Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/07/20/preteens-robbers-throw-dummy-t.html
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huh? because Resusci Annie dolls are easier to find than cinder blocks?
The must have confused him with the Crash Test Dummies.
10? TEN? Christ my kid is 10. I couldn’t imagine my kid doing that…
Was the TEAGOP ie. dummy person harmed?
Man, the bar for supervillains sure has fallen.
Q: What do you call a person with no arms and no legs who gets left behind at the scene of a robbery?
A: Patsy.
Those CPR dummies cost a fortune. Could’ve made more by selling it.
“If you ever fall off the Sears Tower,
just go real limp, because maybe
you’ll look like a dummy and people
will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.”
The street finds its own use for things…
Came looking for this, leaving satisfied.
You can’t leave a cinderblock to take the fall for you.
I could imagine me and my best friend at the time doing that when we were ten. But he was a psychopath, so he liked generally participating in all manner of anarchy, as long as there was money to be had.
Sell it? That thing was pinched for sure – even preteens know about the Dummy’s Curse…
Oh. the dirty capitalist sort of anarchy. No fun.
Capitalism is far too organized for him to participate.
I was speaking more towards motivation.
If $$$ was involved, it’s not real anarchy!