"But I Wore The Juice!"

[adorshki]

Unknown author on Google Quora:

"In a strange event on April 19th, 1995, McArthur Wheeler executed a bank robbery while wearing a disguise consisting of lemon juice smeared on his face. His rationale was rooted in the belief that lemon juice, commonly used as invisible ink, would render him undetectable by CCTV cameras. With confidence, he even grinned at each camera he encountered during the heist.

However, later that same night, the police apprehended Wheeler. The moment of reckoning occurred when they presented him with the CCTV footage, leaving Wheeler utterly astonished. He expressed his disbelief to the officers, uttering the baffling words, "but I wore the juice."

This outlandish episode involving McArthur Wheeler has earned its place as a renowned case study in the realm of psychology. It notably contributed to the unveiling of the Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias wherein individuals with limited competence in a particular task tend to overestimate their abilities."

Yeah, I see it every day on the highways.

 

[GAD]

True story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McArthur_Wheeler

The internet loves to throw around "Dunning-Kruger Effect" any time they see someone do something stupid. Throw in some claims of "cognitive dissonance", "mental gymnastics", and other well-loved phrases and you've got yourself a nice firestorm thread on any social media platform.

 

[Guildedagain]

^ Are you saying people are overestimating their ability to use Dunning Kruger properly? ^

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Since we're on the dumb criminal topic, just a few years ago, a local bank robber robbed a US Bank just 20 minutes away from here and made off (like Bernie -;]) with an undisclosed amount of cash, made it to the next burg in an easterly direction he'd fled in, and not long after was arrested gambling the money away at the Casino.

The tip off was "an extra large eagle tattoo on his neck", vanity being what it is, he didn't want to cover it up, apparently pretty proud of it, a trend with tattoed people, an inability to cover their artwork, regardless of temperature, etc.

I love a good dumb criminal story, and this other local story, while not involving lemon juice or tattoos has always been a favorite of mine.

A local rancher was having his place prowled by someone looking to steal cattle maybe, so he goes out there at night with rifle, the prowler/s left in a hurry and a cloud of dust, and sadly the old boy couldn't get a license plate number, but looking around for clues at first light, he found the perpetrator's wallet on the ground, with ID ;[]

 

[Rocky]

I knew a guy in HS, nearly seven feet tall. He robbed a liquor store. Not surprisingly, he didn't get away with it.

 

[Prince of Darkness]

Reminds me a bit of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal

 

[adorshki]

I knew a guy in HS, nearly seven feet tall. He robbed a liquor store. Not surprisingly, he didn't get away with it.

You just reminded me of my own true story:

My "biological" father was a heroin addict. He'd become a '50's medical addict in the hospital after blowing off hand fooling around with blasting caps and a solenoid switch in a junkyard.

In '58 he was busted for armed bank robbery. With a shotgun. (!!)
Apparently there weren't too many one-armed bandits in LA in '58.

 

[zulu]

One time a guy broke into my car, smashed the back window of my Toyota Corona to sleep inside out of the rain. He left his wallet with ID and about $1300 in it. I gave it to the cops and they returned it to him. He'd been arrested running around naked.

 

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