{"id":1988,"date":"2009-10-30T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T16:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2009-10-30T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T16:32:09","slug":"god-bless-the-markered-morons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/god-bless-the-markered-morons\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless The Markered Morons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There isn&#8217;t a human alive that won&#8217;t feel better about themselves after hearing the tale of these two knuckleheads.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let&#8217;s go rob a house!<\/p>\n<p>Cool!\u00c2\u00a0 But we don&#8217;t have masks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No worries, we will disguise ourselves with this Sharpie marker.<\/p>\n<p>Awesome!\u00c2\u00a0 I want to be Catwoman!<\/p>\n<p>What? Um, ok.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I will just colour my whole face in, except my nose, cause that would look sooo stupid if I coloured my nose&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1989\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/god-bless-the-markered-morons\/t1larg-mugshots-carroll-pd\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/t1larg.mugshots.carroll.pd.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"marker morons\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/t1larg.mugshots.carroll.pd.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1989\" title=\"marker morons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/t1larg.mugshots.carroll.pd.jpg\" alt=\"marker morons\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/t1larg.mugshots.carroll.pd.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/t1larg.mugshots.carroll.pd-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The best part of their disguise isn&#8217;t that it does nothing to conceal their identities of course, but rather the fact that they <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">didn&#8217;t<\/span> can&#8217;t take it off afterwards (assuming it occurred to them that they should take it off), and hilarity ensued.\u00c2\u00a0 I bet the cop who stopped them had to call for backup, he probably couldn&#8217;t see from the tears of laughter.<\/p>\n<p>So, thank you, young morons.\u00c2\u00a0 My step is a little more sprightly, my back is straighter, and my outlook is refreshed.\u00c2\u00a0 No matter what I do today, I&#8217;m<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> pretty<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">fairly<\/span> <em>extremely<\/em> confident that it will turn out better than this.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/3fowjxX1Ln0\/robbers-wearing-mark.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2009\/10\/30\/the-worst-disguise-ever-the-permanent-marker-disguise\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neatorama<\/a> for bringing this to my attention, and I stole the Catwoman joke, too.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even feel bad about it, because of the lift these two retards brought to my day.<\/p>\n<p>CNN has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/CRIME\/10\/29\/iowa.marker.disguise\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">original story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There isn&#8217;t a human alive that won&#8217;t feel better about themselves after hearing the tale of these two knuckleheads. Let&#8217;s go rob a house! Cool!\u00c2\u00a0 But we don&#8217;t have masks&#8230; No worries, we will disguise ourselves with this Sharpie marker. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/god-bless-the-markered-morons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[40,207],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity","tag-moron","tag-nothing-sharp-about-it"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-w4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}