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Escape the Law by Hot Air Balloon | Statute of Limitations hosted by Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino

March 15, 2024 / 23:35

This episode of Statute of Limitations features guests Bob and Pablo discussing their unique criminal escapades. Bob recounts his theft of a giant toothbrush in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, while Pablo shares his experience with check fraud in Los Angeles.

Bob describes how he and his friends plotted to steal a massive toothbrush from a dental office in the 1980s. They faced challenges during the heist, including a mishap with a hot air balloon and a close call with power lines.

Pablo's story highlights his involvement in writing bad checks during the late 1970s. He and his accomplice, Joey, created forgeries and attempted to establish an alibi by pretending to be mugged.

Both guests reflect on their past actions and the consequences they faced. Bob ultimately returned the toothbrush, while Pablo learned about karma through a series of unfortunate events.

The episode concludes with Mike The Situation Santino reminding listeners about the complexities of crime and the importance of legal advice.

TL;DR

Bob steals a giant toothbrush; Pablo commits check fraud and faces karma.

Episode

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hey it's your boy Mike The Situation
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Santino welcome to statute of
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limitations it's the ultimate lineup
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it's Cooks this is not my fault that I
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stole this car it's conman this is my
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chance I can be rich for life it's w to
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be King Pins we all made together
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$500,000 and queen pins it was basically
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a lounge of
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criminals these are stories of the
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non-violent lucky punks and Robin hoods
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that Dodge the law I could have gone to
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prison not jail prison because here's
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the situation baby it's only a matter of
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time before the statute of limitations
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is up and technically you might walk
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away Scot free but don't take her from
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me me guys I'm obviously no lawyer this
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is statute of
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limitations what's up guys I'm Mike
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situation stino were charging ahead with
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two people who waited long enough time
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to talk about their incredible crimes if
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you were in Iowa a few decades back you
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may have seen Bob you know the guy with
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the giant toothbrush who passed overhead
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and Pablo a man who stole from stores
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using his own checkbook all right this
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one comes from a guy in Iowa with a
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taste for Mischief the prank
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toothbrush hey y for stealing this guys
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it's a mouthful meet
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Bob my name is Bob and back in the80s I
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created the ultimate crime in stealing
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the Gentle Dental
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toothbrush CP is back in the ' 80s
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growing up was a great City kind of a
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really good workingman town a lot of uh
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industry there I love to fast
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motorcycles and fast cars everyone knew
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me as kind of an adrenaline junkie kind
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of one to always like to push the
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envelope outside the city was a lot of
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rural Farmland so it's kind of known for
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its agriculture a lot of corn fields I
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love to hot air balloon that was always
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a big thrill for me if someone says hey
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let's do it I was the first one in line
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I was ready to go I was wanted to be the
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lead dog and so there's always something
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to do on Cedar Rapids and when I say
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something do something
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mischievous drinking who didn't love to
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drink all of my friends and I would
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always get together whoever had the best
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Happy Hour in town kind of told some of
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the things we did for the week some of
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the things we were having planned for
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the weekend and what trouble we could
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get into we came out of our favorite bar
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one night and that time we saw a new
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dental office went in across the street
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called Gentle Dental and looked up and
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couldn't believe our eyes they had like
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a giant toothbrush above the door I mean
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it was massive from across the street
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and we're thinking how cool is that and
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so instantly I'm thinking in the back of
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my mind how cool is that to
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take each week we'd go by and I'd walk
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out of that place and I'm like kind of
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mesmerized with it every time I saw this
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toothbrush it was like calling me to
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just take me and I think I must have you
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a couple of my friends said hey what are
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you planning you got that look in your
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eye and I said well you know that
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toothbrush would beat any road sign in
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my garage I think that would be a great
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souvenir as we're sitting there talking
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about that shooting some pool throwing
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back some shots like we normally do back
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on a Friday night we all thought man
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this is our next big
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act so the general dental office on
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First Avenue which was one of the main
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thorough fares in Cedar raid was a
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converted house twostory into a
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Beautiful dental office surrounded by
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bushes with a giant toothbrush right
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there so as I'm kind of going in there
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and doing some Recon during the day I I
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knew one time you know I could get by
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with maybe not uh being noticed the
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second time I knew it was going to take
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a little more planning I'm going to have
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to kind of go in and scope out the
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inside kind of see how the laid out is
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so I went in there and acting like I
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wanted to be a new patient what some of
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the requirements are but I'm really
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there kind of scoping out the inside
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seeing by chance if there's anything
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hooked on the inside of the building
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that's holding that toothbrush up there
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I noticed it was sitting on a post
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that kind of maneuvered over to an L
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bracket and it was wired to both so I
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knew I'd have to cut it free from the
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post and at that point cut it free from
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the L bracket I was going to need some
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wire cutters and I was thinking maybe
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more like bolt cutters cuz I I couldn't
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tell what gauge the wire was it was way
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above the anything that I could reach so
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I knew it was going to take at least a
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step ladder of some sort and that's when
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I knew this is more than a onep person
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job I need calling a couple of my
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friends that I knew I could trust I
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could keep a
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secret so as we're planning this out I
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have a bar napkin and I'm writing
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everything down step by step pickup
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truck big tarp bolt cutters everything
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that we need for this Caper I knew I had
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to keep this kind of really low on the
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radar you know it took me a few weeks to
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kind of see the traffic flow at night
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what was going on being one of the
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busiest streets in Cedar Rapids and
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right across from one of the busiest
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bars was going to create a
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challenge I'm thinking okay I'm kind of
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a little nervous I'm like are these guys
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going to show up I'm like I don't know
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I've never done anything this big before
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are we doing the right thing and sure
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enough once they showed up I'm like okay
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there's no turning back now it's on at
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that time we were all kind of in hot air
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ballooning so you know our plan was get
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the toothbrush get it loaded up in the
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pickup and then take it to a place
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around 6:00 in the morning for our usual
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morning launch put it in the hot a
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balloon bring the balloon down we pack
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up and take off so they're again all
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amped ready to go all primed and here he
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comes and Billy rolls up up and I'm was
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hoping he's had his dad's pickup well he
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doesn't he rolls up in his small little
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car and I'm like what are you doing with
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this small car you knew what we needed
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and he was saying hey he couldn't get it
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this is all he could get and I knew at
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that point plans have changed now we
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have to figure a new way to make this
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thing fit cuz it's almost bigger than
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the car itself we kind of come rolling
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around the corner of the dental office
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and at that point I have a little step
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ladder we throw it down have the bull
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Cutters I jump up on the step ladder
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clip it off the post the first time and
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and then as we take the little step lat
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over to the other one realizing the
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angle at this there's no way I can even
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reach it Billy you're going to have to
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boost me I need some help we can't reach
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this thing and I kind of BRAC myself
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against the house and he's a little
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shaky so our other friend quickly comes
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in helps me boost knowing that we have
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to get this done quick and as we're
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doing it's still kind of shaky up there
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but I get up there and as I clip that
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thing that toothbrush comes swinging
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down and caught Billy in the rips I
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can't even hold on anymore so it
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basically takes us all out so the truth
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bu crashed to the ground around didn't
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even realize it hit Billy cuz everything
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happened so fast and this dental office
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like I said is a converted two-story
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house in the middle of a residential
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neighborhood on a busy thoroughfare so
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immediately a couple of lights come on
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and we're like oh crap what do we do now
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and at that point we're just picking
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this thing up you know and he's just
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complaining that a you know toothbrush
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hit him and we're trying to carry this
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thing out of there as fast as we can so
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as we loaded this toothbrush up
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realizing it's way bigger than the
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vehicle we had and it's sticking out we
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didn't know what to do so we covering
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this thing the best we can and this is
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probably now about oh 5 5:15 in the
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morning we knew our first few rows we
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had to drive down was First Avenue which
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is our busy intersection so we were on
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that for just a for a few blocks until
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we could get onto the back roads and
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then we knew it was a much safer and
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cleaner
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getaway so as we're going down the back
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roads all of a sudden the car has engine
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problems and I'm thinking no way are you
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kidding me right here and we're getting
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close to where we have to be for our hot
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air balloon launch we limp this thing
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along as far as we can until we couldn't
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go any further and we knew we were still
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pretty close so at that point we had to
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take the toothbrush out and leg it the
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rest of the
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way okay so as we show up to the field
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to get ready to launch this balloon they
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look at just like what are you doing
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with that toothbrush I said hey we have
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a new passenger it wants to take a ride
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with you so at that point we put the
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toothbrush in the balloon and off we
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go we're just kind of sailing just a
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beautiful morning just floating just
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effortlessly having the toothbrush TST
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us pilot and I are just laughing
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thinking oh my God what a great story
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this is going to be and I'm kind of
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telling him how we pulled this off and
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talking about that he's wanted me to
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tell him every detail how this
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happened and so we're really not paying
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attention and next thing you know off
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one of these small country roads we kind
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of look in front of us and realize some
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power lines coming up he's trying to
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what we call burn which is to get heat
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into the balloon to raise it quick
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enough but realizing we're not going to
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do it in time and we see these wires we
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know we're going to clip
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them dude if you're headed for some
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power lines with a giant toothbrush does
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that mean you're about to have a big
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electric toothbrush sounds like a risky
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situation now we all know he lived
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otherwise he wouldn't be here to tell
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the story but it was close we've got the
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shocking conclusion of Bob's Story
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coming up next on statute of
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limitations welcome back guys to statute
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of limitations where our boy Bob just
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stole a giant toothbrush and he's making
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his getaway in a hot air balloon of all
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things he's headed straight for some
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power lines this definitely not a good
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situation he's about to have a brush
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with death literally just watch
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this he's trying to what we call burn
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which is to get heat into the balloon to
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raise it quick enough but realizing
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we're not going to to do it in time and
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we see these wires we know we're going
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to clip
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them we're bracing to hit these wires so
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the bottom of the basket catches these
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wires going through and if you've ever
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seen power lines you just snap there's
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just a huge electrical charge that goes
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through it so you can just see some of
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the Sparks going through and at that
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time we knew we got to get this balloon
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down quick not only do we crash with
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some power lines but I have a stolen
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toothbrush with me on top of it and then
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the pilot says to me I'm not going to
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jail for this so let's get this thing
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packed up and out of here the chase crew
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comes up immediately after we set the
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balloon down we knew we had to get that
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out of there quickly so we load that
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envelope up into the big bag we have and
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then we load the bask up in the back of
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the trailer and we're out of there in
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under 10
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minutes so after we get home and I have
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this toothbrush and it's new happy home
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which is my garage loving this thing
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thinking oh man this is going to be a
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great at parties to show all my friends
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man it was fantastic and then later that
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next day not thinking you know there's
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going to be a lot of press surrounding
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this we think okay it's kind of just
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kind of a fun crime not a big deal well
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it's on the news it's in the newspapers
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it's all over that someone stole the
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toothbrush and I'm thinking holy crap
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what's going to happen now so I called
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all my friends and said hey this is all
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over the thing more than we expected you
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need to keep this thing completely quiet
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and not talk about this at all I
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immediately put it up in the attic in my
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garage and cover it up up there because
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I don't want anyone to get in my garage
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by accident and see this
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toothbrush so as days went on and still
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the press is all over this toothbrush
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story now there's a reward for it and it
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was for a couple thousand I mean so I'm
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thinking how much is this toothbrush
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really worth everyone's looking for this
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toothbrush people already know I'm a
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troublemaker I'm thinking I got to get
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rid of this thing and so I'm kind of a
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nervous selly now thinking where am I
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going to ditch this thing how am I going
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to get rid of it what's going to happen
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I could trust the balloon people but my
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two friends that help me with the heist
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one of them man he just loved to brag so
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anything that he can make himself sound
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better he loved especially to the girls
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and at the bar so I'm thinking I got to
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cut this guy off because he could ruin
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it for all of us so we had to sit him
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down one night and say Billy you cannot
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say a word of this so we talked about
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this thing and got a plan to get rid of
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this
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toothbrush I did some quick Recon over
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the next couple of days thinking okay
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where are we going to dump this
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toothbrush that someone's going to find
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it and yet we can leave it and no one's
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going to see us leave it so my friend
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show up to help me get this thing out of
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my garage he brings his dad's pickup
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this time which that definitely f
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toothbrush so much better we load this
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thing into the pickup cover it back up
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early morning we drive to this parking
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lot that I have all set up ready to go
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carry this thing out of there lug it
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through the parking lot and set it down
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and we just jump back in the truck that
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the next morning when people showed up
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for work they're definitely going to see
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this toothbrush and at that point the
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toothbrush has returned and I'm off the
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hook still a little nervous but we're
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already hearing on the radio and people
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talking that the toothbrush has been
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found and everyone's happy and we're
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thinking to ourselves thank goodness and
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within days it was mounted back over the
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the dental office where we took it from
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and we're thinking no harm no foul but
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what a great story so with years gone by
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now the dental office is no longer there
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and my friends and I haven't talked
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about it since matter of fact they don't
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even know I'm here thanks to the statue
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of limitations I can talk about this now
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it's time to let people know who really
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pulled the great toothbrush Caper that
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was
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me now if you ask me if you steal a
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giant toothbrush you're just begging for
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a cavity search now that may be a good
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situation or a bad situation depending
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on who you are but in the end Bob was
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able to avoid the law long enough to
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make a clean getaway and share his story
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with us now as we're about to see back
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in the good old days it was a whole lot
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easier to commit fraud especially
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writing bad checks here's a story of a
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guy who is willing to take that that
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chance meet Pablo hi my name is Pablo
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and the story I'm going to tell you is
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about fraud and Larsen that I committed
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way back in my 20s when I was young and
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stupid but now the statute of
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limitations is up so I can tell it to
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you here's what
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happened now I live in Los Angeles it
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was the late '70s was the Christmas
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season shopping and exchanging money in
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stores was much more casual before every
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everything was scanned and they had
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scanner things on the doors of all the
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stores and all that people they used
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checks they Ed cash or they used a
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department store credit card so a friend
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of mine named Joey decided that we could
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get all of this stuff just by going into
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these stores and passing
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checks CU we called a bunch of these
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stores and we got prices on a lot of the
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items that we wanted so we started
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filling out the checks one by one
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$200 here $300 for something else almost
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a complete checkbook folder of my
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checks my name signed by Joey
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technically turning them into
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forgeries that way we could go to each
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store and very quickly just hand the
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check to the clerk saying oh yes we
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called ahead and we had the item
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reserved right here could you just pick
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it up for us and we'll be on our way
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they didn't ask any questions because
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they were too busy it was the Christmas
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season but then Joey comes up with this
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wild idea he thought why don't we take
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this somewhere else where we could get
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even more we could maybe go to a spa or
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we could maybe go to a nice dinner or
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something so we decided to go to Vegas
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and we'll really have a great time so
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that's that's exactly what we did we had
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all of these stores marked and a route
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to go through the city stereo equipment
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camera equipment jewelry all different
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kinds of stores mostly department stores
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cuz they had such a variety of stuff I
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mean at the sporting goods store I
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bought cleats and things for my nephews
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and I don't like sports I wasn't going
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to use any of this
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crap and Joey was even grabbing stuff
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off the racks as we would leave
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with no scanners no beeps no problem and
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then we thought wait a minute something
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happens down the road and the cops want
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to know where we were then we've got to
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prove that we were only in La I
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remembered that a friend of mine was
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throwing a party that night 4 and 1 half
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hours back to LA to go to this party we
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let our friends see us we say hi to
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everybody we were there for maybe an
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hour or so then we got back in the car
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and drove all the way back to Vegas so
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we could continue our little shopping
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spree and then Monday after that weekend
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I took my ID and I tossed it make sure
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that it was not in my possession I
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called the police I called the bank my
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wallet was stolen somebody must have
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used it my checkbook was stolen and that
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was it and in case they were going to
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come and ask us about it or have to go
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with in and make a report in in person
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we thought okay we got to figure out
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that we were mugged how are we mugged we
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were beaten up somebody beat us up so we
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thought okay I got to hit you and Joey's
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got to hit me make it look like we were
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mug so I was about to hit
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Joey I pulled my arm
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back and I thought wait a minute is this
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going to
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hurt man it's one thing to hit to
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Department stor is and it's another
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thing to go and hit your boy damn was it
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the one two-piece I don't know let's
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take a swing at part two of Pablo's
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crime on statute of limitations
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next we're back guys with more statute
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of limitations our boy Pablo and his
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accomplice have been writing bad checks
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left and right now they need an alibi so
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they don't get popped at least by the
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police we thought okay we we got to
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figure out that we were mugged how are
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we mugged we were beaten up somebody
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beat us up so we thought okay make it
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look like we were mugged so I pulled my
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arm
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back and then he said no wait wait wait
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wait let's not let's not let's just
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leave it at a phone call only you know
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dumb guys in their 20s would think that
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beating each other up would prove
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anything this wasn't cool anymore I
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didn't feel like a badass I felt like a
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criminal and I just had this knot in my
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stomach all the time what if I get
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caught what if we get caught what's
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going to happen why in God's name did I
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try to pull something off like this but
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I had the perfect Alibi I started
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getting letters from all these stores
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because the checks were bouncing back
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from the bank after I closed my account
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and I started getting phone calls one
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store had me go into one of their
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offices and sign a form I had to sign it
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20 times my name my signature 20 times
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to make sure that the signatures on the
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checks were
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forgeries then the real anxiety and fear
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started and I would go to sleep at night
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and sometimes wake up in a cold sweat
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Imagining the cops at the door ready to
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drag me off to jail I was just walking
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on eggshells wondering why the hell did
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I do this even though he had this great
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Alibi everything was coming at me joy
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was gone I felt like I was suffering all
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the punishment for this I was getting
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the letters and the calls from the
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stores you know I was the one who had to
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talk to the police and the bank and it
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was only the
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beginning I don't consider myself a
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religious person but I do believe in
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karma things started happening that made
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me think we weren't going to get caught
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by the police but some Force out there
00:20:24
was going to take care of
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us within the first year or so things
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started disappearing the stuff that we
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had stolen something would break or
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something would go missing or I'd leave
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something somewhere except for a camera
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this really really cool camera and over
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the 12 or so years after we committed
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this crime it ended up that I was mugged
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four times in this town my
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hometown Karma that was the force behind
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it things like when I I was at an ATM
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one night took out 20 bucks stuck it in
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my pocket went back to my car and there
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was another car parked behind me and
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these three guys jump out of the car
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point a gun in my face and demand my
00:21:11
briefcase or the time that I was just
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getting in my car and this car pulls up
00:21:17
beside me asking for directions and the
00:21:20
passenger guy jumps out starts pounding
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on my window until he kicks it in glass
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shatters everywhere he slipped and fell
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and I took off I mean insane stuff but
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karma so would I ever do something like
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this
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again act like a stupid kid who thought
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he was a badass it was enough I learned
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my lesson I wouldn't even consider
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something like that again even if I knew
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I could get away with it you know
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there's a statute of limitations with
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the legal system but the universe has no
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such
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thing they say that if you deserve it
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the universe will actually serve it
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eventually in this particular situation
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Karma was served and that's our show
00:22:07
folks I'm Mike The Situation Santino
00:22:09
reminding you don't do the crime if you
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can't hide for a crazy long time also
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being found guilty or feeling guilty are
00:22:17
two different things especially if you
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got a Catholic mother like myself trust
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me be sure to check out some more
00:22:24
stories of everyday folks confessing
00:22:26
some crazy crimes
00:22:29
later this program is for entertainment
00:22:32
purposes only and it is not legal advice
00:22:35
the statute of limitations are
00:22:37
complicated and depend on many factors
00:22:40
if you need advice you should seek legal
00:22:42
counsel from a competent attorney in
00:22:45
your
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[Music]
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jurisdiction
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[Music]
00:23:26
yeah
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[Music]

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Episode Highlights

  • The Great Toothbrush Caper
    Bob shares the hilarious story of stealing a giant toothbrush and his wild getaway in a hot air balloon.
    “What a great story this is going to be!”
    @ 08m 39s
    March 15, 2024
  • Pablo's Check Fraud Scheme
    Pablo recounts his reckless youth committing check fraud and the lengths he went to cover it up.
    “I just had this knot in my stomach all the time.”
    @ 18m 56s
    March 15, 2024
  • Facing the Consequences
    After closing his bank account, anxiety and fear took over, leading to sleepless nights.
    “I would go to sleep at night and sometimes wake up in a cold sweat.”
    @ 19m 39s
    March 15, 2024
  • Karma's Retribution
    Over the years, the narrator faced multiple incidents that felt like karma for past actions.
    “I was mugged four times in this town, my hometown. Karma that was the force behind it.”
    @ 20m 56s
    March 15, 2024
  • A Lesson Learned
    Reflecting on past mistakes, the narrator vows never to repeat them, understanding the weight of karma.
    “I learned my lesson; I wouldn’t even consider something like that again.”
    @ 21m 43s
    March 15, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • It's only a matter of time before the statute of limitations is up.
    Escape the Law by Hot Air Balloon | Statute of Limitations hosted by Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino
  • If you steal a giant toothbrush, you're just begging for a cavity search.
    Escape the Law by Hot Air Balloon | Statute of Limitations hosted by Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino
  • Karma was served and that’s our show, folks!
    Escape the Law by Hot Air Balloon | Statute of Limitations hosted by Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino

Key Moments

  • Toothbrush Heist01:54
  • Hot Air Balloon Escape08:30
  • Check Fraud Scheme14:05
  • Anxiety After Closure19:39
  • Karma's Impact20:56
  • Reflection and Growth21:43

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