Word: pletcher
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SEATTLE: Some advice for budding novelists: Don?t write to the world?s richest man and threaten his life. That?s what office worker and aspiring writer Adam Quinn Pletcher did, and it cost him $250,000 and a possible 20 years in prison after he was found guilty on four counts of extortion Tuesday. ?What I am offering is simple,? Pletcher, 22, wrote Microsoft boss Bill Gates. ?Your life for $5 million.? His letters went on to threaten harm to Gates, his wife, his daughter and colleague Steve Ballmer. In the chat room tradition, Pletcher posed...
...became almost a kind of interactive story,? Pletcher testified in his trial. ?It was actually happening as I wrote it.? He added that the letters were to form the basis of a novel inspired by that great Stallone turkey, ?Assassins? -- and that the money would help him open a teetotal nightclub. From now on Pletcher will have to use prison gates, not Bill Gates, for his inspiration...