A 13 year old from Texas who stole his Dad's credit card and ordered two hookers from an escort agency, has today been convicted of fraud and given a three year community order.
Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father's existing credit card company, and took his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing "Halo" on an Xbox with a couple of hookers in a Texas motel.
The credit card company involved said it was regular practice to send extra credit cards out as long as all security questions are answered.
The escort girls who were released without charge, told the arresting officers something was up when the kids said they would rather play Xbox than get down to business.
Police said they were alerted to the motel by a concerned delivery clerk, whom after delivering supplies of Dr Pepper, Fritos and Oreos had been asked by the kids where they could score some chicks and were willing to pay. They explained they had just made a big score at a "World of Warcraft" tournament and wanted to get some relaxation. On noting the boys age the delivery clerk informed the authorities.
When police arrived at the motel they found $3,000 in cash, numerous electronic gadgets, an Xbox video console with numerous games, and the two local escort girls.
Ralph had reportedly told police that his father wouldn't mind, as it was his birthday last week and he had forgot to get him a present. The father, a lawyer said he had been too busy, but would take him on a surprise trip to Disneyland instead.
Asked why he ordered two escorts, Ralph said he thought it was the thing to do when you win a "World of Warcraft" tournament. They told the suspicious working girls they were people of restricted growth working with a traveling circus, and as State law does not allow those with disabilities to be discriminated against they had no right to refuse them.
The $1,000 a night girls sensing something up played "Halo" on the Xbox with the kids, instead of selling their sexual services.
Ralph's ambition is to one day become a politician.
Flava FLAAAAAAAAAAAAV! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaah Boooooooooooooooooy!
can't be, there's no clock on a chain
it's the clock that's weighing him down!
you know what time it is!
It's pictures like these that make me hope the terrorists win.
How can you even know this anything to do with the US, your just an idiot and would get raped by the terrorists. U think Osama bin laden running the world is a good idea well then go to afghanistan and hide in a cave.
Why do you assume the person was talking about the US? Guess you made the same assumption for the same reasons.
He never mentioned the US. They hate the Brits too!
you're the one that assumed it was about the US.
Terrorists hate the entire dumb white, Western ideology. So the hatred would extend not only to Britain and America, but also to Europe and Australia and any other Western countries.
The picture is light and humorous, and a bit ironic... how the hell did we get on the topic of terrorism?
Hitler and the Nazi's!! ... There. We're done here.
I Never knew anything about Godwin's Law but now I do and feel enlightened. We see way too often people saying really inappropriate things for some reaction. Take this for example, a picture that is light hearted and funny turns into a debate on terrorism. I think people need to laugh more and quit being so cynical.
I'm 100% against terrorism, but if YOU'RE going to direct the word idiot towards someone please make sure that you proof read that sentence before submitting it.
I can't possibly explain to you how stupid and TV-fed you are. You wouldn't understand it anyway. Terrorism != Osama. Terrorism is to inflict fear in order to cause social and political effect. Some people do it with car-bombs and suicides. Other do it with TV-propaganda and teaching your ass that if you don't give your children's education money for guns, you will be raped by the arabs. Those are both terrorism. And yes, I do think at certain times that you guys deserve it big time. Especially when I see your teens going to war. I was drinking with some US solders in Germany the other day. Boy were they brainwashed - they were told that Iran caused 9/11 and were just about to attack the States. Considering that you brought it to yourselves, no one feels sorry for you anymore. It is pretty obvious to the rest of the world, so listen up and start reading history books a bit older that you grandma. You may see yourselves repeating it.
Now I am starting to wonder how we got from the funny picture to me swearing you, but anyway.
I'd guess from the guy's shirt and his appearance that he's from England or somewhere in Europe. I'm not well versed in this sort of thing but it looks like a polo for a soccer team.
that guys definitely a geezer - that a UK soccer jersey
and that guy in the water is totally his British owned slave... I thought that was abolished like a long time ago? Must be some sort of rich British grandfather clause.
it's not a uk but an england jersey.
Yep they look British. The guy is slightly pasty and wearing an England top. Well lets hope the dude with the horses gets the last laugh by charging them 20 pounds for the ride and therefore getting the better deal out of the situation. Both people on the horses will regret this photo later in life, or maybe not.
How the hell did this turn from a humorous photo to a discussion of terrorism? Get a life.
Of course eze a geeza you two bob cunt! Das' an england footy shirt you silly wanker (there is no UK team FYI). He's definatly getting his fingers wet! Get in there my son! You flilthy ASBO stella guzzling, wife beating, footy holigan gentleman. A true ambassador of England.
I'm guessing from her cellulite she might be American...
a horrible statement. I could understand shark attack, or drowning, or even running into an old ww2 underwater mine but terrorists... I mean it's just so un-American... go eat some dorito's and watch colbert report, that will knock some sense into you. or at least make your craving for a delicious cheesy tortilla snack subside for a short while. But the cravings always there, waiting to strike, like a bangle tiger in a mysterious steamy jungle. A jungle that hides terrorists... and hungry tigers.
...but a Bangle tiger would be awesome....Just another man-ic Jun-gle...roar!
''This lady could lose a few pounds, mah back is hurtin' ''
''You're tellin' me, this guy needs to cut back on the beer and chips!''
Come on now. You know Flavor Flav can't swim.
I was a lifeguard for 7 years, and I know for reals that black people can't swim. No joke. The only times I had to get wet were for black folk. This dude is drowning, and the horses are about too.
I'd say they are English, who else would wear an England football jersey? Besides they are two fugly peeps, they must be brits!
You fail life. Americans have the largest percentage of obese people in the world and therefore the largest percentage of "fugly peeps" unless you're into BBWs.
Haha, big-boned, manish, buck teeth british women eh? No thanks.
And can't point to their own country on a map. I prefer women who don't have to wash with a sponge on a stick.
Gawd bless Uh-merica.
Definatly English, if they were American then they'd be wearing bright flowery Hawaiian shirts to hide their bulbous meatsacks and Flava Flav would be 3-feet underwater, crushed by the weight.
Now that was funny, and even clever.
just because he's wearing an english jersey doesnt mean that hes from England.... u can buy that jersey anywhere... and secondly thats gluttony to the max... lets exploit the periphery a little more... the dude looks like hes practically drowning so those 2 idiots can get their camera shot... pathetic
What you don't see in the photo is WHY flavor flav had that look on his face. New York is under the water giving him a hummer. Now that is romantic. Oh, skeet skeet skeet, oh, skeet skeet.
Let me hear ya'll say 'Yeeeeeeaaaaaah, booooooyyyyyeeeee'!
Incase of an emergency, Flavor Flav's clock can be used as a floatation device.
haha looks like the black guy's having an orgasm
horrible and not romantic looking @ all...srry
I want to know where his hand is exactly....
The ranking chosen for this top is based on how cool these concepts are but also on how realistic their design is, because in our view it is more important that such a machine to be functional and reliable, rather than just futuristic looking.
10. On the last position we decided to place the Anna Lopez’s concept, a notebook designed with the focus on car drivers’ needs, for which would be helpful a mobile device easy attachable to the rudder.
As the use of this lightweight laptop is limited, because of its special design dedicated to mobile workers, with a full screen keyboard and a transparent display, capable to work in your car with the possibility to catch your attention from driving, we had to leave it at the end of the list of the top 10 coolest laptop concepts.
9. Again a very futuristic system that Hewlett Packard liked a lot and exposed it at the HP Invent event last year.
The company didn’t talk much about this notebook but it wanted us to have a view about how the future HP notebooks would look like.
8. V12 Design, an industrial and engineering studio from Italy presented the Canova Dual Touch Screen Laptop to show us all how a futuristic 2-displays system would look like, and indeed it is interesting, but not that close to the near future’s reality to deserve a better position in our top.
This notebook would have 2 touch-sensitive displays and more than that they would support the multi-touch technology.
The concept would be helpful for those that work with graphic editors - one of the 2 displays would be the monitor while the other one would transform into a keyboard – but it’d also provide sketch pad, graph paper, music score, the electronic pen and a special hardware configuration to meet the smooth functioning requirements.
7. On the 7th position we have the concept coming from Fujitsu, exposed at CEATEC, designed with the focus on one large sector as you would see.
It is equipped with touch keypad, backlit display, a 5.1 surround sound system, music keys, and second display for showing detailed information about the song playing. In conclusion it would be the perfect mobile digital player.
Fujitsu DJ laptop, as it was called, has a 20-inch primary LCD display easily folded closed to enable the turntable function, which can be accessed via a touch-sensitive screen on the outside.
This concept is focused on the music sector but has other impressive capabilities so we decided to leave it on this place in our top, and to search for something with more functionalities and dedicated to all domains.
6. Now comes the Flexi PDA concept which is very cool but not for those that prefer something stylish or neutral.
What’s unique here is the flexible display that would allow us to open the system and change its form, as Daniel Alexander, its designer describes it.
According to him, this laptop would fold base on the flexible screen technology, allowing us to use it as a mobile phone even outside because it is also waterproof.
It occupies place number 6 because its look would not be on everyone’s taste.
5. The green concept here is called Gelfrog and was conceived by the Frog Design team that made it so lightweight and thin so anyone could carry it as a news paper.
It’s made from a super-pliable rubberized material that would act like a mobile mirror, picture slide show and even a video projector.
And now the unrealistic part:
Gelfrog uses something like a cloning algorithm that scans people’s outfits to project a matching pattern on its own surface, allowing people to scan images from around and then study different subjects using the same interface.
Too futuristic but cool enough to be on the 5th position.
4. Closer to reality is Fujitsu Fab PC laptop concept that has an electronic paper display type, e-ink, with tissue covering, which makes it very flexible and lightweight.
It would look like an office folder when opened.
3. Intel had a great idea too, after collaborating with Ziba Design, and came up with this 0.7 inches thick laptop having a width of 17.7 inches and a weight of 2.25 pounds (1Kg).
Again we encounter the e-ink material for an external display that would show a photo, the calendar, or your daily schedule.
The Intel Mobile Metro notebook meets the following requirements: it is modern, supports all wireless network types and the latest mobile computing capabilities.
According to Roger Kay, the president of consultancy Endpoint Technologies Associates, for this concept, Intel used high quality resistant materials such as champagne-colored magnesium and decorated it with gold accents.
In Ziba’s view, this notebook is like a jewelry.
Intel Mobile Metro has a diary-like folder attached to it via magnets, capable of wireless charging.
2. Compenion prototype is on the 2nd place because of its two OLED touch-sensitive displays from which one would be used as keyboard, while the other one as an additional display.
Felix Schhmidberger wanted it to have a slider design and to serve as a series of docking stations.
The home dock would have a projector for viewing videos, and the office would have an ergonomic keyboard for example.
The multi-touch screen would be accessed with both fingers and a senstylus.
This notebook could have many different functionalities and has a great look too but we had to put it in the same balance with the Vaio Zoom concept, and you will see why Compenion remained on this position.
1. For this beautiful glass display that becomes completely transparent when the laptop is not in use, the touch-sensitive keyboard that becomes opaque when not in use, and it’s extremely thin shell, the Vaio Zoom Holographic Concept notebook deserves the first position in top 10 coolest laptop concepts of all times.
We think that this concept is showing us how future laptops would look like, while the designer wanted to create something that satisfies the requests of people for a perfect designed notebook.
Such a system would be extremely thin, the lightest, and would look exactly like in these pictures.
Eno Setiawan designed it after he gathered the latest statistics about how people would want their laptop to look like.
Deadliest animals in the world ranked by estimated number of human fatalities per year:
1. Mosquito over 2 million deaths per year resulting from malaria infection caused by mosquito bites.
2. Snake over 100,000 deaths per year.
3. Scorpion up to 5,000 deaths per year.
4. Crocodile up to 2,000 deaths per year.
5. Elephant over 600 deaths per year.
6. Bee over 400 deaths per year.
7. Lion over 250 deaths per year.
8. Hippopotamus over 200 deaths per year.
9. Jellyfish over 100 deaths per year.
10. Shark 30 -100 deaths per year.[WARNING: dirty words herein] We are in the middle of our own logo competition so I thought it apt to demonstrate a few that went seriously wrong. Whatever was in the mind of the designers at the time is anyone’s guess. Top 10 worst logos - and I really mean worst.
10. Bottom Logo
In case you can’t tell - it is a Japanese house in front of the rising sun. what else could it be?
9. *Special* Surgery
Guess where I am not going for surgery?
8. High Fashion
Guess where I am going for clothes.
7. Fine Food
Sausage anyone?
6. Olympics
Even though people have pointed out the obvious problem here, they still insist on using this.
5. Pediatrics
A picture paints a thousand words.
4. Children’s Clinic
Don’t worry - be happy. Or not.
3. Pharmacy
Enemas ‘r’ us.
2. Speechless
1. Open Wide
Bonus: We fix your computers
And your leaky penis.
![FREAKS [1932] Image](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/229/482080477_59e26914fd.jpg)
"But for an accident of birth, you might be as they are." Director Tod Browning delves into the depraved world of sideshow circus freaks to reveal that they have more humanity than the average asshole walking the streets. Favorite freak: Prince Randian, "the living torso" (pictured above). Runner-up: Johnny Eck, "the half-boy." Freaks was based on the short story "Spurs" by Tod Robbins. Believe it or not, this masterpiece only runs for a total of 64 minutes! Also released as Forbidden Love, The Monster Show and Nature's Mistakes. Sample Dialogue: "We accept you, one of us! Gooble gobble! Gooble gobble!"
![I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE [1978] Image](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2369/1881431654_b15f236b60_o.jpg)
I always thought Halloween or Friday the 13th started the trend of "slasher films" that polluted the box office throughout the late '70s and '80s—that is until I watched this extremely low-budget flick about a writer who travels to a cabin in the woods, gets brutally assaulted by a bunch of hillbillies and then exacts her revenge using a series of rather creative methods—including hanging and castration. Also known as Day of the Woman. Sample Dialogue: "You know, sometimes I look at these gorgeous-looking chicks, I mean the ones that look like real knockouts, sexy and all . . . and I wonder . . . I wonder if they gotta take a shit, too."
![EL TOPO [1970] Image](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2018/1880636835_503d09eeda.jpg)
Alejandro Jodorowsky's totally bizarre, surrealistic masterpiece follows a gunfighter, El Topo (The Mole), as he makes his way through the desert and encounters one absurd situation after another in his search of enlightenment. One of the only films I'm aware of that has an armless, legless dwarf in the cast. Apparently, El Topo was one of John Lennon's favorite films. David Lynch was also a big fan (see Eraserhead entry below). Jodorowsky once claimed, "I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs." Sample Dialogue: "Too much perfection is a mistake."
![AUDITION [1999] Image](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2027/1881497154_f84370da03_o.jpg)
The friend of a lonely widower sets up a phony audition for a nonexistent film so the poor guy can find a new wife. He gets more than he bargained for - to say the least! Directed by Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, the film starts out as a traditional romantic drama but gradually devolves into a disturbingly graphic horror flick - definitely not for all tastes! Sample Dialogue: "Words create lies. Pain can be trusted."
![A CLOCKWORK ORANGE [1971] Image](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2045/1881516834_1cac371e10_o.jpg)
Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his "droogs" go out on the town to partake in a little of the old "ultra-violence." Director Stanley Kubrick brings Anthony Burgess' classic novel to life with this disturbing look at a future populated by teenage gangs. Look for McDowell's stirring rendition of "Singin' in the Rain." Here's what Kubrick said to counter the negative reaction voiced against the film's violence: "Sanitized violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence." Sample Dialogue: "What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolence."
![THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT [1972] Image](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2394/1881561952_bbfebdb331.jpg)
The Last House on the Left would make a great double feature with I Spit on Your Grave for the truly depraved movie fan of the over-the-top, sadistic, revenge-fantasy flick. Believe it or not, the film was reportedly inspired by Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1961! The Last House on the Left was directed by Wes Craven, who would go on to direct The Hills Have Eyes and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Sample Dialogue: "We don't wanna off someone first night out. I mean, it'd be a shame to get this floor all messed up with blood."
![HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER [1986] Image](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/1881593386_10f280797d_o.jpg)
Based loosely on the life of convicted murderer Henry Lee Lucas, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer follows roaming serial killer, Henry, and his demented buddy Otis, as they go on a random killing spree. Not a good movie to rent on a first date! Sample Dialogue: "If you shoot someone in the head with a .45 every time you kill somebody, it becomes like your fingerprint, see? But if you strangle one, stab another, and one you cut up and one you don't, then the police don't know what to do."
![SALO OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM [1975] Image](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2357/1881629116_b2bc9c56fc_o.jpg)
Based on the infamous book, The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade, Salo contains its fair share of disturbing imagery and graphic violence. For this reason, it is still banned in some countries even to this day - good luck finding a copy! Director Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally murdered shortly after the film's release. Sample Dialogue: "We fascists are the only true anarchists."
![IRREVERSIBLE [2002] Image](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2044/1881667458_ceb2d4d897_o.jpg)
"Time destroys everything . . ." Extremely disturbing French film directed by Gaspar Noé, Irreversible features a revenge plot told in reverse chronological order (similar to Memento) - punctuated by extreme violence and a brutally graphic rape scene that runs approximately nine minutes. Sample Dialogue: "Vengeance is a human right."
![ERASERHEAD [1977] Image](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/67/202419609_9e8052ff3a_o.jpg)
thinking
"This shit is getting deep!... That's what she said! Hahahaha I'm so funny...and lonely. Look at those two above me there awkwardly kissing from horseback... I wish that was me. Oh well, soon it'll be just me and the two horses, then it'll be my turn!"