There is something about this guy that you really have to admire.

In My Humble Opinion
1

I am truly amazed and stymied by this fellow. Talk about big balls? This guy has boulders. Talk about, “I am my brother’s keeper!”. How’s about, “I am my brother”? That sure is some excuse for getting out of trouble.

This guy invented a twin brother and somehow figured out a way to blame his imaginary twin brother for all his traffic tickets. He’s just lucky that he didn’t rack up in excess of $100K worth of traffic tickets. I can easily imagine how he could do that.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/hackensack-man-pretends-to-be-twin-brother-to-get-out-of-traffic-tickets-1.1271355

I’m not sure what it is. Maybe it is his inventiveness? Or a synonym for inventiveness?

Anyway, he did something that I would have loved to have tried. Except for the part that followed his getting caught. I wouldn’t have liked that at all.

But, how many people would ever have what it takes to think of such a thing and then to actually try it? It’s like robbing a bank and getting the police to arrest your neighbor for the crime. It’s certainly not too kind for your neighbor and I wouldn’t want my neighbor to suffer for my misdeeds. But I still can’t help but feel attracted to trying this schtick. I had never heard of it before and it is just so amazingly tempting.

What do you think? I’m not suggesting it would be right to try this. But I think you almost have to admire his inventiveness. If only he could find a way to avoid getting caught, it would be perfect.

He just needs to somehow build in a death certificate for the police who charged him so that he wouldn’t get caught until after they died. Then, it would be a much better scam.

Oh my! Where else but in Hackensack?

2

Sounds like a scenario lifted from an old sitcom (I remember Jack’s imaginary twin “Austin, from Texas”, on Three’s Company).

No, I have no admiration or respect for the guy[s] in question.

3

I actually watched that episode last night on one of the nostalgia channels(Cozi or Antenna) can’t remember which.

4

Big balls or stupid… I’d vote for a mix of both. He didn’t even make it away from court the first day without digging the hole deeper (more tickets and impound costs). He’s managed to take 5 tickets and turn them in to 8 tickets, a vehicle impound, and criminal charges. For inventiveness it’s pretty low since he didn’t manage to come up with a plan that could stand up to even mild scrutiny or actually get him out of anything The best results he could expect was a delay on paying the original tickets. On the risk to reward scale it was a horribly stupid plan.

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That man sure can draw [del]Agoro[/del] aggro…

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I vote for stupid. I too can invent any number of idiotic plans to get myself out of trouble that will have 0% chance to work and 100 % chance to backfire.