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New Zealand lawyers dismiss murder trial defence D&D submission as ‘ludicrous’.

December 8, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Angela Blackmoore, a woman from Christchurch in New Zealand, was murdered in 1995. In 2019, Jeremy Powell confessed to the killing.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crime, Dungeons & Dragons

Pandasaurus Games’ warehouse robbed; Kickstarter exclusives stolen

September 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In a Kickstarter update titled You’re not going to believe this, but…, Pandasaurus Games has revealed their warehouse has been broken into and games were stolen.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crime

Dark deeds and deadly crime: Humble lures you in with a crime noir fiction deal

September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Stephen King Sampler, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest and other darkly criminal books help support the non-profit ACLU at Humble Bundle.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: bundles, crime, hard case crime, humble bundle

Hardboiled Radio: A review of Golden Age radio plays

March 29, 2021 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

On October 30th 1938, Americans panicked. They ran screaming into the streets and many fled their cities. It was chaos.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: bundle of holding, crime, reviews

$60, 000 Pokemon card lost in the post

July 10, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you ever had an ebay seller swear to you that your auction win is in the mail?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crime, eBay, pokemon

$1.4m worth of rare Batman comics go missing

January 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rand Lawrence is the Comic Art Consignment Director at Pedigree Comics and therefore knows a thing or two about comics.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: batman, crime

Stabbed seven times after a Magic: The Gathering fight

July 29, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The St. Cloud Police department are reporting at Elia Creech, a 31-year old Magic: The Gathering player, called them after stabbing someone seven times after argueing about the game. His 20-year-old friend and he had been playing over night on Friday when a fight broke out. At first Creech used a rubber mallet as a […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crime, magic the gathering

How D&D is played in US prisons

July 29, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Vice Media’s Waypoint has a series on prison culture and we’re looking at D&D. Some prisoners are able to use the hobby to hold their lives together. It turns out that Dungeons & Dragons is more common in prisons in America than you might have suspected. It is likely that most lock-ups have at least […]

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crime, Dungeons & Dragons

Short film: Manifold

March 31, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Anthony Scott Burns short films teases us a with blend of crime drama and sci-fi. It could be something out of Fringe except we’re left to piece things together – even more so than usual. Time for another? Click this teleport link and you’ll be taken over to a randomly selected short film.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: crime, sci-fi, short film

Real life superheroes tackle assailant in supermarket brawl

November 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the supermarket Tesco in Musselburgh, Scotland, Robin was attacked by a 21-year old man. Fortunately for Robin, Batman was nearby and came to his rescue. Assisting Batman was David Hasselhoff and a Smurf. As local police tweeted – you couldn’t script it. Robin assaulted, police called, collective assisted our foot chase, minor upset to […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: crime, humour, legal

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