Crook demands $185k in ransom for stolen cellphone
By Darren Murph 
posted October 17th 2007 11:04PM
posted October 17th 2007 11:04PM
If a burglar with exquisite taste somehow managed to snag a million dollar Goldvish, asking for just $185,000 for its safe return wouldn't be too far-fetched. Apparently, the mobile in question wasn't of the princely variety, as this particular thief managed to lower his asking price to a rock-bottom $200. The suspect, known initially through police paperwork as "Baby Boy," was lured into a trap after police tagged along for the exchange and arrested him at gunpoint. When Mr. Boy (later found to be Randy-Jay Adolphos Jones, which is only slightly better) was questioned, he just couldn't put a finger on why he blurted out the $185k figure versus something more reasonable, but hey, not everyone can be right on top of current market conditions, right?[Via The Raw Feed]
ha, I just read about this guy in the paper yesterday!
Wow..They arrested Will Smith?
I SAID LOOK INTO THE CAMERA PLEASE SIR.
Will Smith after he has been in a fight, and lost, with Mike Tyson.
whats up with this eye?
he has a lazy eye haha
Boo-ya!
Not even in the clear yet and he's already eyeing the phones under "Breaking News."
Probably bad karma to make fun of his lazyeye.
It's not lazy eye . . . It's called strabismus. As Mike Myers said in the little-watched movie "View From The Top:"
There's no business like strabismus.
Ransom....right?
You'd think "Baby Boy" wrote the headline on this one. Come on, Engadget!
ranson? more like ransom, amirite?
Maybe the guy was asking for ranson or ransom, so either the guy the owned the cell phone had to give "baby boy" his first born child or the $185K.
Lol, what a retard.
it's not news it's fark
This guy needs to spread his seed so we can get more stories like this in the future. Oh Baby Boy. We hardly knew ye.
That's quite a large ranson for a phone...
This sounds like something you would read on The Onion...
Come on, spell check before you post! Or atleast re-read once? I'm embarassed to bring my friends to this page with all these typos! :X)
OMG you have FRIENDS!!
You could "atleast" take your own pills...
Regarding the "ranson", I don't think it's too far fetched... Imagine how naive somebody has to be to buy a $1,000,000 cell phone in the first place? $185k probably doesn't even count as "Real Money" to somebody with that much coin. (Bastards)
But this wasn't a $1,000,000 phone he stole, dude.
DOOD!!! Does anyone else see that eye!!!!
o_O
No, what eye?
the wandering eye is so VERY important!
Will Smith is in tough times... :(
- Xidius
Oh shit, LMAO :-D
//* blow milk out of nose laughing out loud *//
HAHAHA Tupack meets will smith HAHAHA
Will Smith's stunt double...
I am more than positive that he was on the wrong set or something. He just couldn't figure out why he had lines in that movie so that's why he ask for an outrageous sum of money... It's got ta be!
:D
What's with all the Will Smith comments? Do all Black people look the same to you guys?
@burnblue, dude I just showed the pick to my wife and she said "Oh god what happened to the Fresh Prince??"
I didn't know brian peppers was allowed to do that anymore.
Uncross your eyes! Oh...sorry.
It's a sad indicator for the state of a nation when someone is willing to risk going to prison for $2oo, especially through an action which would so obviously end in apprehension.
That's a mask right? I want that for halloween! I'll scare EVERYBODY!!
That's a nice lazy eye he's got there. Have a good time in prison.
Wow, Will Smith is pretty desperate these days..
Now I would have asked for $184,999.
But hey, that just me.
I'm nice like that.
And my eye ain't lazy. Its tired.
I'm guessing he was ACTUALLY going after the cheaper Blackberry Pearl. Unfortunately his left eye was focused on the wrong phone.
Wow, Denzel Washington has really been letting himself go.
At least in jail he wont need anyone to watch his back
Is he looking at ME or YOU?
This is why I miss America's Dumbest Criminals. This is almost as good as the punk that can't get away because the door is pull instead of push.
What on earth would make the guy think he could set a meeting ahead of time to ranson (Old Archaic English spelling of the word) a phone? And for 10,000 times the market price of the phone?
If this guy kidnapped somebodies kid he would meet the parents at a chuckee cheese WITH the kid and would probably take a check.
LMAO.
P.S - This guy is going to be corn holed so many times in prison just by somebody asking him to pick up the soap.
He'd probably ask for $1 million but then settle for a pizza and 10 tokens.
LOL. Yeah, then ask you for some more tokens to play air hockey with your kid and then a ride home. Probably have to take his ass inside to his couch since he would of fallen asleep in your car.
The thing that confuses me the most about this, is that the police actually believed the victim...
I, ROBOT
EYE' ROBOT
eye speye with my little eye ...