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Game Hackers Launch DDOS, Target @PhantomL0rd for SWATting
UPDATE: In Video, Gamer Describes Police Raid With Automatic Weapons

@PhantomL0rd is a popular videogame blogger who last night got SWATted by a gang of hacker trolls: A group of hackers going by the name DERP has launched DDoS attacks on a number of big games and websites today, bringing a number of them down, including the homepage of Electronic Arts. The attacks have been […]

Gay Student Charged With Felonies in Weird Sexual Extortion Scheme

In an unusually elaborate example of media bias, the only way you would realize the perpetrator of this crime was gay is if you carefully scrutinized the pronouns in the Columbus Dispatch story: An Ohio University student is set to go on trial in February on felony charges of blackmailing another student into having sex […]

Kaitlyn Hunt’s Probation Page

The World’s Most Famous Sex Offender™ was released from the Indian River County Jail Dec. 20 and will remain part of Florida’s “supervised population” until Oct. 1, 2016. WPTV reported: VERO BEACH, Fla. — Kaitlyn Hunt, the Sebastian-area teenager who was arrested after police said she had a sexual relationship with an underage girl, was […]

Another Fake Hate Crime? Arrest Discredits Tennessee Anti-Gay Case

Paris, Tennessee, is a town of 10,000 people about two hours west of Nashville, but it made national headlines last month: Joe Williams, Tennessee Health Food Store Owner, Beaten In Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime Williams said three men beat him unconscious and wrote a “three-letter homophobic slur” on his forehead in the Nov. 20 attack: The […]

Two Words You Probably Never Want to Think About: ‘Botched Vasectomy’

Also, “shooting rampage”: Newly released 911 tapes reveal what the Reno, Nev., hospital shooter apparently told trapped patients and employees as he terrorized a medical office, killing one doctor and wounding two other people before taking his own life last week. His apparent reason for the rampage? A vasectomy he said wrecked his life. One […]

‘But … They Were in Love’

Dante Mobley, 30, accused of sex with 14-year-old. The accused 30-year-old perpetrator tried to deny it, but his 14-year-old victim offered a familiar defense in his behalf: In the Bunnell case, the parent of a 14-year-old girl in Bunnell called cops at 4 a.m. on Dec. 22, to report that the girl had snuck out […]

Crime Is a People Problem

How many times have I said this? A lot: The key to crime prevention is to identify, apprehend and imprison criminals. People who commit serious crimes also usually commit petty crimes, and by the time you actually catch a criminal and convict him on a serious charge, he’s probably already gotten away with numerous minor […]

Knife-Wielding Rape Suspect Says the Voices in His Head Were Rather Specific

Criminality and stupidity are not a particularly unusual combination, but it is a mistake to think that criminals are so stupid that they cannot pick up cultural clues. For example, decades of liberal rhetoric about the “rights” of criminals and the depiction of the mentally ill as helpless victims apparently influenced Anthony Washington’s ideas of […]

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