Sapere Aude
Tag: crime
Behind bars, but still posting on TikTok
The reason that people find that so shocking but interesting to watch is because we have been sold this false bill of goods that the people behind bars are animals. This shows that they are somebody’s mother, somebody’s father, somebody’s kid. And they do in fact sometimes laugh, despite the brutality all around them.
wherein the bible thumpers at hobby lobby get scammed.
Most Russian drug dealers don’t hand off drugs anymore—they stash them in geotagged hiding spots ready for pickup by online buyers.
The “Vasty Health Care Foundation” is one of several fraudulent Web sites that recruit money mules in the name of helping COVID-19 victims.
“How you going to beat up a man gifting you handmade seasonal accessories?” Excellent advice on all the things you should definitely not do on your first day in prison.
Within 2 months of Mackey’s inspection, the Lyubov Orlova and its crew would be abandoned in the harbor by the vessel’s owner, as lawsuits and liens piled up. In fact, it would be nearly 3 years before the Lyubov Orlova would leave St. John’s Harbor. When it finally did, the vessel, named for a Soviet movie star, was described in international headlines as a “cannibal rat-infested ghost ship” drifting on a crash course toward Britain. But the Lyubov Orlova never made it across the Atlantic; it’s believed to be rotting somewhere at the bottom of it. The Lyubov Orlova’s journey from cruise ship to ghost ship left financial hardships, a humanitarian emergency and a political controversy in its wake.
Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government.
“1000s of criminal websites relied on Liberty Reserve as their payment processor of choice. These websites predominated the sources of Liberty Reserve’s online traffic and generated billions of $ in transactions run through the company’s system.” Prosecutors dismissed the idea that many legitimate businesses used Liberty Reserve. After the takedown, users were encouraged to contact the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan if they wanted their money back. Only 35 people did so.
AirCSI is a prototype drone system that scans crime scenes from above, identify possible pieces of evidence, and then collect more detailed images and data of such items of interest.
But then I start to see things that seem so obvious, but I wonder whether they aren’t just paranoia after hours and hours of digging into the mystery. Like the fact that he starts wearing a hat that has a strange bulge around the brim — one that vanishes after the game when he’s doing an interview in the booth. Is it a bone-conducting headset, as some online have suggested, sending him messages directly to his inner ear by vibrating on his skull? Of course it is! How could it be anything else? It’s so obvious! Or the fact that he keeps his keys in the same place on the table all the time. Could they contain a secret camera that reads electronic sensors on the cards? I can’t see any other possibility! It is all starting to make sense. In the end, though, none of this additional evidence is even necessary. The gaggle of online Jim Garrisons have simply picked up more momentum than is required and they can’t stop themselves. The fact is, the mystery was solved a long time ago. It’s just like De Niro’s Ace Rothstein says in Casino when the yokel slot attendant gets hit for 3 jackpots in a row and tells his boss there was no way for him to know he was being scammed. “Yes there is. An infallible way. They won.” In 69 sessions on Stones Live, Postle has won in 62 of them, for a profit of $250k in 277 hours of play. Given that he plays such a large number of hands, and plays such an erratic and, by his own admission, high-variance style, one would expect to see more, well, variance. His results just aren’t possible even for the best players in the world, which, if he isn’t cheating, he definitely is among.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 