13 Year Old Steals Dad’s Credit Card to Buy Hookers
So many stereotypes come to life… particularly with the closing line:
How do you have a WoW tournament? 
Perhaps Ralph would be better suited going to law school than pursuing politics.
I don’t know, maybe him & his m8s had been pweening Alliance nubs in AV for liek 12 hours and had gold to spend on cyb0r. Drunk on life, Coke and epixx.
I’m seeing a modern version of one of those 80’s home alone in your parents’ mansion over the weekend films.
Actually, they do have WoW contests - most recently was a $400,000 one for battlefield teams. From what I understand they import a copy of your character into a special server/section to be with everybody else in the contest and you play just like normal, and the winner gets cash money instead of honor badges. Heck, they might actually get the badges also, no clue. I remember randomly tuning past the gaming channel and seeing something about it as well as the announcement of the tournement on the splash screen when logging in to play.
If he’d won that, he’d at least be able to pay off the credit card binge.
Hookers accept credit cards?
So that’s how it works? Thanks, I had no idea. Funny how I can play WoW for three years and not notice. 
Huh. Even if I had had $30,000 to throw around when I was 13, hiring hookers (of either gender, smartass) to hang out with me would not have crossed my mind. Not even to play video games with.
Ahhh, the heartland, you gotta love em.
Looks like they must have got a cash advance on the credit card. Presumably they could use the $3,000 to pay the hookers.
This is the funniest thing I have read in a very long time.
Wealthy lawyer dad forgets kid’s birthday, so kid goes on a $30k spending spree.
Endless supply of Dr. Pepper and Fritos: $200
Hookers to play Halo with: $2000
Getting dad’s attention: Priceless 
I think the news story was created as a joke. I Googled for any other mentions of Ralph Hardy in Newark, Texas. They all are nonregular news sources except for a couple of British sources, a Belgian source, and one Norwegian source. There’s nothing from regular American newspapers. It looks to me like someone made up the news story and put it on their pseudo-news website. Various other pseudo-news websites picked it up because they don’t bother to do even basic fact-checking. Can anyone find any confirmation of this news story in something reliable?
Yeah, I have to say I was getting an Onion-ish vibe…too bad, because if it were true, that kid could be the next CEO of the United Way.
If the story IS true, ya think he’s been grounded?
If the story IS true, (which I doubt), I don’t care much for the amusement and “awww” vibe people on the net express.
IMHO, there is nothing funny about stealing money that isn’t yours. Again IMHO, wasting that much money on pleasure so fleeting is selfish, decadent and a bit desperate if an adult does it; when a kid does it, it is even worse. Kids ought to be less jaded.
I think that only a completely spoiled brat would do this, so my guess is daddy would continue to spoil this brat. That means minimal punishment, because putting up with that thirteen year olds tantrum would be difficult. This kid would definitely be CEO material, because everybody will placate him. Nobody wants to deal with the trouble he’d make if he didn’t get exactly what he wanted.
That is, if it is a true story.
Not until you spend it on hookers and blow! Er… XBox, I mean. Then you got comedy gold!
Half the fun is in how badly written that article is. You know the interns at your local small town newspaper, the high school kid who took a trimester of Journalism in middle school but so, like, totally is all about being a reporter? Kind of like that but less skilled.
You try writing while laughing your ass off.