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(ABC) Obvious When 18-year-old "Marinesniper" meets 18-year-old "tallhotblond" on the Internet, you know one of them is lying   (abcnews.go.com) divider line 280
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2010-03-19 04:09:15 PM
Good news, everybody! You're going to deliver a load of robes and wizard hats to teh internets.
 
2010-03-19 04:13:42 PM
So...let me get this right:

"tallhotblonde" who really is, spends a year in cyberlove with "marinesniper".

When she finds out he's a 46 year old father of two in Buffalo, she runs crying into the arms of someone name "Beefcake".

This girl is really, really stupid.
 
2010-03-19 04:15:11 PM
To this day, Montgomery can't quite explain what he was doing in a teen chat room

I can offer an explanation.
 
2010-03-19 04:25:15 PM
Marco?
 
2010-03-19 04:33:32 PM
Huh, I've been wondering what happened to DodgerOfZion.
 
2010-03-19 04:47:29 PM
VictoryCabal: Huh, I've been wondering what happened to DodgerOfZion.

*snark*

Blues_X: Marco?

....OHHHHHH!!!!! I get it now.
 
2010-03-19 05:04:35 PM
I don't understand this thread or this article at all. Don't people usually choose names that accurately describe them when they sign up for chat rooms and such?
 
2010-03-19 05:08:30 PM
HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I don't understand this thread or this article at all. Don't people usually choose names that accurately describe them when they sign up for chat rooms and such?

How are yooooouuuu doin precious?
 
2010-03-19 05:12:53 PM
HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I don't understand this thread or this article at all. Don't people usually choose names that accurately describe them when they sign up for chat rooms and such?

No, not in the least bit.
 
2010-03-19 05:15:47 PM
Eddy Gurge: HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I don't understand this thread or this article at all. Don't people usually choose names that accurately describe them when they sign up for chat rooms and such?

How are yooooouuuu doin precious?


Sorry, I'm both a furry and into military types. I have my eye on Sgt Otter.
 
2010-03-19 05:21:40 PM
I, restrospect, I feel like I should now take a moment to mention that I am not a furry, not into military types, and that I most definitely do not have my eye on Sgt Otter (no offense, dude).
 
2010-03-19 05:25:21 PM
HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I, restrospect, I feel like I should now take a moment to mention that I am not a furry, not into military types, and that I most definitely do not have my eye on Sgt Otter (no offense, dude).

How you doing?
 
2010-03-19 05:36:22 PM
img.photobucket.com
 
2010-03-19 05:40:34 PM
I can't wait until tonight when we find out she's really a 35-yr-old mother of 14 behind on her mortgage payments...
 
2010-03-19 05:43:08 PM
I put on my robe and wizard hat....
 
2010-03-19 05:53:40 PM
This story sounds familiar.

*Googles "Thomas Montgomery"*

Yup, Wired wrote about it three years ago. 20/20 is just getting in on the action now?

Link (new window)

I'm 99% sure I read about it on Fark back then, too.
 
2010-03-19 06:05:22 PM
Oh, dear god, this went green. I need to check the cupboard for Jiffy Pop.
 
2010-03-19 06:19:00 PM
Relatively Obscure: So, someone who pretended online to be an active duty Marine ended up having his wife do some typing for him.

Why does this seem familiar to me, somehow?


I think I love you.

Before long, it will be SchlingFocker Obscure.
 
2010-03-19 06:19:00 PM
Croooow!: This is the greatest moment of my life.
 
2010-03-19 06:22:11 PM
When 18-year-old "Marinesniper" meets 18-year-old "tallhotblond" on the Internet, you know at least one of them is lying

FTFS.
 
2010-03-19 06:25:01 PM
Redwing: I can't wait until tonight when we find out she's really a 35-yr-old mother of 14 behind on her mortgage payments...

***SPOILER ALERT***

Actually you're not that far off. I saw this story on the news a few months back (some special IIRC). Anyways, turns out that tallhotblond isn't a young girl. She's actually a mother (mid-thirties, I think or forties) who was using her daughter's pictures.

DOH!

Oh, and "marinesniper" kills beefcake. He's now in prison for 1st degree murder. Life.
 
2010-03-19 06:50:02 PM
Hender: Yup, Wired wrote about it three years ago. 20/20 is just getting in on the action now?

Plus 20/20 tried to leave us hanging so we would watch the show. HA!

Ive got Hender and ghostmagic to ruin it for me.

/thanks guys
 
2010-03-19 06:57:12 PM
joshthewaster: Hender: Yup, Wired wrote about it three years ago. 20/20 is just getting in on the action now?

Plus 20/20 tried to leave us hanging so we would watch the show. HA!

Ive got Hender and ghostmagic to ruin it for me.

/thanks guys


....sorry..... hence the ****SPOILER ALERT warning..but you just couldn't help yourself, could you? :P

btw, I found what I had watched; evidently it was the documentary, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1370889/

Still worth seeing.
 
2010-03-19 06:57:55 PM
Attention young ladies: If someone writes you in grammatical English with good spelling and claims to be an 18yo marine sniper, be very suspicious.
 
2010-03-19 07:04:58 PM
ghostmagic: ....sorry..... hence the ****SPOILER ALERT warning..but you just couldn't help yourself, could you? :P

That was meant as an expression of gratitude. I care just enough to be annoyed that they left me hanging and not quite enough to care enough to actually find out what happened.
 
2010-03-19 07:30:44 PM
I am actually a weasel. A trained, typing weasel. It's hard, these paws don't like keyboards, but I make due. Sometimes I use voice recognition, but it never works out well.

PS. I'm furry and cute.

/Would I lie?
 
2010-03-19 07:35:07 PM
Bagelox-99: Attention young ladies: If someone writes you in grammatical English with good spelling and claims to be an 18yo marine sniper, be very suspicious.

Posts should appear in the following prose:

"hey watupp im paul im 25 i live in arlington i was brwsing ur profile n i thought u was interestin so i figured id give it a shot n say wats upp i been living in arlington fr almst 2 years i havent been soo lucky finding relation ships or lady friends at all well i love art music exersize i wrk out regularly im goiing to school to become a graphoic n web designer im lookin fr a good looking flady friend like urself to gt to kno so if ur interested gt back to me id love to hear from you bye"
 
2010-03-19 07:45:16 PM
Come on TotalFark, a thread about getting engaged to someone you've never met and planning your wedding and then finding out that person doesn't exist, and no one's made the obvious connection?
 
2010-03-19 07:45:47 PM
hmm 'marinesniper'.....i need to try that alias.
 
2010-03-19 07:46:10 PM
VictoryCabal: Huh, I've been wondering what happened to DodgerOfZion.

Oh never mind, I missed it.

Carry on.
 
2010-03-19 07:47:29 PM
Well at least the article is honest about the horror of aging and the utter despair of the "American Dream" of wasting away in a suburb.
 
2010-03-19 07:48:10 PM
My screen name is actually pretty accurate
 
2010-03-19 07:48:33 PM
Genevieve Marie: VictoryCabal: Huh, I've been wondering what happened to DodgerOfZion.

Oh never mind, I missed it.

Carry on.


Please, do tell.
 
2010-03-19 07:50:16 PM
EmployeeOfTheMinute: My screen name is actually pretty accurate

Mine too.

Am I the only one who can only think of Cartman any time someone mentions "beefcake"? It can't just be me.
 
2010-03-19 07:51:31 PM
bloodninja: Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me nice aight?

BritneySpears14: Aight.

bloodninja: Slip out of those pants baby, yeah.

BritneySpears14: I slip out of my pants, just for you, bloodninja.

bloodninja: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.

BritneySpears14: Oh, I like to play dress up.

bloodninja: Me too baby.

BritneySpears14: I kiss you softly on your chest.

bloodninja: I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.

BritneySpears14: Hey...

bloodninja: I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 Cock of the Infinite.

BritneySpears14: Funny I still don't see it.

bloodninja: I spend my mana reserves to cast Mighty F*ck of the Beyondness.

BritneySpears14: You are the worst cyber partner ever. This is ridiculous.

bloodninja: Don't f*ck with me biatch, I'm the mightiest sorcerer of the lands.

bloodninja: I steal yo soul and cast Lightning Lvl. 1,000,000 Your body explodes into a fine bloody mist, because you are only a Lvl. 2 Druid.

BritneySpears14: Don't ever message me again you piece of ****.

bloodninja: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal.

bloodninja: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him.

bloodninja: You still there baby? I think it's getting hard now.

bloodninja: Baby?

/classic
 
2010-03-19 07:51:44 PM
NEDM: Genevieve Marie: VictoryCabal: Huh, I've been wondering what happened to DodgerOfZion.

Oh never mind, I missed it.

Carry on.

Please, do tell.


Nah, but pay attention. Someone else will. It's inevitable.
 
2010-03-19 07:52:13 PM
HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I don't understand this thread or this article at all. Don't people usually choose names that accurately describe them when they sign up for chat rooms and such?

That's how I can be excused for spelling errors. You have any idea how hard it is to type with radioactive flippers? I tried typing with my beak but the jerk polar bear in the cage next door kept making "typing with your pecker" jokes so I had to stop.

With your ID, I just figured it meant you worked for the FBI.
 
2010-03-19 07:52:36 PM
I am quite bad and I've never met another me.
 
2010-03-19 07:53:54 PM
Jesus, this is all I had to read (FTFA): Montgomery began spending a lot of time on the Internet. "I found it easier to talk to the people online than I could to my own wife," he told "20/20." To this day, Montgomery can't quite explain what he was doing in a teen chat room on the popular game site "Pogo," in May 2005. But when a girl named "Talhotblond" started instant-messaging him, he decided to pretend he was 18 too.

Yeah, "talking" to "people" online probably is easier when they can't see that you're a creepy 46-year-old.

I've always wondered what the fark people imagine will happen when their "pretend" persona must be replaced by reality. Do they think the "love" that was created online will erase all the lying about their age and occupation and marital status and the hot 18-year-old will marry some scumbag who wants to leave his wife and kids?

Because, sure, all hot 18-year-olds want to marry losers who troll for half-their-age ass online. Who wouldn't? That's a goddam dream come true. I mean, 46 years old? Still married? A couple kids? Sign me up. What a dreamboat.

This must be the male equivalent of the large women who post 20-year-old pictures of themselves when they were (literally) half the size they are now. I just don't understand what people think could possibly come of trying to meet up "in real life" with people you've been deceiving for months about your true appearance, age, etc. I mean, obviously, stupid is a large part of it. I'm sure most of them would try to explain it by using some version of the word "love" or "infatuation."
 
2010-03-19 07:54:08 PM
HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I don't understand this thread or this article at all. Don't people usually choose names that accurately describe them when they sign up for chat rooms and such?

*rofl* Man I'd cheers your beer right now if we were within cheers'ing distance :P

/and if you're not drinking a beer get with the farking program, its past noon on friday!
 
2010-03-19 07:54:46 PM
It's getting REALLY HARD TO TYPE with just the floppy leaves, people!
 
2010-03-19 07:56:08 PM
*these

/it's getting REALLY HARD TO DRINK THIS BOURBON with just these floppy leaves, people!
 
2010-03-19 07:57:19 PM
One Bad Apple: I am quite bad and I've never met another me.

Well one bad apple spoils the bunch.

/AxiomJackson ...Away!
 
2010-03-19 07:58:20 PM
Shostie: Bagelox-99: Attention young ladies: If someone writes you in grammatical English with good spelling and claims to be an 18yo marine sniper, be very suspicious.

Posts should appear in the following prose:

"hey watupp im paul im 25 i live in arlington i was brwsing ur profile n i thought u was interestin so i figured id give it a shot n say wats upp i been living in arlington fr almst 2 years i havent been soo lucky finding relation ships or lady friends at all well i love art music exersize i wrk out regularly im goiing to school to become a graphoic n web designer im lookin fr a good looking flady friend like urself to gt to kno so if ur interested gt back to me id love to hear from you bye"


you win an internet my friend. Thanks, I lol'd at my computer my girlfriend thinks im a wierdo now.
 
2010-03-19 07:58:41 PM
My roof really IS leaking!
 
2010-03-19 07:59:08 PM
But I'm sure someone must have the handle "shortbald46yofark."
 
2010-03-19 07:59:27 PM
This is what makes Chatroulette so great. You actually get to witness firsthand that 98% of the people in chatrooms are just dudes wanking off.

/also, I'm never, ever trying Chatroulette ever again.
 
2010-03-19 07:59:46 PM
I am a blue pencil case.
 
2010-03-19 07:59:55 PM
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2010-03-19 08:00:02 PM
LeafyGreens: It's getting REALLY HARD TO TYPE with just the floppy leaves, people!

Do they make a plant version of viagra ?
 
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