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?
It's a question that we've all been asked: "If your friends all jumped off of a bridge, would you?" It's meant to be rhetorical, but the question is getting an answer that few would expect from a group of friends in South Wales in the U.K. Seven teenagers in Brigend, Wales have killed themselves in a string of suicides, with two more hospitalized after attempting to do the same. According to a string of articles in the U.K., the teenagers were seemingly trying to earn themselves a memorial page on social networking site Bebo.
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Pamela said 9:24PM on 1-23-2008
See, this is way my children can't go to those social networks. My oldest sons have told me it's crazy on them. People arguing all the time, and people hacking you webpage. One of my oldest sons is dating a girl he met on the Myspace, I really don't like it but he is grown and has to live his life the way he sees fit. I think she was talking to someone else before him, and my son told me that this person kept text messaging his phone and he thought it was funny. Well I didn't think it was funny and I asked him who gave him his cell phone number? Then my son started looking stupid, lord, help us.
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web said 6:47AM on 1-24-2008
Darwin was correct. Also, what is up with people and this mob mentality of sports, shopping, and going to sit in movie seats and stare at a wall of colors for 90 minutes?
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Daniel Gaunt said 8:39AM on 1-28-2008
I'm not surprised that young people feel suicidal in the uk, we're over run by chavs and the government is just dumb. if someone just told them that there are better countries out there it might have stopped these suicides
http://freeextras.blogspot.com/
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Lauren said 9:15AM on 2-17-2008
Social contagion is a powerful force in adolescent life, but parents and siblings can offset negative influences by showing an active interest in the thoughts and dreams of young people. There is nothing quite so powerful to a young person (or anybody else, for that matter)as a caring other who wants to share your experiences.
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ronda said 12:51AM on 3-12-2008
My son also committed suicide, the youth today just seem to live for the day. I am AMAZED at the My Space contents, many of the youth in this area have a goal for their life, and that is to commit suicide. Is there not anything that a parent can do to stop these kids from making this tragic mistake? Is there not a way to hold the wed sites partly liable? My son was a minor, just 16, and I hear that he had My Space sites that I didn't even know about. He was bipolar and austistic. How can we protect them when they can post all these feelings that they have and we as parents are NOT allowed access to the sights.
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K.J LEE said 6:16PM on 3-13-2008
The ultimae tragedy of this situation is the fact that we are watching a new form of "poupulation" control. Suicide has always been a part of our "taker" culture meaning that as a society we take resources and lives and leave behind a footprint of destruction. Life is cheap in a taker society and that should deeply concern each and evryone of us, as humans. This exemplifies self-destruction that many argue is human nature, I believe otherwise. In my opinion it is the nature of the civilization we currently live in. Yes the world is Overpoupulated by 10 times, but this would never had been an issue if 10,000 years ago we became a "leaver" culture and civilization would never had flourished. This makes me sick because I yearn to live in this leaver culture because every person is very important because they are depended on by all others in the tribe. A society where the Elders raise the young, I think this would give young people confidence and wisdom to know that such a permanent soulution to a temporary problem is just not an option. I personally have been depressed enough to contemplate it and there was nobody there to care or even talk to me as why I would chose this path. The parents are not to blame. Instead we shall place the blame on society itself. This is a wake-up call to create new ideas and ways to live as to how we conduct ourselves daily and as a group. the internet is great when the conversations are productive. But it also has a darkside and the ones who chose to be the Darkones are cowards because they know that if they were to say these things to a person face to face they would have a conflict. so technology becomes a tool for the wicked just as it is an important tool for the good.
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Samantha said 11:15AM on 10-24-2008
I've attempted suicide before and got hospitalized. I never did it to get my own memorial page though. I had the typical question that would people miss me if I were dead? To tell the truth, I don't even know if I would have a memorial page if I died.
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patti said 12:09PM on 11-21-2008
THIS STORY ABOUT THE 19 YEAR OLD COMMITTING SUCIDE ON LIVE CAM JUST BLOWS ME AWAY I JUST DON,T UNDERSTAND HOW ANYONE COULD,NT SEE THAT BOY WAS CRYING OUT FOR HELP OBVIOUSLY THE BODYBUILDING PLACE MUST OF THOUGHT HE WAS JOKING I DON,T THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE THIS SIGHT ON THE INTERNET
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