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Man Accused of Selling Golf Ball Finders As Bomb Detectors

Posted by timothy on from the how-to-defend-against-explosive-golf-balls-and-bananas dept.

CNET reports that a British businessman named Jim McCormick is facing charges now for fraud; McCormick "charged 27,000 pounds (around $41,000) for devices that weren't quite what he said they were." That's putting it mildly; what he was selling as bomb detecting devices were actually souped-up (or souped-down, with non-functional circuitboards and other flim-flammery) golf-ball detectors. The Daily Mail has some enlightening pictures.

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  1. James Randi has been warning about these guys by Cito · · Score: 5, Interesting

    James Randi has been really after this guy and others

    it's just a dowsing rod and there are several people making the same device

    Here is a video of James Randi warning others about the bullshit scam of this and others exactly like it in the UK

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruTmqfGJhTI

    They finally started listening to him it seems

    1. Re:James Randi has been warning about these guys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      James Randi was calling them out even back in 2008, offering them the million dollar prize if they would demonstrate that it actually worked. The company decided to instead of proving it worked, to instead blame people like James Randi as trying to get people in Iraq killed by depriving them of "needed" tools (also, they were making far more than a million dollars otherwise...).

  2. I'm torn on this one. by jtownatpunk.net · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On the one hand, he's scum. On the other hand, anyone who believed

    He produced glossy brochures to trick potential investors into believing the devices could detect tiny amounts of explosive from three miles away , the Old Bailey heard.

    shouldn't be in charge of the fry/chip station, let alone be in charge of ordering military equipment.

  3. Re:daily mail? seriously? by Aglassis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    wtf is the Daily Mail doing here? It is a tabloid.

    The "article" had more information about his stupid home than anything about his shady business practices or how no one noticed anything wrong with these devices.

    How dare you slander tabloids by comparing the Daily Mail to them!

    Why the Daily Mail is Evil
    Transgender teacher kills self after Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn denounces her

    Fuck the Daily Mail.

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