grodscorp@grods.comHoax, not news
 | Posted by The Editor on Tuesday 20 May 2008, 10:34 pm Categories: Media, The internet Tags: MediaHoaxes, NewsLimited |
As we discussed in tonight’s GrodsThink the seemingly awesome boys stealing dad’s credit card and hiring hookers story…
A 13-year-old boy from Texas who stole his father’s credit card and hired two prostitutes has been convicted of fraud.
Ralph Hardy confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his dad’s existing credit card company and taking his pals on a US$30,000 spending spree after which they ended up playing Halo on an Xbox with the hookers in a Texas motel.
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Ralph and Co. told the working girls they were people of restricted growth working with a traveling circus.
They added that State law did not allow discrimination against the disabled so they had no right to refuse them.
…is actually a hoax.
A 13-year-old Newark, Texas, boy convicted of fraud for hiring two hookers and racking up $30,000 in charges on his father’s credit card?
According to an online Money website published in the UK, Ralph Hardy paid prostitutes to spend the evening playing Xbox video games with him and his friends in a Texas motel.
But there’s one problem. The British report is just a silly online rumor, Newark police told WND.
But where’s the correction from News Ltd. or the dozens of other news outlets that reported it?
GrodsThink Ep.29 (26/8/08)
Tuesday 20 May 2008, 10:49 pm #Jeremy
Have you rung up and checked the hoax story? Maybe that’s the hoax!
Tuesday 20 May 2008, 10:51 pm #Zombie Mao
OOOOOOPPPPPPPSSSSSSSS
Tuesday 20 May 2008, 10:52 pm #The Editor
Maybe this GrodsReport of the hoax is a hoax?
Tuesday 20 May 2008, 10:53 pm #Zombie Mao
oh and WTF??? :
http://todaysapatheticyouth.blogspot.com/2008/05/naked-ejaculating-anime-dude-for-you.html
Tuesday 20 May 2008, 10:55 pm #John Surname
Tasteless. I’d expect that nonsense from a lesser blog, say, us.
Tuesday 20 May 2008, 10:57 pm #Jeremy
You’re so cocky about it, Surname, but you haven’t rung the police chief in that town. Since when do you believe anything WorldNetDaily posts?
Tuesday 20 May 2008, 10:58 pm #John Surname
I am the police chief in that town.
I play judge, jury and executioner in that stinkin’ hole.
Tuesday 20 May 2008, 10:59 pm #The Editor
Haven’t you gone all arsey since the podcast record, Jeremy?
Tuesday 20 May 2008, 11:06 pm #Jeremy
My voice has dropped an octave, though.
Wednesday 21 May 2008, 7:47 am #keri
Call yourself Groupthinkers?
I didn’t think dissent was allowed.
Wednesday 21 May 2008, 7:51 am #The Editor
It’s okay, Keri. Jeremy is going to be re-educated.
Wednesday 21 May 2008, 7:53 am #keri
Ah. See what happens when you let them out of your site for a few days? Jeremy goes AWOL and comes back with all these ideas about individual opinion.
Wednesday 21 May 2008, 8:03 am #Damian
I wonder whether Helen Razer is planning a column about this.
Wednesday 21 May 2008, 8:09 am #The Editor
Did she write about this, Damian? Got a linky?
Wednesday 21 May 2008, 8:11 am #Damian
Nah, I was just making an allusion to another hoax of note. You think I would read Helen Razer?
Wednesday 21 May 2008, 8:16 am #The Editor
Sorry for any damage to your good name caused by my careless allegation, Damian.
Wednesday 21 May 2008, 12:16 pm #skeptic
This hoax just proves that Al Gore is fat.
Thursday 22 May 2008, 8:33 am #jowan
Yes its really a fake. Here’s the real story of how you were duped and the row over it.
http://sphinn.com/story/46400