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Cormacaroni

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The life of a high-tech thief
« on: March 24, 2010, 10:14:29 PM »
No, not Mupepe with his online swindling of old Saturn games:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/03/ff_masterthief_blanchard/all/1


Dude is crazy:

'In April 1993, Blanchard was nabbed by the cops in Council Bluffs, Iowa, for a suspected car arson and brought back to police headquarters. “They kept me in the interrogation room past midnight,” Blanchard says. “And at a certain point, I managed to sneak into the next room and slip through the tiles into the ceiling.” Undetected, he heard the cops run down the hall, thinking he’d gone out the fire escape. After waiting a couple of hours, Blanchard lowered himself down into the mostly empty station, stole a police coat, badge, radio, and revolver. After leaving a single bullet on the desk of his interrogator, he took the elevator to the main floor and strolled right past the front desk on his way out of the station. He hitchhiked at dawn back to Omaha on the back of a motorcycle, holding his purloined police cap down in the wind. “Why are you wearing a uniform?” the driver asked. “Costume party,” Blanchard said as the sun came up. “Really fun time.”'
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Re: The life of a high-tech thief
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2010, 10:17:48 PM »
Awesome guy. :lol His gf needs a sammich though.
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Re: The life of a high-tech thief
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2010, 10:23:54 PM »
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“Costume party,” Blanchard said as the sun came up. “Really fun time.”'

:rofl

Real life Chuck.
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Re: The life of a high-tech thief
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2010, 10:39:05 PM »
Awesome article, I'm writing the screenplay now.
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Re: The life of a high-tech thief
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2010, 10:51:32 PM »
Drew: The Highschool Years
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Re: The life of a high-tech thief
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2010, 12:23:40 AM »
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He provided such good information that McCormick and Levasseur were able to put together an eight-hour presentation for law enforcement and banking professionals. “When those guys hear what Blanchard told us,” McCormick says, “you can hear their assholes pucker shut.”

 :lol :lol :lol
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Re: The life of a high-tech thief
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2010, 12:31:34 AM »
On the one hand, he's kind of endearing in the way say... Lupin is as a fictional character.  But imagining all that he stole just makes me think of all the lives he may have destroyed.  Especially when he was talking about the atm schemes  :-\.  Still, admirable improvisational chap.
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Joe Molotov

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Re: The life of a high-tech thief
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2010, 12:32:56 AM »
But imagining all that he stole just makes me think of all the lives he may have destroyed.

Well, it's not like it happened to anyone we know.
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Re: The life of a high-tech thief
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2010, 12:34:15 AM »
It really tickles me to think of the souvenir tat version of the SiSi Star sitting there in Schonbrunn (which I visited a couple of years back) for 2 whole weeks, with everyone gaping at it in awe.
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Re: The life of a high-tech thief
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2010, 12:34:43 AM »
But imagining all that he stole just makes me think of all the lives he may have destroyed.

Well, it's not like it happened to anyone we know.

In that case, we can pretend it didn't even happen at all!
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Re: The life of a high-tech thief
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2010, 12:37:14 AM »
But imagining all that he stole just makes me think of all the lives he may have destroyed.

Well, it's not like it happened to anyone we know.

Tehjaybo was the victim of identity theft. IT COULD BE YOU ONE DAY.
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Re: The life of a high-tech thief
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2010, 12:50:52 AM »
Yeah, but in the end I got all the money back and canceled any charges.  All it cost me was a little time. 

No big deal.
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Re: The life of a high-tech thief
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2010, 01:56:20 AM »
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Re: The life of a high-tech thief
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2010, 03:44:50 AM »
Yeah, but in the end I got all the money back and canceled any charges.  All it cost me was a little time. 

No big deal.

Jaybo also told me he was fucking around on a site that he knew better than to trust, and that he couldn't be as upset because of that reason. 

Some of these people that get taken are just trying to play it safe and they still get robbed.
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