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The Internet's wrath is like the internet's love.....

post #1 of 16
3/24/08 at 3:01pm
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http://kotaku.com/371311/digg-bitch-...for-360-ransom

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The Internet's got Jesse McPherson's back.

On March 12 McPherson returned from SXSW to discover that his home had been broken into and that the burglar had made off with his Xbox 360, an old Powerbook and a television.

Familiar with the competence of the Philadelphia police, McPherson decided to hunt for the items himself and soon found that the burglar had tried to sell his laptop at a local pawn shop, which has images of the guy from their camera. He tries to give the info to police, but never hears back.

Fast forward to Friday when McPherson's workmates present him with a replacement Xbox 360. He goes home, hooks it up and discovers a voice message on his 360 from some guy saying he has his 360 and wants cash to give it back. Better still the idiot uses his current account to leave the message.

McPherson calls police again and is hung up on... so he turns things over to the Internet and business is handled.

As everyone probably knows mob justice is a bitch and Digg Mob justice makes that look pretty. Since the story hit Digg the person who left the message asking for 360 ransom has been identified, his address and high school location posted, he's been harassed, seemingly endlessly, via AIM.

Eventually the kid caved and told his parents, McPherson was, apparently in touch with them and now seems to have all of his stuff back. According to his Twitter, the kid actually hand-delivered some of the stolen goods on Sunday.

Makes you feel good inside doesn't it?
You can click through the links in this guy's blog to get the rest of the story, including Wigger McDipshit's voice message, which is enough to invalidate any pangs of guilt anyone might have had for this kid getting his ass handed to him by the internets.

I love this story so much, I want to have sex with it.
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post #2 of 16
3/24/08 at 3:09pm
This is great.
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post #3 of 16
3/24/08 at 3:14pm
Read about this earlier today. Nice to see Digg do something constructive, for once, instead of going on and on with their bickering and complaints.
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post #4 of 16
3/24/08 at 3:26pm
Gotta love
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post #5 of 16
3/24/08 at 4:11pm
The lack of cop response is no surprise though. It reminds me of the scene from Big Lewboski with the cops. It is good that this worked out for him, most crooks are not this stupid. Or not at least this lacking in street smarts.
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post #6 of 16
3/24/08 at 4:18pm
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Originally Posted by Trejo View Post
Gotta love
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post #7 of 16
3/24/08 at 5:46pm
I don't know, guys. This kind of shit scares me. No one apparently knows for sure if the kid was the burglar, or just some idiot that bought it off him.
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post #8 of 16
3/24/08 at 5:49pm
Then you have stuff like this that can ruin people that didn't deserve it.

http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2008/03...ked-child.html
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post #9 of 16
3/24/08 at 5:49pm
I'm really afraid to listen to that voicemail.
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post #10 of 16
3/24/08 at 5:54pm
It's just some kid going "Nigga I stole your Xbox!" and trying to sound tough.
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post #11 of 16
3/24/08 at 6:00pm
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello View Post
I don't know, guys. This kind of shit scares me. No one apparently knows for sure if the kid was the burglar, or just some idiot that bought it off him.
But if he bought it, he bought it knowing it was stolen and then called the owner, if I'm getting the story right.

Honestly, I think a group of interested, sharp message board posters is much more likely to do this better and faster than most police.
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post #12 of 16
3/24/08 at 6:08pm
Yeah, but still- it's the difference between being a criminal and being a complete asshat. Not that he doesn't deserve payback either way, but c'mon- what's harassing his family going to do? Especially when all the facts aren't straight yet.

Still, can't deny a part of me's chuckling at this whole thing.
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post #13 of 16
3/24/08 at 6:20pm
I can get behind the AIM harrassments, especially since the posted logs were just funny and not necessarily sinister, but posting the kid's address and the address of his school across the net is a bit too far.
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post #14 of 16
3/24/08 at 6:26pm
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello View Post
It's just some kid going "Nigga I stole your Xbox!" and trying to sound tough.
I should explain myself. I'm afraid to learn more about his particular human. I don't want to know that he exists.

Or maybe it's post-traumatic. I lost $3500 worth of stuff from an asshole very similar to this one.
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post #15 of 16
3/24/08 at 6:36pm
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I can get behind the AIM harrassments, especially since the posted logs were just funny and not necessarily sinister, but posting the kid's address and the address of his school across the net is a bit too far.
a) Nobody's going to do anything,

b) it's much more embarrassing with the address ('real' vs internet), and

c) I'm pretty sure that this was all cobbled together through public information (most of of it the kid put out there himself on myspace). If the digg guys did anything illegal to get the info, then it's bad, but if they just organized things, meh.
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post #16 of 16
3/25/08 at 5:31am
See, this kind of reminds me of That Girl Emily. Brand new blog that quickly becomes an internet sensation!

Meh.
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