Forget Money, Guns and Lawyers; Send Credit Cards, XBox and Hookers!

D.A. Ridgely on May 17th 2008

Speaking of promising political careers, I give you 13 year old Ralph Hardy who ordered a duplicate credit card on his father’s account and used it for a $30,000 spree with friends that ended in a Texas hotel room with $1,000 hookers playing Halo on XBox.

What separates Ralph and his friends from your run-of-the-mill juvenile thieves, you ask? When the prostitutes balked because he and his friends seemed so young, the boys told the women they were “people of restricted growth” and that refusing them would be illegal discrimination against the disabled!

I am in awe.

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3 Responses to “Forget Money, Guns and Lawyers; Send Credit Cards, XBox and Hookers!”

  1. # The Art of the Possible » Blog Archive » What’s the Matter With ThEse “Persons of Restricted Growth” These Days?on 18 May 2008 at 8:14 am

    [...] Texan lad shows political promise with dad’s credit card (h/t D.A. Ridgely, who via email declared that when Ralph grows up, he is going to President of these United States.) Fave part: The prostitutes told police they grew suspicious when the kids said they’d rather play Xbox than play with them. [...]

  2. # D.A. Ridgelyon 18 May 2008 at 10:53 am

    As you can see above, my friend and former co-blogger Mona also blogged this story after I brought it to her attention. She got the following comment which I am taking the liberty of reprinting here:

    # Anonymo Says:
    May 18th, 2008 at 9:09 am

    Note that all the Google News hits on this cite the same money.co.uk report, which doesn’t smell right. Why are the police or the courts, who are never quoted, releasing the name of this juvenile suspect for a relatively non-serious case? 13-year-olds can kill people and their name might never hit the news.

    “Asked why he ordered two escorts, Ralph said he thought it was the thing to do when you win a “World of Warcraft” tournament.” Too good to be true.

    I’m calling BS unless someone’s got further corroboration.

    As did Mona, I agree the story could well be false. But for the fact that I, too, am the now somewhat nervous father of a 13 year old boy living in Texas (who almost certainly doesn’t read his father’s blogging), I nonetheless hope the story is true.

  3. # Kimberlyon 19 May 2008 at 8:45 am

    http://www.n4g.com/gaming/News-145944.aspx

    This simply has to be fake. The motel clerk never would have given the kids rooms on his dad’s card, and prostitutes and escorts are legally different. As far as I’m aware of, escorts can be hired legally, and do not advertise sex. (I mean, they probably do, but it’s unfair of the story to actually call escorts prostitutes when they weren’t arrested or charged with anything)

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