If you live anywhere other than New York, or don't spend your days sniffing the media world's shiny round butt, you might not have heard about this kid Kari Ferrell, a briefly-employed Vice Magazine admin assist (and UPDATE one-time wannabe Suicide Girl!) who earlier this week was profiled in the Observer and exposed as an ALLEGEDLY slutty ALLEGEDLY fake cancer victim / ALLEGED short con grifter.
Within the space of a half-hour, Ms. Ferrell was peppering him with questions about his sexual history—how many women he’d slept with and so on. “She was coming on to me, and I was super into it for the first part of it,” he said. “I realized I could have fun after work—but then I was like, ‘Let me check this girl out.’” He Googled her. Up popped a photo of his flirtatious new co-worker on the Salt Lake City Police Department’s Most Wanted list, wanted on five different warrants, including passing $60,000 in bad checks, forgery and retail theft.
Now why, you might ask, should you care? Take it away, Gothamist!
Cannot wait until this Law & Order episode comes out.
Actually, we're also hoping that America's Most Wanted features this, like, next week, but yes, indeed! L&O needs to start breaking this story todaysterday.
Wait a second! According to some well placed, possibly fictional sources deep within the Dick Wolf mothership, they already have! Right now, at this very second, Wolf and his crack team of former playwrights are literally ripping the headlines right out of the week's newspapers and jamming them into scripts for not one but all three L&O shows, just to see which one works best. And we've managed to get a peek at the first drafts!!!
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