The value of YouTube

No JDV reference at all!

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070810/ap_on_fe_st/odd_youtube_thief

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A thief was convicted and fined after being spotted on a video posted on the Web site YouTube.

The man was taped slowly circling the store, stealing a laptop computer, slipping the computer into his overcoat and stepping out of the store in the South Island town of Greymouth, local media reported Friday.

The whole performance was posted on YouTube — set to "The Pink Panther" music track — and attracted 500,000 hits from around the globe.

One viewer recognized the man and alerted police. Dawson Anthony Bliss, 50, was convicted of theft in Greymouth District Court on Thursday after pleading guilty.

Judge Gary MacAskill fined Bliss $1,485 and ordered him to pay $1,478 in reparation.

Greymouth on South Island's west coast is 234 miles south of the capital, Wellington

 

MySpace got the beast best of him. [/Tania Brunton]

 

We'll be hearing more from these dudes from Laguna Beach.

Almost seems like they were shooting this for a movie.

 

This has got to be the oddest old thread to be revived on this site.

 

How it worked:

1. friend posted that video on FB today
2. I wanted to post it here but where?
3. did a search of threads here with YouTube in the title
4. chose this one for no other reason than because
5. because is a rad fucking reason, dude, to boke a shmole -30-

 

This thread was created even before lolcats became mainstream.

Villarreal was the Australopithecus afarensis of that species.

 

What the fuck is a “hit” on YouTube, boomer?

 

Scoreboard! 172 hits err views.

 

Should we start calling him Lucy?

 

Oh, Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ.

Just start a new thread next time instead of necrobumping a 13-year-old thread.

 

I've been studying guys like Villarreal on YouTube for the last four or five years.

The 'video diary' has become the province of kooks, clinical narcissists and those suffering borderline personality disorder.

Of course the anabolic environment of the Trump age has only made all of it worse.