Online vigilantism
“[T]he next morning, courtesy of Tim, I had 23 pictures of the house, the cars in the driveway (with license plate numbers) and the neighborhood. I’d like to see a Dell user do something like that at 4:30 in the morning for a complete stranger a thousand miles away.” This guy, a Mac fanatic, sought vigilante internet justice against an online con artist, and succeeded. He fantasized about killing him. But at least he didn’t.
Chris Marquis, a disabled loser teenager, operated an online radio equipment scam within full view of his kleptomaniac mother. Until, that is, his mom signed for a UPS package bomb and carried it to her son’s room. His fatal mistake was trying to cheat obsessive truck driver Chris Dean. Marquis had tried to trade radio equipment with Dean. Dean’s equipment was worth twice as much. Why did Dean go for it? Because Dean, who packed his Anarchist’s Cookbook pipe bomb in hex nuts for maximum fragmentation damage, had stolen the gear to begin with. Nice when a story has so many sympathetic characters, isn’t it?
You can read an account of the Dean case if you don’t mind subjecting yourself to the worst piece of journalism ever penned.
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August 13th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
worst ever penned … i dunno about that considering that i am in the article..
any questions lol