I was thinking back to that incident with the kid charged for stealing property in Habbo Hotel.  For those in the dark, he basically went into other peoples virtual rooms and moved the virtual furniture out.  As this furniture was bought with Habbo money, which in turn was purchased by real-life money, he was charged for theft.

It's a bit more unusual than gold farming.  What else is there going on, in the unusual department?-I know it's a bit weird to say that I'm interested or fascinated by this, but like anything that has a socialy negative impact on our societies, it is interesting to learn.

Well I found a few unusual and yes interesting cases that would be more interesting if I haven't grossly overused the word 'intersting' by now.

1. Lineage 2 veteran Alexander Ponamorenko will be spending a long time in the pokey after, being so engraged that online player Alexander Blyoskin tried interrupting a real-life fight with Ponamorenko and his online "enemy", that Ponamorenko beat Blyoskin to death.  While some games allow PvP, and have designated zones, there is nowhere in this offline world that tolerates RLPKing.
2. One of Gunbound's top players in the world was kidnapped for his user pass.  Okay, follow this one.  The incident happened in Brazil where 4 players decided to get the victims password and sell it for $8,000.00.  They hatched a ruse with one of the criminals girlfriends luring the victim through chat to meet her at a mall, where the kidnappers were waiting.  Apperently, even though they drove around  holding him at gunpoint for an hour, he refused to give up the password so the kidnappers let him go.  Of course he went to the cops and later they were all arrested.
3. Young Chinese girl 'Snowly' died from exhaustion while playing World of Warcraft.  Apperantly she spent a lot of time just preparing for a big hunting event online.  I'm assuming it was a combination of starvation, dehydration, and fatigue.  She must have been pretty wellknown for they held a rather large funeral for her in the game.