You Ought to Be in Pictures
Hall of Fame Selection (from our archives)
This is our 100th entry -- the photo that spurred the creation of this site.
When Randy posted this photo on his blog, it attracted more than 11,000 page views in the first month. Hmm, he thought. That kind of interest calls for a web site. And the Mug Shot Museum was born.
So, on with the story -- and the photo!
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A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, woman was mugged at gunpoint and had her purse and cell phone stolen.
After making off with the woman's bag and phone, the robber allegedly used the camera on the phone to snap a picture of himself holding his gun to his head. Unhappily for him, the phone was programmed to upload all photos to the woman's computer, and she forwarded it to detectives.
"We really appreciate him taking a picture of himself," said a police spokesman.
After seeing his photo widely disseminated, Kadeem Cook, 18, turned himself in to police. Cook was charged on 3 December 2009 with armed robbery and other offenses. He is believed to have been involved in a similar robbery in the same area. The weapon used in the robbery and photo is reportedly a pellet gun.
Yeah, we know it's not an actual mug shot, but it was still the photo that started it all.
Source: This is True
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Posted by Moose, Sacramento, CA on March 23, 2010:
I kinda thought this was funny when I first read it in Dec 2009 in This Is True.
Imagine when my 11 year old daughter found her missing phone and was going thru it to see if any calls were made (there was none) and then was looking at pictures, finding 3 images of her classmate on it. All 3 of them were taken in the mirror with the classmate holding the cellphone.
My daughter showed it to the school's front office. They laughed as the girl had been blamed for missing phones but they didn't have any evidence. (They then checked her backpack that day and found 2 phones that didn't belong to her in it!)
At least it was only a cellphone in her hands.
Posted by Mike from Dallas on March 23, 2010:
For a site that "...can't possibly have any socially redeeming value..." (This is True #820), apparently way too many people disagree with Edward.
Posted by Joan, Henderson, NV on March 25, 2010:
To answer Jeff, Northern California, there was a case of a stolen Polaroid camera. Remember those? Well, when the police came to investigate, they ended up following a trail of photos that the thieves had taken of themselves. It seems the idjits didn't know that Polaroids take time to develop the picture, so they were tossing the "bad" photos away! Some folks shouldn't be allowed out of the house without adult supervision.