- Published:May 6th, 2009
- Comments:9 Comments
- Category:Blog Comments, News Comments
This week, the strange tale of Kari Ferrell, the “Hipster Grifter,” came to an end, as so many things do, in Philadelphia, with her arrest this week. Initial reports stated that she had turned herself in to authorities, but in a recent post at the City Paper weblog, local musician Sam Tremble takes credit for setting up the bust.
In the comments, there is a perfect storm of anti-hipster rage, class warfare and anti-snitching sentiment. Let’s go to the tape-
That’s totally rock and roll, man, working with the cops to set people up for a bust. Good work, crime stopper.
Um, since when does Philly like snitches? Impressed, yet surprised. I’m guessing dudes in an emo, not punk, band!
pretty slick pal. Now you get your headline publicity too. I´m really surprised you didn´t name check your band 50 times. Guess you figure it´s even cooler to get the google hits on your name. Fucking losers. Both of y´all. enjoy yr 15 minutes. That´s all you´re gonna get.
Wow, your folks must be so proud. They raised a snitch. And you look like your bands sucks.
You’re a rat fuck, Tremble. Ratting some girl out that didn’t even do anything to you, just to get your ugly mug in the papers. I hope someone breaks a bottle over your skinny little dome at your next show.
Dear Sam Tremble a.k.a. The Hipster Snitcher,
You expect us to believe your motives for setting her up to be arrested were because “she wasted (your) time and energy with her cancer stories”? You’re a prick who wants attention. I’m in no way a Kari Ferrell fan but I’d rather have her around then you any day.
I can’t wait to tomato your band. I can’t wait to watch what everyone else does too!
And stop shopping in the juniors department you dick.
She isn’t rich. Plenty of semi-rich people or people who forge things on their cc apps lie and have debt up to and above $60,000. Should we set them up too?
“Bloviation?” You’re an f***ing douche. You sent a girl to jail and then blogged about it. What a proud moment for you.
Sam Treble is such an ugly deuchebag, even Kari probably didn’t want to fuck him, or take his $, which is why he snitched on her and went to such great lengths to set her up. What a weasel.
Can I call him a deuchebag anymore times? Sam, get a fucking nosejob and buy a grown man’s shirt.
Maybe we are taking it out on the wrong criminal here.
Why aren’t we posting the pictures of the CEOs of major corporations that stole and lied from us on the most wanted lists? I’m a lot more hurt about them and their lies and cons.Where was her bail out?
So what if she lied about cancer, and didn’t have money. We aren’t all so fortuate to have it ALL together ALL the time. We all make mistakes.
If she had a little more trust and compassion given to her maybe she would have turned it all around gotten a job and paid off her debt – like other people do with credit cards.
She’s totally like Robin Hood or something! A folk hero, like Winona Ryder!
I guess no one with cancer stories will cross you again!
Lol, bitch ass snitch. Like you’re fucking perfect? Die in a fire, snitch.
Avalon’s Willow? You’re in Philadelphia? Let’s get drinks! We’ll hit Fat Jack’s, get some comics. Call me.
of course it was a hipster who dropped the dime on her. god hipsters are scum
http://freekari.com/
Snitch-ass Bitch-ass Tremble! I implore all insecure Asian woman (and men for that matter) to start preying on these hipster assbags. Non-Asians too. Hipsters are a bain upon society. It’s hard for a regular guy like myself to enjoy record shopping, going to the movies, or simply having a smoke outside without having to listen to these tools go on about Calexico or Jarmusch or whatever.
I have to admit- his taking the photo, writing the post- I almost agree with a couple of these folks, but the whole thing, top to bottom, from Mr. Tremble to the commenters, is filled with high levels of jerkitude. I think we can agree that they all need to get off the internet.
People who commit crimes deserve what’s coming to them. People who help police solve crimes are to be commended. But this? This is shameless egotistic self-gratification parading around as civic duty. Congrats – everyone knows who you are now, Sam! And isn’t that what you really wanted in the first place?
Well, okay- except for that dude. That actually made some sense.
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In the over all scheme of things: who fucking cares?
And you have read the rest of this site?
Fuckin’ hipsters, always hanging around in record stores and video stores and threatening to expose me to relatively obscure shit I might potentially dislike, assuming I’d even bother to find out firsthand to begin with instead of just watching “South Park” reruns instead. God, hipsters should all DIE.
Yes. Because it’s the openness to new experiences and the willingness to share them that people hate about hipster culture, not its dismissiveness of anything mainstream (even good stuff) and its cliqueishness. But you go on feeling oppressed there.
It’s quite possible to be knowledgeable AND friendly. If more hipsters were, fewer people would despise them.
I think by “hipster” you mean “every counterculture ever”. I’ve always wondered how zine-culture indie/punk kids of the ’80s and ’90s got a pass for this kind of snobbery until they started wearing trucker hats and listening to house music. I guess it’s cute when John Lydon does it.
“I implore all insecure Asian women”
What? Why?
Wait, when did John Lydon start wearing trucker caps and listening to house music?
That’s the thing: they didn’t get a pass. If you were a punk in the 80s, you could count on the possibility that actual violence being done to you for dressing that way/listening to that music/expressing that viewpoint, especially if you weren’t in a major urban center. And as to why the 90s kids got a pass, well, they didn’t entirely. It’s just that “being indie” wasn’t as big of a divergence then as it is now; Gen Xers were starting to really make a mark in entertainment and music industries, including journalism, and “popular” music largely wasn’t anymore. I mean, some acts like Madonna, etc. were still steady sellers, but the things that had been “indie” were suddenly mainstream, and there was the idea, especially among marketers and the press that the indie scene was likely to bring the next big thing, so abusing the golden goose was dumb. Of course, that’s not what happened. Instead, the things that were indie in the 80s became mainstream in the 90s, and were then tweaked from there by the pop producers that had been desperate to find things they could market again. Hence, the rise of nu metal and rap metal in the late 90s, and on through to current popular music which has not a damned thing to do with the current hipster scene. So that’s any mainstream “respect” (not really respect, just not wanting to piss off potential customers) gone, and the folks that were punk in the 80s or indie in the 90s look down on them because, well, intergenerational differences, but also because there’s a feeling that current indie music is self-indulgent whiny bullshit. Take similar music and put lyrics that are less, “Oh, poor suburban white boy” to it, and it’s likely they’d get a bit more respect from the older music fans.
Sorry, bit of a wall of text there.