Man admits Christmas lights Web site scam

[davidinalameda]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/28/christmas.scam.ap/index.html

A man who boasted to reporters around the world that his Web site allowed strangers to turn his outdoor Christmas lights off and on admitted Monday it was an elaborate hoax designed, he said, to spread holiday cheer.

Alek Komarnitsky, a computer specialist, said he started the site two years ago to see if he could use computer tricks to make it look as if the thousands of lights adorning his house in Lafayette were blinking on command.


this is pretty funny

[Maddy McCall]

1. It's no different from the subserviant chicken or the bar maid...

Did people really believe they were following orders on real time? Will they be the next to issue apologies to goofs who thought that they were really following their commands?

[Elise]

2. I saw that on

Keith Olbermann's 'Coundown' yesterday.

Too funny!