Halo, Hookers & Hoaxes
Halo, Hookers & Hoaxes
May 15, 2008
According to money.co.uk, a Texas boy used his dad's credit card to purchase Halo, call girls and a lot more. stuff.co.nz, however, reports that the story is likely a hoax.
According to the original report, 13-year-old Ralph Hardy scammed an extra card on his father's account and took some friends on $30,000 spending binge. The boys wound up in a motel room, playing Halo with a couple of high-priced escorts. From the report:
Police said they were alerted to the motel by a concerned delivery clerk, whom after delivering supplies of Dr Pepper, Fritos and Oreos had been asked by the kids where they could score some chicks and were willing to pay. They explained they had just made a big score at a "World of Warcraft" tournament and wanted to get some relaxation. On noting the boys age the delivery clerk informed the authorities.
The hookers were supposedly released by the police since the boys were more interested in playing Halo than hanky-panky. stuff.co.nz did a bit of follow-up investigation, however, contacting the local Texas police (all the way from New Zealand!):
Newark county police spokeperson Amy Cromer said, "As far as we know, this story is a hoax. There have not been any arrests here, and we're not aware of any convictions like that in this county."
GP: The story certainly sounds like a fake. Besides, everyone knows that only Grand Theft Auto players indulge in hookers.
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Besides, everyone knows that only Grand Theft Auto players indulge in hookers.
LOL!
Seeing as it turned out to be a hoax, it's very likely. Remember how he continuingly cites that pulled Washington Post article about Cho and "Counterstrike Half-Life"?
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I'm tempted to beleive this, purely because you couldn't make it up ^^
Do they not have some kind of juvenile protection statute in Texas? A good hoax would've made up a name for the father as well as the son; a great hoax would have them both unidentified.
Also, since when can you "win a WoW tournament?" I'd have gone with CounterStrike for the believability. This sounds like some lame MMO competitor trying to stir up trouble for Blizzard. (Hey, maybe when Money prints their retraction, they can blame it on Second Life.)
--- The Mammon IndustryYeah, but what kind of hotel manager is going to have heard of GW? WoW gets all the news coverage every time an MMO related news story comes up.
Besides, NCSoft no longer offer the 100K tournaments - they weren't profitable since they weren't really encouraging anyone to buy the game.
This one's a hoax to drive advertising impressions. The content only comes from websites that are part of a large network of semi-skeezy infolink sites and domain traders run by a company called Verio, Inc.
Check the WHOIS for money.co.uk, which is where someone else found the article yesterday and posted on another forum I frequent.
They're hoping pissed off game bloggers spam the crap out of this to generate ad click traffic when people come to check it out themselves.
...unless you acutally think critically about it, in which case its entirely like a hoax.
-ConstantNeophyte: always the newb, ALWAYS.
...unless you acutally think critically about it, in which case its entirely like a hoax.
-ConstantNeophyte: always the newb, ALWAYS.
I think it's a hoax because I highly doubt the kids were THAT dumb.
No really how dumb do you have to be to believe that you could pull something like that and not get caught, honestly?
You'd be surprised. (Ever read the "dumb criminals" section of your newspaper or whatever?)
"GP: The story certainly sounds like a fake. Besides, everyone knows that only Grand Theft Auto players indulge in hookers."
Or New York Governors who are against hookers in GTA, but have no problem picking up a real one.
"They explained they had just made a big score at a "World of Warcraft" tournament and wanted to get some relaxation."
If they wanted to relax, they probably should have gotten killed off. Oddly enough, killing opponents causes anxiety, while getting killed does the opposite.
This does seem wierd, but this was covered a while back: http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/02/gamers-secretly-enjo...
"They explained they had just made a big score at a "World of Warcraft" tournament and wanted to get some relaxation."
If they wanted to relax, they probably should have gotten killed off. Oddly enough, killing opponents causes anxiety, while getting killed does the opposite.
This does seem wierd, but this was covered a while back: http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/02/gamers-secretly-enjo...
You know why its a hoax? No 13 year old boy on the planet would play halo while ignoring perfectly good hookers.
EVER
No to mention I would never believe some kids stupid enough to do this and as young as 13 would even win a WoW tourney, I wouldnt buy it unless they were considerably older.
Or korean.
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Maybe they wanted in on the Halo action (that looks wronger in type then it sounded in my head).
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No 13 year old I've ever met would do anything but be looking at boobies & giggling
You never met me when I was 13, and the 13 year olds I knew when I was around that age.
(catholic school)
Although, you are probably right.
Still I dont believe it.
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Sorry, what? I couldn't pay attention, I was too busy PLAYING HALO.
Sounds like kiddie-friendly unharmful fun. I hope that is not Jack Thompson´s son :lol
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