Mohtalim

A new Monopoly-style board game based on racial stereotypes has sparked an uproar among blacks and others nationwide, with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People calling this week for production and sale of the game to stop.

Hasbro Inc., the maker of Monopoly, Friday threatened to sue the game's creator if he didn't immediately stop selling "Ghettopoly."

The game includes among its board pieces a rock of crack cocaine, a pimp, a basketball and a 40-ounce bottle of beer. Advertised on a Ghettopoly Web site, the game was the brainchild of David Chang, an Asian-American who has been marketing it through Urban Outfitters, an international chain based in Philadelphia.

The game's object is to put crack houses or housing projects into the worst neighborhoods on the board while trying to avoid being car-jacked, shot or addicted to drugs.

For example, one game card, titled Hustle, says: "You are a little short on loot, so you decided to stick up a bank. Collect $75." Another reads: "You got yo' whole neighborhood addicted to crack. Collect $50 from each playa."

Kweisi Mfume, president of the NAACP, wrote to Chang.

"It is disturbing that you would choose to promote and capitalize off such negative aspects of society that cause great harm to the African-American community at large," Mfume said in his letter Thursday.

Officials for Urban Outfitters did not return repeated calls for comment. On Friday, a woman at the company's corporate headquarters in Philadelphia, who identified herself only as a receptionist, said the game has been pulled from shelves.

Description:
It really was only a matter of time before Sanrio's kitty kat adorned a PS2 memory card. Colored pink with a spotted background, the memory card features Hello Kitty's plaintive face as she peers out and five colorful roses surround her.

Ars Technica wrote:Identity thief steals the identity of a sex offender
Posted 10/16/2003 @ 11:19 AM, by Ken "Caesar" Fisher

This is short, but sweet. From the Serves-You-Right,-Jerk Department comes a little story about an ID thief who got more than he bargained for.

Police said James Perry stole the name and identity of a neighbor who turned out to be a convicted sex offender. Perry stole the identity of Robert Kowalski in order to obtain a driver's license, police said. Perry was living in Florida at the time and Kowalski was his neighbor. Perry had four drunken driving arrests which he believed would make it difficult to get a license legally in Connecticut, police said. Perry moved to Connecticut about a year ago and things went well until Perry was arrested for disorderly conduct. A routine computer check found that "Kowalski" was a convicted sex offender in Michigan and not registered as required with the state of Connecticut. Every bit of identification in his possession labeled the suspect as "Kowalski," but man himself was adamant that he was not a convicted sex offender, police said.

I've seen something analogous to this online once, when a guy dying for attention did his best to spoof the identity of a well known warez kingpin. The end result was that the kid got hacked and he ended up serving warez from his dorm computer. Within a matter of days, University officials called him on the carpet and he almost got booted from school. The moral: stealing IDs is bad, mmkay?

Tim: My line is so beating the heck out of your stupid line. Fear my pink line. You have no chance. I am the undisputed lord of virtual tennis. [Misses ball] Whoops.

EGM: Who's that chick Mario is rescuing up there?

Brian: It's Princess Peach.

Kirk: It's a hooker.

Niko: She looks cut in half.

Tim: Oh wow—she's one of those pole dancers.

Kirk: I'm sure everyone who made this game is dead by now.