pretending to hold a degree, he might actually have supporters. There is now a Facebook fan page called "Free Adam Wheeler!" that has, in its description, a summary of Wheeler's crimes but ends with what seems to be the premise of the fan-page: "Hey, everyone makes mistakes...
Erika L. Zeiters, a fan who said she was in Wheeler's grade at Caesar Rodney High School, wrote to us in a Facebook message that she and Adam dated for a very brief time in ninth grade but continued to be friends during the next few years. "In high school, he was a really nice kid," she said. "He was quiet and shy, but super nice and funny. I never saw any signs of him as being weird or lying." Zeiters said she joined the Facebook page because of her connection to Wheeler, but she added that she does...
Most of the fans, though, do not seem to be acquainted with Wheeler. Many of them humorously admire Wheeler's cleverness—one fan even compared him to Frank Abagnale, whose trickery was dramatized in the movie Catch Me If You Can. Other fans, in response to a status update stating that Wheeler is being held on $5000 cash bail, volunteered to donate money to get him out of jail. One ambitious fan suggested that she could even sell her PS3 to raise money for the bail...
Wheeler wrote that he was not a fan of sports, calling them “a neighborhood faux-pas of epic proportions,” and that he planned to study the humanities at Harvard...
Some have argued that the use of the Taser was justified in the Phillies case because it will deter other fans from engaging in similar behavior. However, just one day after the baseball incident, another Phillies fan ran onto the field, suggesting that the Tasing may have had the opposite effect. In fact, the popularity of the footage from the Phillies incident on YouTube—where the user comments largely poke fun at the incident—is somewhat troubling, since it suggests that the public does not take Tasers as seriously as it should...