# The assholes who pretend to have corona. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 25, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283 "2020-03-25T22:45:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/41 "2020-03-28T15:52:04Z")
[Hey; look everyone! We’ve got one too!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=892775) OTIO yo ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/42 "2020-03-28T16:10:04Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Okay, I went digging for the apology site again and saw that it was a screenshot in the original story I linked (embarrassed emoji.) I OCRed that, here it is in text: > > I’m betting this guy owns at least one red baseball cap. This must be the first apology on record from one of them. I suppose somebody will be coming around to collect the hat. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/43 "2020-03-28T16:18:37Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > These people should be publicly executed. Or sterilized, at the very least. I was thinking we need to bring back the scarlet A—but for “Asshole.” ---
**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:** [March 28, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/44 "2020-03-28T16:26:25Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I was thinking we need to bring back the scarlet A—but for “Asshole.” Plenty of them would like that and wear it as a badge of honor. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/45 "2020-03-28T17:23:31Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I was thinking we need to bring back the scarlet A—but for “Asshole.” A for ’MuricA. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/46 "2020-03-28T19:00:20Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I was thinking we need to bring back the scarlet A—but for “Asshole.” Given how it’s been inflicted on the country, owing to the incredible incompetence of one particular individual in government, scarlet is not the correct color for that letter. Orange is. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/47 "2020-03-28T19:50:52Z")
Hows about an [orange starfish](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcS7oNbvT1bB3ujIdIB4vwJu4Dd49JkHiDioXwRo2-MnRRioYr53)? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/48 "2020-03-28T20:27:55Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Yes, those guys sound like some real asshills. Okay, totally stealing “asshills” for some of my running routes. Can think of several streets where it’s unquestionably _le mot juste_. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/49 "2020-03-30T01:11:40Z")
Not wearing a scarlet A, but having it tattooed on them. Maybe middle of the forehead. That way they can’t take it off. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2020, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/50 "2020-03-30T02:13:33Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Not wearing a scarlet A, but having it tattooed on them. Maybe middle of the forehead. That way they can’t take it off. The 31-year-old with the apology would barely notice–he already has tats on his neck. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/51 "2020-03-30T02:26:01Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Plenty of them would like that and wear it as a badge of honor. The cult movie “Pink Flamingos” has a scene where Divine convicts some people of assholism. If you aren’t familiar with the movie’s plot, don’t Google it on a work or public computer. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/52 "2020-03-30T09:18:46Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Our classes have been moved to On-line mode for over two weeks now, because my university considers it highly dangerous to get a bunch of students crammed together into a classroom. Same for her institution - this was shortly before the lockdown. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/53 "2020-03-31T02:08:26Z")
[A medical supplies scalper decides to cough on FBI agents](https://www.thedailybeast.com/price-gouging-suspect-baruch-feldheim-allegedly-coughed-on-fbi-agents-said-he-had-coronavirus). It isn’t going well for him. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/54 "2020-03-31T07:30:03Z")
> [@Kovitlac](#): > > I’m willing to bet a fair number of them don’t believe they’re committing a crime. They believe they’re not infected, and since they (in their minds) aren’t putting anyone in actual danger, they can’t possibly be arrested. They’re too stupid and cocky to realize that there are tons of laws in the books against inciting panic, or that just because they feel fine doesn’t mean they aren’t infected, so they can get charged with actually putting people in danger. That’s like thinking _“I can’t be charged for yelling **Fire!** in a crowded theatre, because there wasn’t actually any fire.”_ But most of these people don’t think of that. They don’t think, period. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2020, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/55 "2020-03-31T10:09:53Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Why do people make videos of themselves committing crimes then post them on YouTube? Because a lot of people are stupid. Smart people either don’t break the law, especially laws meant to protect public health, or smart criminals commit crimes that actually make some sense and DON’T post video proof of their actions. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/56 "2020-04-01T16:15:01Z")
[Missouri man charged for coughing at customers](https://apnews.com/a53b578aafda255495e3f967c2080623). > [@](#): > > CUBA, Missouri — An eastern Missouri man has been charged with making a terrorist threat after he allegedly coughed toward customers and wrote COVID on a cooler at a Dollar Tree store. > > John Swaller of Cuba was charged Tuesday and was being held on $25,000 bail in the Crawford County jail. > > An employee of a the store called police because the 33-year-old man was intentionally coughing toward customers and had breathed on a cooler before writing COVID on the inside of the cooler. > > The store was closed and sanitized. Cuba is about 80 miles southwest of St. Louis. > > Swaller’s father told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch his son does not have COVID-19. Police still used protective gear to transport Swaller to jail. I also posted this in the MPSIMS thread I linked to earlier. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/57 "2020-04-01T16:50:51Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [URL=“[The Latest: Israel's health minister has new coronavirus](https://apnews.com/a53b578aafda255495e3f967c2080623)”]I also posted this in the MPSIMS thread I linked to earlier. That bag of dicks seems to have fled that thread. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/58 "2020-04-01T17:17:13Z")
Local guy claimed to have Covid-19 and scored a free Air B&B to self - isolate from a good samaritan. After he was seen going in and out, the police were called, where they found the dude with a buddy and thousands of dollars of stolen goods. The two shit-stains apparently had no idea where the stolen items came from. They are now in jail awaiting trial. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/59 "2020-04-01T18:29:16Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Hey, could a mod fix the obvious typo in the thread title? With the forum move, I’ll nominate a revised title: "Your Jackbooted Fantasies About Punishing/Killing Those Making Light of a PANDEMIC!!! ---
**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:** [April 6, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283/60 "2020-04-06T20:11:46Z")
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