You gotta love a community that bands together
So for those of you who don’t know, an online blogger by the name of Jesse McPherson had his xbox360, macbook, and tv stolen while he was away at a gaming convention. While this isn’t necessarily news-worth all on its own – sad a guy gets jacked, right? – what pings this on the radar is the massive online response to this guy’s plight.
Jesse here gets back home from work (where his coworkers got together and bought him a replacement 360!), loaded up his 360 and live, and what do you know but there’s a message from the guy who stole from him, taunting him and saying that he’d be willing to sell it all back to Jesse! The audacity to even do that is…extreme!
However, someone didn’t think their cunning plan all the way through.
Jesse is a blogger. He got jacked, guy taunts him, he records the message and posts it (and the gamertag ID) online. PLUS he looks up local pawn shops to see if someone tried to turn in his stuff and whatdya know but they did and the store owner caught video of the guy’s face!
To make a long story short, this gets posted on digg.com and the issue explodes. Thousands of people rally to Jesse’s defense, messaging the theif to return his stuff, calling him out for what he had done, and in general ruining this guy’s day for stealing someone’s stuff.
The thief gets under so much pressure that he decides “to hell with it” and returns everything (well, except the tv – haven’t heard anything about that lately)!
Just goes to show you what the power of the internet (and a coupel thousand angry gamers) can do. Note to self: Do not ever try to steal someone’s WiFi at the next LAN party.
-Z
p.s. Oh and yeah, for those of you keeping score out there: Jesse took this to the police (with the video, pictures, extortion recordings et all), but they decided it wasn’t worth the effort and told him no dice. Isn’t that wonderful.
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