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[UPDATE] Here’s a comment from a Blog called Sillis Bang

McFearsome eventually found out that the fool wasn’t the thief, but had bought it off him. Too late to stop people leaving more than 500 messages warning the kid of his impending rape in prison, and those were just the polite ones. Nice to see people happily abusing the anonymity they ripped away from him. As pretty much only one person was sensible enough to point out, it’s straight up harassment.

There were a few digg users that shared my view that it might have gone too far and it’s bordering on serious harassment, and people really should stop telling the kid he’s gonna get raped.

[UPDATE] McPherson has now had his laptop returned by the kid who was caught on camera trying to sell it. (Link)

Well, it’s gonna be a long time before this kid buys anything that connects to the internet off the streets again, I wonder what kind of trauma will result from being beaten senseless on the internet. What’s it called when you’re afraid of the internet(s)?

As many of you guy have seen, the internet can be pretty powerful, just ask the Scientologists. And to quote a the uncle of a great red and blue tights-wearing figure from (comicbook) history, “With great power come great responsibility”. In this case people rose up to take revenge on a thief, who’s arrogance, criminal antics and stupidity has now gained him global, and perhaps ever lasting, infamy. Years from now, people will occasionally ask each other, “Hey, do you remember that moron who stole an Xbox?”, or if they’re lazy or not entirely sober “Remember that Xbox moron?”.

Right now it’s not actually clear what the kid did, from what he tells Jesse McPherson(guy who had his property, among them a Xbox, stolen) he just bought the Xbox off the street (for $200). Either he really just bought it or he’s just lying and he did steal the xbox, you can’t really be sure of. Considering the time frame of him going online with the xbox and the time it was stolen, which was around a week, it’s possible. Mostly likely, he bought it off one of his buddies. Who really should be the butt of such internet abuse, not him. Most people (well, yesterday atleast) were under the impression that the kid who every one was linking to stole the xbox, at the time of writing it’s still unclear (more…)

Follow-up: XboxMoron: The Aftermath

Here is a case of, “check if the guy who you’re stealing a xbox from has a website”. A kid, who appears to be a really, really illiterate and redneck kid, stole a tv, mac powerbook and xbox from the author of this website. Understandably, the guy was pissed, and the first thing he does is check the local pawn store (which was pretty smart), and he gets images of the kid from the cameras in the store.

He calls the police department, and was ignored.

And then, you start realize how stoned and idiotic this kid really is. The kid then proceeds to send voice messages to the author, demanding that he pay to get his Xbox back. Of course, revealing his account name, and his account info in the process. All Xbox 360 owners would know, that in the process of registration, the account is linked with your msn email account, and if the intelligence of the kid is any indication, it is probably full of personal, and most importantly, identifiable information. All the police needs to do it contact Microsoft.

The author then calls the local authorities, who is the Philadelphia Police for him, and whilst waiting for a response gets 2 more messages from the thief. (more…)