Have you ever wished you could be someone else? It’s not an uncommon thought, we often envy some part of someone else’s life. Money, fame, freedom, whatever. Or maybe it’s less than someone else has and simply a desire to escape what you have to endure. Whatever the reason, for most of us it’s just a flight of fancy. But most of us aren’t all of us, as these 10 people prove, and their reasons aren’t what you might expect.
10. Darius McCollum Can't Stop Impersonating Transit Employees
Darius McCollum is a man who loves trains and buses. The New Yorker has Asperger's syndrome and a lifelong love of the vehicles that help move people around the city. So much so that he's been arrested for a staggering number of 32 times for pretending to be a public transport employee and fleeing in these cars.
When he was a child, avoiding bullies on trains, he befriended a subway driver who actually taught him how to drive trains. By the age of 8, he had memorized the entire subway.
McCollum has actually stolen hundreds of trains and buses in his life. But he doesn't have fun, he just works. He follows the routes and makes all the scheduled stops. No passenger has ever missed where they were supposed to go.
As a result of his arrests, he also spent a third of his life behind bars. But every time he gets out, he comes back to it. As a result, he has become something of a local celebrity, and even had a documentary made about him. No matter how many times he is arrested, he can't resist the urge to return.
9. A psychiatrist pretended to be a butcher to treat a patient.
Ibn Sinna was a philosopher, astronomer, and physician about 1,000 years ago. In his work, he was also one of the fathers of psychiatry. He didn’t just treat patients physically; he understood that psychology played a role in some illnesses. And rather than simply brush it off, he tried play along his patients to see if he could meet them on their terms to help solve their problems.
In one famous case, he treated a Persian prince who was said to be suffering from severe malnutrition. The reason was that he was under the illusion that he was a cow. He supposedly mooed like a cow and begged to be turned into stew.
Ibn Sina treated the man by pretending to be a butcher. He approached the cow prince with a knife and then told the prince that he could not slaughter him. Cow was too skinny and unfit for cutting. So, to be fit for slaughter, he had to eat and gain weight. The prince obeyed and began to eat, gradually began to feel better and soon left the illusion behind.
8. Scammer Called Fast Food Restaurants Posing as Police Officer to Torture Employees
Sometimes impersonating someone can be easier than you think, and the results can be far more dangerous and shocking. That was the case in 2004, when a scammer began calling fast food restaurants. The man pretended to be a police officer and convinced an 18-year-old McDonald's employee to undergo a strip search while he was on the phone.
More than three hours swindler tortured and humiliated the employee, all at the hands of her manager, who later testified that she genuinely believed it was the police officer telling her what to do. This included forcing the girl to jump, as well as the manager calling her fiance to come and spank the girl for 10 minutes. Things got worse from there.
Employee Sues McDonalds and Wins 6.1 million dollars because he knew the scammer was calling without warning employees. The man was eventually arrested but not convicted. However, the calls stopped after his arrest.
7. The Indian government hired people to imitate monkeys
When a person impersonates someone else, you can usually take for granted that "someone" is actually a person. We usually only use the term to refer to people. Let's say this is a story about people impersonating someone else. In this case, monkeys. But it wasn't for fun. It was real work.
The Indian government has hired 40 people , to impersonate monkeys. Aside from being fun, there was a purpose. The macaques in and around the Indian Parliament building are a serious nuisance. They don't just attack people; they roam the halls of Parliament and steal, bully, and generally just feel unpleasant to be around. And no one wants to kill the monkeys, especially since the god of money, Hanuman, is deeply revered by Hindus. But no one wants to be attacked by monkeys. So the solution is to outsmart the monkeys by scaring them away. fake monkeys .
Before the fake money plan, they used real monkeys of another species, langurs, but that also irritated people. Putting money in jail to scare off another monkey was not a win for animal rights activists, as you might imagine. Monkey impersonators can make langur sounds to scare the macaques.
6. The Ku Klux Klan posed as Mister Rogers
Most of us would probably never associate Mister Rogers, that paragon of wholesome entertainment and childish enrichment, with the Ku Klux Klan, and frankly, he didn't want to be associated with them either. But that didn't stop the Klan from impersonating Rogers to the point that the law had to intervene.
This story goes back to 1990, when Fred Rogers sued, and courts have been forced to order the Missouri Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to stop making broadcasts that mimic the music from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood as well as his speech patterns. The recordings feature someone who sounds like Rogers using racial slurs and even simulating a lynching The second version is dedicated to hateful comments towards homosexuals.
The recordings were played when a certain number was called, and that number was distributed to schoolchildren.
5. German shoemaker pretended to be an officer to commit robbery
In 1906, the units were slowly preparing for World War I, and even then the German army was known for its blind obedience to authority. We know this because a German shoemaker, Wilhelm Voigt, exploited it for his own personal gain.
Voigt, a man with a questionable criminal history, found himself the uniform of a Prussian captain , which he had assembled from second-hand parts, and found two squads of soldiers who had just returned from duty. He ordered the men to follow him into town to arrest the mayor and other officials before taking the town's cash stash in two sacks, like a villain from an old cartoon. He then ordered the soldiers to escort the mayor and others to the police station, and he himself disappeared with the money. The police, naturally, had no idea what was going on.
Voigt got 4,000 marks out of the scheme, but was caught a few days later. He was sentenced to four years, but apparently Kaiser Wilhelm really did found it funny and reduced the term to two years.
4. A British child posed as an MI5 agent to plan his own murder.
This is the beginning of the impersonation weirdness, and it takes a little while to fully understand. Here's the short version. A 14-year-old boy went online and posed as a British spy named Janet. As Janet, he tried to recruit a 16-year-old friend into the British secret service, but to prove himself, he had to kill the 14-year-old. Sound confusing? Well, it was.
John, 14, convinced Mark, another boy, that he would earn 80 million pounds sterling , meet the Prime Minister and, of course, have sex with Janet, a 44-year-old married spy. All he had to do was stab John to death, which is what he tried to do.
John got it two stab wounds , but survived. Mark was the one who called for help after he did it. During the investigation, John became the first person in British history to be charged with inciting his own murder.
3. Howie Mandel was expelled from school for posing as a student council member.
Howie Mandel has been working as a comedian since the 80s and has managed to stay in the spotlight thanks to his work on reality shows such as "Deal or No Deal" And " "America's Got Talent" , as well as voicing things like "Bobby's World" And "Gremlins" . . Who would have thought that during his school years he was a rebel who was actually expelled from school for impersonating school officials?
Mandel attended high school in Toronto, where he committed to impersonate a school board member at the end of organizing a construction project to build an extension to a school. In an interview, he explained this by saying that he hired a contracting firm to library extensions This was just one of three times he was expelled from different schools.
2. Woman poses as prosecutor to get charges dropped
Bart Simpson and Shaggy taught us that "I didn't do it" and "It wasn't me" are reasonable responses when you're caught red-handed. But neither is very successful in the face of real evidence. If you want to get away with doing something bad, you need someone else to agree that you didn't do it. Someone like the local prosecutor. That's what Lisa Landon thought when she was charged with drug possession and prosecution She needs the prosecutor to drop these charges.
The real prosecutor probably wasn't sympathetic to Landon's plight, so Landon resorted to Plan B and impersonated the prosecutor, filing her own paperwork to get the charges dropped.
The scheme didn't work, and as a result she managed to present seven additional charges , including impersonation and tampering with evidence. Her plan failed when the medical examiner who was supposed to interview Landon to determine her competency called the prosecutor to ask if the interview should continue since the charges had been dropped. If not for that, who knows if it would have worked.
1. William James Clark constantly poses as a military man
If you're not from Oklahoma, you've probably never heard of William James Clark. But if you have, you've probably seen him on the news once or twice in the past. Clark can't stop impersonating military personnel, and he has a penchant for doing it in the most flamboyant and visible ways possible. Not only is wearing a uniform not enough, Clark keeps doing things he shouldn't.
Let's start with 2002, when the bridge on I-40 collapsed, resulting in 14 deaths and many more injuries. William James Clark appeared in uniform and claimed to have served in the army. He took it upon himself to help and even gave an interview to the media Clark had never been in the military. He also took medical records from at least one of the victims. His accused of that he was posing as an officer and was in possession of a firearm.
After 70 months in prison, Clark resurfaced in 2007 when he called the Russian embassy and told them he was part of a secret military operation to the assassination of Vladimir Putin He later told police that he had heard staff at a local bingo hall discussing a plot to kill Putin and thought it was true. He also admitted that he suffered from mental illness and sometimes suffered from hallucinations.
In 2010, he caught again in uniform, this time in Alaska. In addition to posing as a military officer, he also committed tens of thousands of check frauds across the country.
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