George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana

n1ywb writes "Goerge 'geohot' Hotz, famous for being the first to jailbreak an iPhone and for his spat with Sony over PS3 jailbreaking, was busted for possession of a small amount of marijuana at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in Texas on his way to SXSW. The shakedown goes like this: drug dogs are run around vehicles; when they signal, DHS searches the car and finds the contraband; DHS then turns evidence and suspects over to the local sheriff. Willie Nelson, actor Armie Hammer (who played the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network), and Snoop Dogg have all gotten in trouble at the same checkpoint under similar circumstances."

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Re:Smart people can be dumb

[game kid]

Perhaps, but now he has to tell any future employers that he has a drug-related criminal record, which to their eyes is like being a ghetto gangsta incompatible with their clean, upstanding image.

...not that big game companies really radiate a clean, upstanding image anymore. DRM and crazy pricing schemes and "no you can't play this over a LAN but hey like us on facebook and you'll get exclusive shiny horse armor!" and all that.