Lost Strangeles
Last week, a minor rucus occurred when Grammy-winning record producer, Christian Julian Irwin disappeared following a 3:45am 911 call that had him running through the creek bed near his Topanga Canyon home. He claimed that he was being chased by people with dogs he believed might kill him. When the police arrived, they found no sign of him except his broken glasses on the hillside behind his house. During the subsequent investigation, friends and family claimed that he became embroiled in a Nigerian email scam, and had recieved a $50k check from them. (For those of you who haven't had internet access until yesterday, the extreme version of Nigerian email scams involve luring stupid people to Nigeria where they are then held until they can come up with enough money to be released, while lesser forms involve getting you to pony up your bank account number -- by mingling your funds with theirs so they can steal your money.) Though the Nigerian email scheme can lead to frightening situations, it seems strange at this late date that someone would be so uninformed as to be caught up in it.
Speculating while caught in traffic last week, it occurred to one kuaptic-ite that it seemed odd that Irwin would be chased by negligible Nigerians, as they would have to come all the way to the States to pursue him, which seemed an unlikely scenario at best.
On Sunday, a neighbor spotted Irwin, who was naked and washing his jeans in a creek, about a quarter mile from where he made the call. Irwin was disoriented, and was subsequently taken to a hospital to be checked out. His sister had to be brought in to calm him down. Police say there's no evidence anyone was pursuing him.
There's a lesson here, kids. Drugs are bad. Don't do drugs. (Also, stay away from Nigerian email scams.)
posted by kuaptic. @ 11:13 AM
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