April 15, 2009

World's Most Dangerous Hipster Grifter

The New York Obsever has an epic piece today on a Kari Farrell, a fugitive grifter who allegedly scammed multitudes of Brooklyn hipsters out of thousands of dollars. Her favored scam? Lying to friends and lovers about having cancer.

The highlight of the piece (and maybe of the whole year):

“She has this thing with guys where she talks about sex really upfront and kind of puts people off balance,” said Joe. (It was also around November that a guy named Troy was at Union Pool, the Williamsburg bar, when the bartender passed him a note from another customer. It read, “I want to give you a hand job with my mouth,” and was signed “Korean Abdul-Jabbar.” It was, according to Troy, from Ms. Ferrell. Another time, a patron at Fabiane’s, the café on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, said Ms. Ferrell passed him a note which read: “I want you to throw a hot dog down my hall.”)

Posted by Stephen Silver at April 15, 2009 08:42 PM
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