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Your friendly local necromancer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Te Awamutu, New Zealand
Posts: 100
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![]() The latest "must-see" real-life web drama is the case of Ben Clemens, who says his cellphone was stolen from a train in California during August. The thieves apparently didn't know the phone was set to automatically upload photos to the net, so photos taken by the thieves have been published online.
Fascinating story. Or at least, it was fascinating the first time I heard it in another strikingly similar case. The difference with this case is that some people are doubting it's authenticity. I'll go on the record now as saying I'm in the hoax camp. This looks a little too suspicious to me...
Maybe I'm being terribly unfair. There is no hard evidence that this is bogus. I'm just noticing some red flags. If I had to put money on it I'd say that this is either Bens' shot at his 15 minutes fame, or a sneaky attempt at viral marketing for ShoZu and/or Flickr. |
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