ATF: Tattooing the mentally disabled to set up false store fronts
There’s a whole lot of WTF going on here:
Aaron Key wasn’t sure he wanted a tattoo on his neck. Especially one of a giant squid smoking a joint.
But the guys running Squid’s Smoke Shop in Portland, Ore., convinced him: It would be a perfect way to promote their store.
They would even pay him and a friend $150 apiece if they agreed to turn their bodies into walking billboards.
Key, who is mentally disabled, was swayed.
He and his friend, Marquis Glover, liked Squid’s. It was their hangout. The 19-year-olds spent many afternoons there playing Xbox and chatting with the owner, “Squid,” and the store clerks.
So they took the money and got the ink etched on their necks, tentacles creeping down to their collarbones.
It would be months before the young men learned the whole thing was a setup. The guys running Squid’s were actually undercover ATF agents conducting a sting to get guns away from criminals and drugs off the street.
The tattoos had been sponsored by the U.S. government; advertisements for a fake storefront.
The teens found out as they were arrested and booked into jail.
And why are they in the stop drugs business?
December 8th, 2013 at 8:15 pm
Jihadis in Iraq also use their influence, drugs, and fake-friendship with the mentaly disabled to get/trick them to carry bombs into crowds of people and then detonate them… So our BATFE is on the same tack I guess.
December 8th, 2013 at 9:14 pm
Was this the fake store that lost a couple REAL machineguns in the sting operation? Or is this the one where they trashed the place and didn’t ever pay the rent, and left the landlord holding the bag?
December 9th, 2013 at 12:01 pm
There are criminals and their are criminals with power.
You now see which is which.
December 9th, 2013 at 3:06 pm
There are adverbs, and their are third person possessive pronouns.
You now see which is which.