Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/04/30/an-escaped-convict-hid-out-in-a-shuttered-circuit-city-for-six-months.html
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Wonder if he found any laserdisks?
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Pretty sure that both Spider-Man and Superman are pretty explicitly anti-crime, bruh. Even Matchstick Men had a “you’re better off not doing crime” moral at the end.
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Occasionally gormlessly mused over all the abandoned malls (one of numerous photo essays) and the heartrending homelessness crisis. Couldn’t we expend a little municipal budget reserves (“hah! ‘reserves’!”) on setting up some cots and light oversight inside these otherwise unused out-of-the-weather venues? (“You @#$ fool you! first these malls are owned by someone, and second, who pays when they’re accidentally burned down!?” -sigh- …imminent domain anyone? anyone??)
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I wonder if the vulture capitalists who own the building will charge him back rent.
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A fun little tidbit from his Wikipedia entry, about this latest capture:
leading to police discovery of Manchester’s secret lodgings in Circuit City and discovering the only fingerprint in the room, which was ironically on a DVD of “Catch Me If You Can”.[5]
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There’s a Circuit City in my town that’s been abandoned since the day it closed in, at the very latest, 2009. (I seem to remember it having the earlier logo, so it may have even closed shortly after 2000!) Even Spirit Halloween won’t touch it. If there’s any escaped convicts, human-sacrificing cults, gradually growing and feeding space monsters, or gangs of murderous criminals who just stand around in a warehouse-type area all day clanking axes together like in Cobra, they’ve gotta be in there.
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It’s like the Upsidedown only Insideout.
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I’m reminded…
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My uncle managed a shopping mall. At some point in the 1980s merchants were discovering stuff missing from their stores.
They finally caught him by having a security guard do his rounds in the middle of the night in his socks.
After they caught the guy they discovered he had a little nest in the ceiling of the mall, with a cot, lantern, and all the stuff hed taken from the stores.
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Honestly the biggest takeaway is that there’s still an actively running Toys ‘R’ Us somewhere.
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Unfortunately not, this all took place back in 2004.
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Ha, ok I totally missed that.
The sad thing is that this is still mostly plausible in 2024.
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Amateur. He should have hid out at McSwiney’s.
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Give it time. The “AI” people and Boston Dynamics are no doubt also hard at work on Robotnik hotels.
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I want to see that done with any seized Trump properties.
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And the moral if the story is don’t go to church?
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