If you’ve been following the Olympics for a long time, you probably know the name Suzy Favor Hamilton, if only vaguely. She never medaled, but she competed for Team USA in 1992, 1996, and 2000, was an outrageously successful runner in college before that, and appeared in tons of ads. Odds are, you’d hear her name and think, “Hmm, yeah, sounds familiar, I remember that from somewhere… hmm…”
Well, that uncertainty’s about to change, thanks to a story today in The Smoking Gun. First, the big takeaway:
A three-time U.S. Olympian whose illustrious running career has included a Nike TV commercial, a swimsuit calendar, and ongoing promotional work for Disney has spent the last year doubling as a $600-an-hour call girl, an astounding secret life that she now regretfully calls a “huge mistake.”
Beginning last December, Suzy Favor Hamilton, 44, has worked with one of Las Vegas’s premier escort services, booking scores of “dates” in Sin City and other U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston.
There’s really nothing I can add to any of this. The Smoking Gun’s story has tons of other details – Favor Hamilton (she’s married with a child, for the record) said she got involved in the escort business because it was “exciting,” and her travel schedule – she does many motivational speaking and promotional engagements – allowed her to see clients around the country. And those clients liked her. They knew her as Kelly, and according to reviews on this site (probably NSFW), she was one of the best in the Las Vegas area. Favor Hamilton lives in Wisconsin, but the escort service she worked with is Vegas-based – and for the record, prostitution isn’t legal in Las Vegas, though it is in some other parts of Nevada.
But this all was probably going to come out eventually regardless of the Smoking Gun story – because apparently, Favor Hamilton actually shared her true identity with some clients. She mentioned being “too trusting” as one reason she did so, but that only someone “in that world” could fully understand her situation. And if this all seems too wild to fully believe (we wouldn’t blame you)… Favor Hamilton tweeted about the story herself earlier. Here’s what she said, in full:
I realize I have made highly irrational choices and I take full responsibility for them. I am not a victim here and knew what I was doing.
The Smoking Gun made mention of this story about Favor Hamilton from earlier this year, which detailed her struggles with depression, an eating disorder, and personal tragedy (her brother committed suicide in 1999). It was hard to know those details and not attempt some armchair psychology about why she got into the escort business to begin with, but armchair psychology is just that – speculations from people like me who ultimately don’t know a damn thing. That said – Favor Hamilton saying the escorting was related to her depression wasn’t a shock.
I don’t want to sound preachy about any of this (this tweet about the story put me on high alert for preachiness, including from myself). Ultimately, beyond this being a stunning, newsworthy development and feeling obligated to weigh in on it, this doesn’t impact me – it impacts Favor Hamilton, her husband, her daughter. (Her husband being aware of her escort work was one of the more surprising sub-revelations of the Smoking Gun story; his displeasure at it was… less so.) Who am I to be the one acting like she needs to undergo some kind of public shaming?
In fact, what struck me about the comments below the Smoking Gun story was the non-preachiness of many of them. A sampling:
I see nothing wrong with this at all. Her body, her choice.
Why would she need counseling? She obviously was of sound mind and knew what she was doing. She clearly accepted it and owns up to her actions.
So what is the problem here? The problem is puritanical attitudes. Prostitution is a business. If clients are ready to pay her $600.00 an hour for services then yay for her. You go lady.
Of course, then a few people pointed out the issue complicating everything here isn’t that Favor Hamilton was doing it at all; it’s that she was doing it while married with a young child. Which, yeah, she said in those tweets above what a huge issue that was. But beyond that, again: not my family, not my place to wade into the moral morass – especially not when I tend to side with those who think it’d be more beneficial for everyone involved to just make prostitution legal, and at least be able to establish some kind of regulatory framework around something that’s clearly going to exist anyway.
But that’s beside the ultimate point, which is that there’s really only one conclusion I feel completely comfortable drawing from this story. And it’s a conclusion I’ve already seen shared, as a response to the tweet I linked earlier criticizing the tone of the Smoking Gun story. So I’ll just post it here and nod in agreement, because…
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The Story of a Man Who Outsourced His Work to China so He Could Watch Cat Videos All Day
A Verizon case study recently revealed that some people will go through great lengths in order to be able to watch cat videos all day. We first heard about it on TNW. The study documents the scam of a developer, who is referred to as Bob. He worked at a "critical infrastructure" company in the U.S. and started outsourcing his work to China underneath his company's nose, and would only pay those people less than one fifth of his six-figure salary. Here's how it was possible. Bob's company had started letting employees work remotely from home on certain days, so it set up a VPN concentrator to facilitate that. The company implemented two-factor authentication for the connection, with the second factor being a physical, rotating token RSA key fob. So all Bob had to do was send the key over to China via FedEx. The company eventually noticed strange activity in its VPN logs, so it asked Verizon for some help understanding what was going on. The logs showed that Bob was logged in from Shenyang, China, even though he was sitting at his desk. The company initially thought there was some kind of malware routing traffic from an internal connection in China, and then back to the U.S. But Verizon investigators quickly noticed a major red flag. The VPN connection wasn't new and had been active for at least six months. So they zeroed in on Bob himself, and took a forensic image of Bob's computer to recover as many files as possible and check for signs of malware. What they ended up finding were hundreds of PDF invoices from a third-party contractor in Shenyang, China. A look at his browsing history revealed what his typical work day consisted of: 9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos. 11:30 a.m. – Take lunch. 1:00 p.m. – Ebay time. 2:00ish p.m. – Facebook updates – LinkedIn. 4:30 p.m. – End of day update e-mail to management. 5:00 p.m. – Go home. So while workers in China were doing Bob's job for him, Bob was sitting back, relaxing, watching cat videos, and earning "several hundred thousand dollars" a year.
Donna Lange, Washington Woman, Accused Of Using Her Breasts To Smother And Kill Boyfriend
Posted: 01/16/2013 10:31 am EST | Updated: 01/16/2013 10:53 am EST
A Washington woman is accused of using her breasts to smother and kill her boyfriend after an altercation at their mobile home.
Donna Lange, a 51-year-old woman from Everett, Wash., is believed to have suffocated her boyfriend to death with her breasts on Saturday, Jan. 12, according to Seattle's KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. Deputies, called to the Airport Inn trailer park at 12:45 a.m. for a disturbance report, found medics performing CPR on Lange's 51-year-old alleged boyfriend, who was later pronounced dead at Swedish Hospital.
Kiro 7 reports that witnesses claims they saw Lange throw her boyfriend down in the back of the mobile home. She was later found by witnesses with her chest covering the victim's face. Police noted the size difference between Lange and her boyfriend -- she was 5-feet, 6-inches and 192 pounds, he was 5-feet, 7-inches and 175 pounds.
Other women around the world are known to have allegedly used their breasts as weapons.
In November, German lawyer Tim Schmidt claimed his girlfriend tried to smother him with her 38DD breasts. Schmidt said she pretended it was a sex game, the Daily Mail reported. "I asked her why she wanted to smother me to death with her breasts and she told me: 'Treasure – I wanted your death to be as pleasurable as possible,'" he said.
The 33-year-old woman was reportedly accused of "attempted manslaughter with a weapon," according to the Daily Mail.
A U.K. mother of three nearly smothered her boyfriend with her 40LL breasts while they were having sex in 2010, CBS reported via News of the World. She mistook his flailing for excitement, until she noticed that he had stopped moving and appeared to not be breathing.
Luckily, the man regained consciousness, but the two broke up shortly thereafter.
I've been following this one. they gave up the search for the guy and started to demolish the house. they let the neighbors back in to get their stuff out but the chasm underneath is so unstable they expect the whole block to go eventually. parking lots of news trucks and heavy equipment on top of it doesn't help either.
There are a lot of ways your mom can screw you up later in life, but at least she never drowned you because she thought your junk was too small. A woman in Indonesia drowned her son because she believed that his wiener was so small that he was doomed.
She told police investigators that she killed him as he would have a bleak future with his small penis,” Rikwanto said.
“She drowned her son in a bathtub filled with water. She then dressed him and laid him on a bed. After that, she went to a nearby police office to report her crime.”
This is so horrifying. Other than the obvious tragedy, the kid’s mom looked at his johnson. A lot. Then, she evaluated it to the point where she thought he had no hope. You just know that prior to her criminal actions, she had a discussion with her friends about this topic, probably at whichever salon crazy people who discuss their children’s genetalia go to get their hair done.
What if Mommie Dearest was a size queen? Maybe she was farsighted and some bifocals would have made all the difference? Or, perhaps she’s just b-a-n-a-n-a-s crazy. Indeed, the authorities in Indonesia have ordered a mental evaluation. Hopefully, they don’t spend too much time on this one.
One thing’s for sure, you need to go hug your mom. Even if she walked in on you while you were ‘discovering’ your favorite website, got kinky with your dad loud enough for your friends to hear or told embarrassing stories about you to girlfriends, she didn’t kill you because you had a tiny wee-wee.
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From Those Fishes - I Fingered An Old Bitch (i got Aids on my finger)
Well, that uncertainty’s about to change, thanks to a story today in The Smoking Gun. First, the big takeaway:
A three-time U.S. Olympian whose illustrious running career has included a Nike TV commercial, a swimsuit calendar, and ongoing promotional work for Disney has spent the last year doubling as a $600-an-hour call girl, an astounding secret life that she now regretfully calls a “huge mistake.”
Beginning last December, Suzy Favor Hamilton, 44, has worked with one of Las Vegas’s premier escort services, booking scores of “dates” in Sin City and other U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston.
There’s really nothing I can add to any of this. The Smoking Gun’s story has tons of other details – Favor Hamilton (she’s married with a child, for the record) said she got involved in the escort business because it was “exciting,” and her travel schedule – she does many motivational speaking and promotional engagements – allowed her to see clients around the country. And those clients liked her. They knew her as Kelly, and according to reviews on this site (probably NSFW), she was one of the best in the Las Vegas area. Favor Hamilton lives in Wisconsin, but the escort service she worked with is Vegas-based – and for the record, prostitution isn’t legal in Las Vegas, though it is in some other parts of Nevada.
But this all was probably going to come out eventually regardless of the Smoking Gun story – because apparently, Favor Hamilton actually shared her true identity with some clients. She mentioned being “too trusting” as one reason she did so, but that only someone “in that world” could fully understand her situation. And if this all seems too wild to fully believe (we wouldn’t blame you)… Favor Hamilton tweeted about the story herself earlier. Here’s what she said, in full:
I realize I have made highly irrational choices and I take full responsibility for them. I am not a victim here and knew what I was doing.
— Suzy Favor Hamilton (@favorhamilton) December 20, 2012
I was drawn to escorting in large part because it provided many coping mechanisms for me when I was going through a very challenging
— Suzy Favor Hamilton (@favorhamilton) December 20, 2012
time with my marriage and my life. It provided an escape from a life that I was struggling in. It was a double life.
— Suzy Favor Hamilton (@favorhamilton) December 20, 2012
I do not expect people to understand, but the reasons for doing this made sense to me at the time and were very much related to depression.
— Suzy Favor Hamilton (@favorhamilton) December 20, 2012
As crazy as I know it seems, I never thought I would be exposed, therefore never hurting anybody.
— Suzy Favor Hamilton (@favorhamilton) December 20, 2012
I have been seeking the help of a psychologist for the past few weeks and will continue to do so after I have put things together.
— Suzy Favor Hamilton (@favorhamilton) December 20, 2012
I cannot emphasize enough how sorry I am to anyone I have hurt as a result of my actions and greatly appreciate the support from family
— Suzy Favor Hamilton (@favorhamilton) December 20, 2012
and those closest to me. I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend.
— Suzy Favor Hamilton (@favorhamilton) December 20, 2012
The Smoking Gun made mention of this story about Favor Hamilton from earlier this year, which detailed her struggles with depression, an eating disorder, and personal tragedy (her brother committed suicide in 1999). It was hard to know those details and not attempt some armchair psychology about why she got into the escort business to begin with, but armchair psychology is just that – speculations from people like me who ultimately don’t know a damn thing. That said – Favor Hamilton saying the escorting was related to her depression wasn’t a shock.
I don’t want to sound preachy about any of this (this tweet about the story put me on high alert for preachiness, including from myself). Ultimately, beyond this being a stunning, newsworthy development and feeling obligated to weigh in on it, this doesn’t impact me – it impacts Favor Hamilton, her husband, her daughter. (Her husband being aware of her escort work was one of the more surprising sub-revelations of the Smoking Gun story; his displeasure at it was… less so.) Who am I to be the one acting like she needs to undergo some kind of public shaming?
In fact, what struck me about the comments below the Smoking Gun story was the non-preachiness of many of them. A sampling:
I see nothing wrong with this at all. Her body, her choice.
Why would she need counseling? She obviously was of sound mind and knew what she was doing. She clearly accepted it and owns up to her actions.
So what is the problem here? The problem is puritanical attitudes. Prostitution is a business. If clients are ready to pay her $600.00 an hour for services then yay for her. You go lady.
Of course, then a few people pointed out the issue complicating everything here isn’t that Favor Hamilton was doing it at all; it’s that she was doing it while married with a young child. Which, yeah, she said in those tweets above what a huge issue that was. But beyond that, again: not my family, not my place to wade into the moral morass – especially not when I tend to side with those who think it’d be more beneficial for everyone involved to just make prostitution legal, and at least be able to establish some kind of regulatory framework around something that’s clearly going to exist anyway.
But that’s beside the ultimate point, which is that there’s really only one conclusion I feel completely comfortable drawing from this story. And it’s a conclusion I’ve already seen shared, as a response to the tweet I linked earlier criticizing the tone of the Smoking Gun story. So I’ll just post it here and nod in agreement, because…
@david_j_roth That shit is CRAZY.
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http://i.stuff.co.nz/world/8161829/Russian-Zorb-pair-flee-after-man-killed
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From Those Fishes - I Fingered An Old Bitch (i got Aids on my finger)
A Verizon case study recently revealed that some people will go through great lengths in order to be able to watch cat videos all day.
We first heard about it on TNW.
The study documents the scam of a developer, who is referred to as Bob. He worked at a "critical infrastructure" company in the U.S. and started outsourcing his work to China underneath his company's nose, and would only pay those people less than one fifth of his six-figure salary.
Here's how it was possible.
Bob's company had started letting employees work remotely from home on certain days, so it set up a VPN concentrator to facilitate that. The company implemented two-factor authentication for the connection, with the second factor being a physical, rotating token RSA key fob. So all Bob had to do was send the key over to China via FedEx.
The company eventually noticed strange activity in its VPN logs, so it asked Verizon for some help understanding what was going on. The logs showed that Bob was logged in from Shenyang, China, even though he was sitting at his desk.
The company initially thought there was some kind of malware routing traffic from an internal connection in China, and then back to the U.S.
But Verizon investigators quickly noticed a major red flag. The VPN connection wasn't new and had been active for at least six months.
So they zeroed in on Bob himself, and took a forensic image of Bob's computer to recover as many files as possible and check for signs of malware.
What they ended up finding were hundreds of PDF invoices from a third-party contractor in Shenyang, China.
A look at his browsing history revealed what his typical work day consisted of:
9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos.
11:30 a.m. – Take lunch.
1:00 p.m. – Ebay time.
2:00ish p.m. – Facebook updates – LinkedIn.
4:30 p.m. – End of day update e-mail to management.
5:00 p.m. – Go home.
So while workers in China were doing Bob's job for him, Bob was sitting back, relaxing, watching cat videos, and earning "several hundred thousand dollars" a year.
Posted: 01/16/2013 10:31 am EST | Updated: 01/16/2013 10:53 am EST
A Washington woman is accused of using her breasts to smother and kill her boyfriend after an altercation at their mobile home.
Donna Lange, a 51-year-old woman from Everett, Wash., is believed to have suffocated her boyfriend to death with her breasts on Saturday, Jan. 12, according to Seattle's KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. Deputies, called to the Airport Inn trailer park at 12:45 a.m. for a disturbance report, found medics performing CPR on Lange's 51-year-old alleged boyfriend, who was later pronounced dead at Swedish Hospital.
Kiro 7 reports that witnesses claims they saw Lange throw her boyfriend down in the back of the mobile home. She was later found by witnesses with her chest covering the victim's face. Police noted the size difference between Lange and her boyfriend -- she was 5-feet, 6-inches and 192 pounds, he was 5-feet, 7-inches and 175 pounds.
Other women around the world are known to have allegedly used their breasts as weapons.
In November, German lawyer Tim Schmidt claimed his girlfriend tried to smother him with her 38DD breasts. Schmidt said she pretended it was a sex game, the Daily Mail reported. "I asked her why she wanted to smother me to death with her breasts and she told me: 'Treasure – I wanted your death to be as pleasurable as possible,'" he said.
The 33-year-old woman was reportedly accused of "attempted manslaughter with a weapon," according to the Daily Mail.
A U.K. mother of three nearly smothered her boyfriend with her 40LL breasts while they were having sex in 2010, CBS reported via News of the World. She mistook his flailing for excitement, until she noticed that he had stopped moving and appeared to not be breathing.
Luckily, the man regained consciousness, but the two broke up shortly thereafter.
http://i.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/8375024/Sinkhole-search-fails-to-find-missing-man
There are a lot of ways your mom can screw you up later in life, but at least she never drowned you because she thought your junk was too small. A woman in Indonesia drowned her son because she believed that his wiener was so small that he was doomed.
She told police investigators that she killed him as he would have a bleak future with his small penis,” Rikwanto said.
“She drowned her son in a bathtub filled with water. She then dressed him and laid him on a bed. After that, she went to a nearby police office to report her crime.”
This is so horrifying. Other than the obvious tragedy, the kid’s mom looked at his johnson. A lot. Then, she evaluated it to the point where she thought he had no hope. You just know that prior to her criminal actions, she had a discussion with her friends about this topic, probably at whichever salon crazy people who discuss their children’s genetalia go to get their hair done.
What if Mommie Dearest was a size queen? Maybe she was farsighted and some bifocals would have made all the difference? Or, perhaps she’s just b-a-n-a-n-a-s crazy. Indeed, the authorities in Indonesia have ordered a mental evaluation. Hopefully, they don’t spend too much time on this one.
One thing’s for sure, you need to go hug your mom. Even if she walked in on you while you were ‘discovering’ your favorite website, got kinky with your dad loud enough for your friends to hear or told embarrassing stories about you to girlfriends, she didn’t kill you because you had a tiny wee-wee.