Posts like this are the reason I love this business.
The Kokomo Perspective has an interesting story out about an alleged drug dealer who was on the lam from police. Yet apparently this guy’s drug of choice? World of Warcraft.
“We received information that this guy was a regular player of an online game, which was referred to as ‘some warlock and witches’ game,” said [Howard County Sheriff’s Department deputy Matt] Roberson. “None of that information was sound enough to pursue on its own, but putting everything we had together gave me enough evidence to send a subpoena to Blizzard Entertainment. I knew exactly what he was playing — World of Warcraft. I used to play it. It’s one of the largest online games in the world.”
Roberson — along with sheriff’s major Steve Rogers, fresh from escaping time-lost imprisonment by the Red Skull — ended up petitioning Blizzard Entertainment for the guy’s IP address. Note to drug dealers: Blizzard will give it up faster than you can say “LEEROOOOOOOOOOOY JENKIIIIIIIIINS”:
“I did a search off the IP address to locate him,” said Roberson. “I got a longitude and latitude. Then I went to Google Earth. It works wonders. It uses longitude and latitude. Boom! I had an address. I was not able to go streetside at the location, but I had him.”
At which point I’m pretty sure Cap threw his mighty shield, at which case the level 80 Tauren Shaman did yield. I think Topless Robot had one of the funnier insights to all this, however — that guy paid $15 a month to get totally busted by the Feds. To be fair, if he was selling drugs via World of Warcraft, it might explain this scene a little bit better.
[Image via Wandering Goblin]
January 4th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Only in the real world can we get a story that no comic can touch because of copyright infringements..lol So strange it true indeed…
January 5th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
No one is concerned that Blizzard hands out personal info? Hell, even in the article the cop saw it as a long shot and gave up on actually getting any info.
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