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Exactly my thoughts as well. Every piece of evidence law enforcement has was basically intentionally provided by him. If he just stuffed his trash in one of his
by qzw 2y ago
Exactly my thoughts as well. Every piece of evidence law enforcement has was basically intentionally provided by him. If he just stuffed his trash in one of his 7 pockets, or wore a pair of sunglasses, or didn't actually stare straight at the camera in the taxi like he was getting his school picture taken? I mean pretty much the only thing he failed to do was leave his business card at the crime scene.
- Smar 2y agoBut the calling card needs to be left the previous day.
- JesseTG 2y agoThey'll never see it coming!
- aorloff 2y agoVersion 2.0 of this crime will feature the shooter having the forethought to have put a bitcoin wallet address on the front of his mask as he traipsed around in front of the cameras. And boy howdy, the sparks will fly then
- evoke4908 2y agoAs bad ideas go, this has to be one of the best.
- ALittleLight 2y agoBefore releasing the pictures authorities would redact the address.
- aorloff 2y agoBut the internet.
- worthless-trash 2y agoI don't think they'd know what it was.
- kaladin-jasnah 2y agoMy lack of socialization really shows when I first thought this to be a reference to the Persona video game.
- cpill 2y agoI guess the next one can learn from this one and they will iteratively get better at not getting caught.
- qzw 2y agoIn the movie "Wag the Dog", Dustin Hoffman plays a Hollywood producer who is hired by the President to create a fake war to take attention away from another scandal. Spoiler alert Near the end, Hoffman's character is upset that the President's re-election is credited to something else instead of his handiwork. Even when told he's risking his life if he says anything, he yells "I want the credit!". I think a similar psychology may be at work in this and other crimes that become (in)famous.
- elliotec 2y agoI _think_ what you're getting at is saying the suspect wants the credit, in response to the parent saying the next one will be better at evasion by learning from his mistakes, right? And implying the next one might not want to evade either? I have no speculation here just looking for clarification on the movie reference.
- qzw 2y agoYes, that's what I'm trying to say. Obviously anybody who goes to the trouble of penning a manifesto is a hero/protagonist in their own narrative. When they see that their acts have captured the attention or even admiration of a significant portion of the public, the urge to stand up and say "I'm the one who did this great deed, and here's why" will often overpower the instinct for self preservation.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoThis is the topic of the wonderfully named Edgar Allan Poe short story, The Imp of the Perverse: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fiction/text/the-imp-of-the-perverse https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fict...
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- tdeck 2y agoThe Identity Killer strikes again https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CiVFn1vEIiM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CiVFn1vEIiM
- whaleofatw2022 2y agoIt would be interesting to see if he's banking on jury nullification being within the Overton window...
- MichaelZuo 2y agoOr maybe he’s just not that smart… it’s pretty much expected some number will lose their marbles and become semi-deranged or fully deranged every year. I’d guess at least 1 in ten thousand per annum. Which would equate to hundreds of newly deranged developers per year in the US.
- _heimdall 2y agoMost people don't even know what jury nullification is, and even fewer realize it is in fact legal. I'd be surprised if he was banking on that.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoI don't think he was banking on that, but I thought it interesting that posts about jury nullification were all over the front page on Reddit today, e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1haimhk/til_that_a_jury_does_not_have_to_convict_a_guilty/ https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1haimhk/til_... and https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1haejf4/new_yorkers_need_to_look_up_jury_nullification/ https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1haejf4...
- bryanrasmussen 2y agomaybe the prosecutor will refuse anyone who knows what jury nullification is
- throwaway48476 2y agoUsually it's phrased differently but it's on the form.
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