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Month: November 2021
Woman Tries to Hire Assassin on RentAHitman.com, Ends Up in Prison
A Michigan woman who turned to a bogus rent-a-hitman website to have an assassin kill her ex-husband was recently convicted for solicitation of murder.
The internet is amazing. You can find just about any kind of information or service if you put in the work and do some research, but when it comes to hiring someone to be your hitman, you may want to skip the obvious options. Wendy Wein, a 52-year-old woman from Michigan who wanted her ex-husband dead, failed to do just that. She found the website RentAHitman.com and assumed that it was a legitimate business where vengeful people like her could find professionals to do their dirty work for them. It won’t surprise anyone that this wasn’t the case and that she is now facing at least nine years behind bars.
RentAHitman.com promises confidentiality, boasts about complying with HIPPA, which apparently stands for the non-existent “Hitman Information Privacy & Protection Act of 1964,” features testimonies from satisfied customers, including women who caught their husbands cheating, and offers access to a network of over 17,000 “field operatives”. And that’s apparently more than enough for people to put in an order for a hitman…
The bogus assassin-hiring website is the brainchild of Bob Innes, a 54-year-old Northern California man, who created it not as a joke or a honey-pot for people with criminal tendencies, but as part of an Internet security business that never took off. He registered RentAHitman.com on Feb. 5, 2005 and considered opening a network security business. Eventually, he put it up for sale, hoping to make a profit, but that didn’t really work out either, so he simply forgot about it.
Then, three years later, he happened to check an email address connected to the domain name and was shocked to see about 200 to 300 emails, many of them one-liners asking questions like: ‘How much for services?’ ‘Do you operate in this or that country?’ etc.
Innes was surprised by all these emails, but he still didn’t do anything with the domain name until 2010 when he got an email from an English woman who claimed she had been tricked out of an inheritance by some people and wanted to have them all killed. She said her situation was urgent and had no issue providing the names of her victims. Bob could tell she was serious, and the names she mentioned in her messages turned out to be her relatives.
But before turning in the woman to the authorities, Bob Innes gave her a chance to change her mind, just like he does everyone else who appears serious about their intention to hire a hitman via his website. He asked her if she still required the service and if she wanted to be placed in contact with a field operator. She said yes and ended up spending four months behind bars before being sent back to Britain.
“It’s a crazy world,” Innes told the Washington Post. “The Internet is obviously a dangerous place. And this website is a magnet for low-hanging fruit that are out there trying to harm other people.”
A decade after RentAHitman.com fooled its first real customer, dozens of other people have fallen prey to it, the latest of whom was Wendy Wein. She too got the chance to walk back on her plan to have her ex-killed, but she didn’t take it. She did mention that finding the website so easily was a bit weird but in the end went ahead with her plan.
“This is kind of weird that your company is not on the deep or dark web,” Wein wrote to Innes. “I prefer not going to jail. Thank you for your time.”
Unfortunately, that’s exactly where she went after the owner of RentAHitman.com reported her to the police. Now, the 52-year old is looking at a minimum of nine years behind bars after pleading guilty earlier this month to solicitation of murder and using a computer to commit a crime. Her sentence is due in January.
“I don’t get it, people are just stupid,” Bob Innes eloquently summed up the whole story of RentAHitman.com.
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Los Angeles: the freeway capital of the universe
Postcard from the 1960’s.
The Southern California freeways are a network of interconnected freeways in the megaregion of Southern California, serving a population of 22 million people. A comprehensive freeway plan was produced in 1947 and with construction beginning in the 1950s. The plan hit opposition and funding limitations in the 1970s and by 2004 some 61% of the original planned network had been completed.
The Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange is a stack interchange near the Athens and Watts communities of Los Angeles, California.
The Inland Empire (I.E.) is a region in Southern California. The term may be used to refer to the cities of western Riverside County and southwestern San Bernardino County. A generally broader definition will include eastern Los Angeles County cities in the Pomona Valley, and/or the desert community of Palm Springs as well as its surrounding area; a much larger definition will include all of San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
The term “Inland Empire” is documented to have been used by the Riverside Enterprise newspaper (now The Press-Enterprise) as early as April 1914. Developers in the area likely introduced the term to promote the region and to highlight the area’s unique features. The “Inland” part of the name is derived from the region’s location, about 60 miles (97 km) inland from Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean. The area has a population of approximately 4.2 million people.
Cat Hilariously Jumps On News Desk Interrupting LIVE Political Talk Show
Kakutsa, the curious cat, caused quite the stir when he jumped onto a news desk interrupting a political interview in progress, drawing hilarious memes and viral videos.
An anchor and a studio guest were discussing the regional political issues and economic situation.
Out of the blue, a cat jumped on the table and sat right in the middle.
The guest was surprised and burst into laughter.
Georgia’s TV Kavkasia said they don’t know where it came from, and it was not part of the show.
The feline felt comfortable and started to the pet itself.
A Twitter user wrote, “Who knows why the creature jumped onto the desk — maybe to check their mics or make-up?”
However, after the encounter, the cat was taken away by a studio member, and the show went on.
Paris Hilton Wearing An Anti-Paparazzi Scarf That Ruins Photos By Affecting Flash Photography.
They don’t want their picture taken.
Seal spotted surfing humpback whale in Australia
An Australian photographer has captured a rare moment of animal communion with a shot of a fur seal surfing a humpback whale off the New South Wales coast.
Robyn Malcolm had been photographing a pod of whales on a feeding frenzy 500km (310 miles) south of Sydney. But she only realised she had taken the unusual picture when she went through the photos later, she told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Animal experts say that witnessing such a partnership is rare.
New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife whale expert Geoff Ross told the paper the coupling was very rare but he had heard of it happening once before.“The only other time was a seal trying to get away from a killer whale… the seal hopped on the back of the pectoral fins of a humpback whale,” he said.
Ms Malcolm insisted that the photo was not doctored.
“I’m positive, because I don’t know how to use Photoshop. And I do still have it on the camera so I can prove it,” she told the newspaper.
The meeting of seal and whale is the latest in a series of serendipitous animal piggyback rides which have been captured this year.
In March, amateur photographer Martin Le-May shot this picture of a weasel clinging on to the back of a woodpecker at Hornchurch Country Park in east London.
Bosom buddies? Sadly the picture actually shows a baby weasel attacking the woodpecker
In June, a family walking in a forest in central Florida spotted this raccoon hitching a ride on the back of an alligator.
Mr Richard Jones told local television station WFTF that he “snapped a lucky picture right when the gator slipped into the water and before the raccoon jumped off and scurried away”.
Here we have a mother polar bear giving the cub a helping hand/swim.
A Little Animal That Totally Resembles an Ewok
The Ili pika (Ochotona iliensis) is a species of mammal in the family Ochotonidae, endemic to northwest China. After its discovery in 1983, it was not documented again until 2014. Its population is declining due to largely unknown causes, and it is currently considered to be endangered.
The Ili pika somewhat resembles a short-eared rabbit. It is large for a pika, with a length of 20.3–20.4 cm and a weight of up to 250 g. It has brightly colored hair and displays large rusty-red spots on forehead, crown, and the sides of the neck.
It is endemic to the Tian Shan mountains of northwest Chinese province Xinjiang. A recent census indicated that the Ili pika may have been extirpated from the Jilimalale and Hutubi South Mountains.
Almost nothing is known about the ecology or behavior of the species. The Ili pika has low population densities. It is mostly a diurnal species, but may exhibit nocturnal activity. Only one to two litters are produced each year, but litter size for this species is unknown.
Unwanted Wake Up Leads to Tiger Tension
Above photo has nothing to do with this story. Just wanted to use the pic.
In an incredible video from Ireland, a sleeping tiger at the Dublin Zoo had a ferocious reaction to being woken up by its fellow feline.The footage from a family’s visit to the zoo begins innocently enough, with a young girl mimicking a tiger as it comes prowling towards the glass.But when the tiger rouses its companion from a serene slumber, the scene becomes rather unsettling and the toddler reels back in terror as the two big cats prepare to do battle.Fortunately, it appears the tigers were able to work out their issues without resorting to violence, despite some tense moments when it appeared the conflict could get ugly.While the incident may have been a surprise to the little girl, for anyone who has ever been woken up by an annoying roommate, it probably looked all too familiar.
Crazy and Strange Products as Advertised on TV
The founder of K-Tel died a few years ago in Winnipeg. Phil Kives started the company selling anything and everything. His big breakthrough was a non-stick frying pan. And this was just the beginning. In the 70’s and 80’s K-Tel sold everything from the pocket fisherman to the vegie-matic, the miracle brush to bionic glue. Any crazy and obscure product he could find out there, Phil would offer it to the world via TV advertising.
But K-Tel didn’t have all the crazy products. The list below has some products even more bizarre than K-Tel’s most outrageous contraptions.
Kush Support
The weight of one massive jug on top of the other has been plaguing big-breasted side sleepers for ages. Or so the makers of this item claim.
Fridge Locker
Contain your lunch and expose your OCD.
The Better Marriage Blanket
Protect yourself from deadly farts with “the same fabric used by the military to protect against chemical weapons.”
The Backup
A bedside gun rack so you can shoot an intruder without hesitating long enough to notice it’s just your girlfriend.
FIR-Real Portable Sauna
Leave a little bit of your ball sweat every place you visit with this traveling torture chamber.
The GoPilot Portable Urinal
This product for the prostate challenged was recently included in a Father’s Day Gift Guide … written by the worst son ever.
Gangnam Style Singing Toothbrush
Hear this maddening tune two times a day for two minutes straight and try not to kill yourself. It’s like Fear Factor.
The Tush Turner
A lazy Susan for your fat ass that’s guaranteed to make it even fatter.
The UroClub
Douse your friends in urine when you accidentally swing this pee-filled tube instead of your three iron.
The Fat Magnet
Suck the grease—and fun—out of every meal.
Hand Fitness Trainer
Type so hard you break the goddamn keys!
Bigfoot Garden Yeti
A sculpture that ensures a neighbor will never come knocking.
Organic Woombie Baby Swaddle
Finally, a newborn straitjacket!
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