The Supermodel Scam: How a Prof who Looked for Love Ended up in Prison
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This is the story of how particle physicist Paul Frampton ended up in prison for smuggling drugs after being scammed by someone who pretended to be a bikini model, and what happened next.
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A tale as old as time. Boy gets physics PhD. Boy meets girl. Girl makes boy smuggle drugs. Boy spends 2 years in an Argentinian prison. Boy wins Noble Prize.
Let he who has not done so cast the first stone.
Come on, who hasn't had a wild time now, and then?
Yep, it’s happened to several people I know.
@@inxiti I was about to cast a stone, then I remembered last summer.
Totally remebers me of this song, what was it just?!
Ah, there I have it:
Avril Lavigne: Skaterboy!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@inxiti 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I feel like Sabine wanted to say, "a 20 something super model falling in love with a physics professor she's never met is about the same probability as finding that particle."
Maybe he thought he was Leonard Hofstaedter hooking up with Penny.
Less. Far far less.
it's not falling in love. It's what some people call the oldest profession in the world. The old guy pays a little money to a 20 year old model and then they are both happy. This type of a transaction may be far more common than most people think.
@@DominikPlaylists absolutely!
@@DominikPlaylists Yes, many incels do that.
Another example of "Smart, but not Wise."
Or, wise in some ways, not in others, e.g., not worldly.
@@1voluntaryist No, just not wise. That's like nitpicking someone isn't stupid for shooting themselves in the foot. Okay, they maybe technically aren't always that stupid. Who gives a crap, we aren't talking about their test score in 8th grade.
If he was wise, he would not chase the particles.
He was vulnerable. People fall for all kinds of scams and get taken in by sects and generally make really dumb choices when they're vulnerable that they otherwise wouldn't think of doing.
All it proves is that brilliant scientists are just as stupid as anyone else.
He wrote 5 papers in 2013 while in prison. And im here struggling to write 1 per year 😭😭😭
Lmao we weak
He probably had a bit more free time on his hands than you do.
And fewer distractions @@stargazer7644
You would have far less distractions in prison :P
You lack the dedication to lock yourself in your room and only leave for an hour a day.
Well there´s saying among German construction craftsmen, that goes: "If you need trouble in life, just look after old houses or young women."
But what if you buy an old house for a young woman? Maybe they'll cancel each other out.
@@StylishHobo interference pattern?
😅
Constructive interference is the issue.
Habe den Spruch noch nie gehört, tbh.
His lack of healthy skepticism shines through in both his love life and particle physics
Nice. Good zinger, that.
Incredible comment, deserves to be way higher up.
What do you know about his work?
@@yeslinsequeira4612 I knew this comment was coming XD
I don't know a single thing about his work. I just made a joke because Sabine has criticised particle physicists before for coming up with new exotic particles and thinking they'd find evidence for it eventually.
Hmm, he was a 'particle' physicist not 'string' theoretician - he had small particles in his hands not string bikinis elsewhere.
Well told. It's amazing how loneliness will make us tell lies to ourselves for a chance to be free of it.
Yours is one of the most compassionate comments on this gentleman. I felt that some of the others were being unnecessarily judgemental of him. Loneliness can be really really hard to cope with.
Thank you for sharing your kind perspective. 🙏
Loneliness ≠ sexual desire (lonely people are looking for social interaction while the laters are looking for boobs)
@@ytrew9717either one can alter your mind to make dumb decisions
For more this topic, I recommend Useful Delusions by Shankar Vedantam.
Let's be honest, it wasn't loneliness. You don't need a foreign 20-something bikini model to overcome 'loneliness'. If he was lonely he'd have spent all that time and effort befriending his neighbours or joining a club or something. Even talking to women of around his own age or a bit younger may have yielded better results. This was something else entirely
An important message for a lot of people commenting: Believing that you are somehow above being scammed makes you vulnerable to scammers, because if anyone ever hooks you because you're sick, or tired, or suffering, or otherwise having a really off day, you will find it extra difficult to recognize the scam in progress.
Something like this could happen to you. Internalizing this fact is a safety precaution.
True. I myself fell prey to a stupid crypto scam (a small one), because I felt that with so many things f*d up in my life at that moment, what are the odds that this is also f*d up. There were clues but I ignored them, I was not thinking straight. I found my limits.
(After that I got a therapist and it helped a lot, I'm much better off now. I was lucky I could afford that.)
Praying the particle is real so, not because it will improve the Standard Model, but because it'll create a sellable movie script for him.
...and "model" gets a totally new meaning here.
There is no requirement for a movie script to adhere rigidly to real world events.
I can imagine how she claimed she loved him for his intellect, then proved he had no common sense whatsoever.
There is book smart and then there is street smart. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
When it comes to particle physics common sense is a very poofr guide to anything.
I think "common sense" can actually make someone NOT to be good at physics ...
Imagining the working of particles and balckholes requires a different kind of sense.
He was thinking with the wrong head.
@@wayando Absolutely right.
'Never take luggage from a stranger at the airport' is a basic rule I hear all the time now.
They generally tell you not to take any bag through you haven't packed yourself - nothing to do with strangers. I guess we could argue that they gave him an "empty" bag and that he therefore packed it, but there were still plenty of red flags. Not the least, remember this guy is pretending to be an intelligent physicist - the weight of the "empty" bag given it had kilos of cocaine in it should have been a giveaway even if he's so on the spectrum that all the red flags for the interactions he was having with the people he met and the "woman" he thought he was going to meet didn't trigger a red flag. i.e he was dumb - a high school physics teacher should have noticed that the bag was heavier than an empty bag had any reason to be let alone a guy who imagines he's going to win a nobel prize for physics.
In fact you have to question whether he really could have been that naive and dumb because, you know, pretty much everyone who thinks they can make a quick score going through customs and figures (exactly as he says in his defence) "why would a physics guy smuggle cocaine?" is going to say they were scammed or duped if they're stopped and caught - and everything else about him suggests he's intelligent then occam's razor would suggest it's a really smart guy who figured he was smart enough to get a retirement package with a one-off taking drugs through customs rather than this guy is the smartest person in the room but fell for things that a meth addled hillbilly with a lobotomy wouldn't have fallen for. It's asking a lot to believe the story in his book.
Not the least the dating app thing makes no sense. If I'm nearly 70 and I wanted to date someone because I'm a bit lonely in my old age, I would pick someone who lives within driving distance. Not someone who the only way I can meet them is if they send me a ticket to fly there - no matter how hot she is. The supposed relationship makes no sense. You can't meet her, she won't speak to you and the only way you can get to see her is if she sends you a free plane ticket? That suggests he doesn't have much money doesn't it? Because if we're believing this woman is so hot he can't possibly resist her charms why is she paying for the date? When I was 25 I'd have sold a kidney to get on a flight to see a bikini model, but we're supposed to believe that Frampton never questions the idea that he's attracting women that Brad Pitt would pause to think "Will she like me?" but Framton's so confident of his sex appeal he's "Come to see you? Well I'm not sure..." "Well I send you a ticket" "Hmm, well I suppose, if you insist" like, come on. This did not happen how its presented here.
"Just because she's good looking doesn't mean she isn't interested in physics."
😂😂😂
His blood went downwards so his brain could not think properly anymore.
Dude 😂😂😂😂
AYOOOOOOOO
That happens.
Gravity is a bastard...
Which brain?
One decision can wreck you,but usually it’s a series of poor decisions that do it. We just happen to only remember the last one.Thanks for the video!
There's an all-too-human tendency to cling to a mistake rather than admit it, and follow it up with more mistakes. And scammers rely on that.
Yes and no. But it one decision. Usually it's when you're emotionally vulnerable.
Yes, it all starts with being born.
This supports Sabine's position that free will doesn't exist. And more specifically, most men have no will against a supermodel.
@@ytechnology If a supermodel is involved, he has no agency. The little guy is calling the shots :)
the miracle is that a british guy survived 2 year in an Argentine prison, I bet he told them he was irish
The prisoners are driving the guards mad, arguing about self-determinism and free will, all day.
I wonder what he did to survive.
I bet when he opened his mouth and started spouting about quantum physics, even psychopathic murderers stayed away from him and left him alone.
@@eudaenomic I bet he tried to teach them physics. I hope some of it stuck with those who were interested.
It is very likely that he soon earned the respect of his fellow prisoners. I can imagine that they would have protected him.
"Empty" bag that weighs 4 and a half pounds extra. Particle Physicists who skipped Newton's stuff...and a practical idea of how much stuff weighs. 😮😅😂
"It has a strong coupling to the Higgs field"
"Correct to within an order of magnitude..."
OR his underwear was very heavy
I represented several middle-aged men that admitted getting involved with drug deals because of a new “romantic interest.”
Interesting.
I have represented many young women who “unsuspectingly” became involved in the drug industry because of a new boyfriend. “Love leads another innocent heart astray.”
But also, what is the whole point with the romanic interest? Isn't it just so much easier to slip the drugs into the luggage of the guy and then steal the luggage when he arrives?
@@DominikPlaylists but how would you get the opportunity?
@@DWinegarden2 No doubt. I have also done dumb things in the hopes of finding love-at least what I thought was love at the time😁.
Speaking as the 80 year-old man that I am, I can only quote "there's no fool like an old fool."
How can one so smart be so stupid?
You think looking for ever smaller particles is less stupid ?
Some of the dumbest people I know have PhDs. Smart in one tiny area of knowledge doesn't carryover to anything else. But PhDs tend to think it does.
😂@@Berend-ov8of
everyone is stupid mate, trust me.
or maybe not.
stupidity is a spectrum. People often have this fallacious belief that if someone is an expert in one thing that they're necessarily clever in general, which is how we get chiropractors writing raw fruitarian diet books.
What a bizarre way to recruit a drug mule.
And risky at that.
actually I think it is a routine method. The bait may have been sold to the drug dealers.
I'm glad I heard the story, for all I know I would get catfished by drug maniacs 😅 please no
@@Berend-ov8of risky how? The real identity of the chat partner remains unknown. Seems to have worked out alright. The material itself costs nothing, the only cost is in transporting it. A calculated expense from mule and material lost. Easy to try again.
Using a reputable old man was probably how enough of these transactions succeed.
Honeytraps happen all the time for money scams, so equally 2kg is a very good pay day when it comes.
Sounds like my last weekend.
Who amongst us hasn't been scammed, spent time in prison, and predicted new particles while lecturing other prisoners?
Millennial cringe
Did you do all that in the Metaverse?
_right?!_
I enjoyed this. He is what we in England used to call: an eccentric. Which is not bad to be, bright but a bit different. The colors of the rainbow of life.
I dunno--I think he's heading into "daft" territory.
@@johnbrobston1334 At that age? Worth it, I'd say.
Either a criminal or dangerously vulnerable, shouldn't be in a position of trust
Yeah... This is sort of eccentric as in "divulged state secrets". Mind you we had a lot of those in England: Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt...
My random Tinder matches from 10 different countries would never do this to me.
That invitation to Bolivia was clearly a huge red flag.
Even in Bolivia, he had a chance to realize he's been scammed. Don't pick up the bag and go home.
Bolivia?😮
Loneliness claims another casualty.
Own worst enemy...
I feel terrible for him. I can't believe this wasn't bigger news. I wish him the best in the future.
I don´t! An old man, who looks for love in that way among supermodels, is the same type who looks for new particles in new supercolliders.
@@Thomas-gk42consenting adults should be able to live however they want
I don't. For a supposedly smart man he made a long string of dumb decisions. It's good he got only two years after actually hauling 2kgs of coke across the border. And it's good his life didn't collapse but it's also good he didn't go unscathed.
both of them are consenting adults, you have no right to judge them @@Thomas-gk42
@@OmateYayami this is a boomer we're talking about. it's unfair him to be tech/street savvy. a certain intelligence don't apply to all area of life; just because you are good at numbers, doesn't mean you can detect scam right away.
I love how Sabine segued from the topic to the Brilliant commercial at the end. 🙂
Sponsorblock cut that off for me, so I had the opposite experience.
Sabine’s best seque ever
That is actually the reason for these short, witty and entertaining videos.
The very best ever! A bit like our Queen!
Sooo. Big question. Will Brilliant stop you from responding to messages from highly photogenic prospective sexual partners on the basis that they are actually fraudulent? Or NordWeb?
I like how he's so passionate in physics he keeps doing research in prison! He even teach inmates!
I give up easily! He didn't!
What an inspiration!
I watch a lot of videos on catfish stuff. Sometimes a small part of me thinks “serves you right for being so naive and for thinking a literal bikini model is interested in someone in their 60s”, but generally I stand by the fact that no one deserves this.
I think it can be easy to forget how much loneliness can screw with your judgement. Framton probably is a pretty smart guy, but he was extremely lonely and that was weaponized by a scammer and it basically ruined his life. I think it’s fair to judge him a little, but it’s also important to realize that this stuff really could happen to anyone. It doesn’t take an idiot to be fooled.
"Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery...
...Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
... Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness."
Max Ehrmann- Desiderata.
But it helps....
Mathematician André Weil was temporarily imprisoned during WW2 and made such spectacular progress that he wrote "My mathematics work is proceeding beyond my wildest hopes, and I am even a bit worried - if it's only in prison that I work so well, will I have to arrange to spend two or three months locked up every year?"
Reverse image search, ALWAYS. So many liars and scammers out there.
That wouldn't help in this case since the scammer was claiming to be the real person shown in the photos
I just assume anyone contacting me is trying to sell me something or scam me.
@@kapsi
Assume nothing.
@@dr.jamesolack8504 men just aren't contacted by women they don't know for non-"gimme money" reasons, at least in my experience
@@dr.jamesolack8504 It's a perfectly fine thing to assume, that's what voicemail is for. Anything you don't care enough about to leave traces of is something I don't need to bother listening to.
The book isn’t a bestseller because the story is so completely routine by now. Intelligent people being catfished, or scammed out of their life savings is, to my constant astonishment, an everyday event.
Of course, everyone is "scammable".
To be fair, most of the time the catfished only end up losing some money, not spending two years in a notorious South American prison so this one certainly does have a unique spin on what you rightfully describe as a routine story
I remember the chief engineer at a huge aerospace company getting cleaned out in a real estate scam. Personally that made me happy, the guy was a jerk.
Even more astonishing is that it’s not always a pretty young girl doing the scamming either; often as not it’s a smooth-talking suit in a sports car selling iffy investments door to door. Plenty of doctors, judges and scientists falling for these scams.
The epitome of "book smart" but no street sense. How could he not have been suspicious? I suppose a missive ego could explain it.
That's usually their downfall. What woman could resist all this? Makes them easy pickings.
Surviving the two years in an Argentinian prison as a 68 year old physicist while witnessing someone being shanked to death right next to him, to me, proved he got street smart as well.
I do remember a keynote talk of his at a conference in Nashville in 2000 something. On model building and bileptons. I had heard about him being arrested but nothing more, thanks for completing the story.
Funny... Did you live on Rivermeade with your mom and grandmother in the 80's? Small world.
This story needs a Particle Psychologist.
"So, this entanglement you feel with your twin, how does that make you feel?" "Like they know exactly what I'm going to do, and when I do it, they always do the opposite 😭"
Was it the truth quark, or the beauty quark?
@@freesk8 it was the elusive dank quark
One moment I'm up and the next I'm down. Is that bipolar?
Even when strange, she's still beautiful.
Life truly can be stranger than fiction. Unfortunately . Thanks Sabine.
Not saying he deserved prison, but a lot of trouble could be avoided if old men just tried dating women their own age instead.
I am told that one can get quite a reasonable income from being a handsome male and being prepared to date older women in Monaco.
This story clearly demonstrates the extremely important and greatly misunderstood difference between intelligence and wisdom.
I worked 30 years with Ph.D's. They tended to be dumb in common sense.😎
Even the smartest and most prestigious people are not free from the clutches of bodily desire. What a shame.
Yes. If only they had more self control. Why can't they be disciplined, like the scientific model they embody?
✅
Mitosis is the only way for particle physicists!
I'm glad they show their humanity from time to time. We should not burden scientists with expectations beyond the work they do. Of course they must suffer consequences like anyone else
Desire's one thing, but how one acts on it or not, adds a wide range of freedom of movement.
How many red flags can a professor ignore?
At the airport security screening they ask ‘did you pack all of your luggage yourself? Has anyone given you luggage or parcels to carry with you? Has any if your luggage been out your sight or control?’
And what rock has he lived under to not pickup on her dodging. He’s an elder and elderly get scammed. But a PhD elder I thought would be on his game of skeptical analysis.
Unfortunately, judicial systems, in common with all other human organizations, do not always function according to their original intent. That a professor can fall for a picture of a non-existent well-equipped lady is nothing unusual and, more often or not, turns into financially supporting a life-saving operation for the lady's equally non-existent mother. That the poor guy was pulled into a drug smuggling operation - that is really nasty. I feel awfully sorry for him.
I remember reading the biography of a Middle Eastern man who'd become British. He said that in his old country, the police were so corrupt and lazy that they would arrest the people who reported a murder instead of finding the murderer. He mentioned this in the context of finding the body of a young girl and having his father tell him to forget about it. Justice in the world is never guaranteed.
Justice is blind.
Sometimes also deaf and very very stupid.
@@EndingSimple Every system in the world (judicial, economical, religious) is still a fiction. Conjured up by human brains. Money only works because everybody believes in it. Same goes for human rights in most countries, etc. Bottom line, don't trust justice...
Professors who visited him in prison? A new meaning for visiting professors
What a champ with his work ethic!
That's where friends should step in. I know a person intentionally puts blinders on sometimes, but a real friend steps in to help. Scams always have some enticements, and money and playing to ego are tops. I know people will laugh and say, "how can someone be so smart, yet so stupid."
seems he just didn't have any
@@vaakdemandante8772 Or maybe it was a process of "Justice is being observed! We have listened to the evidence!" etc, etc.
It can take decades to get unjust sentences overturned. Even with the best of friends.
Sabine, I'm a poor guy from Brazil... But they already tried to scam me. But my skepticism always saves me... Anyway, go figure.
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
"Strange what desire can make foolish people do." Chris Issacs
peter would have played his guitar 9-5 while testing different string gauges.
I met an Irish lass who bought a pint of Quark Ale..
After drinking it - I saw all manner of - Strange & Charmed - particles.
Totally, Sabina Tesoro is teaching us every day that very lesson
@@Pax.Alotin three quarks for Muster Mark, as the legend goes eh?
@@Quroxify Things are becoming 'Curiouser & curiouser' - with each passing looking glass.
They'll have to amend the classic expression to drugs, sex, rock and roll . . . . . and particle physics. At least two movies and one book in the story thanks as ever to Sabine😂😂😂
The world awaits the particle physics romance "Hadron Collider: Antiparticles who should never meet!"
Or the XXX take "Hardon Collider: multiparticle interaction at its most colorful".
Age is just a number. And is his case, a very big number.
Awesome! 😂😂😂
You turned that poor man's story into an add for Brilliant! Which is brilliant.
Well, at least he now knows that Instagram Models represent the *strong force* and 80-year-old divorced physicists represent the *weak force.*
he was 68
@@Kamal-ju6qx *"he was 68"*
... He's 80 now.
@@0-by-1_Publishing_LLC yes but the incident happened when he was 68.your comment say 80 years
@@Kamal-ju6qx *"yes but the incident happened when he was 68.your comment say 80 years"*
... Is that a major issue for you?
He's not wrong.
He maybe ought to have remembered the English adage: ‘There is no fool like an old fool’!
What baffles me is that an older guy, no matter how high his IQ but with decades of experience in life, believes that a young ‘model’ is gaga for him. Not only that, he didn’t even become suspicious when she started giving him excuses to not meet and hopped from country to country. Please don’t let him out of the lab unescorted, he’s a risk to himself….
Academic megalonania I guess.
Ok Sabine, You've convinced me... I'll just stick to watching your channel instead of pursuing random supermodels on the internet.
Ouch ⛳
The biggest red flag, as always, is the girl being way too good looking for him. Those things only happen in movies. But he was thinking with the wrong head.
Do you know Slavoj Zizek?
@siddhartacrowley8759 a Yugoslavian philosopher with a net worth of $1 - 5 million.
This is a part of our inner narcissism, that all of us have. I too.
I am so great , I am soooo special , such a wonderful, gifted woman can recognize my very special, unique soul.
😅
Should stay on every gravestone. 😁
One of the most critical life skills is having an objective view of your own Sexual Marketplace Value ....
Being sceptic would have been enough in this case.
I remember the case. It was big news here in argentina. When he Said a girl Made me bring this bag we were all, "yeah, sure". Because for us it Is so hard to imagine being so naive. His friends defense only Made things look More ridiculous. Glad he Is ok now.
Thanx, Sabine, for this great story. I'm really surprised I havent heard this story reported anywhere else. It's one more example of truth being stranger than fiction.
You are simply wonderful Sabine. An absolute inspiration for we ordinary folk to wrap our minds around physics, and to treat information with caution while enjoying the humor in many of life's situations.
Mark Twain - 'Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.'
So many parts of the story seem unlikely. Yet one wrong move at a time of extreme need, could be the undoing of even the most law abiding among us.
I think what Mr Frampton did is strange and not okay, but I really like that you do not judge him just by the act and try to see it from his perspective.
I couldnt imagine being so utterly clueless.
Don't worry, you'll get there some day.
THOSE ARE THE WORDS EVERY LOVER SAYS
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UTTERLY ! You would think your average 10 year old kid, would have seen though this one ?
yeah, this guy went to school in 1950 so he is probably about Joe Biden's age.
Frampton - do you feel like I do.....
To think that I once considered the professor character in The Blue Angel (1930) unrealistic....
No one is immune to being deceived, regardless of their intelligence or social status. Thank you Professor Sabine for this fabulous story
This was a change of pace Sabine, I enjoyed it. Do more. Travis X
I love Sabine's accent pronunciation for Chay-pel Hill, it is now the only way I'll ever remember the name 😃
They have a committee for this in Germany; it;s the Auslandrichtigscheisssprechenbuero.
To natural English speakers, mispronunciation is more of an inherited F-U-ness rather than a willingness so follow the absurdities of a 500 year old orthography to asinine conclusion.
Although I would protest that German dictionaries tend not to make it obvious when the French pronunciations of 'J' and soft 'G' are employed.
Viva l;inconsistencé!
My life motto for many years already: "Never underestimate the stupidity of smart people."
Originally meant to describe the educated Ph.D's in Germany around WW2who crafted "die endlösung" it is often applicable to many topics like nowadays politics, myself, and this physics professor.
This was a story in the New York Times a few years ago, actually. In that story they have emails and text messages from him documenting that he knew there were drugs in the suitcase and that he was excited about the money. He was scammed, yes, but not innocent of drug trafficking.
I read the article and it does not make it clear that he knew about the drugs. The article is from 2013
Poor man. Luckily when these bikini models contact me because I look "hot" I check the mirror for a reality check! LOL!
Best pitch for Brilliant I've seen yet!
Just wow. I do think he might now indeed be edgy enough to warrant a date with a younger woman. Just probably not that one. Or any other super model for that matter. But surely he can impress someone with his tales of intrigue, smuggling, and prison physics
Started too late...
Such a smart guy who avoided obvious red flags. And he flew over to that country? Wow.. he earned his demise for being too gullible!
I was somehow expecting supermodel to be a physics thing. I am a sweet Summer child.
It's the new model of a theoretical particle, 'the supermodel'. "Star Trek" makes use of the supermodel in its biggest successes, like Kirstey Alley in "Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan" and Seven of Nine in "Star Trek: Voyager".
Ver physical, this supermodel.
This was brilliant indeed! Hollywood needs you Sabine!
It totally works as long as the man has a large fortune!
I love the movie idea.
I'd watch it. I'm sure the Hollywood producers would also insist on dramatic embellishment and surely come up with some fillers to provide a more viewer approved version of reality. As they do.
Yes get Rowan Atkinson to play the prof. Or maybe Donald Trump ? Trump can act, he was in a movie already.
I totally see Stephen Fry in that role.
@@EyMannMachHin I didn't know who Stephen Fry was but I checked and he already went to prison and he is an actor who looks the part.
Oh dear madam Hossenfelder, we should all be careful in all sorts of illicit dreams..
"Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." Yup. That Apostle Paul guy sure knew his onions.
There are people who spend their waking hours working out how to use human fraility to their advantage and they are generally better at their art than particle physicists are at finding new particles.
The fact that he is a particle physicist shows how naive he is.
Good story. I studied physics in Melbourne, Australia in 1995 and 1996 as part of an undergraduate degree and I'm pretty sure I've heard the name "Frampton" before - maybe in a textbook or something, name was familiar to me.
Since he was thinking with the wrong head, he was off by two zeros when he calculated the probability of a young supermodel falling for an old physics professor.
I'm a simple man. I see my three favorite things listed in the thumbnail, I click.
Anyone who has read spy novels knew where this was going. If she is either to smart, to young, to pretty it has to be a honey trap. Stay in your lane gentlemen!
You could still invite her in. Just avoid her lane! After all you might still get some benefits if she is persistent as well as dishonest ;-)
I'll stay in my lane, IF you learn the difference between to & too, Taomantom. Deal? 🤝
Dutch author Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer wrote a book based on this story. It is called "Peachez, een romance".
I am not sure if it was translated into any other languages.
The best part was when he gave an interview from jail, in which he attacked the UNC Provost for failing to force the Argentine courts to release him, and suggested that this was because the man was jealous of his academic work.
A few things Sabine omitted in this joyful video: 1) In 1983 Frampton married a French American called Anne-Marie Curran. They divorced in 1998. After the "honeytrap scandal" was revealed, his former wife commented that although Frampton was a very learned and talented person, psychologically he was more like a 5-year old child, extremely naive and totally egocentic. 2) When the sentence was turned into a house arrest, fellow argentinian physicists provided a temporary haven at their home. It took only a month before Frampton tried to have an affair with his host's wife. Then they asked him to leave, and found another elderly couple to offer him hospitality. 3) Denise Milani's real name is Denisa Krajickova, and she was born in 1976 in Frydek-Mistek (then Czechoslovakia). Later she went to the USA, became a model and acquired alerican citizenship. 4) I share Sabine's view concerning the authors of the honeytrap: Frampton was targeted by a lan (or a few people) who lust have known him personally and were quite certain that he would fall for such a childish story. Most probably, his former students or former collaborators.
Interesting details, thanks. Fits the story😉
Regarding #2- what on earth is wrong with this man?? As if smuggling drugs and being sent to a South American prison wasn't living dangerously enough!🤦 I think he must fancy himself as another Indiana Jones- respected college professor by day, daring adventurer by night, and irresistible to women at all times. 🤣
As Always the same Forces that hold the universe together ❤ can rip it Apart.
Thank you for sharing.
They say ❤ is the greatest magic for obvious reasons. ❤ can make and unmake.
Now THIS is real APPLIED Physics! 😀
There is a "true crime" genre, and there is true humor. Marvellous story. Thank you!
You are the absolute best Sabine
I wonder how much of this is related to him being a Brit in Argentina, a country which seems to be hanging on to their ridiculous beef with the UK.
I think he would use his US passport since he is dual ? Maybe he doesn't have one.
That is a really sad story. A women on Instagram told me "age is just a number," and I discontinued our conversation. That's just a red flag.
EDIT for context: A young pretty girl sent me a private message on instagram just to say hi. I said hi back, and she started asking me questions about myself, including my age. When she asked my age, and I told her 40-something (I can't remember how long ago this was), she said, "Age is just a number." There are no pictures of me on Instagram, so she has no idea what I look like, and there was no reason for her to make that comment unless she was planning to steer the conversation in a romantic way. Since it seemed extremely unlikely that a young pretty woman would send a private message to a guy she knows nothing about and whose picture she hasn't even seen to initiate a romantic connection, I was pretty certain it was some kind of scam. There are a lot of romance scams out there.
"Age is just a number" - after a certain age, for men usually somewhere around the "mid-life" crisis (40s?), women not so sure but if I have to bet, I'm sure that there are some babushkas to show me what's what and who's who.
Especially if that number is under 18.
I assumed it was a old granny looking for a bit of fun.. how wrong I was.
Good for you. It's amazing, and a bit sad, how many men can convince themselves that in old age a young woman could still be interested in them. It indicates a rather deep hole and need in their life.
Hey! I meant it!
🤣🤣🤣
“Sitting in a prison library 9 to 5 and writing physics papers doesn’t seem to make all that much difference to tenure in the United States.” 😂💀
As a long time subscriber, I feared this vid was using click-bate. While not the typical SH show I love, it was a fabulous story, wonderfully told.
Thank you for all you do.
Damn, he fell for the oldest trick in the book! The ole, "pose as a supermodel online to lure an oblivious American man into carrying a bag from Bolivia that's loaded with cocaine on a flight to Europe"
You are so right... normalcy is very fragile... people have this bias to think things will be alright, but most folks on the planet are suffering quite horribly.
Once again, so good! Sabine's story hour. Ha! Love it!
Paul Frampton AKA Count Boobula.
The classic "Those aren't my Pants" defense.
One of the best ad setups I've ever seen. 😊