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hey it's your boy Mike The Situation Santino welcome to statute of limitations it's the ultimate lineup
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it's Cooks this is not my fault that I stole this car it's conmen this is my
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chance I can be rich for life it's WN to be queing pins we all made together
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$500,000 and queen pins it was basically a lounge of criminals these are stories of the
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nonviolent lucky punks and Robin hoods that Dodge the law I could have gone to prison not jail prison because here's
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the situation baby it's only a matter of time before the statute of limitations
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is up and technically you might walk away scotf free but don't take it from me guys guys I'm obviously no lawyer
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this is statute of limitations what's up I'm Mike The Situation sorantino on this episode of
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statute of limitations the story of a man his mother-in-law the desert and a shovel dig this guys we all know to get
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out of the hole you got to put down the shovel and apparently he forgot right now now it's a young lady with a scam
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for the ages she swiped more credit card accounts than you can count and we have
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people for that we do and in Illinois where her story takes place fraud can put you in prison for years talk about
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an uncomfortable situation and I would know here's a story of how she managed
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to avoid paying the ultimate price meet Kim hi I'm Kimberly and I committed credit card fraud with my brother and we
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got away with it okay so the year was 1987 I was at the University of Illinois now you have to be in the mindset that
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this is before the days of computers so that meant it was very very easy to get away with wrongdoings I was the
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quintessential good girl we're talking Church two to three times a week class
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president I used to find Strays and find homes for them I didn't drink didn't
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smoke didn't curse didn't have Sexes of Virgin and so I was 1,000% a good girl
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my brother quite opposite 1,000% the opposite so my brother starts working at a high-end Boutique inside of an airport
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and because it's on the international terminal there are a lot of wealthy people that go in and out of that
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particular area of the airport my brother being who he is even since childhood has always had a scheme
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or a scam for us to be able to make money so he has this idea of what if we sell credit card numbers now you need to
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know this was the 80s so there was a credit card imprinter and you would take the credit card and you would lay it
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down under a series of carbons and so sometimes the client would take the carbons back and sometimes they would
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ask you to just throw them away well the thing is when you keep the carbons it's
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a complete imprint of your credit card information back then it was so common to say to
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someone if you were in a store you would say to the person do you want your carbons and that was to avoid credit
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card fraud and so what he would do is he would do a little psychological game where he would go you don't want these
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dirty carbons because it would leave this black ink all over your fingers then he would get the person out of the
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store and then he would have a stack of carbons by the end of the day so here's
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where I come in my brother needed clients we had the plan we needed the clientele and so what better than a
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college campus and people that need to travel during winter break spring break summer break etc etc so I let it be
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known to just a couple of people that I could get them really cheap plane tickets and so then a handful of people
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came to me and they were like hey I want to go to Miami for spring break hey I want to go to Colorado and so then I
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would say okay how many tickets do you need and then I would let him know all right we got a Cent what would we charge
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for this and he's like okay three tickets to Miami during spring break that's going to be $75 per ticket so
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then I would get the $75 they would get the credit card number and then sometimes depending upon the person I
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would then also make the reservations for them the best part of this situation is because it was the time before
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computers is that whenever I would call or whenever I would give the numbers I really had low fear because it was very
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very difficult to track what we were doing I would do different accents and I would pretend to be different people so
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if I called and acted like I was from the heart of Georgia then for whatever reason the agent on the other side would
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just say ma'am let me check that one more time for you and they were just so
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accommodating and British you can speak slower and they will take their time with you because they feel as though if
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you have a British accent and you are booking a flight to Switzerland you must be important
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mhm yeah I recall my very first client um my neighbors across the hall I would get the money they would get the credit
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card numbers I was scared I was absolutely positively terrified and I did it after the first sale it was kind
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of like a rebirth of the Kim I was officially a bad girl and um I absolutely positively liked it but
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it really wasn't who I was but it was one of those like who I could be and so
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I was still involved in student government I was helping out at the local shelter and then I had this
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illegal side business of credit card fraud but I think I kind of had this thought of as long as I'm putting a lot
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of good out into the world it balances the fact that I I pretty much have a a crime
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ring back then we did not have social media so everything was about word of mouth and before you knew it Word of
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Mouth let's just say I started trending people were knocking on the door and
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then it was like who's this random man and who's this random woman and then it
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was like oh so and so from such and such fraternity said that you got them tickets to Aspen and such and such and
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so on and I was like who and so then it was the do I trust you and then I was terrified that somebody was going to
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snitch on me and take down the whole business so then it became where I would make people wait so you would have to
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wait and then you would kind of have to like meet me in the quad at a certain hour so I was so afraid that they like
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had a wire on them and there was a whole sting you know cuz I came from a theatrical background so I was like
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there's something deeper going on and I was like I'm literally in the middle of
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a detective story right now I was like so who sent you you know and so I would Chase back like hey
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so and so do you know such and such did you tell them uh about me and they're
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like oh yeah yeah yeah he's cool it got so huge that I had to enlist my friend
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and so now I'm making enough where I can bring her in but now she's also got word
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of mouth going on and it's just growing and it's growing I was bringing in
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anywhere between, 1500 and 2,000 a month now mind you in 1987 that's a lot of money shoot that's
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a lot of money now really if you think about it but I was doing very very well I'm growing fast than what my paranoia
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can process I'm terrified and happiest I've ever been in my entire life because
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my social stature has changed so I'm at the biggest parties everybody knows me
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I've got money in the bank I'm shopping and I am living the Hollywood Life in
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the corn fields of Illinois and so it's senior year and we have come to an end
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and so now it is spring and so the four of us now take a trip or planning a trip to the Bahamas so we're
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sitting at the airport we're all packed up we're ready to go sunscreen in hand
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baby let's roll and all of a sudden we look up and here's where my life of
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crime ends Kim's credit card travel scheme may have started off okay like most schemes
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but things are about to go sou way South when she realizes that all of these flight charges could get her charged
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with a couple decades in the clink no bueno the story takes a whole new Direction on statute of
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limitations next we're back with more statute of limitations we last left Kim as she
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continued her career of crime using stolen credit cards to cash in now her number actually might be up cuz even if
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you use someone else's card you still end up paying for it yourself because in
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Jersey karma is not just a club just watch and so it's senior year and we have come to an end and so now it is
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spring break and so the four of us now are planning a trip to the Bahamas so we get to the airport and because of me
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being the queen that I am these days I decide to splurge and pay for the private Admirals Club before beforehand
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so that we can wait inside the private Lounge so we're waiting in the lounge
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and it's pretty empty cuz it's kind of early in the day and we notice that
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there's like basically only one other guy in there in the corner that's kind
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of sitting behind us and all of a sudden we look up and a ton of cops are now standing in
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the lounge and they have their hands on their holsters like they're ready to
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draw so I look at my friend she looks at me and we're like The Jig Is up the
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police are coming full speed and they say freeze and we of course every muscle enses up we're balling and then they
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walk right past us and they arrest the guy behind us oh my God I can I can still feel like
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the the fear in my chest so I decided after that we're done clean break the business is
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over we are packing up shop um my social status has now completely changed I am now part of the gossip I'm no longer
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invited to the parties because I'm no longer offering the service and it was
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really kind of depressing and terrifying um because I kind of lost myself for a little bit and then I had to for when I
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say decades I mean 30 years 25 30 years of always worried about my karmatic debt
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of have I paid back enough to Society for what I did what was wrong and has it happened yes I have had my credit cards
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hacked I do believe four times now four times and it's a horrible feeling and um
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I know I'll never know who those people were that I was able to um sell their numbers for college
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student travel but um this is my formal apology I'm sorry I'm definitely sorry
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and you better believe I have paid for it let that be a lesson Kim may have thought that she got away after she quit
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her life of crime her life definitely declined because there's no statute of
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limitations when it comes to Karma so if you're ever thinking about stealing
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credit cards you better check yourself because you're going to have a situation
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right now it's time to hear from a guy who absolutely hates his mother-in-law
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big surprise what is the surprise is that he decided to commit the mother of all crimes to get back at her by
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stealing everything that she owns and that right there is definitely a plan this son of a actually pulled it
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off without a hitch I do not meet Matt hi I'm Matt and I robbed my mother-in-law it was 2002 I was living
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in Nevada at the time I was working for a trucking company just trying to make ends meet I got married very young I had
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a child even younger wasn't any secret that my mother-in-law thought that I wasn't good enough enough for her
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daughter she was like an ultimate Karen like a litigious Karen she respected No Boundaries always was at my residence uh
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in my house demeaning me there's an invasive species that can take over a habitat and ruin an ecosystem that's
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basically my mother-in-law I remember at one point we had a repair man come to the house and to her that was just
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evidence of me not being like a man's man so she was taking a dig like that and then I remember the conversation
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turned my son they were doing like a time capsule project she had started talking about like all these heirlooms
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that she had purchased so another thing you need to know about my mother-in-law is that she has a an obsession with fine
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heart one thing in particular she was talking about this original painting that she had her hands on in that moment
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it was like a light bulb went off I just remember sitting there at the table and
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just thinking I'm stealing this [Music] painting I guess I was aware enough to
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know that if I was going to do this that I was going to have to have things lined
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up beforehand and I also realized like I don't really know anything about art how
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am I going to like sell a piece of stolen artwork it wasn't really about money or artwork to begin with it was
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just more about spiting my mother-in-law probably a lot of guys out there that can relate to that so that's kind of
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when I came up with the idea of just bearing it like a time capsule and so here I am out in the desert at
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this discreet location that I picked I'm digging a hole with a pickaxe and a
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shovel I can't help but think the last time someone was out here burying something it was probably a body so I
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did that ahead of time but I still wasn't even actually sure if I was going to follow through with it until I was
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presented with more of an opportunity my wife's motherdaughter annual Spa SL wine
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tasting weekend together once that was kind of on the calendar I knew it's like
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this is it this is the weekend I'm going to do it my only responsibilities for
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the weekend were to take care of my mother-in-law's dog and to drop my son off at a soccer game I packed our
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minivan with the Pelican box and a cooler full of Refreshments we drove him to his game
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walked him out on the sideline made sure there were lots of parents that saw me there I said hello made my appearances
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so I snuck off to the car drove straight to my mother-in-law's house and just
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started grabbing stuff I mean I took everything all the prints off the walls the expensive ones the reproductions the
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Fine China so I remember I get everything loaded into the car and adrenaline's just going crazy and I'm
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about to get out of there and I had the Epiphany like this is going to look too clean like you just let yourself in like
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who are they going to come ask questions to the guy that has been watching the dog and that has a garage door opener
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and a key to the house I'm freaking out cuz I'm like you don't know what you're
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doing I'm second guessing myself so I was like you got to make this look like
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somebody else did it so at that point I was like I got to smash a window I went out into the backyard without trying to
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be seen and I picked up a rock out of her garden and I threw it it just clanked the side of the house so I picked the
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rock up again I chucked it and it smash the window in you can't just smash a
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window with a rock they're not going to assume that that's how they got in then
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you got to go up and then like push the window up like they let thems in so I ran back up and I kind of pushed the
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window next to the broken one up to make it look like they reached through the hole that The Rock had made and pushed
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the window up at that point I don't know did the Neighbors hear the broken window
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has anyone seen me like you've wasted entirely too much time you got to you got to go so like I was all ready to
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leave and then I'm just panicking at that point I feel like I'm just running
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circles around the house the windows broke let's haul ass out of here I got to get in the car I got to I got to get
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out of here immediately I just remember like trying to calmly exit the garage calmly drive out of the neighborhood but
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then I got to a highway and I just started burning cuz I realized there was only so long that I could be gone before
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people started asking me questions I've got to the location as quick as I could in the minivan and I
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just took that Pelican box out of the back and I just threw it in the hole and I started covering it with dirt
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I'm just pushing everything in I was digging as furiously as frantically as I
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could I mean it was broad daylight and then I just hear a helicopter circling around above me and I look up and it's
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just flying over and I'm like I'm done like I've already been caught it's kind of like a scene out of
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Good Fellas it's got the Choppers and the coppers but he went to the desert to
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bury his mother-in-law's art not his mother-in-law so how did Matt clean out
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his mother-in-law's house and make a clean getaway we've got all the dirty
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details next on statute of limitations we're back with more statute of limitations where our boy Matt was so
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fed up with his mother-in-law he decided to rob her blind unfortunately for him the cops aren't blind because now
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they're on to him I know right anyway so how did Matt manage to escape the long
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arm of the law he'll tell you right now check this out I just hear a helicopter circling
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around above me and I look up and it's just flying over and I'm like I'm done
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I've already been caught I was digging as furiously as frantically as I could I
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mean it was broad daylight at this point I'm just trying to get it done and get
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out of there I just remember trying to calm myself and steady myself I was literally like hands shaking as I drove
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and I was just trying to like find a way to get my heart rate down and to calm myself so that I wasn't
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going to look all sweaty and dirty and weird when I got back to my son's game
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so like I mean I was basically trying to like show up like I was a soccer mom with Refreshments like I got orange
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wedges and RC Cola everybody but uh you know I just committed a robbery so after we get home from the
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game like I'm just sitting around waiting until Sunday evening until my mother-in-law and wife get home I've got
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all the time in the world basically to go over in my head over and over again like what did I miss what did I screw up
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was I seen who saw me like it's enough to like literally make someone lose their mind so I basically was just
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sitting around waiting for my mother-in-law going to hysterically tell us how her house had got
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robbed I have to react like this is all news to me like somehow I'm sympathetic
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to her situation but in reality in my head I'm like screw this lady you know
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obviously when your house is Rob police are going to come around and ask lots of
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questions they came over and asked me you know where I was and I was a nervous wreck on the inside you know like I'm
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like here's the day they finally you know they're finally going to put it all
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together like they're asking me all these questions question like when was the last time you went by the house you
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know I told him like Saturday morning I put some food out you know for the dog they asked me some questions about like
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whether or not i' noticed any suspicious activity or if I had seen anything or
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what the state of the house was I guess when I was there you know told him it was normal obviously that I hadn't
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really noticed anything and you know I felt like I there was no way I didn't
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feel or look guilty when they're asking me questions but you know to my surprise
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they were mostly just asking me administrative stuff part of the slow dissipation of me like realizing I had
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probably gotten away was that was uh when my mother-in-law got her insurance check you know like she wasn't satisfied
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with it you know ate at her that she didn't have the artwork there's some
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crimes you regret this one isn't one for me for me it was never about the money it was just
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about creating some chaos for my mother-in-law it's no surprise I'm no longer with my wife you can't Rob your
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mother-in-law and then keep a healthy [Laughter] relationship uh it was probably headed
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there anyway to this day I've still never dug any of it up to find out how valuable it is one day my son's going to
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be able to dig that up like a time capsule and find out for himself would I ever do this again absolutely
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not I will never get married again and that's my story of barried treasure thanks to the laws of the land
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Matt got away from his Crime Free and Clear and got the one thing every man wants for his mother-in-law payback
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except for me I love my mother-in-law Mom I hope you're watching love you that
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does it for this episode but if you like those stories of regular folks committing crimes without ever doing the
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time we've got a whole lot more lined up for you I'm Mike The Situation stino see
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you next time on statute of limitations this program is for entertainment purposes only and it is
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not legal advice the statute of limitations are complicated and depend on many factors if you need advice you
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should seek legal counsel from a competent attorney in your [Music] jurisdiction
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