# Rioter, thanks for getting that tattoo **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 20, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369 "2021-02-20T23:25:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/1 "2021-02-20T23:25:10Z")
So they used the video of the guy starting the dumpster on fire outside of the police station to identify the accused arsonist. The women who allegedly started two squad cars on fire had a unique etsy shirt on when she was recorded. Thanks people, for helping get federal charges filed. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/2 "2021-02-20T23:28:06Z")
Any links to the stories? They do sound like thoughtfully stupid criminals. ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/3 "2021-02-21T00:41:58Z")
> **[Suspected Portland arsonist ID’d by tattoo of his name, feds says](https://nypost.com/2020/07/29/suspected-portland-arsonist-identified-by-tattoo-of-his-name/)** > > A suspected arsonist faces up to 20 years in jail for trying to torch Portland's Justice Center — and he was easily identified thanks to a tattoo of his name on his back, according to pr… ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/4 "2021-02-21T00:45:55Z")
> **[FBI: Investigators used Etsy, LinkedIn to make arrest in torching of...](https://6abc.com/philadelphia-police-car-set-on-fire-arrest/6252215/)** > > Authorities used popular websites including Etsy, Poshmark and LinkedIn to identify a woman who has since been charged for the arson of two Philadelphia police vehicles during the unrest on May 30. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/5 "2021-02-21T00:47:31Z")
Good. Take out the fucking troublemakers who don’t know how (or don’t intend) to protest peacefully. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/6 "2021-02-21T02:31:50Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > They do sound like thoughtfully stupid criminals. I, for one, am enthusiastically hoping for a special of _America’s Dumbest Criminals_ featuring all of those traitors who attacked Congress. If the series hadn’t ended, that special would have to be the finale because no criminal is dumber than they are. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@bmoak1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak1)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/7 "2021-02-21T03:28:12Z")
This thread reminds me to dig through my old miscellaneous newsfeeds from 7-8 months ago to launch a bunch of new threads with vague, cryptic initial posts to make people guess what I 'm talking about. Bravo. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/8 "2021-02-21T03:56:03Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > They do sound like thoughtfully stupid criminals. You would be astonished. I once saw a prisoner with a life-sized scorpion tattooed on his face and I was thinking “Once you decided to become a criminal, you were always one line-up away from going to prison.” ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/9 "2021-02-21T04:03:03Z")
One of the Republican insurrectionists wore a jacket with his company’s name and phone number on the back. > **[Capitol rioter arrested after wearing jacket with his company’s name and...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/capitol-riots-arrest-ohio-fbi-b1797129.html)** > > At least 180 people have been taken into custody following insurrection on 6 January ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/10 "2021-02-21T04:11:48Z")
Right? If you wanna pull a Mrmrmrmr, [here’s a handy resource](https://www.uexpress.com/news-of-the-weird/archives/1998). ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/11 "2021-02-21T08:35:48Z")
It’s like people forget they’re wearing jackets advertising their company, or forget they have tattoos. They’ll cover their face but not a unique tattoo gallery crawling up one of their arms. The thing is, I suspect most of the Jan 6 crowd are amateurs when it comes to law-breaking so they don’t think of such things. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/12 "2021-02-21T13:40:45Z")
I think it is because the January 6 crowd are used to the state committing their acts of terrorism for them and also of never being held accountable. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/13 "2021-02-21T13:43:30Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > The thing is, I suspect most of the Jan 6 crowd are amateurs when it comes to law-breaking so they don’t think of such things. mrmrmrmrmr for reasons of their own is fucking with y’all. He’s not doing anything from the news from the last six months. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/14 "2021-02-21T13:49:24Z")
Being able to ID a bad guy by a tattoo, although old ass news, is almost up there with being able to ID a bad guy by his shaman outfit. Conservatives these days… I mean, really, conservative shaman. There goes the neighborhood ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/15 "2021-02-21T13:55:30Z")
Yeah, some of these Republican terrorists actually filmed themselves and posted it and one guy was wearing his work ID around his neck ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/16 "2021-02-21T16:59:06Z")
> [@bmoak1](#): > > This thread reminds me to dig through my old miscellaneous newsfeeds from 7-8 months ago to launch a bunch of new threads with vague, cryptic initial posts to make people guess what I 'm talking about. Bravo. That wasn’t really necessary this time, given the OP. (Guessing) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/17 "2021-02-21T19:37:03Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > The thing is, I suspect most of the Jan 6 crowd are amateurs when it comes to law-breaking so they don’t think of such things. No, they didn’t think of covering it up because they thought that they were Big Damn Heroes 1776ing. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/18 "2021-02-21T19:39:03Z")
Right, they were out and proud, happy to be showing their faces, names and work badges. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/19 "2021-02-21T19:40:55Z")
OK - the “I want credit for being part of history!” crowd. The catch being that such credit has different consequences depending on which side you’re on. ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/20 "2021-02-21T21:37:29Z")
My apologies for the stale offering of yesterday. Rest assured my next serving will use only the freshest possible base, whipped into a light mousse, gently kissed with mockery, and glazed with a sarcasm reduction. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369.md?page=2)