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Ghost Busters... BUSTED!
    #15304942 - 10/31/11 05:58 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

By Marcus Manfred – September 1, 2011

The producers of the TV show Ghost Hunters were arrested Thursday and charged with multiple counts of bank robbery, burglary, forgery and counterfeiting after being caught by a plucky group of teenagers and their dog.

FBI director Robert Mueller said the alleged crimes were committed over many years and across several states.

The show features two plumbers, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, who travel across the U.S. visiting alleged haunted houses and other claims of paranormal activities.

“The producers were only using this show as a cover story to hide their illicit schemes,” Mueller said. “While the two lead characters were chasing ghost stories, their van was being used to transport counterfeit bills, jewelry and other stolen goods.”

Mueller said Hawes and Wilson were believed to be unwitting dupes in the alleged scheme. He noted the pair uses scientific equipment in absurd and unproven ways, such as claiming a Geiger counter can find ghosts or that temperature differences in a room prove the existence of paranormal activity.

“In my office in the summer it’s usually warm by the window and colder by the door where the vent is, does that mean I’m being haunted?” Mueller said with a laugh. “Their approach to research is like using a stethoscope to fix your computer. They spend a few hours waving equipment around in the dark, pull a few parlor tricks and claim they’ve seen a ghost.”

Mueller said the producers would conjure up stories involving haunted houses that they would then use to store illicit goods around the country. Ghost stories were spread among the local populace to keep interlopers away and to provide a cover story for a visit by the show. In some cases, they relied on the curator of a little-known museum who was trying to get some free publicity.

He pointed to an infamous 2005 episode as an example of how this was done. The show featured an old plantation in Louisiana with a video segment of a lamp gliding across the table in a “slave shack,” yet viewers could see the lamp’s cord being pulled by someone offscreen. The shack itself was a new building that had never held slaves.

“Fortunately for Hawes and Wilson, I doubt anyone would be foolish enough to take their show seriously. They claim a flashlight rolling on a warped surface, such as an old bench, means there’s a ghost. On my planet it means there’s gravity,” Mueller said. “It’s unintentionally the funniest show on TV.”

Mueller said the alleged crimes were uncovered when the teenagers got their van stuck on a small country road and looked for help at a nearby mansion. An old caretaker informed the group that the house had been vacant for years and was supposed to be haunted.

“Luckily one of the teenagers and his dog have voracious appetites, for even though the house had been abandoned for years they went snooping around in the kitchen looking for something to eat,” Mueller said. “What they found instead was a ghost costume. The rest of the group investigated the source of some spooky noises and found an old phonograph near an open window.”

After learning the Ghost Hunters would be there the following day, the teens split into two groups. Some of them kept an eye on the Ghost Hunters crew while the others snooped around the crew’s vans and equipment.

One group saw the show’s producers enter a secret room under the house where large bags of money and trunks full of jewels were kept. The other teens discovered the crew’s van contained dry ice, a projector, giant fan, spotlights and a noise machine.

Rather than alert the authorities, the teens set up an elaborate scheme where one of them, posing as a ghost, would lure the producers into a barn where they would step onto a catapult, get tossed into a hay baler and slide on some grease into a pit. The plan nearly went awry as one of the teens and his dog were unaware of the trap because they were busy raiding the crew’s catering van, while one of the girls lost her glasses.

“These three wound up triggering the catapult themselves but somehow it all worked out. In the confusion everyone, including the producers, wound up in the hay baler together,” Mueller said. “Fortunately the old caretaker turned out to be innocent after all and he rescued them after contacting the local sheriff.”

Mueller said the FBI conducted raids on other Ghost Hunters sites and found millions of dollars in gold, jewels, counterfeiting equipment, real and counterfeit money.

“While I don’t condone teenagers trying to solve crimes on their own, these kids certainly did us a favor,” Mueller said. “Not only did we catch these criminals, we might finally get that ridiculous show off the air.”

The producers, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, pleaded innocent to all charges in an arraignment Thursday before Federal Judge Harry Stone. While neither would speak to the press their lawyer, Ben Matlock, said his clients would’ve gotten away with their crimes “if it wasn’t for those meddling kids.”

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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: Diploid]
    #15305023 - 10/31/11 06:19 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

This is why I hate kids.


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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: Diploid]
    #15305024 - 10/31/11 06:19 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

:facepalm:


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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: Diploid]
    #15305034 - 10/31/11 06:21 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

If I were one of those kids I would have taken as much money and jewelry as I could and ran.


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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: 4896744]
    #15305045 - 10/31/11 06:22 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

This is why I love kids. :thumbup:


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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: Icelander]
    #15305072 - 10/31/11 06:26 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

I hope I have inspired you to have children of your own. :laugh:


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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: Diploid]
    #15305113 - 10/31/11 06:33 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Diploid said:
after being caught by a plucky group of teenagers and their dog.





Ruh-roh!

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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: 4896744]
    #15305138 - 10/31/11 06:37 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

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iThink said:
I hope I have inspired you to have children of your own. :laugh:





Have them what?:confused:


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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: 4896744]
    #15305147 - 10/31/11 06:38 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Is this not a scooby doo plot?

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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: Icelander]
    #15305151 - 10/31/11 06:38 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Help you in your vision of the extinction of humanity of course! :satansmoking:


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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: 4896744]
    #15305153 - 10/31/11 06:39 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

My vision. :heart:


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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: PeterPanda209]
    #15305157 - 10/31/11 06:40 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

PeterPanda209 said:
Is this not a scooby doo plot?



Ssssshhhhhh!!!!!!!! I was having fun waiting for others to click to that..... And I would've gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling peterpanda's


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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: mistamonsta]
    #15305262 - 10/31/11 06:58 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Lol my bad. Did you write it? It was a good read either way :smile:

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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: PeterPanda209]
    #15305329 - 10/31/11 07:12 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

http://www.thechicagodope.com/ they have some mighty interesting articles :datass:

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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: PeterPanda209]
    #15305358 - 10/31/11 07:19 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

No it was Diploid who posted it..... I was just here for the lulz


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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: mistamonsta]
    #15305403 - 10/31/11 07:25 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

That's real news folks.

You can't make up shit absurd enough to compete with people who actually think magnetic fields in a houses full of electrical wiring is evidence of ghosts.

Here is the same story as reported by National Public Radio:

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/31/141868232/paranormal-technology-gadgets-for-ghost-tracking

Google it and you'll find it in most major news outlets.


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3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: Diploid]
    #15305493 - 10/31/11 07:44 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

While I do not deny ghost hunters exist and that people are stupid enough not only to believe them but also to pay them for their services, the blatant scooby doo references kinda kill any credibility the story had. Four kids and their dog? Hanna and Barbera being charged? Those damn meddling kids?


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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: mistamonsta]
    #15305516 - 10/31/11 07:48 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

It's a hollowness fluff story. Read the NPR version.


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2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
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4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! *DELETED* [Re: Diploid]
    #15306726 - 11/01/11 12:13 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

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Re: Ghost Busters... BUSTED! [Re: Cerebreich]
    #15307708 - 11/01/11 07:34 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

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“Fortunately for Hawes and Wilson, I doubt anyone would be foolish enough to take their show seriously. They claim a flashlight rolling on a warped surface, such as an old bench, means there’s a ghost. On my planet it means there’s gravity,” Mueller said. “It’s unintentionally the funniest show on TV.”




Unless I'm mistaken...he's mistaken.


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