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The Boy Convicted of Conspiring to Murder Himself [True Crime Special]

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4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

When a 14-year-old British boy was savagely stabbed, no one could have imagined the bizarre chat-room fantasy world that lay behind the attack. A story of a near-fatal Internet attraction.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/02/bachrach200502

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0:00.0

So the dragon was tearing in a costume the whole time. Yeah, it was amazing way. It is sitting

0:08.8

all whole. Oh, that is not what happened in Game of Thrones. Yeah, I don't even watch

0:12.1

the show when I know that camp. Yeah, no, I know. I know. I know I didn't want to do

0:15.6

any spoilers though. Good thinking. Good thinking. Hey guys, okay, what did you do? Nothing.

0:22.4

I actually was thinking maybe come on. Come on. Just release the balloons full of

0:26.5

beer, whatever you did this week. Just go ahead and just do it. Am I involved this time?

0:31.9

Sometimes I'm involved in the thing you do. Guys, guys, I didn't plan any shenanigans

0:36.6

this week. You didn't really? No, you know, this week's essay got me thinking like we

0:42.6

play these exaggerated caricatures of ourselves on the show. But maybe for this week we could

0:47.7

just, I don't know, maybe we just drop all that drop all what? You know, you know, the

0:52.8

bugs at each other and ourselves, the hyperbole age, the constant negative attempts at humor.

1:01.1

Like when you get right down to it, this week's story is about a lonely, vulnerable person

1:05.9

on the internet. And I don't know, I just feel like putting on masks of our own feels

1:11.1

like part of the problem. I mean, you guys are all so smart. We bring so much education

1:16.7

and empathy to the table. And instead, we're just going to limit ourselves to mean-spirited

1:21.9

jibes at the subject. What's happening? I'm not saying it's as bad as some of the things

1:26.6

on the internet. But maybe this week we just- Which we can flip. Demonstrate our humanity.

1:31.4

I mean, he, come on. Don't you want to show the world the real you? You're not some sad

1:35.9

sad loser. You're an intellectual and you have real and interesting things to say about

1:41.8

this week's subject. You don't need jokes. Oh, okay. Like I get, I think I get what you're

1:47.4

saying. You know what, Eli? You're right. This week, let's go ahead and we'll just do

1:53.4

right into the people. Oh, God, damn it. I fucking knew it. Got it. Got him. No, no, that

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