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Nico Hines

October 24, 2008

 

A Japanese piano teacher has been arrested for the murder of her virtual husband after an abrupt but messy online divorce.

 

The 43-year-old from Kyushu province in southern Japan faces a maximum sentence of five years in jail if she is found guilty of killing off her digital partner.

 

She is accused of hacking into the profile of a 33-year-old office worker from Sapporo 620 miles away, whose avatar on the Maple Story computer game was married to her character until he unexpectedly demanded a divorce.

 

The spurned make-believe wife was so angry at being jilted that she logged into the game using her partner’s password and destroyed the character that he had spent a year creating.

 

She was arrested at home in Miyazaki yesterday on suspicion of illegal access on a computer and manipulating electronic data, according to police in Sapporo where she is being detained. The woman has not been formally charged. If convicted she could be jailed or fined up to £3,100.

 

An official in northern Sapporo reported that she confessed to the crime when questioned, allegedly telling police: “I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry.”

 

The woman had not plotted any revenge in the real world, the official said.

 

Players in Maple Story raise and manipulate digital images called avatars that represent themselves, while engaging in relationships, social activities and fighting against monsters and other obstacles.

 

Avatars and accounts on games such as Maple Story, World of Warcraft or Second Life can be worth hundreds of pounds as people attempt to cut out the laborious process of creating their own characters.

 

There have been reports of cottage industries in Asia where low-paid workers are employed to spend all day inhabiting the virtual worlds to create avatars that can then be sold online.

 

Some games also use virtual currencies, which in the online games-enthusiast market, come to have a real value as they are bought and sold on websites all over the world.

 

Tokyo police have previously arrested a 16-year-old boy on charges of fraudulently obtaining virtual currency worth £223,495 in an interactive role playing game by manipulating another player’s portfolio using a stolen ID and password.

 

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/...cle5002721.ece

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Hehe

 

That is actually very funny.

 

I wonder what his grounds were?

 

"Erroneus logging on?"

"Not paying enough attention in game?"

"AFK too frequently?"

"Incompatable software?"

 

I have more...

 

On a semi related note, I saw a funny video the other day of a warcraft funeral. Apparently some major player on a server died over in America and their whole guild and a few others from their side (Horde) held a virtual funeral for him/her. Even a few people from the Alliance side were there to "pay respects"

 

Meanwhile, the Alliance side had a whole army of people running to the funeral and the people who were there to pay respects then made the signal and started an all out attack on the funeral and basically wiped out everyone who was there completely.

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Section_31 Grand Master

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Only in Japan.

 

I remember once when I used to help my old man on a car boot sale every Sunday in St Helens. He used to get any old shit and just try and flog it, and one day this young and well dressed Japanese couple turned up (there was a Hilton across the canal, assume they were business types)

They spotted a scatch mit 457.jpg - which is supposed to be used as part of a game, but we didn't have the other one, or the ball, or anything else for that matter - and asked how much, my old fella jokingly said "five quid!" and the two of them looked like they'd won the lottery, he gave the old man five notes, bowed his head and then fucked off.

 

We just stood there open-mouthed. Clever people, yet with a wonderfully bizarre, childlike quality.

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Not quite today but,  this is a genuine extract.

 

 

GLASGOW HERALD
1 APRIL 1839

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY

On Monday evening last two men attempted to force their way into the manse of the Rev. JOHN BRYCE, at Saltcoats, but the Rev. Gentleman, being on the alert, seized a horse pistol, and undauntedly issuing out of doors, attacked the fellows, felled one of them to the ground, and broke the butt-end of it over the arm of the other.

The robbers, on receiving such an unlooked for reception, beat their retreat, leaving the spirited clergyman in undisputed possession of the field.

A number of loose and disorderly characters have been observed in the vicinity of Saltcoats of late, and it is to be feared that other outrages may be attempted.

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Kevin D Grand Master

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/man-who-pretended-to-be-mannequin-in-warsaw-shop-window-charged-with-theft

 

A man who stood motionless in a shop window in Warsaw holding a bag and hoping to pass for a mannequin has been charged with suspected theft and burglary.


Polish police said the 22-year-old suspect, whom they have not named, went unnoticed by staff and shoppers as he stood frozen in the window to blend in with the mannequins.

 

He was accused of going into various departments and taking jewellery after closing time.

 

“With a bag in his hand he stood still in front of a shop window, pretending to be a display mannequin,” police in the central Warsaw district of Śródmieście said in a statement. “When he felt safe, he went hunting and robbed the island of jewellery.”

 

The man was is also accused of other shopping centre incidents.

 

On another day, he allegedly went to a shopping centre bar after closing time and “ate his fill”, then entered a designer clothes shop “to exchange his clothes for new ones”. He was captured on CCTV sliding under a tiny gap in the shop shutters.

 

In another incident, he is alleged to have waited until closing time to take money from several cash registers and to have attempted to steal items.

 

Eventually, police said, “his luck finally ran out” when he was spotted and held by security. The man has been remanded in custody for three months and could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

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4 hours ago, Kevin D said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/man-who-pretended-to-be-mannequin-in-warsaw-shop-window-charged-with-theft

 

A man who stood motionless in a shop window in Warsaw holding a bag and hoping to pass for a mannequin has been charged with suspected theft and burglary.


Polish police said the 22-year-old suspect, whom they have not named, went unnoticed by staff and shoppers as he stood frozen in the window to blend in with the mannequins.

 

He was accused of going into various departments and taking jewellery after closing time.

 

“With a bag in his hand he stood still in front of a shop window, pretending to be a display mannequin,” police in the central Warsaw district of Śródmieście said in a statement. “When he felt safe, he went hunting and robbed the island of jewellery.”

 

The man was is also accused of other shopping centre incidents.

 

On another day, he allegedly went to a shopping centre bar after closing time and “ate his fill”, then entered a designer clothes shop “to exchange his clothes for new ones”. He was captured on CCTV sliding under a tiny gap in the shop shutters.

 

In another incident, he is alleged to have waited until closing time to take money from several cash registers and to have attempted to steal items.

 

Eventually, police said, “his luck finally ran out” when he was spotted and held by security. The man has been remanded in custody for three months and could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

Ha ha saw that before

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/03/somerset-gimp-suit-man-banned-wearing-writhing-ground
 

A man has been banned for five years from wearing a mask and dressing in an all-black suit in public at night and “crawling, wriggling or writhing on the ground” after police linked him to 25 incidents committed by the so-called “Somerset gimp”.

 

Joshua Hunt, 32, has been given a sexual risk order after police argued there was a sexual motivation to the incidents.

 

A district judge imposed the order after a hearing at Bristol magistrates court a week after Hunt, who insists he is not the gimp, was convicted of two offences under the Public Order Act of intentionally causing harassment, alarm or distress.

 

Lawrence Wilcox, representing Avon and Somerset police, told Friday’s hearing that Hunt had been linked to 25 incidents.

 

Peter Richardson, defending, said Hunt had taken a “pragmatic and practical approach” to the application. “We are not contesting the application but that is not the same as agreeing with everything that is set out,” he said.

 

The sexual risk order was imposed for five years and also means Hunt is on the sex offender register for the same period.

Among the restrictions, Hunt, a gardener from north Somerset, is banned from:

  • Wearing any type of mask or face covering, including improvised mask or face coverings that cover all or part of the face, in any public place, including while in a vehicle in a public place, unless officially required for medical purposes or by law.

  • Being in possession of any type of mask or face covering, including improvised masks or face coverings that cover all or part of the face, in a public place, including while in a vehicle in a public place, between the hours of 9pm and 6am unless officially required for medical purposes or by law.

  • Wearing or being in possession of black all-in-one garments or any combination of full-length black-coloured top and black-coloured bottom clothing which has the appearance of an all-in-one garment, in a public place, including in a vehicle in a public place between the hours of 9pm and 6am.

  • Crawling, wriggling or writhing on the ground in a public place while wearing a full-body covering, clothing that appears like a full-body covering and/or mask/full-face covering.

The district judge Joanna Dickens said: “I am satisfied that you have done a series of acts of a sexual nature. A sexual risk order is quite a serious order, and it has a lot of obligations of you and if you breach this order you can go to prison.”

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On 19/10/2023 at 17:53, Kevin D said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/man-who-pretended-to-be-mannequin-in-warsaw-shop-window-charged-with-theft

 

A man who stood motionless in a shop window in Warsaw holding a bag and hoping to pass for a mannequin has been charged with suspected theft and burglary.


Polish police said the 22-year-old suspect, whom they have not named, went unnoticed by staff and shoppers as he stood frozen in the window to blend in with the mannequins.

 

He was accused of going into various departments and taking jewellery after closing time.

 

“With a bag in his hand he stood still in front of a shop window, pretending to be a display mannequin,” police in the central Warsaw district of Śródmieście said in a statement. “When he felt safe, he went hunting and robbed the island of jewellery.”

 

The man was is also accused of other shopping centre incidents.

 

On another day, he allegedly went to a shopping centre bar after closing time and “ate his fill”, then entered a designer clothes shop “to exchange his clothes for new ones”. He was captured on CCTV sliding under a tiny gap in the shop shutters.

 

In another incident, he is alleged to have waited until closing time to take money from several cash registers and to have attempted to steal items.

 

Eventually, police said, “his luck finally ran out” when he was spotted and held by security. The man has been remanded in custody for three months and could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

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