A new level of stupidity

The Herald reports:

A Rotorua man has admitted telling a woman he had been forced to drink poison and would die unless she performed certain sexual acts on him within 48 hours. …

The police summary of facts states the man went to the woman’s home, “red faced and bent over holding his ribs” and told her he had been beaten up and forced to drink a vial of toxin.

He told her he would die unless he didn’t sweat it out within 48 hours. She suggested he go for a run but he said that wouldn’t work as he had to sweat it out in a “particular way”.

A good suggestion the run.

He told her there was no antidote as the person who beat him up was flying overseas.

Shortly after, she began getting emails from an unknown email address appearing to verify his story.

The emails instructed her to perform sexual acts on the man four times and have sexual intercourse three times within the 48-hour period, to exhaust the toxin from his system.

The summary said the woman only consented because she believed the man’s life was in danger.

Someone actually was stupid enough to believe the I will die unless you sleep with me line?

The woman began to suspect it was the man sending the emails as they included spelling mistakes, referred to him by a nickname he only ever called himself and because he was the only person to benefit.

Began to suspect!! Seriously a new level of gullibility.

Nothing excuses of course the scumbag guy involved who sounds a very nasty sort and deserves to go to jail. And she is a victim. But nevertheless this seems to be about as sophisicated as a Nigerian scam, and you need to apply some reasoning in such situations.