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These people lost touch with reality - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: In today's episode, I'm going to tell you three true
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  Speaker 1: stories about people who made choices that are so shocking
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  Speaker 1: One weekday morning in March of nineteen ninety five, a
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  Speaker 1: man named Luther Charles sat on the porch of his
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  Speaker 1: parents' house in Saint Louis, Missouri, while holding a newspaper.
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  Speaker 1: Both of Luther's parents were at work, but Luther was
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  Speaker 1: not because he didn't have a job. In fact, he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't had a single job in the last five years.
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  Speaker 1: So Luther desperately wanted to be an actor professionally, and
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  Speaker 1: he'd spent the last five years, you know, not working.
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  Speaker 1: But auditioning constantly and getting rejected over and over and
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  Speaker 1: over again. Now he was totally broken living with his parents,
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  Speaker 1: but he had not lost the dream of wanting to
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  Speaker 1: be an actor. Now, Luther knew that a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: at least outside of the acting world, thought that trying
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  Speaker 1: to be an actor was sort of a pipe dream.
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  Speaker 1: Only chosen few get to do that professionally at a
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  Speaker 1: high level, and that he, Luther, should be more realistic
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  Speaker 1: and just get a normal job, especially after five years
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  Speaker 1: of attempts that didn't work out. But he just couldn't
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  Speaker 1: bring himself to do that because for him, it was
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  Speaker 1: going to be acting or nothing. So on this particular morning,
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  Speaker 1: he was doing what he did almost every single day,
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  Speaker 1: which was flipping through the classified section of the newspaper
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  Speaker 1: looking for any open calls for auditions. And as he
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  Speaker 1: scanned the page he was on, he saw one that
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  Speaker 1: caught his eye. It was for a musical that was
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  Speaker 1: being produced several hundred miles away in Ohio, but they
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  Speaker 1: had an open call for auditions that night. Now, at first,
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  Speaker 1: Luther was kind of confused about why producers from Ohio
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  Speaker 1: would place a call for auditions in a newspaper. In Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: But then he saw that it was because these producers
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  Speaker 1: were trying to find a very specific kind of actor
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  Speaker 1: for what sounded like a very unique character, and Luther
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  Speaker 1: realized he could be what they were looking for. This
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  Speaker 1: could finally be his chance to get his big break.
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  Speaker 1: This was, of course, not going to be easy. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: he would have to drive today all the way to
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  Speaker 1: Ohio just to do this audition. But two, what it
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  Speaker 1: would take for him to get into this character, to
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  Speaker 1: do a good job and hopefully and this part was
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  Speaker 1: going to take a lot. But after five years of
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  Speaker 1: near constant rejection, he was willing to try anything. A
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  Speaker 1: few minutes later, Luther got into the driver's seat of
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  Speaker 1: his car. He was carrying three things with him, a
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  Speaker 1: map to help him get to Ohio, an entire bottle
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  Speaker 1: of whiskey to help him be brave, and a hack
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  Speaker 1: song to help him get into character. That evening in Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: one of the producers of this musical sat in the
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  Speaker 1: front row of an empty auditorium. She'd spent the last
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  Speaker 1: several hours listening to hopeful actors read monologues and sing songs,
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  Speaker 1: and she knew there were still more people waiting to audition,
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  Speaker 1: so she called for the next person in line to
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  Speaker 1: come inside, and a moment later a man stumbled out
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  Speaker 1: onto the stage, and when the producer saw him, she
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  Speaker 1: was just confused because he seemed very wobbly, almost like
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  Speaker 1: he was drunk, and he had on this weird sort
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  Speaker 1: of costume where he had bandages wrapped around his head.
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  Speaker 1: And then, in a very slurred voice, this man said
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  Speaker 1: his name was Luther Charles, and he knew that this
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  Speaker 1: musical required a very specific kind of actor, and he
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  Speaker 1: had made sure that he was perfect for this part.
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  Speaker 1: The producer didn't understand what Luther was talking about, though,
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  Speaker 1: but before she could clarify, Luther on stage began unwrapping
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  Speaker 1: the bandages from his head, and when the producer saw
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  Speaker 1: what was underneath them, she began screaming for help. Would
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  Speaker 1: turn out that casting call in the newspaper that Luther
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  Speaker 1: read that inspired him to go here and do this
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  Speaker 1: contained a very unfortunate typo. What the producers of the
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  Speaker 1: musical were looking for were genuine fearless actors, but what
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  Speaker 1: actually got printed was a call for quote genuine earless actors,
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  Speaker 1: and Luther Charles was so desperate to land a role
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  Speaker 1: that he drove to Ohio, down to bottle of whiskey
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  Speaker 1: and then cut off both of his ears with that
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  Speaker 1: hack song because he believed it would make him perfect
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  Speaker 1: for this musical. Luther survived his self inflicted injuries and
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  Speaker 1: later underwent psychiatric treatment. He did, not, however, get the part.
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  Speaker 1: of two thousand and three, a woman named Tina carried
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  Speaker 1: a grocery bag down the hallway of a big apartment
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  Speaker 1: building in Harlem, New York. The hallway was narrow, with
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  Speaker 1: white tile walls and heavy metal doors and overhead lights
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  Speaker 1: that flickered, and as Tina stopped in front of her door,
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  Speaker 1: she caught a whiff of a familiar smell coming from
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  Speaker 1: across the hall in apartment five E. It smelled like
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  Speaker 1: urine and rotting meat. Tina grimaced, but quickly set down
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  Speaker 1: her grocery bag and began sifting through her purse for
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  Speaker 1: her keys. But right as she found them, she heard
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  Speaker 1: footsteps coming down the hall behind her. She turned, and
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  Speaker 1: when she saw who was walking up the hallway towards her,
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  Speaker 1: she began to panic because it was Antoine Yates, the
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  Speaker 1: owner of Apartment five E, the Stinky apartment. He was
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  Speaker 1: coming right down the hall and he was carrying what
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  Speaker 1: appeared to be this huge sack that maybe looked like
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  Speaker 1: it was filled with sand or something. She didn't care,
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  Speaker 1: but she did not want to be near the sky,
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  Speaker 1: and so as fast as she could, she put the
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  Speaker 1: key in the door, opened it up, flew inside, grabbed
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  Speaker 1: her groceries, shut the door, and dead bolted it. Now
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  Speaker 1: Tina did feel sort of guilty about being really obviously
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  Speaker 1: rude towards Antoine. I mean, Antoine had lived in this
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  Speaker 1: building for years, and at one point she had thought
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  Speaker 1: he was a nice guy, but lately he'd gotten really
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  Speaker 1: weird and she no longer wanted anything to do with him.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, there was that horrific smell coming from
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  Speaker 1: his apartment basically at all hours. And then there was
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Antoine basically stopped leaving the apartment altogether,
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  Speaker 1: like he was basically in his apartment twenty four to seven.
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  Speaker 1: As far as Tina could tell, he maybe left once
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  Speaker 1: a day tops, for maybe like an hour a day,
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  Speaker 1: but other than that he was like a constant presence
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  Speaker 1: across the hall. But beyond the smell and his reclusive nature,
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  Speaker 1: the most sort of alarming aspect of his recent weird
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  Speaker 1: behavior were all the random loud crashing sounds that Tina
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  Speaker 1: would hear coming from Antoine's apartment at all hours, even
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  Speaker 1: though from what she could tell, he didn't have any
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  Speaker 1: visitors ever, it was just him in there. Now. Tina
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  Speaker 1: had no idea what Antoine was doing in there, but
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  Speaker 1: she assumed whatever it was, it wasn't good, but it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't her business, and so she decided that the best
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  Speaker 1: thing she could do was just stay in her apartment,
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  Speaker 1: make sure the door was locked, and hope at some
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  Speaker 1: point he stopped doing whatever was he was doing. A
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  Speaker 1: couple days later, Tina went down to the lobby to
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  Speaker 1: check her mail, and when she did, she ran into
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  Speaker 1: a woman named Joyce, who lived in Apartment for E,
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  Speaker 1: which was directly below and Twan's apartment. Tina said hello
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  Speaker 1: to her, and as she opened up her mailbox, Joyce
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  Speaker 1: came over and stood next to her with this sort
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  Speaker 1: of strange look on her face. Tina picked up on
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  Speaker 1: it and asked her what was wrong, and Joyce told
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  Speaker 1: her that last night she noticed liquid dripping down through
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  Speaker 1: her ceiling and at first she thought it was maybe
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  Speaker 1: a burst pipe or an overflowing sink, but when she
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  Speaker 1: got a rag and went to clean it up, she
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  Speaker 1: realized it wasn't water. It smelled like pea. Then, Joyce
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  Speaker 1: she lowered her voice and leaned in close to Tina,
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  Speaker 1: and she said the PA wasn't the only weird thing. Sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: late at night, when the building was quiet, she said
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  Speaker 1: she could hear what sounded like whimpering coming from the
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  Speaker 1: upstairs apartment and Twan's apartment, And at this Tina's heart
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  Speaker 1: began to pound. Now she had tried to just kind of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, mentally and physically avoid the whole Antoine situation,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was, But now that she knew other neighbors
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  Speaker 1: were also noticing bizarre things like she was, she felt
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  Speaker 1: like she had to act. And so Tina said to
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  Speaker 1: Joyce that, you know what, we really ought to call
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  Speaker 1: the housing authority and see if they'd come out and
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  Speaker 1: investigate to see what was going on. But Joyce said
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  Speaker 1: she'd already tried that, She called multiple times and so
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  Speaker 1: far nobody had done anything. So Tina told Joyce that, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's all get together all the other neighbors then go
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  Speaker 1: to the housing authority as a group and maybe then
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  Speaker 1: they'd be taken more seriously. Joyce liked the idea, so
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  Speaker 1: the two women exchange numbers and then Tina went back
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  Speaker 1: up to her apartment. But the next day, before Tina
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  Speaker 1: had time to chat with any more neighbors, she came
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  Speaker 1: home from the store and walked into the lobby of
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  Speaker 1: the apartment building, and she saw Antoine on the floor
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  Speaker 1: of the lobby screaming in pain with two police officers
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  Speaker 1: huddled over him. He had these gaping wounds all over
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  Speaker 1: his arm and his leg, and there was blood all
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  Speaker 1: over the tile floor. Tina didn't know what to do,
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  Speaker 1: so she just hustled right past them through the lobby,
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  Speaker 1: made her way upstairs and got inside her apartment. But
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  Speaker 1: when she was inside, her curiosity got the best of her,
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  Speaker 1: and she ran to the window to see if there
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  Speaker 1: was anything going on outside that could begin to explain
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  Speaker 1: what was going on with the Antwine. And outside she
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  Speaker 1: saw an ambulance pull up, and then moments later, paramedics
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  Speaker 1: loaded Antoine into the back of it and they took off.
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  Speaker 1: After that, Tina basically sat there, expecting any moment for
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  Speaker 1: the police to come barreling down the hallway and break
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  Speaker 1: down Antoine's door. Apartment five B, you know, to finally
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  Speaker 1: put an end to whatever was happening inside of there.
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  Speaker 1: But she sat there waiting for an hour and she
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear anything. And then finally, after you know, about
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  Speaker 1: an hour, she saw those two police officers from the
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  Speaker 1: lobby get back in their squad car and drive away.
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  Speaker 1: Tina was shocked. I mean, she had no idea what
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  Speaker 1: happened to Antoine, But she also couldn't conceptualize of what
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  Speaker 1: Antoine would have told those officers that would make them
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  Speaker 1: think they should just leave without checking his apartment. And
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  Speaker 1: so Tina felt like she couldn't just sit here and
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  Speaker 1: do nothing, like somebody needed to go in there. Tina
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  Speaker 1: didn't know if maybe Antoine was hurting someone in his
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  Speaker 1: apartment and they had finally fought back that's why he
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  Speaker 1: was all cut up, or maybe if he was involved
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  Speaker 1: in some kind of violent criminal activity or what. But
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  Speaker 1: it was clearly never going to end unless she spoke up.
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  Speaker 1: So as much as it terrified her to get involved here,
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  Speaker 1: she picked up the phone, called the police and told
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  Speaker 1: them everything she had seen and heard. The next day,
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  Speaker 1: Tina was coming home from work when she saw this
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  Speaker 1: huge crowd gathered outside her apartment building, hundreds of her
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  Speaker 1: neighbors were just standing on the sidewalk looking up at
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  Speaker 1: the side of the building, and when Tina looked up,
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  Speaker 1: she saw what they were watching. A police officer was
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  Speaker 1: repelling down the side of this building from one of
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  Speaker 1: the upper levels, and with him he had this big
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  Speaker 1: rifle and some other huge weapon, and he was slowly
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  Speaker 1: making his way down, but then he eventually stopped right
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  Speaker 1: outside a fifth floor window, and Tina realized he was
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  Speaker 1: stopping outside of Antoine's window. That was his apartment, And
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  Speaker 1: so Tina and the others watched as this officer began
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  Speaker 1: to tap on the glass of the window, and then
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  Speaker 1: there was this huge explosion of glass that flew outwards
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  Speaker 1: like the window had broken, but from the inside going out.
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  Speaker 1: That officer immediately raised his rifle and began firing into
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  Speaker 1: the apartment while also signaling to the police officers above
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  Speaker 1: him leaning out of another apartment to pull him up,
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  Speaker 1: and they immediately began pulling him up. And then a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes later, a half dozen more police officers came
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  Speaker 1: running out the front door of the apartment building, and
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  Speaker 1: they were carrying this massive tarp between them, with something
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  Speaker 1: obviously very heavy and large inside of it. Now, none
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  Speaker 1: of this made any sense to Tina until the officers
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  Speaker 1: passed by her and she caught a glimpse of what
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  Speaker 1: was in the tarp. It would turn out Tina and
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  Speaker 1: Joyce were right to be suspicious of Antoine, but it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't because he was a violent criminal who was secretly
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  Speaker 1: hurting people in his apartment. No, his secret was actually
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  Speaker 1: much weirder. Antoine had a very strange pet. Specifically, he
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  Speaker 1: had a four hundred pound tiger named Ming, who had
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  Speaker 1: been living in Antoine's apartment through years. It slept in
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  Speaker 1: one of his bedrooms, with a giant sandpit at peed
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  Speaker 1: basically everywhere, and it lived off raw meat. Antoine's horrible
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  Speaker 1: wounds that day were caused by Ming biting him when
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  Speaker 1: Antoine tried to stop the tiger from pouncing on one
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  Speaker 1: of his other pets, a stray kitten that he had
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  Speaker 1: taken in. As for Antoine and Ming, they both survived
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  Speaker 1: this encounter. Antoine was ultimately arrested for reckless endangerment, and Ming,
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  Speaker 1: who was just tranquilized during that exchange with the police officer,
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  Speaker 1: was carried out of the apartment and taken to a
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  Speaker 1: sanctuary in Ohio. Also that stray kitten survived the attack
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  Speaker 1: as well. At two forty five pm on January sixth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, a forty five year old man named
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  Speaker 1: MacArthur Wheeler walked towards the front doors of a bank
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  Speaker 1: in Swissvale, Pennsylvania, which is a small town near Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: MacArthur had on a mask and was dressed in a
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  Speaker 1: big blue parka, and in one of his pockets he
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  Speaker 1: was carrying a semi automatic handgun. MacArthur was about to
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  Speaker 1: rob this bank at gunpoint, but weirdly, he did not
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  Speaker 1: feel nervous, despite the fact that, you know, MacArthur had
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  Speaker 1: never robbed a bank before, but one of his friends,
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  Speaker 1: forty three year old Clifton Johnson, had and was already
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  Speaker 1: inside the bank, waiting in line and pretending to be
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  Speaker 1: a customer, even though he was actually MacArthur's co conspirator.
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  Speaker 1: MacArthur and Clifton had spent days planning out this robbery together,
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  Speaker 1: down to every last detail, and even though MacArthur had
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  Speaker 1: been kind of scared at first, Clifton had talked him
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  Speaker 1: through every possible scenario and made sure that they had
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  Speaker 1: a plan for everything that could go wrong. So now
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  Speaker 1: MacArthur was one hundred percent confident that they were going
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  Speaker 1: to get away with this, which again is why he
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  Speaker 1: was not nervous. So this day, MacArthur walked up to
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  Speaker 1: the bank stores and went inside. He had to squint
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  Speaker 1: through his mask because it obscured his view a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but he saw Clifton standing in line, which immediately gave
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  Speaker 1: him another burst of confidence to actually see Clifton. He
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  Speaker 1: was here, you know. So far things were going exactly
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  Speaker 1: as planned. And so MacArthur quickly pushed his way through
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  Speaker 1: the line and he locked eyes with the bank teller,
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  Speaker 1: and as he did, he pulled out his gun. He
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  Speaker 1: aimed it at them, and he told them to hand
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  Speaker 1: over all the money. MacArthur heard the sound of other
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  Speaker 1: people in the bank, other patrons and other staff beginning
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  Speaker 1: to gasp because they're seeing what's happening here. And so
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  Speaker 1: MacArthur quickly turned around with his gun still in his hand,
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  Speaker 1: and he told everybody that he didn't want to hurt anyone,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody just needed to stay calm, and as soon
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  Speaker 1: as he got the money, he'd be gone. Then MacArthur
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  Speaker 1: turned back to the teller, who by this point had
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  Speaker 1: gathered up all the cash in the register and was
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  Speaker 1: literally just holding it out like here, take it, and
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  Speaker 1: MacArthur he grabbed the cash, put it in one of
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  Speaker 1: his pockets. He put his gun back inside of his pocket.
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  Speaker 1: Then he looked over at Clifton, and the two men nodded,
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  Speaker 1: and then they turned and ran out of the bank.
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  Speaker 1: About three months later, in the early morning hours of
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  Speaker 1: April twentieth, nineteen ninety five, MacArthur was sleeping inside his
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  Speaker 1: apartment just outside of Pittsburgh. After the robbery, he and
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  Speaker 1: Clifton had escaped with a little over five thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and they'd gone their separate ways in order to lay low,
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  Speaker 1: so they weren't really in contact. But to MacArthur it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like everything had worked out perfectly because here he
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  Speaker 1: was still a free man with all this cash, and
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  Speaker 1: the cops hadn't even shown up once to question him.
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  Speaker 1: But on this particular night, a pounding on MacArthur's door
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  Speaker 1: woke him up, and he bolted up right in bed,
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  Speaker 1: and he heard somebody yell at him to open up
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  Speaker 1: because it was the police. Now at this point, MacArthur
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  Speaker 1: was definitely nervous. However, he sort of calmed himself down
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  Speaker 1: and told himself that right now, his best option was
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  Speaker 1: just to play it cool, because even if the cops
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  Speaker 1: suspected him in that robbery, there was simply no way
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  Speaker 1: they could possibly prove he'd actually done it. He'd been
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  Speaker 1: wearing a mask and a huge parka that totally obscured
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  Speaker 1: his identity. So MacArthur he got out of bed and
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  Speaker 1: he walked over to the door. He opened it up,
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  Speaker 1: and sure enough, there's all these police officers standing in
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  Speaker 1: the doorway, and MacArthur pretended to act confused and asked them,
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  Speaker 1: you know what's going on here? And that was when
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  Speaker 1: one of the officers told MacArthur he was under arrest
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  Speaker 1: for armed robbery, and then showed him a printed photo
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  Speaker 1: from one of the bank's security cameras, and there he was.
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  Speaker 1: So this photo clearly showed MacArthur's face, every detail was
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  Speaker 1: perfectly visible. It was him, for sure. He didn't even
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  Speaker 1: look like he was wearing a mask. But MacArthur couldn't
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  Speaker 1: wrap his mind around how this was possible. He looked
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  Speaker 1: from the picture up to the cops and just said,
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  Speaker 1: but I wore the juice. It would turn out the
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  Speaker 1: mask MacArthur was wearing during this robbery was not a
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  Speaker 1: ski mask or a Halloween mask, or really a mask
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  Speaker 1: in any traditional sense of the word. What MacArthur and
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  Speaker 1: his co conspirator Clifton had both done, and what they
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  Speaker 1: truly thought would disguise their identities completely, was rub lemon
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  Speaker 1: juice on their faces. They believed that lemon juice would
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  Speaker 1: essentially act as a mask and make them literally invisible
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  Speaker 1: to security cameras. Unfortunately, though, lemon juice does not make
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  Speaker 1: you invisible, and so once the police accessed the banks
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  Speaker 1: security footage, they saw clear as day MacArthur and Clifton
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  Speaker 1: committing this crime, and they arrested them both. Clifton was
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to five years in prison for armed bank robbery
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  Speaker 1: and MacArthur was sentenced to twenty two and a half years.
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  Speaker 1: But this was not the end of the story, because
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  Speaker 1: Clifton and MacArthur's ridiculous crime made headlines, and before long,
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  Speaker 1: a professor of social psychology at Cornell University read about it,
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  Speaker 1: and it made him realize something. The fact that MacArthur
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: literally believed lemon juice would make him invisible, and he
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: acted on that knowledge or that supposed knowledge, to commit
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  Speaker 1: this crime. And then was shocked when it didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: That suggests a level of stupidity that is just exceptionally high,
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  Speaker 1: so high that this professor began to wonder if maybe
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  Speaker 1: MacArthur is so stupid he actually doesn't understand how stupid
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  Speaker 1: he really was. And so this led the professor to
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  Speaker 1: research this idea, and he ultimately established a new psychological
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  Speaker 1: concept that we now call the Dunning Kruger effect, which
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: essentially says that the more incompetent a person is it something,
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  Speaker 1: the less likely they are to recognize their own incompetence. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: the darmmer you are, the more confident you become. Thank
• 21:27
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• 21:29
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