Category: Crime

• The Ostrich Report On: Working At A Dating Scam Site

  Posted at 1:00 pm by ostrichreport, on March 20, 2019

  

  We like to believe that love can be found in any place and at any time because we are all romantics at heart. But we would also like that place to be the internet and that time to be right now because Netflix and Amazon have really spoiled us. That’s how dating/marriage scam sites are still in business. They are the places where lonely men set up profiles to meet international beautifies but usually get taken for large sums of money instead. “Maria” used to work for just such a service in Ukraine targeting American men, and this is what she told me about her job: Continue reading →

  Posted in Crime, Sex & Romance | 0 Comments | Tagged date site, scam

• The Ostrich Report On: Human Trafficking

  Posted at 1:00 pm by ostrichreport, on March 4, 2019

  

  Anyone who says crime doesn’t pay clearly hasn’t read the International Labour Office’s report on human trafficking, which estimates that forced labor alone generates about $150 billion a year. And that’s just one aspect of buying and selling humans. The problem is actually much bigger and complicated than most of us realize because we don’t like thinking about how slavery never really ended. It just got smarter and quieter. I wanted to learn more about it all, so I talked to Dr. Whipple, a pediatrician who often works with victims of human/sex trafficking, Dr. Williamson, a University of Toledo professor and human trafficking expert, and Dr. Gates, who co-chairs the Research and Data Committee of the San Diego County Advisory Council on Human Trafficking. This is what I’ve learned: Continue reading →

  Posted in Crime | 0 Comments | Tagged human trafficking

• The Ostrich Report: Living Next To Jeffrey Dahmer

  Posted at 1:00 pm by ostrichreport, on February 4, 2019

  

  Almost everyone has a story about a neighbor from hell, and if you don’t, you’re either very lucky or… it was you; you were the neighbor from hell. Not literally of course. Playing loud music until late at night or not cleaning up after your dog might be incredibly annoying but they don’t make a shitty neighbor a “demon” or anything like that. Harry would know because he actually lived next door to one of history’s greatest monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer, who raped, mutilated, killed, and ate (though not always in that order) at least 17 people between 1978 and 1991. This is what Harry has learned from living next to a literal neighbor from hell.

  Research by Evan Symon. Continue reading →

  Posted in Crime | 0 Comments | Tagged jeffrey dahmer

• The Ostrich Report On: Child Protective Services

  Posted at 1:00 pm by ostrichreport, on January 21, 2019

  

  Some people should never be parents, and I’m not just talking about the mother who named her daughter “Abcde.” No, there simply are people out there who are incapable of providing a loving and stable environment for children yet still have them, figuring “Eeeeh, what’s the worst that could happen?” And when the worst does happen, that’s when departments of family, CPS, foster care etc. step in to fix the problem. Unfortunately, the system isn’t very good to say the least. And to say the most: it’s a deeply-broken nightmare from which we can’t wake up. Steve, who’s seen it all firsthand, has the full story. Continue reading →

  Posted in Crime, Family | 0 Comments | Tagged child protective services, cps, foster care

• The Ostrich Report On: Malaysia’s Child Predator Problem

  Posted at 1:00 pm by ostrichreport, on January 18, 2019

  

  It sucks when you’re suffering from Baby-Face Syndrome. You always need to show your ID when buying booze, you have trouble getting into R-rated movies, and your boss might ask you to go on dates with child predators. Clarissa found out about that last part after she joined R.AGE, the youth desk for The Star – Malaysia’s largest English newspaper.

  In 2016, the paper conducted an investigation where they had their reporters pretend to be underage girls on popular chat apps and see how many adults would ask them out. Short answer: way too many, and Clarissa—being one of the few people in the office who could pass for 15—was eventually chosen to go and meet these men in cafes etc and secretly record all the creepy stuff they said to her. This is what she’s learned along the way: Continue reading →

  Posted in Crime | 0 Comments | Tagged malaysia, predator, r.age

• The Ostrich Report On: Prison Healthcare

  Posted at 1:00 pm by ostrichreport, on January 16, 2019

  

  Despite being the best motivation ever to work out besides your spouse giving the mail carrier flirty looks, prison isn’t actually that good for your health. And not just because of the violence, isolation, depression, and meals that legally have to be sold as animal feed but, like, for animals that have embezzled from a children’s cancer charity or something. The real problem starts after all those things have kicked your butt and you find yourself in need of medical attention. That’s when people like Rebecca, who served over 2 years at a large women’s prison, learn that… Continue reading →

  Posted in Crime, Health | 0 Comments | Tagged healthcare, prison, prison healthcare

• The Ostrich Report On: Nightclubs

  Posted at 1:00 pm by ostrichreport, on January 7, 2019

  

  Nightclubs are their own, bizarre little worlds, I assume. I have absolutely no way to confirm this firsthand because I could never get into one on account of being a fat white man with the fashion sense of an even drunker Johnny Depp. That’s why I instead talked to Gary and Adam who’ve worked in the club business for years. This is what I’ve learned from them: Continue reading →

  Posted in Crime, Entertainment, Music | 0 Comments | Tagged bar, night club, nightclub

• The Ostrich Report On: Junkyards

  Posted at 1:00 pm by ostrichreport, on December 14, 2018

  

  One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. That’s not only a horrible way to tell your kids they’re adopted, but also a pretty succinct summary of the junkyard business. Need a cheap headlight for your POS clunker or a replacement intake carburetor… cylinder or whatever for that discontinued car your dad bought you for graduation? The junkyard’s probably cut them out of a trashed car months ago and have them stored away in their warehouse. I wanted to learn more about a business that turns garbage into dreams so I talked to Luke who works at a salvage yard in Texas. He told me that: Continue reading →

  Posted in Crime, Money, Technology | 1 Comment | Tagged junkyard, scrapyard

• The Ostrich Report On: Being A Drug Deliveryman

  Posted at 1:00 pm by ostrichreport, on December 3, 2018

  

  It’s easy to tell people to “just say no to drugs” but if you’re having full-on conversations with your narcotics, it might already be too late for you. It might also mean that, in your indisposed state, you’ve made use in the past of drug deliverymen, i.e. people who deliver illegal substances directly to your door and indirectly to your nose and/or veins. I recently talked to Malachi who used to deliver cocaine, MDMA, and ketamine, to learn what it was like working for the Mirror Universe version of Grubhub, and he told me that… Continue reading →

  Posted in Crime, Money | 0 Comments | Tagged drug deliveryman, drugs

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