The Twilight Years of Cap’n Crunch

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Chris Rhoads describes The Twilight Years of Cap’n Crunch, the infamous “phone phreak” who is now toothless and living on the margins of society:

Mr. Draper spent three stints in jail in the 1970s for tampering with the phone system. A court-appointed psychiatrist once found him to be “psychotic,” although another found nothing wrong with him. Until a fall at a conference in Istanbul aggravated a back injury, Mr. Draper was a regular in the rave scene, where people gather in remote locations and dance through the night to electronic music. Mr. Draper once did $10,000 worth of Web-site design and other computer work for a Bay-area therapist in return for physical therapy on his back because he lacks health insurance.

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