Elderly Amish Man Caught on Film With Prostitute, Blackmailed
When a 75-year-old Amish widower slept with a prostitute, he -- we feel certain -- felt pretty bad about it the next morning. As if that guilt weren't enough for the old man, the prostitute and her boyfriend demanded $67,000 from him, claiming that they had filmed the scene with wall-mounted cameras and would upload the recording to the Internet. The pair was later arrested and, we can only imagine, the Amish man abhorred technology more than ever.
Bank Robber Gets Away With the Help of Craiglist
In October, a bank robber -- wearing a safety vest, blue shirt, face mask and goggles -- eluded police with the help of Craiglist. Just outside the bank, while the robbery was in progress, stood a group of men who were responding to a Craiglist day labor opportunity. As the advertisement required, they were all wearing safety vests, blue shirts, face masks and goggles.
Nude New Zealander Arrested After Responding to Fake Sexy Text Message
Late in 2007, a Wellington, New Zealand man received a racy text message from two anonymous "ladies," giving him only an address and a request that he show up naked. Well, he indeed showed up naked... at the home of one appalled, unsuspecting New Zealander. Both the nude Romeo and the sadistic texter were arrested, though neither were prosecuted.
Fake Craiglist Ad Costs Man Most of What He Owns
Last Spring, a post appeared on an Oregon Craigslist board stating that the owner of a specific house was leaving all of his worldly possessions (still in said house) to whoever wanted them. When homeowner Robert Salisbury rushed home -- on a tip from a woman suspicious about the offer of a free horse -- he found his house being ransacked by 30 strangers. We suggest he take that horse and collect some vengeance Clint Eastwood-style.
17-Year-Old Jailed for Stealing Virtual 'Furniture'
When a 17-year-old Dutch boy hacked into several accounts on the Second Life-style site 'Habbo' in 2007, the the law got involved. The boy was discovered to have stolen $5,800 worth of virtual furniture and knick-knacks. Apparently, crime -- whether actual or virtual -- does not pay.
Phishers Going After Your Phones in New 'Vishing' Trend
Over the past year, sneaky spammers have begun to forsake the worn-out territory of e-mail in favor of cell phones' fertile frontier. The result? "Vishing." Get it? Voice mail phishing. It might be more ominous if it didn't sound like a James Bond villain saying, "Wishing."
Burglars Break Into Restaurant, Steal HDTV, Leave Money / Food Behind
Around Halloween of last year, a truckload of thieves drove into -- that's right, into -- a Pennsylvania Mexican restaurant, where they -- apparently uninterested in the cash register -- stole a mid-grade 47-inch HDTV and fled the scene. We've all heard about how this generation is lacking in ambition, but this generation's thieves, too?
At 12 years old, most of us could barely raise our textbook-filled backpacks, never mind $6.5 million in funding. But that's exactly what Silicon Valley 6th grader Arjun Mehta has done. Way back when he was in 5th grade (last year), Mehta started PlaySpan in the family garage. PlaySpan is a service that works with gaming companies to sell virtual goods inside of their online worlds -- rather fitting since the money to start PlaySpan came from the sale of virtual items Mehta had won by finishing quests in various games. Though the company has yet to launch, it claims to have already signed up seven game companies as customers.
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Chris said 12:21PM on 9-20-2007
Wow. Some 6th graders can't even afford a winter coat to go to school in, some go to school and have to share textbooks becuase school funding is shot. This kid gets 6.5 million in funding for a GAME company that hasn't even lifted off of the ground yet. And we wonder why this world is going down the tubes. What wonderful priorities we all have.
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zakk said 7:04PM on 9-20-2007
It's sort of misleading saying that he's getting that much money. His company is getting the money sure, but he's not getting a chunk from it until the company takes off.
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kenshinro7 said 11:37AM on 9-21-2007
You know I was around his age when I and a group of my friends worked on a videogame concept, I was the leader of course at 13 yrs old, and had some very awesome ideas, since we were young it took us only 3 months to to do what a major company does in a whole year. Our computer teacher husband worked for atari who had conetions with midway games the makers of mortal combat. Well long story short her husband took our ideas we never got them back until the end of our school year some was missing and oh yeah we didn't have a real copyright, and so we were told that our ideas were not needed, yet they were stolen and used in various mortal combat games up until the last mortal combat that has come out, but they were smart they just stole moves from us not orginal characters and they stole death moves and styles that we had for our orginal characters, we received no funding but a big fat stealing ideas from innocent young kids that didn't know what a real copyright ment at that time. But good luck with this kid whoever he is and kudous too him.
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steve said 8:22PM on 3-25-2008
Hi Chris, Welcome to the reality. How is this world going down the tubes. Should the investors in this new company not invest their money? Should they just give it away. Oh yeah they tried that already. It is called socialism and communism. Go find you a dictator to take all your money from you.
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Tom said 7:39AM on 4-01-2008
Hey, give me $6.5 million. I can invest it in a little thing called life. Whose going to get sued if he takes the money and runs? Remember now, he's under age.
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Bear said 10:03PM on 4-07-2008
Oh people shut your whining.
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