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?