What started as a routine traffic stop ended with a Colorado teen doing hard time. The offense? Not returning a “House of Flying Daggers” DVD to his local library. Come on, Colorado. You’re better than that. Apparently young Aaron Henson, an impressionable lad all of 19 years old, fell in with the wrong DVD-borrowing crowd sometime last year

This week’s New York Times Magazine looks at China’s human-flesh searches, a widespread practice in which “netizens” systematically track and harass individuals ranging from adulterers to corrupt local officials. But the searches tread a fine line between justice and revenge. To anyone familiar with 4chan , its hard to imagine internet vigilantes residing anywhere besides the darkest corners of the web. In China, however, human-flesh search engines are a common occurrence, occupying a central role in the nation’s internet culture. The human-flesh searches are “not just a search by humans but also a search for humans”—humans that have in some way incurred the wrath of the anonymous bulletin board mob. One target, in an act of undeniable cruelty, killed a kitten on video (she was publicly shamed and forced out of her job).

This is upsetting. A South Korean couple was arrested for starving their baby to death, reportedly only feeding her once a day after marathon sessions at an internet cafe. What was keeping them so busy? Their virtual baby. Yeah

A three-foot hole in the roof, footprints on a pipe leading up the side of the building, no alarm ringing, no one on any security footage and missing 20 laptops. Mission Impossible follow up or Best Buy burglary? The incident is being dubbed the Mission Impossible burglary because the thieves apparently never touched the floor of the New Jersey Best Buy store—they would’ve set off an alarm if they did. Instead shimmied up a gas pipe, cut a hole in the ceiling of the place, and “dropped 16 feet to 10-foot-tall racks” to snatch the laptops from there.

You’ve been skimming credit cards and the cops know—they’ve already executed a search warrant and found a flash drive full of evidence against you. If you’re Florin Necula , this means that it’s time to swallow. After being arrested, Necula decided that it was a good idea to snatch up one of the pieces of evidence against him, shove it into his mouth, and swallow. Hard. Youch.

A 43-year-old mother of three is currently wanted by the police in Oklahoma City for seducing a 14-year-old kid on PlayStation Home . Her avatar must’ve been really something. Apparently, Annamay Alexander of Deltona, FL met this kid via Home and started sending him messages and a picture of her in her underwear. She then traveled to Oklahoma to see him and met with his mom, claiming to be there to talk about the kid wanting to marry her daughter. OK then! Even after being told off by the kids mom, she continued to send downright-unsettling texts like “My body is yours to do whatever you want with,” and “I love you and we are going to get married.” So yeah, be careful out there in those virtual worlds, kids. It’s probably best to stick with Xbox Live, where the 14-year-old boys are so fucking obnoxious no one would ever in their right mind try to seduce them.

Maybe he was trying out the TVs or the baseball bat , maybe he was struck by Walmart rage. Whatever the case, this guy destroyed a row of TVs before sitting down in the electronics aisle and waiting for the police. The smashed televisions add up to about $22,000 in damaged goods, 29 counts of criminal damage to property, and one bottle of confiscated anti-depressants. I suppose that’s just an itsy-bitsy bit worse than what went down with that foul-mouthed Australian guy . [ Huffington Post via Engadget ]

Apparently, when people sing Sinatra’s My Way in a Philippines karoake bar, and they sing it poorly, they die. The epidemic’s gotten so bad, in fact, that local law enforcement started calling it the “My Way Killings.” No one really know why dozens have died over the past decade while warbling to one of Sinatra’s greatest hits, just that they have, and after this specific song. Is it bad singing? Traditionally violent streets being traditionally violent streets? Die hard Sinatra fans exacting their revenge on newbs who butcher the greats? Possibly.

Credit cards numbers? Please. Medical records? Booooring. The modern hacker knows that the real money’s in carbon emission trade credits

Matthew Delorey’s business idea was to sell hacked Comcast modems which allow free Internet access. He just forgot to avoid FBI agents, conspiracy, wire fraud, and $250,000 fines. Now he may get 20 years in prison to rethink things. Delorey wasn’t doing anything insanely difficult.