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Tracking down a grifter should really be much more challenging, but Kari Ferrell has left her mark all over the internet for anyone to find. Perhaps she's been purposely leaving footprints, even commenting on FreeWilliamsburg back on March 4th, linking to her own photos. Gawker picked up on her trail and has delved into her Photobucket account, and since her story broke yesterday images have been popping up everywhere, with at least one person who encountered her starting a Flickr set with not-yet-seen pics. A MySpace group dedicated to catching her was even started in February.
She seemed to use the "KariTheCrucial" username a lot, on top of the Korean Abdul-Jabbar moniker, and at one point was even looking for a roommate on Veggie Roommate—one who didn't drink, smoke or do drugs, because she's straight edge, of course (maybe this was back in her kitten-saving days). For those who feel the need to get more involved in this downward spiral, there are currently dueling Facebook groups in homage to the con artist, one started by comedian Dave Hill who hosted Smiths Speed Dating in Greenpoint last night and Twittered that she was there (she wasn't).
Keeping in mind that this is clearly a troubled person, let's end this with a comment her dad allegedly left on one blog stating, in part, "She had a very spoiled upbringing. I have no idea how she turned out this way, but I hope she gets help and whatever treatment is needed. Kari if you're reading this turn yourself in. I love you." Don't feel too badly though, she's likely already got a six-figure book deal in the works.
UPDATE: The Observer, who wrote the original story on Miss Ferrell, has an updated article that includes a note she wrote at 3 a.m. to a well-wisher.
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Why the infatuation with Kari Ferrell?
Nothing else happening in the world?
what did she do to you, Jen?
Not that it makes this story any more interesting or important, but this is hardly a Jen Carlson obsession. It's been all over dozens of blogs that involve NYC, music, Williamsburg, and/or hipsters the past two days. Gothamist is just covering what everyone else is talking about.
I'm pretty sure Korean Abdul gave Billy Parker a handy with her mouth and jealous Jen is using Gothamist as the bathroom wall.
You do know that nobody really gives a shit about this, right? Woohoo, you know how to googlestalk.
yeah, honestly.
plus, giving her the title of "hipster grifter" is really overstating -- not to mention romanticizing -- behavior that's generally linked with... oh, how to put this... crazy chicks. there's probably a real con-artist in northside, working his/her way through someone's trust fund right now. that person will be played by paul dano in the eventual/unavoidable indie movie...
and let's face it: most people who are wanted in utah are generally welcomed with open arms in NYC.
Right. What has she done in NYC? Apparently what blew this all into the open was huge: she exaggerated her qualifications to get a job! Other than that she wrote some notes to some guys she was looking to hook up with some bars. There are some reports that sometimes guys bought her drinks because she flirted with them, and that she crashed at some different peoples' places. Oh yeah, and she told some weird stories about her background and past, didn't mention to anyone that she had legal problems before she moved, and she told people stuff about her job that wasn't really true. Also she has some tattoos.
I mean come on, we can't have people like this in our city!
Seriously, beyond her memorable pickup lines, I don't understand the fascination. She hasn't committed any crimes outside of Utah. A few guys lost some money, but it's not like they didn't get laid out of the deal. Doesn't seem like she's done any long-term physical or emotional damage to anyone. Effed up people like this are a dime a dozen.
"We are all assholes" — Werner Fasbinder
i am sick of looking at her stupid face. and now for the next picture...
I thought the tattoo said "i
...gross.
Check out the photo in the Photobucket account of her boyfriend pitching a tent! hilarious
I bet he's feeling REALLY smart right now.
jesus gothamist, can you fire jen carlson or, at the very least, give her an assignment that has something to do with anything?
this is pathetic.
Oh don't be so cruel, this is more important than...everything. Anyway, we all need to know all about her so we can identify future specimens on the way to the bathroom at Starbucks.
I thought the tattoo said "i
If we're going to delve into this level of e-stalker creepiness, you might as well go balls to the wall and dig up some nudie pictures!
Roncore, what the hell are you trying to say?
And boy, she really did dig the caricature of a hipster type, stupid ties, moppy hairdos, bad beards and all.
my comment got truncated.
i was trying to say, it looks like her tattoo says "I heart ninjas" but it actually says "I heart beards"
I'm getting the feeling that now it's COOL to say that you knew or were duped by kari farrell... everybody wants a piece of it! All part of her master plan, I'm sure.
pretty much.
soon she'll write an autobiography "confessions of a hispter grifter"
you'll be able to find it on sale at urban outfitters.
which makes gothamist in on the whole thing!
WHAT DO YOU STAND TO GAIN, GOTHAMIST? PUBLISHING RIGHTS? NON-NEGOTIABLE TALENT CONTRACT?
did she promise you a rough hj?
She's fugs.
/gawker'd
what is it with people in this city and the word hipster. who gives a fuck....let it go and get a life.
YES!
Hipster hipster hipster hipster hipster!
Oh No
A Con Man in New York City
This has never happened before
Run for your lives!!
Carpetbaggers scurry home to your mommas!!
Is this all a big joke? I mean, a social experiment or something? With the amount of big-time cons we've seen this year already, you'd think this would be no big deal.
That Micronian article is full of douchery.
It's clearly fiction.
Is it? Oh.
Well... the guy is saying that he met her when she was a sweet, innocent, kitten-saving 16-year old, and corrupted her by sitting her through an hours-long marathon session of watching films about grifters and cons and then by taking her to a tattoo parlor to get (illegally I'd assume, given that she was 16) her infamous tat, which was completed in one seven-hour session, during which she "had to be restrained."
After that, before they parted ways, she vowed revenge on hipsters. Er, I mean, on "self-important pseudo-intellectual motherfuckers."
OK. Do you believe it?
I'd believe anything anymore.
yeah the first gawker post was pretty funny but now it's getting mean.
she's just a kid. *shrug*
is there a reward for turning her in? I could call in hookie to work just to go out and look for the twit. SMACKDOWN!
I'm guessing why this "matters" (as much as news about those new school brats) is because it validates the readership of this site and whoever else is covering it. Criminals are everywhere, but this one happens to live in a community where there are few, thus making her somewhat novel. I also think she makes the people who knew her feel cool in the same twisted way that people feel cool whenever they are associated with celebrity, no matter how minor.
She is hideous. I really don't want to see her face anymore either.
I am digging all this mockrage here.
ugghh! why did I look at the flickr page? this chick is gross looking. She's got that freaky no eyelids thing going on combined with being a so ironic hipster it hurts. blechh!
What about the fact that someone with obviously loose morals didn't have the courtesy to show her boobs?
This is what happens when young impressionable girls start watching ghost world and Juno. Fuck you Daniel Clowes and Diablo Cody! On the other hand I'm kinda rooting for her cause the hipster douches she grifted had it coming. Although one could argue getting a blowjob in exchange for money is a pretty equivalent exchange, yet I'd argue getting a blowjob from an ugly chick in exchange for money is not.
in other news a handbag was just swiped in a bar, apparently the owner left if hanging on the edge of the bar stool, when she turned around, it was gone.
Who is this person and why should I care about her?
Enough of this non-story, Jen, please get back to real news such as the subway hipster romeo?! What's the odds of this appearing on Today Show or GMA?
No talent, a whore, wild about having her photo taken, uses people shamelessly... she's the next Madonna!
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