WHO@ Newsletter - December 26, 2011
I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .Old fruitcake brings $525 for charity
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/12/2
How much is a 70-year-old fruitcake worth? For a winning auction bidder the answer is $525, which will go to help the homeless in Ohio, the cake's owner said.
The fruitcake was baked and sold by a Cincinnati-area Kroger store in 1941 and wound up back at the store in 1971. A note left with the returned fruit cake said it was one of six bought by a man named E.F. Helbing, WHIO-TV, Dayton, reported. The note said the owner had been carting it around for decades and was finally unloading it on its maker, the Kroger store.
Store manager Frank Bates, now 86, took possession of it and kept it until recently when he gave it to Elite Estate Group owner Larry Chaney, whose firm decided to auction it off for charity.
While even higher offers -- some over $1,000 -- came in later, the winning bid of $525 came Thursday night from a man in Arizona who asked to remain anonymous, WHIO-TV reported.
The money will go to a church outreach program, providing food and other items for the homeless in the Cincinnati area, the TV station said.
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Prof gets probation for stalking La. cop - 12/26/11
http://www.policeone.com/Officer-Sa
A former Anna Maria College professor was sentenced yesterday to three years' probation arising from a case in which he was accused of stalking and making Internet threats against a New Orleans police officer. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman also ordered Gary O'Bireck, of Elmira, N.Y., to pay a $5,000 fine following his guilty plea in August to concealing a crime.
The village ruined by the most gullible man in Britain: Incredible story of the chartered surveyor, an email pledging a £3m lotto win and the neighbours impoverished in a web of sheer greed - 12/24/11
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
Arthur Stimpson, from Norfolk, was 'brainwashed' by an email scam into believing he had won £2.7million on a Spanish lottery and handed over £50,000 of his own money to conmen who claimed it was needed to release the massive windfall. When his own money ran out, Stimpson fooled those closest to him into handing over more than £1.1million in his increasingly desperate bid to get his hands on the jackpot.
Former Emerson student gets $130K for alleged harassment - 12/23/11
http://www.northjersey.com/news/educati
The Board of Education will pay $130,000 to a former student who said school officials did nothing to stop the constant bullying he endured between 2002 and 2007, state officials said Friday. Attorney General Paula T. Dow and Craig Sashihara, director of New Jersey’s Division on Civil Rights, announced that a settlement agreement had been reached between the board and the former student, identified only as J.C., Jr. in court documents.
Belle Glade teacher arrested for cyberstalking - 12/23/11
http://www.cbs12.com/news/glades-473755
A Palm Beach County teacher is behind bars after being accused of cyberstalking and threatening his principal. Frank Tedesco, a former teacher at Crossroads Academy in Belle Glade faced a judge yesterday.
Review website ordered to close after defaming and harassing lawyers - 12/23/11
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2
A website that allows users to 'name and shame' lawyers whose services they are unhappy with has been ordered to close after the High Court ruled its publisher had breached libel, data protection and harassment laws.
Mum barred from internet after detective threat - 12/22/11
http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/l
A THURGOONA woman charged with making Facebook threats to kill an Albury detective has been banned from using the internet as part of bail conditions imposed on her by a magistrate yesterday. Susan Cynthia Reid applied in Albury Local Court for bail after having bail refused in November over posts aimed at Detective Sen-Constable Margaret Saunders.
John Bapst senior, member of cyber security club, arrested for computer stalking, police say - 12/22/11
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/12/21/n
A John Bapst Memorial High School senior a veteran member of the school’s cyber security club was arrested Wednesday for using a computer to stalk a fellow student, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said.
Thieves use Craigslist to sell items stolen from Craigslist meetings - 12/22/11
http://wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=23
Two men are accused of setting up appointments to buy expensive items from people advertising on Craigslist, grabbing the items from the victims, and then attempting to resell the items including an $8,000 watch, also on Craigslist, using the original ad’s photos.
Cyber threats lead to charge - 12/22/11
http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/2011
Monroe police arrested a Haughton woman Wednesday afternoon accused of harassing her ex-boyfriend's girlfriend in text messages and phone calls. Danielle Amos, 24, of 314 N. Elm St., was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center on a cyberstalking charge.
Son accused of killing his cheating dad - 12/22/11
http://www.correctionsone.com/arrests-a
Arunkumar Ingle had planned to fake his own death, leave his family more than $3 million in life-insurance benefits, grab a fake passport and escape Delaware County to live with his mistress in India. Instead, the 55-year-old Boeing engineer was found bludgeoned and stabbed to death in his Middletown home in January 2008, his blood splattered on the walls and his testicles severely bruised. That's the story told in a 31-page criminal complaint filed yesterday - nearly four years later - that accuses Ingle's son of murdering him after installing a GPS device on Ingle's car and a keystroke logger on his computer to monitor the long-running affair.
'Stalker file' found at teen's house - 12/21/11
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/internet/n
A Rotorua teenager who set up a fictitious Facebook account to send repeated friend requests to another teen also had a "stalker file'' which contained explicit stories he had written about himself, the victim and the victim's sister, a court hearing has been told.
Alleged cyber stalker used social media to threaten woman - 12/21/11
http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/20
As if there isn’t enough to worry about already in the world, cyber-stalking has emerged as a new and dangerous trend. One man in jail right now finds himself at the mercy of an Orange County judge, accused of leaving graphic and threatening messages for a young woman on YouTube and other social media sites.
Renters knocking on wrong doors in Internet scam - 12/21/11
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-rental-s
A yellow cab wheeled into the driveway and disgorged luggage and a family of seven from Suriname, eager to start a 10-day vacation. In the million-dollar home where Steve Chase lives. A perplexed Chase watched as a woman clutching a rental contract rang his doorbell and asked for the house key. "I said, 'I hate to say it to you, but this house is not for rent,'" he recalled. "You've been scammed."
Ex-Mass. professor gets probation for Web threats - 12/21/11
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP4b2ea3c
A former Massachusetts college professor was sentenced Wednesday to three years of probation arising from a case in which he was accused of stalking and making Internet threats against a New Orleans police officer. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman also ordered Gary O'Bireck, of Elmira, N.Y., to pay a $5,000 fine following his guilty plea in August to concealing a crime.
Gang of paedophiles who subjected children to 'systematic abuse' via fake website are jailed for 27 years - 12/21/11
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A woman and four men who ran a global paedophile ring through a fake nudist website were jailed for a total of 27 years today. A court heard its members subjected children to 'systematic and continued sexual abuse of the worst sort.'
'Go and die': Young musician, 21, writes will and kills himself after being bullied on Facebook over unrequited love - 12/21/11
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A musician hanged himself after receiving a message on Facebook telling him to 'go and die', an inquest heard today. Simon Foxley, from Hyde, Gloucestershire, was left heartbroken when a girl he met on the internet deleted him as a friend on the social networking site and when he tried to contact her he received taunts from her friends.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine pirate jailed - 12/20/11
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertai
A New York man has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for leaking 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine online, a month before its release. Gilberto Sanchez, 49, who has a previous conviction for a similar offence, pleaded guilty in March to uploading a copyrighted work being prepared for commercial release.
Nepal Police arrests Facebook mis-user for Cyber crime - 12/19/11
http://www.groundreport.com/Media_and_T
Nepal police has arrested a student Shyam Prasad Timisina against cyber crime of using fake Id’s and defaming girls on facebook by posting obscene photos and videos using fake name.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/12/2
How much is a 70-year-old fruitcake worth? For a winning auction bidder the answer is $525, which will go to help the homeless in Ohio, the cake's owner said.
The fruitcake was baked and sold by a Cincinnati-area Kroger store in 1941 and wound up back at the store in 1971. A note left with the returned fruit cake said it was one of six bought by a man named E.F. Helbing, WHIO-TV, Dayton, reported. The note said the owner had been carting it around for decades and was finally unloading it on its maker, the Kroger store.
Store manager Frank Bates, now 86, took possession of it and kept it until recently when he gave it to Elite Estate Group owner Larry Chaney, whose firm decided to auction it off for charity.
While even higher offers -- some over $1,000 -- came in later, the winning bid of $525 came Thursday night from a man in Arizona who asked to remain anonymous, WHIO-TV reported.
The money will go to a church outreach program, providing food and other items for the homeless in the Cincinnati area, the TV station said.
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Visit WHOA on the web at http://www.haltabuse.org
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NEWS TO USE AND PASS ALONG!
(DISCLAIMER: The following news items were found on the web and were not written or endorsed by WHO@; they are for informational purposes only)
Prof gets probation for stalking La. cop - 12/26/11
http://www.policeone.com/Officer-Sa
A former Anna Maria College professor was sentenced yesterday to three years' probation arising from a case in which he was accused of stalking and making Internet threats against a New Orleans police officer. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman also ordered Gary O'Bireck, of Elmira, N.Y., to pay a $5,000 fine following his guilty plea in August to concealing a crime.
The village ruined by the most gullible man in Britain: Incredible story of the chartered surveyor, an email pledging a £3m lotto win and the neighbours impoverished in a web of sheer greed - 12/24/11
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
Arthur Stimpson, from Norfolk, was 'brainwashed' by an email scam into believing he had won £2.7million on a Spanish lottery and handed over £50,000 of his own money to conmen who claimed it was needed to release the massive windfall. When his own money ran out, Stimpson fooled those closest to him into handing over more than £1.1million in his increasingly desperate bid to get his hands on the jackpot.
Former Emerson student gets $130K for alleged harassment - 12/23/11
http://www.northjersey.com/news/educati
The Board of Education will pay $130,000 to a former student who said school officials did nothing to stop the constant bullying he endured between 2002 and 2007, state officials said Friday. Attorney General Paula T. Dow and Craig Sashihara, director of New Jersey’s Division on Civil Rights, announced that a settlement agreement had been reached between the board and the former student, identified only as J.C., Jr. in court documents.
Belle Glade teacher arrested for cyberstalking - 12/23/11
http://www.cbs12.com/news/glades-473755
A Palm Beach County teacher is behind bars after being accused of cyberstalking and threatening his principal. Frank Tedesco, a former teacher at Crossroads Academy in Belle Glade faced a judge yesterday.
Review website ordered to close after defaming and harassing lawyers - 12/23/11
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2
A website that allows users to 'name and shame' lawyers whose services they are unhappy with has been ordered to close after the High Court ruled its publisher had breached libel, data protection and harassment laws.
Mum barred from internet after detective threat - 12/22/11
http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/l
A THURGOONA woman charged with making Facebook threats to kill an Albury detective has been banned from using the internet as part of bail conditions imposed on her by a magistrate yesterday. Susan Cynthia Reid applied in Albury Local Court for bail after having bail refused in November over posts aimed at Detective Sen-Constable Margaret Saunders.
John Bapst senior, member of cyber security club, arrested for computer stalking, police say - 12/22/11
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/12/21/n
A John Bapst Memorial High School senior a veteran member of the school’s cyber security club was arrested Wednesday for using a computer to stalk a fellow student, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said.
Thieves use Craigslist to sell items stolen from Craigslist meetings - 12/22/11
http://wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=23
Two men are accused of setting up appointments to buy expensive items from people advertising on Craigslist, grabbing the items from the victims, and then attempting to resell the items including an $8,000 watch, also on Craigslist, using the original ad’s photos.
Cyber threats lead to charge - 12/22/11
http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/2011
Monroe police arrested a Haughton woman Wednesday afternoon accused of harassing her ex-boyfriend's girlfriend in text messages and phone calls. Danielle Amos, 24, of 314 N. Elm St., was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center on a cyberstalking charge.
Son accused of killing his cheating dad - 12/22/11
http://www.correctionsone.com/arrests-a
Arunkumar Ingle had planned to fake his own death, leave his family more than $3 million in life-insurance benefits, grab a fake passport and escape Delaware County to live with his mistress in India. Instead, the 55-year-old Boeing engineer was found bludgeoned and stabbed to death in his Middletown home in January 2008, his blood splattered on the walls and his testicles severely bruised. That's the story told in a 31-page criminal complaint filed yesterday - nearly four years later - that accuses Ingle's son of murdering him after installing a GPS device on Ingle's car and a keystroke logger on his computer to monitor the long-running affair.
'Stalker file' found at teen's house - 12/21/11
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/internet/n
A Rotorua teenager who set up a fictitious Facebook account to send repeated friend requests to another teen also had a "stalker file'' which contained explicit stories he had written about himself, the victim and the victim's sister, a court hearing has been told.
Alleged cyber stalker used social media to threaten woman - 12/21/11
http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/20
As if there isn’t enough to worry about already in the world, cyber-stalking has emerged as a new and dangerous trend. One man in jail right now finds himself at the mercy of an Orange County judge, accused of leaving graphic and threatening messages for a young woman on YouTube and other social media sites.
Renters knocking on wrong doors in Internet scam - 12/21/11
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-rental-s
A yellow cab wheeled into the driveway and disgorged luggage and a family of seven from Suriname, eager to start a 10-day vacation. In the million-dollar home where Steve Chase lives. A perplexed Chase watched as a woman clutching a rental contract rang his doorbell and asked for the house key. "I said, 'I hate to say it to you, but this house is not for rent,'" he recalled. "You've been scammed."
Ex-Mass. professor gets probation for Web threats - 12/21/11
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP4b2ea3c
A former Massachusetts college professor was sentenced Wednesday to three years of probation arising from a case in which he was accused of stalking and making Internet threats against a New Orleans police officer. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman also ordered Gary O'Bireck, of Elmira, N.Y., to pay a $5,000 fine following his guilty plea in August to concealing a crime.
Gang of paedophiles who subjected children to 'systematic abuse' via fake website are jailed for 27 years - 12/21/11
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A woman and four men who ran a global paedophile ring through a fake nudist website were jailed for a total of 27 years today. A court heard its members subjected children to 'systematic and continued sexual abuse of the worst sort.'
'Go and die': Young musician, 21, writes will and kills himself after being bullied on Facebook over unrequited love - 12/21/11
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A musician hanged himself after receiving a message on Facebook telling him to 'go and die', an inquest heard today. Simon Foxley, from Hyde, Gloucestershire, was left heartbroken when a girl he met on the internet deleted him as a friend on the social networking site and when he tried to contact her he received taunts from her friends.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine pirate jailed - 12/20/11
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertai
A New York man has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for leaking 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine online, a month before its release. Gilberto Sanchez, 49, who has a previous conviction for a similar offence, pleaded guilty in March to uploading a copyrighted work being prepared for commercial release.
Nepal Police arrests Facebook mis-user for Cyber crime - 12/19/11
http://www.groundreport.com/Media_and_T
Nepal police has arrested a student Shyam Prasad Timisina against cyber crime of using fake Id’s and defaming girls on facebook by posting obscene photos and videos using fake name.
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