Report of "deranged person" hugging pillow turns out to be cardboard cutout of MyPillow CEO

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/01/report-of-deranged-person.html

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Good thing it was a white cardboard stand up otherwise the cops would have shot it.

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If I had observed someone I thought was acting weirdly long enough to get concerned and call the police, I think I might have noticed, in that time, that the figure was completely motionless and thus wasn’t actually a person. Maybe I’m just much slower to call the cops than some people…

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The police report left out the part of the story where the cardboard cutout was standing slightly closer to the caller every time they turned to look at it.

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standing motionless is totally a sign of derangement!

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Funny, this guy just made a speech at CPAC today. The “deranged person” description still applies.

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Only if you’re rich and White.

For everyone else, calling the po-po will just make most situations even worse.

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Heh. What… what a bunch of idiots. I mean, what, what’s next? Some one stopping in the middle of the street and running into a store to meet Boba Fett only to learn it was a cardboard cut out. Hahha. Who would do that? Not me, that’s for sure.

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Where can you get one of these cardboard cutouts? Asking for a friend.

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I have a feeling this was a PR stunt and everyone fell for it.

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previously: https://www.wideopenspaces.com/cardboard-schwarzenegger-terminator-standee-mistaken-gunman-toronto/

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Also, during winter in MN that his complexion never started to match his shirt…:cold_face:

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Don’t blink…

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Some pillows get filled with goose down. The Trump pillows gets filled with goose shit.

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I once thought there was a cardboard cutout of Britney Spears holding a Pepsi in my back yard, but it turned out it was really her.

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It was in fact a cardboard advertising cutout of Mike Lindell, the deranged CEO of MyPillow.

FTFY

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Yes, my thought too.
Even the police post - “…was actually MyPillow CEO and inventor Mike Lindell” - sounds fishy.

“Turns out to have been a cardboard cutout advertising pillows.”

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you’ve nailed it, crazy card board cut out pillow man is the perfect super villain.

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