Australian woman ‘lured World of Warcraft teen’
July 2, 2007
A 31-year-old Australian woman has been arrested in the United States for allegedly trying to kidnap a 17-year-old boy she had met playing role-playing game World of Warcraft on the Internet.
United States investigators say Tamara Broome encouraged the boy to leave his home in North Carolina to join her in Australia.
The chief of detectives in the city of Greenville, Lee Moore, says the pair began a relationship while playing the popular online multiplayer game.
“The best that we can discover is that they wanted to meet,” he said.
“To be honest with you, if someone were to fly from here to Australia or them to here, there’s got to be some kind of romance somewhere.”
Detective Moore says the pair had been communicating for about a year.
“What we understand she was trying to do was to get him to leave the country and go to Australia to meet her,” he said.
Police have seized a laptop computer and charged Broome with attempting to abduct a child.
Ms Broome
July 2, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Pic!, Pic!
If she was hot…. She should have just waited another year and everything would have been cool.
July 4, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Is it just me or does that kid look like he’s trying to shove a pixelated gun into a pixelated sphincter?
July 5, 2007 at 1:25 am
What do any of those pictures have to do with this news?
The first picture of a woman wearing a US Flag top has what to do with this article?
The second picture of a woman using an old last generation Xbox has what to do with the PC Game WoW in which this case surrounds?
The third picture is just a random picture of some teenager at a internet cafe using a computer.
Please do not add random pictures to your article that has absolutely nothing to do with the news at hand just because you can. Either use the real picture of the lady which was released by the US Police who arrester her or none at all.
July 5, 2007 at 1:34 am
Crazynews…does everything need to be serious on the internet?
July 5, 2007 at 1:36 am
Point taken.
The first picture actually is a woman with an Australian flag bikini top.
And, I will continue to use random pictures… “because you can”.
I couldn’t source the womans picture until now, so here it is.
July 5, 2007 at 1:39 am
Qelqoth Says: does everything need to be serious on the internet?
I say: No, just crazy!
July 5, 2007 at 3:02 am
Huzzah! And more Goatse!
July 5, 2007 at 3:02 am
Also, I’m blogrolling thecrazynews…because I can!
August 7, 2007 at 9:37 pm
[...] As The Crazy News reported a few months back…. [...]
January 22, 2008 at 4:34 am
[...] Hello, my name is Tina and I am a World of Warcraft junkie. I spend countless hours of my life playing this game for the dungeons, armor, and quests…never in a million years would I guess it would be used for attempted kidnapping! “A 31-year-old Australian woman has been arrested in the United States for allegedly trying to kidnap a 17-year-old boy she had met playing the role-playing game World of Warcraft on the Internet.” (Link) [...]