Was it the guy from UK that got caught out reselling bike lights on ebay? Had Nihilist in the name or something like that as part of his handle. Sometimes went off track with political rants?
CPF link may or may not be right (old, and a geography mismatch), but this jumped out at me and I thought it was worth the share:
He holds (?held? I don't know if there's much competition where he's going) the Guinness World Record for most cr@p carried on his person -- 1300 things.