PWNED: Kid tries to pass off CLS 55 AMG as his own, gets caught
Some people are just pathological. At first, it was amusing that Fresh C280, a member of the MDStreetScene forums, would claim to own a Mercedes CLS55 AMG. How a 19-year-old affords a car that normally retails for around $100,000 is the first thing that made everyone on the forum suspicious. A story about a digital camera becoming a sewage buoy was also an immediate head scratcher, since the pic he posted supposedly came from said camera. Further cementing the obvious dementia was the claim that the picture was taken during a dyno run in New York. It could be New York, except right now it's chilly early spring in the Empire State, and the dyno run picture clearly shows garage bays with the doors flung open and leaves on trees. It gets better as it becomes clear how many balls this kid's trying to juggle to hold up his story. There's a nice little synopsis that debunks the girlfriend angle – even though it's supposedly her car.
It didn't take long for total pwnage to occur when Fresh C280s fellow Maryland car enthusiasts did a little detective work. The car is actually owned by a CarDomain member named Xavier, who hails from Florida and showed up with proof of ownership around 30 pages in. All of the pictures posted to the MDStreetScene bulletin board were stolen from the actual owner's CarDomain page. This is weirder than the guy who thought up direct exhaust injection. The makings of a character study are all there – apparent delusional schizophrenia, a longing to be somebody, a sad little existence, and completely self-inflicted massive public humiliation. There's even a cameo by a famous lolcat. It doesn't get better than this, folks, the thread is only a day old so far. Check it out for yourself, it gets good around page 6. Oh, and Fresh C280's quote at the bottom of his posts is oddly prescient. Thanks for the tip, Terry!
[Source: MDStreetScene]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Ben 8:40AM (3/26/2008)
This isn't real news. I wonder how many times this happens on forums worldwide.
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Jeremy 10:10AM (3/26/2008)
Exactly. This happens all the time. There was one awhile back about a guy trying to claim he owned a 600hp Supra which was much better for so many various reasons.
And that lolcat isn't funny at all.
vintage 3:04PM (3/26/2008)
Welcome to the Internet, Mr. Roth. Apparently you're new here, but kids do this all the time. This isn't news. At all.
John R 8:43AM (3/26/2008)
I agree with Ben, however amusing it is. Is it slow today?
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Injected 8:47AM (3/26/2008)
I also agree that this should be beneath AutoBlog if they want to be taken as a serious news source. On the other hand, AB is more of a "second-hand" news source, so perhaps they don't care and post whatever they find amusing.
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mikomi 9:34AM (3/26/2008)
I guess I can't take CNN, Foxnews, and etc seriously because they also show random non-news items all the time. CNN regularly shows random videos from youtube, it's not news, but at least it's entertaining.
Geoff 10:23AM (3/26/2008)
You
VP 8:53AM (3/26/2008)
This is a blog people, not CNN or Foxnews (thank god for that). A blogger can post for whatever he finds amusing. If you don't like the particular post, just scroll right on by.
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Ben 9:20AM (3/26/2008)
You are correct. So perhaps I'll stop looking at Autoblog.
Way of the Future 9:21AM (3/26/2008)
The headline was pretty indicative of the story, and if you didn't think it was interesting, then don't read it. I think its funny...Thanks for the post.
swek 8:57AM (3/26/2008)
Agreed on all the coments above. I would expect to find this on sites like digg under: Kid claims being the owner of an AMG, get's totally pwn3d yo! category.
Bring on the real automotive news please.
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tenfifteen 8:58AM (3/26/2008)
They could change the subhead to "We obsessively cover the auto industry, plus the minutiae of teh car-related intert00bz LOL."
Or maybe AutoDigg would be better. ;)
I keed, I keed. I kind of enjoy this stuff. Plus it's in Maryland, where I live. Nothing major going on right now that needs constant reportage; this is the sort of thing that MotorTrend covers in a little sidebar, but in this format, it just goes up top. Don't like it, scroll down. The only thing that ever really bugs me about AB is the occasional junior-high grammar/spelling mistakes. That damages its credibility far more than this.
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tenfifteen 9:01AM (3/26/2008)
^^*d'oh* Should be "mistake," singular.^^
Just wanted to annotate before a fellow grammar Nazi points out my hypocrisy. ;)
JBob 8:59AM (3/26/2008)
i usually dont mind the odd news on this site, but this one is definitely not news. sorry :( i still love autoblog though!
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Dude 9:01AM (3/26/2008)
I agree that it's not news, but...
It always amazes me the lengths kids will go to make up stuff and then be lazy about their source material.
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Spice 9:10AM (3/26/2008)
Who cares! Let the kid dream on...
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Ben 9:19AM (3/26/2008)
Is claiming a car is yours when it really isn't, part of this "dreaming concept"? A twisted dream indeed.
tomy 2:11PM (3/27/2008)
yeah obviously he has some issues and his life isn't great as it is; leave the poor kid alone.
i actually own two cls 55s and i'm only twelve, sooooooo...
Caterham7 9:23AM (3/26/2008)
ok, I give up, what are these phrases I see more and more often these days:
"pwned"
"pwnage"
sorry, guess I really am older than I'd like to think
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Disgruntled Goat 9:35AM (3/26/2008)
See http://www.slangsite.com/slang/P.html. It's basically a term used by pre-adolescents and urban hip-hop OG wannabe's who are far too cool for regular English. Also see "l33t syndrome".