
The surprise visit—carried out with the precision of a skilled riverboat pilot—netted a total of a few dozen suspected internet fraudsters. Never has a group looked more surprised than fish in a barrel.
Spread out before the world were the proceeds of their purported misdeeds: prohibited substances, tools of the digital trade, and other forbidden goods that would make a preacher turn pale.
I've noticed that these internet swindlers, as the locals name them, have a peculiar attachment for the expensive trinkets in life—not unlike how a riverboat gambler might display his success.


Consider that just yesterday he might have been creating songs, and presently he's singing a different tune. Fortune has a manner of shifting like river currents.
In the event this story serve as a warning to would-be criminals? It surely should, though people being people, there'll always be those who think they're smarter than the law.
And so, as this drama develops in the halls of justice, we common folks can only look on and ponder at the strange journeys that take a creative soul to swap his stage for a prison cell.