[DollHead]

2005: 15-year-old Matthew "Lil Hacker" Weigman is considered by the modern phreak community to be one of the best young phone hackers out there. But before you get cute, old-timey images in your head of whistling rogues hacking free phone calls to their sweethearts, you should know that modern phreaking is more about delusional sociopathy than inventively exploiting archaic technology.

Case in point: When Richard Gasper, the father of a phone phreak groupie -- yes, there is such a thing, and no, that sadness you're feeling inside won't ever go away -- denied Weigman's 3 a.m. request to have phone sex with Gasper's groupie daughter, Wiegman did precisely what you'd expect: He hung up.

And then sent in a SWAT team to exact his revenge.

First, Lil Hacker made sure the 911 call was caller ID spoofed, meaning that it showed up as actually originating from within the Gasper residence.

Aaand that's the end of our high-tech hacking segment: It was just simple impersonation and persuasion that convinced the 911 operator that Weigman was an armed gunman holding the Gasper family hostage. You can hear the actual recording here, and you have to admit, it was a pretty damn convincing performance for a 15-year-old kid. Perhaps blindness has lent Weigman a heightened sense of behaving like a psychopath. At any rate, when Gasper stepped out into the police floodlights, explaining for the second time that he'd simply been pranked by a spurned and horny teenage boy, SWAT scoffed at him -- "Ha! Can you believe he tried that old excuse?" -- and slapped on the handcuffs.

Lil Hacker was eventually caught, but not by an elite squad of technological anti-heroes in a battle of code: He didn't like having an investigator following him, so he showed up on said investigator's doorstep with his big brother and threatened to beat him up.

Forget your shining towers of light and zipping light cycle battles: That's what hacking really looks like, ladies and gentlemen.

[kellyhound]

[Faline]

[Japex]

You can tell that he's lying by the tone of his voice. Anyways, this shit's still pretty funny.

[synthninja]

good for him!

[Warack60]

It happened about a mile from my school when I was a kid, Prairie Hills Elementary. lol

[Kadavar]

What all this for phone sex

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[Broadjumper]

Yeah, know what's REAL funny? This blind as shit dickhead was sentenced to 11 years in prison back in '09 and since there is no parole in the federal system, and little time off for good behavior, so the 135 month term will likely keep Weigman behind bars until 2018?

...wonder if he gets phone privileges between assrapings?

[1Monster666]

nope