Police Arrest Whac-A-Mole Logic Bomber

[tkioz]

What an idiot... if you're going to do something illegal... DON'T TELL ANYONE.

I mean honestly... I can sort of feel for the bloke, when I made my living fixing computers I heard stories of people that did this sort of thing, I never did it because I was always too bloody busy to need to drum up more work, but it's so easy... so very easy... one store would swipe a fluid around the capacitors of motherboards so that a few months later they'd blow, and the person would come in for a replacement, they ended up getting caught and doing jail time for it, if I recall correct they were up on charges of assault or something like that because what they did could have burnt down houses.

At least this guy was "only" committing fraud, in the time honoured tradition of repairmen everywhere... trust me my father is a mechanic, I've heard all the tricks they pull, they make this guy look like a saint.

 

[Roboto]

Dude's planting logic bombs in carnival games, somehow I can't help but think maybe the CIA could make better use of his skills.

I don't know. A logic bomb like that wouldn't take more than a bit of code. If C++, just a ctime event.

 

[Darkauthor81]

What an idiot... if you're going to do something illegal... DON'T TELL ANYONE.

I mean honestly... I can sort of feel for the bloke, when I made my living fixing computers I heard stories of people that did this sort of thing, I never did it because I was always too bloody busy to need to drum up more work, but it's so easy... so very easy... one store would swipe a fluid around the capacitors of motherboards so that a few months later they'd blow, and the person would come in for a replacement, they ended up getting caught and doing jail time for it, if I recall correct they were up on charges of assault or something like that because what they did could have burnt down houses.

At least this guy was "only" committing fraud, in the time honoured tradition of repairmen everywhere... trust me my father is a mechanic, I've heard all the tricks they pull, they make this guy look like a saint.

Everyone is a scam artist these days. I had a college friend move out west after she graduated and became a veterinarian assistant. HATED the guy she worked for but a job is a job you know? Until she found out he was charging customers for pain killers he claimed to give the animals after surgeries. But never actually did.

How are the animals gonna tell anyone he didn't give them anything for the pain? She couldn't tell anyone though because she would have gotten black listed. Never would have found another veterinary job. So she just quit.

It's a sick sad world.

 

[Canid117]

WOw... I wonder if he'd have gotten away with this if he hadn't told anyone

Sounds like he would have.

He is smart enough to make a virus for a clever scam and yet not smart enough to not brag about it. Ah people.

 

[tkioz]

What an idiot... if you're going to do something illegal... DON'T TELL ANYONE.

I mean honestly... I can sort of feel for the bloke, when I made my living fixing computers I heard stories of people that did this sort of thing, I never did it because I was always too bloody busy to need to drum up more work, but it's so easy... so very easy... one store would swipe a fluid around the capacitors of motherboards so that a few months later they'd blow, and the person would come in for a replacement, they ended up getting caught and doing jail time for it, if I recall correct they were up on charges of assault or something like that because what they did could have burnt down houses.

At least this guy was "only" committing fraud, in the time honoured tradition of repairmen everywhere... trust me my father is a mechanic, I've heard all the tricks they pull, they make this guy look like a saint.

Everyone is a scam artist these days. I had a college friend move out west after she graduated and became a veterinarian assistant. HATED the guy she worked for but a job is a job you know? Until she found out he was charging customers for pain killers he claimed to give the animals after surgeries. But never actually did.

How are the animals gonna tell anyone he didn't give them anything for the pain? She couldn't tell anyone though because she would have gotten black listed. Never would have found another veterinary job. So she just quit.

It's a sick sad world.

It's nothing to do with "these days", go back a few centuries and you'd find black smith running the con just as easily as you could an auto repair dude today, dishonest people will be dishonest, or be tempted to be, human nature, it's just exposed more often today, that's why it seems worse.

It's like the violent crime statistics, they've been going DOWN for the last 20 years, yet ask 100 people and 90 of them will tell you they think there is more crime today then "back then". The crimes just get more attention today, so it seems worse then it is.

The negative sticks in the mind easier I guess.

 

[ultimateownage]

That sounds like a damn clever plan, if only the stupid bastard hadn't told people who work for the company that make them.

 

[Atmos Duality]

This story would've been better if he was stopped by say, a kid detective.

Or Scooby Doo... And Batman... With Nancy Drew... And The Hardy Boys... I could go on...

*snicker* Encyclopedia Brown *snicker*