http://www.kmov.com/news/News_OffBeat/kmov_offbeatnews_020531_teenspendingspree.5cecc13.html

05/31/2002

Rogers, Ohio (AP) -- A 13-year-old boy spent about $2 million in a
science class buying a helicopter, a jet and other items over the
Internet using a password belonging to a friend's mother, authorities
said.

The Columbiana County Sheriff's Department said the boy made the
purchases May 24 on the eBay auction website using a computer at
Beaver Middle School in this eastern Ohio town about 40 miles south of
Youngstown.

The purchases included a $1.1 million helicopter [1] and a $199,000
jet [2], authorities said. The boy also bought motorcycles and a
pickup truck, they said.

The woman discovered the purchases the day the helicopter's owner
called and asked how she intended to pay for the aircraft.

She is having the purchases canceled, a sheriff's spokesman said.

The boy's actions are under review within the county's juvenile
justice system.

School officials are considering disciplining the boy, Principal Tom
Sapp said.

[1] http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1831719857
[2]? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1831851081&r=0&t=0

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