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?
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GhostDoggy said 7:42AM on 11-24-2008
I have talked to a handful of parents about the continued old form of public education. This form is one in which students are physically congregated into a centralized locations where a teacher teaches and students try to learn.
Well, this was fine before the advent of computers and the Internet, but we now live in the age of information, which include the transport and accessibility of information. And information available by computer and Internet isn't limited to documents, but also broadcast style information.
When presented with this new form of decentralized virtual congregation style of education the parents usually fall back on the inability for social development. To put not too fine of a point on it, they claim their child will not and can not develop socially without traditional congregated form of student interaction.
While I consider this a cop out, many parents feel this way and are emotionally charged in defending their position. In fact, most parents of children I have spoken with see no wrong in the existing system, and only see individual incidents worth critical analysis.
Yet, my reply to this is always that as a human I developed socially much more from within my family and then again within my neighborhood. I learned to observe and interact at the cinema with friends, at the malls and parks, etc.
The point is that whether or not the public school system is there to teach students how to interact with other students or if it is there to learn something they cannot or will not get from social interaction. My premise for asking this query is one in which parents want this seemingly free daycare, and as long as a piece of paper says they are doing 'ok' then why change the free daycare?
And with this age of technology the notions endured over the centuries should think outside the [school] box and consider that their child isn't so much being sold short in using a decentralized virtual congregated form of education and that maybe, just maybe, their child can learn develop socially on the computer instead of the classroom.
And when taken into a complete context, parents need to realize that their responsibility in their child's social development should not be mainly in the classroom, but from within their home and their local community at large.
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GhostDoggy said 7:42AM on 11-24-2008
I have talked to a handful of parents about the continued old form of public education. This form is one in which students are physically congregated into a centralized locations where a teacher teaches and students try to learn.
Well, this was fine before the advent of computers and the Internet, but we now live in the age of information, which include the transport and accessibility of information. And information available by computer and Internet isn't limited to documents, but also broadcast style information.
When presented with this new form of decentralized virtual congregation style of education the parents usually fall back on the inability for social development. To put not too fine of a point on it, they claim their child will not and can not develop socially without traditional congregated form of student interaction.
While I consider this a cop out, many parents feel this way and are emotionally charged in defending their position. In fact, most parents of children I have spoken with see no wrong in the existing system, and only see individual incidents worth critical analysis.
Yet, my reply to this is always that as a human I developed socially much more from within my family and then again within my neighborhood. I learned to observe and interact at the cinema with friends, at the malls and parks, etc.
The point is that whether or not the public school system is there to teach students how to interact with other students or if it is there to learn something they cannot or will not get from social interaction. My premise for asking this query is one in which parents want this seemingly free daycare, and as long as a piece of paper says they are doing 'ok' then why change the free daycare?
And with this age of technology the notions endured over the centuries should think outside the [school] box and consider that their child isn't so much being sold short in using a decentralized virtual congregated form of education and that maybe, just maybe, their child can learn develop socially on the computer instead of the classroom.
And when taken into a complete context, parents need to realize that their responsibility in their child's social development should not be mainly in the classroom, but from within their home and their local community at large.
Reply