It began, as it always did, with a phone call to 911. "Now listen here," the caller demanded, his voice frantic. "I've got two people here held hostage, all right? Now, you know what happens to people that are held hostage? It's not like on the movies or nothing, you understand that?"
"OK," the 911 operator said.
"One of them here's name is Danielle, and her father," the caller continued. "And the reason why I'm doing this is because her father raped my sister."
The caller, who identified himself as John Defanno, said that he had the 18-year-old Danielle and her dad tied up in their home in Security, a suburb of Colorado Springs. He'd beaten the father with his gun. "He's bleeding profusely," Defanno warned. "I am armed, I do have a pistol. If any cops come in this house with any guns, I will fucking shoot them. I better get some help here, because I'm going fucking psycho right now."
The 911 operator tried to keep him on the line, but Defanno cut the call short. "I'm not talking anymore," he snapped. "You have the address. If I don't have help here now, in the next five minutes, I swear to fucking God, I will shoot these people." Then the line went dead.
Officers raced to the house, ready for an armed standoff with a homicidal suspect. But when they arrived, they found no gunman, no hostages, no blood. Danielle and her father were safe and sound at home — alone. They had never heard of John Defanno, for good reason: He didn't exist.
Here's an article (7 pages; interesting story) about this kid who is blind but has really good hearing. He can mimic voices just from hearing them once and can recognize phone numbers from the buttons pressed. He used his power to get revenge on people by calling SWAT teams to their houses, etc. He manipulated people into giving him PIN numbers and other confidential information by using his ability to mimic voices.
What would you do if you had his powers? What else realistic super human powers are there? (I know there's that blind kid who uses echolocation to get around)
not gonna read this cos it's the rolling stone and it has 7 pages of ad-filled glory but he sounds like a d-bag who wont go to prison/will get a lightere sentence because people pity him because he's blind
i remember he could also play mortal kombat or street fighter or something using only the sounds and he proved it by kicking the reporter's ass in the game no problem
Jeff Daniels, a former phreaker who befriended Weigman on a chat line. "When you're a blind little tubby bald kid in a broke-ass family, and you have that one ability to make yourself feel good, what do you expect to happen?"
edit: Thats some harsh words for describing the kid.
Meh. The only real people who have "super powers" are the savants, usually with Autism and there was this episode one night on Discovery with people with crazy abilities. Like a guy in Finland who had blood that acted like anti-freeze and he ran a marathon in the winter in Norway in nothing, but like a pair of boxers. It was insane. Let me see if I can find it.
On August 25 2009 15:58 Aegraen wrote: Meh. The only real people who have "super powers" are the savants, usually with Autism and there was this episode one night on Discovery with people with crazy abilities. Like a guy in Finland who had blood that acted like anti-freeze and he ran a marathon in the winter in Norway in nothing, but like a pair of boxers. It was insane. Let me see if I can find it.
wasn't there also this prof who jizzed his pants when some blind dude drew a picture of a building as well? i totally did not understand why the guy was so excited, especially if the blind dude was not born blind as he would have had previous memories and images in his head
On August 25 2009 15:58 Aegraen wrote: Meh. The only real people who have "super powers" are the savants, usually with Autism and there was this episode one night on Discovery with people with crazy abilities. Like a guy in Finland who had blood that acted like anti-freeze and he ran a marathon in the winter in Norway in nothing, but like a pair of boxers. It was insane. Let me see if I can find it.
wasn't there also this prof who jizzed his pants when some blind dude drew a picture of a building as well? i totally did not understand why the guy was so excited, especially if the blind dude was not born blind as he would have had previous memories and images in his head
Yeah he was in it. It was because he was drawing the buildings in 3D. It was pretty remarkable.
On August 25 2009 15:58 Aegraen wrote: Meh. The only real people who have "super powers" are the savants, usually with Autism and there was this episode one night on Discovery with people with crazy abilities. Like a guy in Finland who had blood that acted like anti-freeze and he ran a marathon in the winter in Norway in nothing, but like a pair of boxers. It was insane. Let me see if I can find it.
wasn't there also this prof who jizzed his pants when some blind dude drew a picture of a building as well? i totally did not understand why the guy was so excited, especially if the blind dude was not born blind as he would have had previous memories and images in his head
Yeah he was in it. It was because he was drawing the buildings in 3D. It was pretty remarkable.
yeah but if he wasn't born blind, he would've had previous memories and images in his head of how to draw things in 3D right? and if i remember correctly nobody asked whether or not anyone had taught the blind guy how to draw in 3D or even advised him that his pictures looked 2d when he first started drawing...
Being a progamer would be pretty cool...or any other celebrity. I guess that's a superpower in the same way that getting a bunch of people to listen and follow you is a superpower.
I think it's remarkable that someone can spend their life developing a talent they can never appreciate themselves. Like if I were blind painter, I would always be thinking "Are they just fucking with me when they say it's so realistic?"
On August 25 2009 15:58 Aegraen wrote: Meh. The only real people who have "super powers" are the savants, usually with Autism and there was this episode one night on Discovery with people with crazy abilities. Like a guy in Finland who had blood that acted like anti-freeze and he ran a marathon in the winter in Norway in nothing, but like a pair of boxers. It was insane. Let me see if I can find it.
wasn't there also this prof who jizzed his pants when some blind dude drew a picture of a building as well? i totally did not understand why the guy was so excited, especially if the blind dude was not born blind as he would have had previous memories and images in his head
Yeah he was in it. It was because he was drawing the buildings in 3D. It was pretty remarkable.
yeah but if he wasn't born blind, he would've had previous memories and images in his head of how to draw things in 3D right? and if i remember correctly nobody asked whether or not anyone had taught the blind guy how to draw in 3D or even advised him that his pictures looked 2d when he first started drawing...
ROFL. just watched the video. The dude was born without eyes, meaning he was blind all his life.
On August 25 2009 15:58 Aegraen wrote: Meh. The only real people who have "super powers" are the savants, usually with Autism and there was this episode one night on Discovery with people with crazy abilities. Like a guy in Finland who had blood that acted like anti-freeze and he ran a marathon in the winter in Norway in nothing, but like a pair of boxers. It was insane. Let me see if I can find it.
wasn't there also this prof who jizzed his pants when some blind dude drew a picture of a building as well? i totally did not understand why the guy was so excited, especially if the blind dude was not born blind as he would have had previous memories and images in his head
Yeah he was in it. It was because he was drawing the buildings in 3D. It was pretty remarkable.
yeah but if he wasn't born blind, he would've had previous memories and images in his head of how to draw things in 3D right? and if i remember correctly nobody asked whether or not anyone had taught the blind guy how to draw in 3D or even advised him that his pictures looked 2d when he first started drawing...
ahh... well i'm less cynical about his abilities now i guess, but i'm still wondering whether or not anybody ever helped him with his 3D imaging or if he had had practice with 3D imaging prior to his 'test'.
EDIT: Actually, from watching the video, I can see he already knows how to paint in 3D prior to the test... So another question arises, albeit less relavent: why did the UofT prof even bother 'testing' him and declaring that he had just repeated Filippo Brunelleschi's feat when he already has demonstrated that he can draw in 3D?
It began, as it always did, with a phone call to 911. "Now listen here," the caller demanded, his voice frantic. "I've got two people here held hostage, all right? Now, you know what happens to people that are held hostage? It's not like on the movies or nothing, you understand that?"
"OK," the 911 operator said.
"One of them here's name is Danielle, and her father," the caller continued. "And the reason why I'm doing this is because her father raped my sister."
The caller, who identified himself as John Defanno, said that he had the 18-year-old Danielle and her dad tied up in their home in Security, a suburb of Colorado Springs. He'd beaten the father with his gun. "He's bleeding profusely," Defanno warned. "I am armed, I do have a pistol. If any cops come in this house with any guns, I will fucking shoot them. I better get some help here, because I'm going fucking psycho right now."
The 911 operator tried to keep him on the line, but Defanno cut the call short. "I'm not talking anymore," he snapped. "You have the address. If I don't have help here now, in the next five minutes, I swear to fucking God, I will shoot these people." Then the line went dead.
Officers raced to the house, ready for an armed standoff with a homicidal suspect. But when they arrived, they found no gunman, no hostages, no blood. Danielle and her father were safe and sound at home — alone. They had never heard of John Defanno, for good reason: He didn't exist.
Here's an article (7 pages; interesting story) about this kid who is blind but has really good hearing. He can mimic voices just from hearing them once and can recognize phone numbers from the buttons pressed. He used his power to get revenge on people by calling SWAT teams to their houses, etc. He manipulated people into giving him PIN numbers and other confidential information by using his ability to mimic voices.
What would you do if you had his powers? What else realistic super human powers are there? (I know there's that blind kid who uses echolocation to get around)
and FHL or HDI? (for the ending)
That's just called perfect pitch. It's impressive and uncommon but still quite a bit short of super powers. my friend who is a piano performance major has that ability.
he just sounds like a douchebag that hit a small jackpot ability and abused it then didnt want to pay the price and go to prison so he became even more of a douche
this is probably the first and last rollingstone article i'll read. what a load of unnecessary crap in the text.
recognize phone numbers from the buttons pressed eh.. i think i could do that if i just learned which sound is which number, cause theyre all obviously different? or is it harder than it seems?
EPT
