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Where in the world is Kari Ferrell? All signs point to her still living in New York, being spotted in Greenpoint, DUMBO and even at Williamsburg's Barcade. And now her victims, and Kari herself, are speaking out... the latter with much more brevity.
With her life story and photos saturating the internet, she wrote in to Gawker like the perfect self-handled PR puppet that she is, saying, "I am very sorry for everything I have done, and cannot— and will not—make any bloviated excuses for my actions." She also declares that she hasn't been up to her no-good tricks in years, something her "victims" would disagree with.
One recent would-be victim, a recent transplant who was looking for love on Craigslist only to land himself in Miss Ferrell's Crown Heights apartment, has now come out with his tale. It's a long one, with nothing really telling aside from her angling to get cash from him to pay her rent, before the two even met. Otherwise, he makes several declarations that he's not attracted to her nor her "cherubic frame," however, he did make out with her and probably would have gone further had she not told him she wanted to take things slow. Odd coming from someone who passes along sexually aggressive notes to strangers.
Others who have encountered Miss Ferrell, an old roommate and a former friend, both note her inability to be a good con artist, and her attempts at getting money out of their circle of friends. In the end, though, they were luckily only witness to her skipping out on paying for cabs and food deliveries. Not quite the fraud, theft, and $60,000 in bad checks she's wanted for in Utah.
Finally, there's her Salt Lake City bail-bond agent who talks to the Observer about a year-long web of lies she's weaved, and declared: “I’d smack the shit out of Kari if she came by.” What does the NYPD have to say about all of this nonsense? They told one tipster “Call us when she kills somebody.”
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Who gives a shit: day 3
Give it a rest Carlson.
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In their defense, Gothamist is just one of MANY MANY MANY other blogs talking about this. If you're going to tell Gothamist to give it a rest, you should also make the same comment on all the other blogs covering it.
Also, pretty sure no one has a gun to your head making you read this stuff.
Just saying.
Carry on.
"If you're going to tell Gothamist to give it a rest, you should also make the same comment on all the other blogs covering it."
A lot of us don't read gawker or whatever other shit blogs are covering it. Am I obligated to tell every stupid person in the world that they are stupid? No, just Gothamist. And you.
Yeah, I for one, am kind of enjoying all this crazy coverage. It's just amusing that this is the kind of person that every new york resident knows exists all over Brooklyn and, finally one of these dirtbag "hipster" criminal types has been uncovered.
Sleazy scam artists like her are all over Williamsburg.
Christ, I was scammed out of my $600 security deposit (in 2004) by someone just like her. Getting scammed by dirty hipsters is just a Brooklyn rite of passage.
"Getting scammed by dirty hipsters is just a Brooklyn rite of passage."
Yep. I'm so glad that there are no scammers or con artists in Manhattan. You're right, it's because there are no hipsters.
Or, you know, you could just skip the posts you don't find interesting. Live and let live, ces't la vie, etc...
I'm exercising my right to criticize the childishness and pettiness of this story.
"Bloggers" using the bully pulpit of web traffic to satisfy some jealousy or personal vendetta is nauseating and abusive. And against whom? Some chubby broad with mental problems. Well goooood for you.
But at the bottom of it all, the story is not interesting. It's as superficial and precious as the little social circles it came from.
And in exercising that right to complain, you're all simultaneously exercising your rights to drive up pageviews and leave comments, thereby increasing ad revenues, driving more traffic to the site, and encouraging editors to keep the coverage coming.
It's an interesting story. If it weren't, it wouldn't garner any feedback, positive or negative.
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seriously, what is your beef with this girl that you're amplifying her into some headlining/developing story? she's no different than a million other users in this city.
I agree. Whoever fell for this shit needs a brain transplant. So she took advantage of naive hipsters who don't know any better.
GOOD. Some people need a good dose of reality.
I wonder if this story would still be hip if she wasn't a hipster...
What does the NYPD have to say about all of this nonsense? They told one tipster “Call us when she kills somebody.”
Hahahaha. Sometimes I do love the NYPD.
hahahaha!
Glad someone else picked up on that. Given all the overzealous bolding on Gothamist, missing that one was a big mistake.
Well said, guys. Jen, no one gives a shit!
You've gotta be fucking kidding me.
her "victims"
"Elisa, you can sell anything to a man with a hard-on" — A Former Employer of Mine
Good for you Jen. I'm actually sick of this chick as well, but I love how your coverage is really getting the goat of our commenters. And they all went for it. Nice work!
wait, so the point of this continued coverage is really just to antagonize the site's regular commenters? if so, that's just stupid and irresponsible. i like gothamist because it ISN'T as irritating and "snarky" as other nyc-centric blogs out there so it's a drag when stuff like this pops up from time to time. obviously many other regular readers feel the same way, judging by the comments this story has elicited.
bad form, guys.
By regular commenters, you means the one that only comment when the word "hipster" is in the headline?
gah, i've never realized that before but you're kind of right. what have i done!
"wait, so the point of this continued coverage is really just to antagonize the site's regular commenters?"
Or maybe to bump up page views and generate ad income. If that's the case, it's working.
Her profile says she's 5'2" and 107. She does nottt look 107 pounds.
This chick lying about her age is likely not her worst offense, and if it were we'd need to lock about 90% of the women in this city, and at least 100% of the one's I've gone out with.
I'm 5'1", and if she is 5'2" I can definately say that, from my perspective, there is no effing way that she is only 107. She is easily 115. Just another one of her cons, or the camera adding about 10 pounds.
107 pounds? I think not, unless she's a double amputee
AGreeed im 5"2 and can tell she is about a buck 30 at the very least
What with all this internet persecution, I'm starting to feel sorry for the girl.
". . . however, he did make out with her and probably would have gone further had she not told him she wanted to take things slow. Odd coming from someone who passes along sexually aggressive notes to strangers.
Please stop slut-shaming this woman.
She once borrowed $5 from me and never paid it back. Now I can pay the rent on my foot locker at the gym. Although, last week she gave my back a foot massage with her teeth, after passing me a note in a bar that read, "I want to give your teeth a foot massage with my back." It was signed "Shaquille O'Kneel." I was very confused.
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indeed, well done
Good thing you didn't take her up on it. I hear she's got Kevin Garnett-rea.
It's bizarre how some stories take off on the internet. There's obviously some degree of interest here from...someone. But it beats the shit out of me why anyone cares about this tattooed nutter.
But then again I still can't explain why Paris Hilton is famous -- so what do I know.
Since this chick enjoyed sex so much she should have been a prostitute. She would have been making $2000 to $4000 per session as a pro. It would have been much better than the phony check writing. Dumb girl.
Other excellent Jen Carlson headlines:
"Machete Attacks: Now with Poison (Sigh)"
"Spring Into Spa Week"
and
"Michel Gondry Will Draw You (Yes, You)"
she stole my cat.
This does reek of personal beef. And the slut-shaming is totally unnecessary.
"Not quite the fraud, theft, and $60,000 in bad checks she's wanted for in Utah."
That inaccurate number keeps getting passed on by the clueless. The Utah information does not say she passed $60,000 in bad checks. It says her warrants total $60,000... that is the amount of bail it would take to clear them.
For example, the bail bondsman who spoke to the Observer is on the hook for $5,000 for the attempted Western Union fraud, but the amount that allegedly (because let's not forget she hasn't been convicted of this) was involved could have been just a few hundred dollars. Regardless of the amount, that would be a felony charge.
when did Gothamist become Gossipist?
Perhaps she's a hipster grifter fister, or a hipster grifter nipple twister, and someone is just sore over the whole thing.
Either way, this is the only type of story I'd read about if I was bored to death at work. And I imagine 99% of gothamist readers are bored to death at work. The other 1% are probably bored to death in white collar prison.
I'm sorry, but this is just too high school for me. If I wanted to hear about this kind of shit I would be watching gossip girl right now and texting my mean friends about who got fat.
Seriously, this woman's sex-life is no one's business. And the criminal aspect of the story is pretty dull compared to the horrible things happening in the rest of the city on any given day.
Now if she busts out a machete, that might be news.
this is just too high school for me
If it were you wouldn't have bothered to read and comment on it.
I try and read everything posted on Gothamist because it's a great site. But sometimes it veers into this catty gossip mode that is very unappealing. What's the point of having a comments section if it's not used?
Jen Carlson is a loser
hey! Be nice
"It's an interesting story. If it weren't, it wouldn't garner any feedback, positive or negative."
It is an interesting story, but what's more interesting to me than the details about her or whatever she did is the propagation of the story, the reactions, and the motivations of the people involved in keeping the story alive.
About five or six years ago I met a woman, and dated her for a while. Nothing "hipster" about her, she was older than me by a couple of years, always dressed up, and seemed very cool, caring, and cute.
But she did have seven cats. Maybe that should have been a clue.
So eventually it became clear that she was more needy and manipulative than it first had appeared. She'd call too much, and always wanted to know where I was and what I was doing. She was often upset because she was being put upon by someone. She asked me for money a couple of times for things like a vet bill, a prescription, and to help cover rent. She was working temp jobs and not making a steady income. I learned, from her, that she was also borrowing money from a former neighbor of hers, and it was clear when I met him that his major crush on her was he would agree to do it.
In time I decided that her manipulative behavior and deception (nothing major, I just couldn't really believe little things she'd say, and it became clear that she'd casually lie about at least minor points to anyone) weren't worth my time. So I ditched her, said OK this isn't working and moved on. It was kind of depressing, because I did miss the fun times I'd been having with her. But whatever... I continued meeting other people and having other fun times. Big deal.
What did I not do? I didn't post every details of this on widely-read blogs, I didn't make sure everyone knew her name and where she lived, I didn't post photos of her and emails that she'd sent me, and whine about how I'd been treated. Gee, could be that I am an adult?
To everyone who has known Kari Ferrell: grow the hell up.
well said
Couldn't have said it better myself!
I stopped following the "news" about korean a bj hand on day 1. I'm in it for the comments.
Keep up the hate, kids. It's more amusing than the articles.
She's the Bernie Madoff of Williamsburg.
perhaps this chick is fashionable enough to be tracked publicly...otherwise how can you explain that any other antisocial being left out for such coverage?
As in: Cool chick might fool you, beware.
Is there a reward for finding this mud puddle?
f*ck it. i can't get enough of this horse sh*t. Hit me up Kari. We'll make an alt. porn in the vein of Burning Angels loosely based on the Legend of Billy Jean, call it Legendary Sexploits of a "Hipster Grifter" or some sh*t. Then you go to jail, we start hyping The Further Legendary Sexploits of a "Hipster Grifter." Maybe a prison themed thing, lots of girl on girl and bondage. Then we'll round out the Hipster Grifter porn trilogy with the post prison story, maybe a return of the jedi/boys n the hood theme. you can bang a bunch of midgets in ewok costumes then get shot in a drive by on speeder bikes. Cube blows up the death star, End. I know its rough, but i have 3 writer on it right now, it should be boffo.
another victim of the current economy.
maybe that's the bigger picture. Girls sell pussy to pay rent.
jen, you know it comes back threefold, right? have fun!
I don't know anything about this story, nor do I want to take the time to look into it (I'm in San Francisco). But this is the story about that woman who handcuffed George Costanza to the hotel bed and stole his suit, the woman he met on the subway? That's old news.
Look, it's really simple.
There Are No Free Blowjobs.
Fellas - you got you dick sucked, she got some of your mommy and daddy's cash!
As a hooker friend of mine used to say "A fair exchange ain't robbery!"
So Man UP and quit your crying!