Mmmmm....that's good bath salts.
Have you guys been keeping up with this case? I love a good eccentric billionaire case as much as the next guy, but this is one for the books. For those of you who've been living under a rock for the past month, anti-virus software mogul John McAfee is a person of interest in the murder of his neighbor on tiny Ambergris Caye in Belize on November 11. But that's not the weird part.
It is believed by some that McAfee committed the murder while under the influence of bath salts; hallucinogenic drugs he'd been dosing himself with for some time to improve his sexual performance with dozens of women, at least one of whom was underage. After the murder, he slipped into the jungles of Belize and disappeared. It was rumored that he was captured trying to cross into Mexico last night, but that rumor has since proved to be false.
It gets even better: the whole time he's been on the lam, McAfee has been communicating with the outside world. He's practically live Tweeted his entire flight from prosecution. He somehow maintains a blog (http://www.whoismcafee.com) and has had a number of live interviews with US media. So much for laying low.
He claims it's all a big mistake and has even gone so far as to offer a $25,000 reward for the capture of the "real" killer, OJ Simpson-style. Meanwhile, he's waging a one-man war on the country of Belize, urging people to boycott travel to the country and demanding the release of "political" prisoners.
There may even be an organized crime element to the whole fiasco. As reported by Gizmodo early on, McAfee had been associating with some of the worst gangsters in Belize. Who knows? Maybe he's raising a private army.
It's a spectacular fall from grace for one of Silicon Valley's original fair-haired boys. Though McAfee lost the bulk of his fortune in investments which went south, he's still a household name in much of the developed world. At least the annoying software bearing his name is.
I don't know how this whole thing is going to shake out, but I have to admit a dark fascination with it. I've been keeping up with it since Day One and I was almost disappointed to read that he'd been captured a couple hours ago (which I now know is not the case).
A secluded island, a veritable harem of prostitutes, mountains of hallucinogenic bath salts, and an armory of automatic weapons. Sounds more like a movie script than a computer programmer's retirement. But here we are.
Run, John. RUN.
Money + Free Time = Self-destruction
ive been keeping up with it the whole time, spent a good amount of work hours reading up on him...
from what I understand he wasn't just taking bath salts and other drugs, he was trying to purify them and remove some negative effects (like turning into a zombie...or in this case...a hitman)
i think his fortune was only in the 100's of millions...but nonetheless if i had a 100 million dollars i wouldn't be living in belize next door to mobsters and a guy who owned sex slaves
Is this shit for real? Reads like a game of Mad Libs.
shit just got crazy
I listened to the Joe Rogan podcast with him over the weekend. The guy is nuts (In an awesome way IMO)
Looks like Tony Stark.
not sure if he's winning or losing...
Can't wait to see that Vice Magazine video.
he's 62 banging 17 year olds.
WINNING
LOL I heard his live interview with Bloomberg. Entertainment at its finest.
I don't know if he's bullshitting on his blog (probably a high probability) but he says he's made it safely out of Belize, but that he's going back. So he managed to evade capture and escape the country, but he's going back because "that's where the fight's at". Pretty baller if true. Cocaine's a helluva drug.
fuck going back. reminds me of what's going on with Lamb of God's singer (bullshit manslaughter charge in the Czech Republic)... why go back? how hard is it to stay out of the Czech Republic or Belize?
Apparently it is extremely hard if you are an addict.
http://gizmodo.com/5965295/vice-magazine-just-accidentally-revealed-whe…
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OMFG that hilarious. What a bunch of fucktards. I guess the end is near (if Guatemala even gives a shit).
Jesus... screw that gps crap anyways, why would you ever turn that on? Isn't somebody on this board a pilot or something? let's go pick him up... good networking opportunity possibly? if not, I'm sure he'll hook us up with hookers, blow, n bath salts!
update: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-mcafee-turns-up-in-…
so his location is officially known now... I don't know why I want him to "win". hopefully he didn't actually kill the guy.
It's hard not to root for the psycho sonofabitch.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/Dy2g3Zmyy0A
McAfee arrested in Guatemala, to be deported back to Belize:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/05/john-mcafee-arrested-guatemala…
Nooooo :(
Hopefully he doesn't just disappear before a trial (if they plan on charging him). If he did kill the guy though... well, that's on him. This is a great story to follow though.
Can you imagine the NatGeo and Discovery specials if this cat dies in custody? Holy shit. It's gonna be a Locked Up Abroad marathon. (Banged Up Abroad for those of us on this side of the pond)
I'd watch it. My uncultured American ass hadn't even heard of Belize (or don't remember hearing about it) before this, so I'd like to see what goes on behind the scenes of these supposedly corrupt governments (well, at least more corrupt than the 1st world countries).
Clearly you're not a SCUBA diver. You gotta check out Belize, man, it's absolutely beautiful. Ambergris (where McAfee was living) is the big tourist spot, but there's some great places to go on the mainland as well. It's a former British colony so English is the language, it's on the IRS blacklist so it's a good place to ahem do some banking, and of course the diving is like nowhere else in this hemisphere (see
).
I hiked out to the Guatemala border with my wife one day, and we tubed down this river through a bunch of caves. We had headlamps on, but our guide made us shut them off whenever we entered one of the caves. I finally asked him why and he explained that the caves were where the jaguars made their lairs, and there was no point in simplifying their lunch plans by floating through with lights on our heads. Didn't get an argument from me.
Plus Belikin Beer is pretty legit.
We are not interested in seeing your cavities Mr. Braverman.
speak for yourself
Just came out if anyone was wondering.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2012/12/09/mcafee-us-belize/1757699/
Founder of McAfee (antivirus) accused of murdering his neighbor (Originally Posted: 11/14/2012)
Sounds like his neighbor might have poisoned his dogs, so maybe he killed him in response? I don't quite understand. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/14/john-mcafee-belize…
Think dad met him down there a year or so ago, and I have a vacation planned for just down from his home.
At least if I see him I'll now have something to talk about...
TT
Maybe his neighbor had a virus.. that would explain everything
McAfee: The Gift that Keeps on Giving (Originally Posted: 01/10/2013)
Huge hat tip to TheKing for finding this jewel and sending it to me.
Once John McAfee fled Belize and got booted out of Guatemala back to the States, I assumed his sordid tale had reached its (somewhat anti-climactic) conclusion. Silly me. No longer are eccentric millionaires content to go into seclusion, pissing in mason jars and growing out their fingernails 18 inches Howard Hughes-style. Today's well-monied nut jobs want to leave their mark.
To that end, John McAfee either deserves a medal for valor or a straitjacket. I'll let you decide. Because if what I'm about to share is even remotely true, prepare to have your mind blown.
John McAfee is a master spy who provided members of the Belizean establishment with compromised computers, planted covert sexual operatives in the lives of government officials, and even uncovered a Hezbollah training camp - where he still has covert operatives embedded. Cocaine is a hulluva drug. Or maybe in this case, bath salts.
If you've got the time, this really is worth a read. It's almost plausible when you think about it. Who better to provide government officials with laptops compromised with invisible keystroke loggers than the guy who basically invented computer black ops? This technology certainly exists (ask any high schooler who's been grounded because their parents put spyware on their computer) and who is going to say no to a free laptop?
At this point you at least have to entertain the notion that this could be true. And, if it is, somebody in Belize has a lot of 'splaining to do. Like, how is it Lebanese members of Hezbollah are getting Belize passports (and, by extension, relatively easy access to the US)? And did the Prime Minister of Belize order the hit on Arthur Young, the notorious leader of the Taylor's Alley gang?
McAfee claims all of this and more. I have to admit, it left me wondering. Could an ex-software mogul with a harem of Mata Haris bring down a Central American government just for kicks? He sure makes it look that way.
Of course, it's probably pure fabrication. Maybe he's a pathological liar (there's certainly evidence for that). Maybe his noggin is zorched on bath salts. Or maybe, just maybe, he's got mad spy skills that make James Bond look like Johnny English.
What do you guys think? Is it for real? Or a complete delusion? Should McAfee be getting a medal or a straitjacket?
He lost me at "pillow talk masters"
God I hope this is true...
When this all turns out to be true and they are making a movie about John McAfee, who plays the part?
Charlie Sheen. It's only fair!
The part about Hezbollah is the most interesting. I had no idea that Hezbollah was active in Central America: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/09/11/mexico-extradites-susp… "Allaboun was carrying a fake passport identifying him as a citizen of Belize at the time of arrest."
Mmmm ... Cracker Barrel.
The man is a hero
lol this guy is a boss. He needs a reality tv show.
Even if this part isn't true, the guy's life is mind blowing. If someone made a movie with anything resembling this fact pattern, it would be dismissed as typical Hollywood bullshit.
At this point, whether he was a spy would only add a little extra craziness to his story.
Also, my favorite line in the article is this: "engaging in calculated crazy behavior."
I love it because one of the most successful people I know personally describes some of his tirades as "calculated irrationality". It is one of the most effective methods for throwing people off balance to get what you want, but it's remarkably hard to pull off. I don't think I ever have.
Seriously, after all of this, you don't think the govt killed his dogs and neighbor to frame him?
Pretty sure I just gave you your 1,000th SB!
HA! Thanks, man. If true that's really cool.
wow, just wow
I think he was trying to work his way into becomming one of them until he got too fucked up, killed someone during a drug binge, and then assumed persona non grata status. Had he not killed that one guy, he'd be doing weapons deals with Hezzbola, helping the gov't launder drug money, or generally being a delinquent, but since he's busted, he's spilling his guts. Why? What is the reason for any of this madness?
Because fuck you, that's why.
Who needs a reason when you've got drugs.
But that's just me, I'm totally guessing.
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