Biggest opportunity I've blownNot Alan Partridge tells us: "I was once offered the chance to co-present a programme on national radio. Audience of millions, but blew up spectacularly, my entire contribution being the rustling of paper in the background. I was that bad, I have since burned my copy of the pilot show." Tell us about your big break, and how you messed it up.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 14:22)
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I was aware of a guy who was arrested and sent to prisonHe was arrested on an outstanding arrest warrant in one US state for skipping a suspended sentence in another. In the US this means a painfully slow extradition proceeding while locked up, getting extradited and then serving the remainder of his sentence in another prison.
He was a collosal tit who rubbed up lots of people on the internet the wrong way so it soon became public knowledge that he was inside.
I put an immediate bagsy on a prominent domain he owned using a domain registrar, waited for it to expire and got it. The mad bastard (for he was very mad in the head) came out of jail about 3 years later demanding me to hand his domain. He even accused me of stealing it although he had allowed it to expire. After reading his pathetic rationale for this (that his lawyer had betrayed him etc.) and his threats I wrote a reasoned timeline of events suggesting he had ample opportunity to renew. Then I got a rambling but slightly conciliatory email offering to give me a sub domain on his domain if I handed it back. Fat chance. I just ignored that email.
Must have made 20 or 30 grand out of that site. So crime does pay, just not necessarily to the person committing it.
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