Tag: VIGILANTE

Philadelphia police have spent the last month looking for a man accused of being involved in at least three murders and several sexual assaults. Last night, it appeared that the hunt had finally come to an end, when a group of community members gathered outside the home of 24-year-old Triz Jefferies, who was identified as the so-called 'Kensington Strangler' by a group of vigilantes organized ...

As India's middle class has swollen in recent years, so too has its share of untrained drivers. As a result, the country now endures more traffic-related fatalities than any other nation, and weaving through any of its major cities has become a feat of Herculean proportion. Police in Delhi, though, recently stumbled upon an entirely new approach to controlling the city's roadway pandemonium: ...

Daring heists of Apple gadgets occur so frequently, and with such violent gusto, that rather ordinary robberies seem incredibly mundane by comparison. An assault on an Oregon AT&T store, and the plundering of its iPhones, has made headlines for one highly uncharacteristic occurrence, though. The twist in this frantic tale involves an arrest, but the captured perp wasn't even one of the ...

What happens when location-based technology meets fear-based politics? We're not entirely sure, but based on what we've seen from a new app that claims to merge the two, we're not sure we really want to find out, either. Offering the opportunity to "earn tons of cool badges," 'SnapScouts' is a location-based app for Android that encourages users to take photos of people engaging in "suspicious ...

It's a good thing we don't get tired of hearing about dumb criminals, because the stories keep on coming. In the latest, a 22-year-old Bronx man was completely owned by an Xbox 360 (with a little help from its former owner, too). According to the New York Post, an unnamed kid whose console had been recently stolen noticed his Xbox Live ID become active while he was playing an online game on ...

If you're the sort who's into scoring headshots in your video gaming adventures, chances are you've become quite friendly with the Xbox 360's weapon of choice: the gray and white controller. Its two analog sticks, directional-pad, and dozen-or-so buttons let you drive high-powered race cars or fire high-powered rifles with easy precision. In an extreme case of life imitating game, it's now being ...

The Internet has empowered people to do things they wouldn't normally have had the chance to do: Write, sell photographs, start a business, and, in some cases, become a crusader for justice. Internet vigilantism isn't necessarily new, but it has grown in power and popularity as the Web has become more social and access to it has become more widespread. The folks at Cracked, purveyors of ...

Rufus Terrill, who owns a bar in downtown Atlanta called O'Terrill's, has grown weary of the drug dealers and vagrants he says frequent the neighborhood. Rather than put the police on speed dial or hire private security guards, Terrill has created his own private one robot security squad to keep the undesirable elements away. The unnamed robot, affectionately referred to as either Robo-Cop or ...