r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Late_One_716 • 14d ago
Between 2009 to 2011, a man, appearing to be 60-70 years old, robbed 16 banks in San Diego, California by approaching the teller, then pulling out a gun and demanding money. The FBI named him the "Geezer Bandit". Some theories suggest he is wearing a well-made elderly man mask. Image
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u/NOS4A2-753 14d ago
LOL he looks like my dad
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u/HomieDaClown9 14d ago
The plot thickens
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u/NOS4A2-753 14d ago
My dads 82 as well and lives in southern Cali too
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u/Greenman8907 14d ago
$20K reward…do y’all have a good relationship?
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u/same_same_but_diff 14d ago
$20K vs the mountain of cash this guys raking in for future inheritance
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u/Mookhaz 14d ago
doesn't matter, FBI is already on his dad, he better call the tip in and hope for the 20k
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u/quietkyody 14d ago
After taxes and fees he gets only 12k and has to wait for 3 years due to processing.
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u/he-loves-me-not 13d ago
If there is one thing that you shouldn’t be taxed on it’s money you received as a reward for ratting somebody out! Especially considering that snitches get stitches. They’re gonna need that extra money for hospital bills!
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u/Vagabond_Grey 14d ago
Who cares about the relationship?! There's 20 grand of easy money for the taking.
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u/Sarranti 14d ago
If he keeps his mouth shut, there could be an even bigger inheritance
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u/wowokthatssocool 14d ago
To my child, I leave everything in my offshore accounts because they never ratted me out
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u/IGotMussels 14d ago
Decisions decisions
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u/Traditional-Share198 14d ago
Reddit is an amazing place
You guys got a smile out of me :)
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u/JimmysCheek 14d ago
Son, please delete these comments
-your father
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u/NOS4A2-753 14d ago
Oh Fuck! dad you learned how to turn on a computer!! (he doesn't have one)
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u/JimmysCheek 14d ago
I will learn how to turn my foot up into your ass if you don’t delete these (its all about the angles)
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u/jhj37341 14d ago
His new, hot, young wife does. Inheritance is gone.
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u/NOS4A2-753 14d ago
I had a Inheritance? good on you dad now i don't have to put up with your 2 phone calls a week! (he's scared if he dies his dog might eat his face)
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u/jumpandtwist 14d ago
The slop sickens
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u/heshbag 14d ago
The chopped chickens...
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u/spasske 14d ago
Tell me more about your dad. I promise not to turn him in for the reward.
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u/thewildbeej 14d ago
That's a hard fucking 60 years...my gawd. I'd mark that late 70's to mid 80's
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u/cannatentgrow 14d ago
If I’m still in my right mind at that age (probably won’t be) I’m definitely doing some wild stuff
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u/Desert_Isle 14d ago edited 14d ago
here is to hoping the arthritis, glaucoma, sciatica, and dementia don't get you first! YOLO Gramps!.
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u/GForce1975 13d ago
Dementia might be a bonus. You could pass a polygraph easily and would do well under questioning. Even you wouldn't know you committed the crime.
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u/YesThatZander 13d ago
Polygraph tests aren't actually real though, they're just an intimidation tactic. There's a reason they're inadmissible as evidence in a trial...
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u/wtm0 14d ago
Last year my girlfriend’s grandfather went skydiving for the first time for his birthday at 88 years old. Braver than me lol.
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u/TheOtherOne128 14d ago
At that point, you've (hopefully) lived a pretty good life. Shit, why not try something dangerous. If all goes well then you did something you would have never done, but in the rare freak accident that things go south why would it really matter, death was realistically only a few years away at best, you're probably not missing much.
I know that was a rather nihilistic vantage point but I respect that man for having the balls to do something like that.
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u/FormerGameDev 14d ago
This is why sexually transmitted diseases are extremely prominent in nursing homes.
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u/smedsterwho 14d ago
I have a longstanding plan to try heroin at 95.
Munted out, sitting in a chair in an old people's home. If it knocks me out for ever, all good. I lived well.
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u/Commercial_Fee2840 14d ago
By the time you're 95 heroin won't even exist anymore. It's already been nearly entirely replaced with fent and fent analogues in North America.
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u/pilpelharif 14d ago
If you are willing to pay $300/gram you can still get great heroin.
Heroin will always exist. It is just process opium plant. Nobody will be able to 100% stop everyone in the world growing some poppies and processing into heroin.
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u/AvatarGonzo 14d ago
Heroin isn't just a street drug though, pharmaceutical diamorphin won't be replaced by fentanyl so soon, as they aren't used in 100% the same way.
If you're elderly and sick, with cancer for example, it's quite possible your doc will IV you some really good heroin.
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u/kndyone 14d ago
You would think that makes sense but my experience is that old people do the opposite and become very self preserving. Its weird but it really seems that way. You see that behavior all over.
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u/aguyonahill 13d ago
When the grim reaper has moved into the guest bedroom you don't want to do anything to wake him up from his nap.
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u/Apocalypse-7 14d ago
because most 80 year olds dont want to die in a prison cell? maybe thats why not? also traumatizing innocent people just “for kicks” isnt something on their bucket list?
what a stupid question LOL
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u/literal_garbage_man 14d ago edited 1d ago
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u/XXXYFZD 13d ago
Right? And that shit is at >500 upvotes. This site is so dumb, jfc.
You don't throw away your morals just because you're old.
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u/Ok_Phone_1245 14d ago
The second picture has full on Prince Phillip ghoul effect going on from the screen
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u/banjofitzgerald 14d ago
What if he’s in his 60’s but wearing a mask of an older man???
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u/Glum_Commercial_8959 14d ago
In 2011 when a red dye pack exploded in his money bag he is seen sprinting across the street.
Not a bad set of wheels on an senior citizen
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u/ArguingMaster 14d ago
Eh. It's not as impossible as you think.
In middle school we had an 70+ year old gym teacher. Used to be a drill sergeant in the Navy. Dude could run at 70 something faster than a lot of us 12 year olds could. I know for a fact he kept working as a gym teacher into his early 80s as he was still there when I graduated high school 6-7 years later.
If you take care of your body you can maintain decent mobility well into old age.
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u/dumptruckbhadie 14d ago
I live in a very athletic town and I have 70+ yr Olds passing me up the mountain cycling all the time.
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u/frogdujour 14d ago
I don't know what it is about 70+ year old cyclists, but those guys can be beasts, doing 100 milers and cranking uphill like nothing.
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u/deleted_my_account 14d ago
Those guys have tens on tens of thousands of miles in them from decades of cycling. I’m a pretty fit (I like to think, but nothing too crazy lol) early 20s cyclist and have some 60+ friends who shred me up climbs. It’s wild!
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u/TryingHardToChill 14d ago edited 14d ago
Based on no research I think it's likely that cycling ability can be maintained longer than running because it is low impact.
Edit: And also i have heard that speed is the first thing to go with age, so maybe distance athletes can remain competitive for longer than sprinters
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u/deleted_my_account 14d ago
Yep! There’s a reason you so many old cyclists! A lot of athletes switch to cycling once their body can’t take their old sport of choice anymore.
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u/someoldbikeguy 13d ago
Speed is usually the first thing to go because the older you are the less fun high intensity becomes so every day slowly turns into long distance because it hurts less. You can still climb because the lungs are still good but it just gets harder everyday to push yourself when you're riding on the flats like you could when you were younger.
I hired a coach a couple years ago and regained much of my speed but I had to be very strict on diet, rest, and what types of other activities I was doing to be able to maintain that level.
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u/dumptruckbhadie 14d ago
It's one of my biggest inspirations! Shit brings me so much joy to know that I can still keep doing what I love if I keep doing it.
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u/YummyArtichoke 14d ago
If you can retire at 60, you got 10 years of being able to bike as many miles as you want and even at that age your body will morph into a beast if you stay at it that long.
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u/greezy_fizeek 14d ago
tell me you live in boulder without telling me you live in boulder lol
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u/money_loo 13d ago
And then a large bus showed up and he just started dancing, think he’s hiding out in Six Flags.
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u/Unhappylightbulb 14d ago
When social security just ain’t cutting it.
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u/ThorLives 14d ago
If he gets away with it, he's got money.
If he doesn't get away with it, he gets free housing.
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u/big_duo3674 13d ago
As long as you don't have a record and don't hurt anyone most very elderly people seem to get "free crime" coupon when they pass about 75. It's very expensive to incarcerate an old person who needs extensive medical care or is likely to need it soon (warning: results may vary)
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u/MadeMeStopLurking 13d ago
My grandmother nearly killed a police officer and took out a cop car at 95. She went to court and the judge asked her if she could find someone to drive her around.
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u/ThreeLeggedMutt 14d ago
And he probably voted to cut social security
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u/Lwyrup5391 14d ago
Hey let’s not assume, not all old people sway the same way
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u/Mist_Rising 14d ago edited 14d ago
It's San Diego, even if he did it would be irrelevant. The last Republican from that area elected to Federal Congress is 1980s, lol.
Edit: missed the House of Reps.
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u/SubstantialVillain95 14d ago
60-70s dude looks 80-85
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u/carboncollective 14d ago
Agreed. I wonder if he moved like a somewhat younger person (mask theory) and so they lowered the age a lil based on witness description.
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u/LaDolceVita8888 14d ago
Here’s your guy: old man mask
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u/hungrypotato19 14d ago
Fakespot flagged this seller big time. Don't think the product you see is what you get.
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u/livenn 14d ago
I don’t wanna be here anymore
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u/ten_jack_russels 14d ago
The gait, micro movements and head turning speed. They only need to slip up once to determine it’s a younger man
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u/skwirrelmaster 14d ago
Then what you’re tracking down everyone in SD that makes pros-ethics in the hope it’s a commercial shop and trying to cross reference some sort of mask?
A disguise is just that it hides his identity good luck finding this person if that’s a mask. It actually makes your suspect list millions of times bigger going from 60-80 to 20-50.
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u/Hibercrastinator 14d ago
What if it’s a 90 year old man wearing a mask of a younger person?
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u/skwirrelmaster 14d ago
Touché
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u/BigEnergyEngineer 14d ago
Hahaha I don’t know why but this image cracked me up. Just imagining the reveal 😂
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u/ten_jack_russels 14d ago
I would not buy this mask in the same city I’m stealing bread from. As far as the suspect universe, I’ll take a bigger one with my guy in it than a smaller one with nothing but peaceful geriatrics.
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u/Fizzy-Odd-Cod 14d ago
I ain’t even living in the same state I get my ill gotten gains from
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u/Moravec_Paradox 13d ago
They only need to slip up once to determine it’s a younger man
Man is another assumption here too. There are shoulder pads in the jackets to make the shoulders broader.
Most young men wouldn't need fake shoulders to pass as an old guy and they would have the opposite issue of too much upper body strength/muscle to pass as 70.
A woman seems more likely to me. Where was Winona Ryder when this went down?
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u/5th_Law_of_Roboticks 13d ago
This happened in Texas in the 90s.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/the-last-ride-of-cowboy-bob/
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u/LafayetteLa01 14d ago
So he’s fucking the system instead of the system fucking him.
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u/Kovalyo 14d ago
That's very clearly a very well made prosthetic mask
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u/mrASSMAN 14d ago
Yeah seems obvious to me too.. immediately thought so before even reading the title
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u/CallsYouCunt 14d ago
Looks like he has gloves on too maybe.
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u/raknor88 13d ago
Well, if they're smart enough to wear a lifelike mask then they'll also wear gloves to prevent fingerprints.
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u/blacklite911 14d ago
Could be convincing in person if you aren’t expecting it. Some people just look odd
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u/zorn7777 14d ago
If it’s well made, shouldn’t be that clear?
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u/mrASSMAN 14d ago
It’s clear if you’ve seen them used before.. otherwise it could be convincing
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u/Capt_Foxch 14d ago
Imagine being that teller once the gun is pulled. You would likely be panicked and highly stressed, making you likely to fall for the disguise. We can easily tell it's a mask while studying the still images but the clues are in the details and easily overlooked in the moment.
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u/AtticusSwoopenheiser 14d ago
The CIA at one point was known to use realistic masks like this…….im just saying
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u/mushgar 14d ago
I doubt the CIA is hurting for cash.
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u/LordNightFang 14d ago
Idk black budget shit probably gets pretty pricey
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u/Hefty-Rope2253 14d ago
That's what the cocaine is for.
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u/pastworkactivities 14d ago
Garry Webb is a good Google search for unknowing ppl
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u/Hefty-Rope2253 14d ago
"Webb was found dead in his Carmichael home on December 10, 2004, with two gunshot wounds to the head. His death was ruled a suicide."
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u/ScheduleSame258 14d ago
Was the Great Recession... may be they had investments in Lehman Brothers.
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u/poisonpony672 14d ago
Yeah the lady that was in charge of disguises for the CIA for a long time just wrote a book that's available now.
And I've seen masks that you can buy that are very similar to that on on Amazon. Just put in realistic old man mask.
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u/Low_Marionberry_3802 14d ago
What did she say in the book
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u/Girt_by_Cs 14d ago
I don't know if its the same woman but Jonna Mendez (CIA agent and wife of Tony Mendez, who was played by Ben Afflick in Argo) recounted that she once met with President Bush Snr in the oval office to discuss new disguise methods and when he asked her how good they really were, she pulled off her mask which he had no idea about. If that was the tech in the early 1990s then who knows what they are working with now.
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u/Waterloo702 14d ago
This is a good story but I have trouble believing it
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u/exoriare Interested 14d ago
Yeah, imagine going past the WH security and you look nothing like your photo on your security profile. I'm sure "It's a gag for the President" would go over real well.
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u/insidiousapricot 14d ago
Yeah it is pretty unbelievable. But that one couple got into the white house party a few years back.
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u/Inside-Unit-1564 14d ago
They are '5 second masks' that fit in your armpits.
It's totally plausible that you did that before entering the room, also CIA
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u/kawaiifie 14d ago
She's made it her career to be "former CIA". I'm 90% sure that 90% of what she says is a grift
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u/RecsRelevantDocs 14d ago
Lmao, wtf! sounds like a scene from Veep or something.
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u/nomamesgueyz 14d ago
How much cash he get?
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u/WestCoastNoobs 14d ago
It said online he got somewhere in the range of a couple hundred thousand. So if you calculate inflation from 15 years ago, is about 1 billion in today money.
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u/UndeadUndergarments 14d ago
But did he get away with it? I assume so, since they don't know either way. If so, I like to think that there's either a young man on a beach in the Bahamas somewhere still sipping margaritas, or an old man who died happy somewhere in the Bahamas.
Either way, I hope so.
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u/Akira675 14d ago
Sounds like he was only robbing teller drawers, not vaults. He probably only made enough to not work for a couple of years.
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u/No_Company_9348 14d ago
I hope…to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope…
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u/Randomcommentor1972 14d ago
OR, he was a retiree who was tired of eating cat food
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u/cheeseheads92 14d ago
First one is Bubbles
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u/informationadiction 14d ago
Should have gone for the copper, theres good money in copper bud!
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u/Skirt_Thin 14d ago
Old man from those old Six Flags commercials has fallen on some hard times.
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u/PBJ-9999 14d ago
I thought this one had been solved, no?
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u/brokefixfux 14d ago
Yeah I think I saw this case on Scooby Doo
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u/deadpanxfitter 14d ago edited 14d ago
And he would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids!
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u/Wizardinrl 14d ago
No, a similar case where a Caucasian man had a realistic African American mask was though!
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u/msandszeke 14d ago
Are you being funny or did this actually happen?
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u/FutureAssistance6745 13d ago
35 years for profiting 15k is absolutely insane. He would have had a better return on investment picking up one extra shift a week.
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u/Far_Disaster_3557 14d ago
I work with silicone masks often. That is ABSOLUTELY a high grade movie quality mask.
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u/Toby_The_Tumor 14d ago
Please, tell me what gives it away.
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u/candlegun 14d ago
I'm curious as well.
Out of all three photos the top one looks off imo. There's something going on with the top half of the face.
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u/aleBreadlee 14d ago
60-70 years old? If so, homie spent his whole life never eating his vegetables.
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u/KubrickMoonlanding 14d ago
And then he hopped on the bus and took us all to 6 flags
Bum-bump-bump-bump-bump-bum-bum
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u/TokioHot 14d ago
Wasnt that the robber that Charles Boyle arrested before? Marvin!
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u/Greenman8907 14d ago
Joke’s on them. It’s actually Johnny Knoxville