Daily Humors

Posted: 06 Jul 2009 09:15 AM PDT

Star Skirmish
05/25/2007: On his way to a photo shoot for the Australian daily newspaper MX, a 32-year-old Star Wars 501st Legion member -- in costume as an Imperial Death Star guard -- was arrested for carrying his replica laser blaster in plain view. The "weapon," worth about $500, was sticking out of his backpack, causing concerned shoppers at a retail complex to alert security guards to the matter. The stormtrooper, spotted eating breakfast at the food court, was pinned to the ground and handcuffed by Victoria police. The arrest reportedly caused a wave of alarm to sweep followers of the Dark Side, who say they wish to maintain cordial relations with Earth police.

Second Death
10/25/2008: In Japan, a 43-year-old woman was physically arrested for a virtual murder. The woman, a piano teacher in Miyazaki, was upset when her virtual husband in the multi-player online role playing game MapleStory divorced her without any warning. Using his login information, which she had obtained while their MapleStory matrimony was still intact, the woman hacked into the man's account and assassinated his online persona. Upon discovering what his web-ex had done, the man complained to the police and the woman was arrested on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data. The two had never met in real life.

First Life Fail
08/21/2008: What started out as a storybook romance between a virtual woman and a lion in the online world of Second Life turned into a real-life relationship between Kimberly Jernigan (pictured,) 33, of North Carolina, and a 52-year-old Delaware man. But when the man ended the virtual-turned-actual courtship, Jernigan resorted to some fantastical means to get back her "lion." Allegedly posing as a postal worker, Jernigan found her former beau's new address and, armed with handcuffs, a Taser, duct tape, a BB gun, and her dog Gogi, broke into his home by cutting through a window screen. Once inside, police say Jernigan quieted her dog with tape and waited for her love interest to return. Once he did, she reportedly pointed a laser beam, presumably coming from the BB gun, at his chest. The man fled and called the police, who found Jernigan at a rest stop approximately an hour later. She was arrested after a brief struggle and faced charges of attempted kidnapping, burglary, and aggravated menacing.

World of Disappointment
07/01/2007: An Australian woman was charged with attempting to abduct a child after trying to get her Internet boyfriend, 16 at the time, to accompany her to Adelaide, Australia. Tamara Broome (pictured,) 31, met the teenager on the online role-playing game World of Warcraft, and the two engaged in an Internet romance during which they discussed marriage. Broome flew to North Carolina, where the boy lived, telling her housemate that his parents had paid for her ticket so they could "sort it all out." She was arrested after stepping off an Amtrak train in South Carolina, jailed and held on a $2.35 million bond.

Need to Talk?
12/29/2008: An Ohio teenager was arrested after he phoned in to a live chat with a representative of World of Warcraft-makers Blizzard Entertainment to express his frustrations with the game. The 17-year-old threatened to kill himself, a threat he denied was sincere once police showed up at his house. The boy, whose name was not released, was arrested and charged with a first-degree misdemeanor.

OMGROFL
06/02/2008: In another World of Warcraft liaison gone wrong, 27-year-old Morgan Douglas Jones (pictured) was arrested on kidnapping charges after Saddie "Elaine" Julian, 14, ran away with him. An Amber Alert was issued for the girl, and the two gamers were eventually found, having crossed state lines from Idaho to Washington, in a 2008 Chevy Aveo with the vanity license plate reading OMGROFL.

Virtual Alchemy
05/09/2009: Police in Chengdu, China, arrested two World of Warcraft "gold farmers," traders who sell virtual gold for actual money, a practice prohibited by Blizzard Entertainment's Terms of Service. The Chengdu operation had grown to 20 employees and amassed ¥ 1.6 million within seven months.

LAN-Cuffed
02/27/2007: In Palmer, Alaska, a 21-year-old World of Warcraft enthusiast was arrested for using a library's Wi-Fi connection after hours to play the game on his own laptop, which is against the library's policy.

Room Raider
11/14/2007: Habbo Hotel, a 3D teen-centric social networking community where users create avatars, play games and chat, became the victim of a scam which led to the arrest of a Dutch teenager. The 17-year-old allegedly stole 4,000 euros worth of virtual furniture, which users purchase with real money. According to a spokesman for Sulake, the company that runs Habbo Hotel, the teen obtained unsuspecting users' login information by creating fake Habbo sites.

Revenge of the Sabre
03/31/2005: In Legend of Mir 3, players take on the roles of fantasy characters and can purchase in-game items with real money. One such item, the coveted "dragon sabre", was at the center of a fight between two gamers in China, Qiu Chengwei and Zhu Caoyuan, which ended in Chengwei fatally stabbing Caoyuan in the chest. The row began when Chengwei loaned the sabre, which he had just obtained, to Caoyuan, who quickly sold it for 7,200 yuan. When Chengwei reported the incident to police, he was told that the weapon was not real property, and turned away. Unlike South Korea, China has no laws that protect virtual property. Chengwei was sentenced to life in prison for the murder.

Gunshots Reported
01/13/2009: Neighbors in Copenhagen, Denmark feared the worst when they heard the sound of gunshots coming from the apartment next door. Police were called and police arrived with megaphones ordering the assumed gunmen to surrender. When the officers knocked down the door, they saw that the blasts were coming not from real weapons, but from digital ones - in the Playstation 3 game Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. The two stunned gamers were handcuffed anyway, until the police were fully sure that they meant no harm.

Counter Intelligence
04/30/2007: A senior at Clements High School in Fort Bend County, TX., was arrested after parents complained about a map he'd created for the game Counter Strike. The map, modeled after the high school and intended to be a new environment for the game, caused an uproar in the community. Fort Bend Independent School District police searched the student's room and found a hammer, which the boy's parents said he used to fix his bed. Although no charges were filed, the teen was removed from his school, barred from graduation, and sent to an alternative education center.

Sect Perversion
05/20/2009: In the U.K., fans of science-fiction author John Norman's Chronicles of Gor series, known for its graphic descriptions of sex-slavery, had formed a sect which emulates the questionable sexual practices depicted in the series' 26 novels. Calling themselves Kaotians, a subgroup of the Goreans, members of the sect follow the philosophy that men were born free, and women were born to be slaves. A 29-year-old Canadian woman who had moved to Darlington in northeast England to be a sex-slave after meeting the group's leader, Lee Thompson, on the Internet, changed her mind about the lifestyle but could not leave because she had burned her own passport as a sign of devotion. The woman phoned a friend in Texas, who in turn called the police. Durham police raided the house and rescued the woman, but no charges were filed against the sect, which has approximately 350 members who meet regularly in the Darlington area.

Road Warrior
10/03/2008: A truck driver in England pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and was sentenced to 225 hours of community service, after a fellow trucker behind him alerted police to his erratic driving. When a traffic officer pulled over the veering vehicle, he saw that the driver, 37-year-old Benjamin Trotsman, was watching the 1970s cult sci-fi show Battlestar Galactica while driving. In addition to the community service, Trotsman was ordered to pay £546 and was banned from driving for 15 months.

A Bloody Clue
05/12/2009: David Heiss (pictured,) a 21-year-old German office worker was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of British computer sciences student Matthew Pyke, 20. Heiss had met Pyke on a web discussion forum for the Nintendo game Advance Wars, which Pyke ran along with his live-in girlfriend Joanna Witton, 21. Heiss became obsessed with Witton, and on September 19, 2008, forced his way into the couple's Nottingham home and stabbed Pyke repeatedly. Before dying, Pyke scrawled the first three letters of Heiss' first name - DAV - on his computer monitor with his own blood to help police identify the attacker.

Wrong Number
02/19/2008: Gamer Thomas Ballard, 29, elated at his victory in an an XBOX game, meant to call up a friend to brag about his success accidentally dialed a wrong number, exclaiming "I have killed them all!" to the woman who picked up, before realising his mistake. Louisiana police arrived at his Delhi home, and although they found no evidence of wrongdoing for expressing his video game glee, they did discover that he had a 5-year-old warrant out for his arrest for a cocaine possession charge.

Ed Kramer
06/03/2008: Popular sci-fi and fantasy author Edward Kramer (pictured) awaits trial for his August, 2000, arrest and charges of child molestation. Kramer, co-founder of Atlanta's massive sci-fi convention DragonCon, is accused of aggravated child molestation of the two sons of a woman he once dated. Since being charged with the crime, Kramer, who is wheechair-bound due to an injury sustained during a jailhouse attack, spent seven years under house arrest at his Georgia home. The house arrest was revoked under the condition that Kramer not have contact with persons under 16. Kramer's trial was postponed several times.

Comic Booking
08/07/2007: The organizer of Pittsburgh's annual Comic Con was convicted of the murder of his wife after a seventeen year on-and-off police investigation. A jury agreed that Michael Ralph George (pictured,) 46, closed up his Comics World shop in Windber, PA on an evening in July of 1990, then shot his wife, Barbara Marie, 30, in the head with a .38-caliber gun. George, who had since married his mistress, surrendered to police without incident.

Assassin School
05/12/2009: In North Hampton, NH., police responded to a report of a hooded man with a gun standing outside a local restaurant. The gunman turned out to be a senior at Exeter High School, participating in the live-action role playing game Assassin, in which players use water guns or other harmless weaponry to "assassinate" their assigned targets in the hopes of becoming the last man standing. While police considered arresting the student, who was waiting for his target to come out of her job, they chose not to charge him, as he participated fully and did not try to run.

School Threat
12/13/2007: During a heated round of Call of Duty 4 on XBOX, a player in Maryland got carried away and allegedly said that he was going to "shoot up the school" and described "how he was going to do it," according to court records. Police cuffed the player, 19-year-old Allieu Shaw, and escorted him out of his Frostburg State University dorm room, after a player in Oregon reported the threats.

Top 5 matrimonial disasters

Posted: 06 Jul 2009 09:06 AM PDT

5. Wedding Crasher
Sometimes, true love really is sent from above.

4. A Very Special Day
A blushing bride gets hauled in for larceny on the day of her Vegas wedding.

3. In Repo and in Health
A couple's first day of marriage doesn't go smoothly.

2. Bad Day For a White Wedding
Rowdy bride brings the party to the police station when she's hauled in after throwing a tantrum.

1. Rumble at the Reception
A Russian wedding rehearsal turns bloody after some feelings are hurt.

This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Funny blog

Jul 6, 2009

Daily Humors

Daily Humors

No comments:

Post a Comment

Funmails Search Results