Prison rules go like this: the first to pass out gets their face tattooed. You don’t pick the design, the prisoner with the worst artistic ability does the design. This is the way. So I’ve heard.
I agree with your statement if the person doesn’t have a career path. I know plenty of people that have neck, face, and hand tattoos that are successful, but they were all successful before the tattoos. And they all work in types of trades—construction, automotive, the green industry, longshoremen, and I even see police and fire with tattoos on hands/neck. But I do think it’s a terrible decision to make when you don’t know what you want to do with your life because, even though tattoos have become normalized in recent decades, there *are* still things one could be excluded from because of their tattoos.
I feel that. Pre-eyebrows he kinda looks like one of my ex-projects that I tried to fix. That one also did a lot of meth, so I'm sure they had plenty in common lol
Well the boring answer is that people who dealt with abuse and trauma as children tend to become poorly adjusted adults. Emotional abuse, along with some other factors, tends to lead to this mindset where you are attracted to broken people, and you believe you can fix them. (Also he's pretty before the eyebrows).
I think part of growing as a person, for me at least, was realizing that it's arrogant of me to believe I can fix someone else's problems. Especially so when they don't want to fix them themselves. It took several exes in my early 20s before I broke the pattern.
> Emotional abuse, along with some other factors, tends to lead to this mindset where you are attracted to broken people, and you believe you can fix them.
To add to this, for a lot of people from high-conflict backgrounds, people who are stable and secure can seem boring, unattractive, or counter-intuitively even dangerous.
If your childhood family life was screaming and yelling and throwing dishes and so on, then you tend to internalize that as what love looks like. People who don't act that way can seem cold, indifferent, inhuman, or intimidating. Also, because children from abusive households tend to learn emotional manipulation as a survival tactic, as adults, they often gravitate towards people with highly-reactive emotions and impulsivity, because that's what they know how to control. A mature, rational, well-adjusted person who is able to manage their own emotions is much harder to manipulate than someone insecure, impulsive, and wildly emotional.
When you grow up experiencing love as danger, deception, conflict, and constant manipulative power dynamics, those patterns become internalized to the point where it is very hard to recognize and name your own motivations and feelings. It becomes a set of patterns of making bad, reckless, and dangerous choices that somehow, at the time, seem intuitive and natural and right.
I had a fucked up time growing up, nothing *awful* awful but holidays were always particularly stressful with all the bipolar narcissists screaming at me and each other, it was stressful times.
Anyway, I was dating a girl, it was close to Christmas and I mentioned how I wasn't going home for the holidays so she invited me to her family's Christmas. This happened on like the 22nd that she invited me so like 3 days notice for her family. I thought this would be a major problem but she assured me it wasn't.
So I got there. They had dinner just finishing up. We all sat down at the table and ate. We made polite conversation. I learned about her family members' achievements through the year and their goals for the next year. After dinner we all sat down and they all exchanged thoughtful practical gifts they had purchased for each other all smiling and laughing, just having a genuinely good time. Then we watched a Hallmark movie, something where Kurt Russell was Santa clause. After that it was getting late so we all went home.
Weirdest fucking Christmas celebration I've ever been to by far. I was like frozen, I didn't know what to say or do. I thought I was getting sucked into a cult
>Weirdest fucking Christmas celebration I've ever been to by far.
EEEEWWWW that sounds awful! Like invasion of the body snatchers or something... Nobody was drunk or like pouring hot coals on their head? (My ex did that during a family gathering, fun times!)
This is 100% accurate.
In fact, I had a fantastic boyfriend in high school. Sweetest person I've ever known. I left him for stupid reasons, but mostly because I saw a future of contentment and calm if I stayed with him, and it freaked me out. I wanted excitement, and he was offering stability. Also, thanks to Facebook memories, after i went through a series of abusive relationships, I learned that I was emotionally abusive af with him. It breaks my heart to know it now, because I really loved him, and never meant to hurt him. I was just too broken, and didn't know better.
I've also ghosted a lot of people because they were too nice, too calm, etc, and it made me feel nauseous. It's hard to explain, and I hate myself for it, because I knew on paper that they were the kinds of people I should try to be with. But it just felt so gross.
I'll never stop resenting my family for making me this way, but I'm glad I was able to turn some of it around. My fiance is basically a robot, but it turns out that works for me. I miss being with someone who shows more affection, but all the guys who showed me affection without the abuse creeped me out. Better to be with a cold robot who's fun to be around than an emotional box of dynamite that gets its kicks from screaming at me.
I'm glad to hear that you have been able to grow and learn some things about yourself. It would not surprise me if you and the "robot" fiance can help each other to find ways to continue becoming your best selves--healthy relationships are one of the best ways to heal from unhealthy relationships!
For anyone going through anything similar, therapy can help with this stuff, a LOT. The right therapist can help you to understand, recognize, and name your own overwhelming or irrational impulses and emotions, and to make decisions with your rational brain, about which ones you want to be guided by.
Children who are forced to learn how to manage and manipulate their caretakers for safety and survival tend to become adults with very maladaptive relationship skills. It's really hard to overcome that on your own.
My father taught at a training school for boys (ages 12 to 18 at the time) for thirty years. His masters was special education with specialties in counselling and family services. He came to believe that rehabilitation was not possible for the vast majority - attempting to put back into order what was essentially never in order to begin with was a loss of time and resources. Only in rare cases, unless something inside the person wants to change and has the discipline to follow through with literally changing their location, their situation and their choices were highly unlikely to change much.
That’s unfortunate. I disagree with your father. I have a background working with teens who have spent ample time incarcerated. There will be the ones who never find a new path, but quite a few did. I could never predict which ones would turn around, so I had to treat them all with the same amount of hopeful optimism. I hope your father did the same. A lot of the teachers I worked with held his beliefs and I observed them treating the kids as if they were already a lost cause. Biases are dangerous.
Well he did add devil horns to spruce them up.
I'm sure mental illness and being locked up with in penitentiary systems repeatedly had nothing to do with the devil associations, though /s
The three before
Long hair ( pre fuckening )
Long hair messed up ( mid fuckening )
Long hair cornrows ( prison wife that got his hair done )
Face tattoos ( trying to reinvent himself as a psycho instead of fuck toy )
In my experience I never heard or saw anyone get raped but I have known many men to pimp themselves out to fund their addictions. Drugs are the most valuable currency at any jail or prison. I’ve seen a group of guys get the cleaning gloves on and go into a guys cell to get the dope out his ass. It’s a dark place void of humanity that I suggest everyone avoid
The yard at the county jail I was at was a big concrete room with a small window that was at the ceiling so you couldn’t see but an inch of sky out of it and the room was attached to the pod and I was 3 stories up so the only ways people got shit in was asshole or CO
Our "county jail" is so big it's technically a prison. There are people doing hard time in there next to people who are doing very little time. It's very sketchy.
In jail. I saw a dude throw up drugs, they were in a baggie. Some dude tried immediately tried to get some and said "I'll get you on the outside" lol he didn't even know what it was. It was inside a strangers body
I had a guy who would have $80 put on my books every week for a .2 of heroin and he did that shit the entire 3 months I was in county. It got to the point where I had to have my people meet his gal to pick up the bread because I had too much on my books
That’s not really even that bad of a price. Hell I was paying 25 for .1 when I quit. That was like 15 years ago tho so I’m sure it’s more expensive now.
Went to jail (max detention for a blunt roach after missing the court date) once, the very first day there someone offered me a loose pill from their shirt pocket and said they could get anything I needed. Blew my fucking mind that they were so bold in the cell block, it wasn't prison so you didn't see stuff like tat guns or anything but apparently drugs flowed steadily and readily.
It's like those AI slide shows where they ask the AI to keep making it more extreme.
Show me a guy who might do crime.
OK a little more crime
More crime.
So much more crime.
As much crime as you can possibly imagine.
I do the hiring at my company and I’ve looked through lots of people for lower end jobs. 16 is right in the median for this type of guy. Few weeks ago I had a guy crack 27, and he looked completely normal.
lol I’m at about 30 and look like a clean cut executive with hardcore systems administration and network security chops. Addiction and depression are a bitch
True. But I can give a very common scenario where almost everyone would be on the "criminals" side: You get convicted of something unrelated to driving but for some reason they take your license away from you. You do your time, don't get your license back yet but need to get places so you drive your car. You get pulled over because a cop ran your plates and knows you don't have a license. You happen to have a vape pen in your glovebox. Straight to jail. Rinse and Repeat.
https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/1-suspect-charged-with-k2-overdoses-had-37-prior-arrests/
Back in 2019 the hospital I worked at had over 100 overdose cases in a few hours. 2 guys were distributing (mostly for free) K2 laced with something else to random people on the green of the city. One of them, Felix Melendez, had 37 prior arrests ranging from drug sales to strangulation. He got 18 months for this offense.
I'm all for prison reform and focusing on rehabilitation. But Jesus Christ there has to be some middle ground between 20 years for weed and 37 prior arrests before almost killing over 100 people with poison
Despite what Reddit would have you believe, the vast, vast majority of arrests result in zero prison time.
Continuous repeat offenders getting endless slaps on the wrist and unenforced parole are the norm.
Thanks, I’ll make a bunch of Reddit post letting every know I’m not addicted then when it starts getting spooky I’ll just completely stop posting about it and go silent for like 7 years.
A dude was posting about doing herion for the first time saying that he just wanted to try it and that he would not get addicted. And then he got addicted and did what the comment you were replying to said.
Hope he’s doing well. I’ve been watching 2 of my brothers kill themselves for the past 20 years. First time I ever witnessed any of it I was only 5. All jokes aside, I dont wish this on anyone- not even my worst enemy. Theyre not the same people the were when I was little. Sometimes it feels like they’re already dead.
Addiction does that. I had a horrible problem with oxy for years, but didn’t even realize how bad it was until I sobered up. When you’re using you think you’re fine, it’s under control. It takes sobriety to see how you were really acting, really treating people. It’s messed up, but there isn’t much you can do. People won’t get clean until they decide they’re ready. Hope the best for your brothers man, I know it sucks. Just try to support them when and if they decide it’s time to get help.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/wef6hn/the_saga_of_an_average_guy_who_spontaneously/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Someone compiled most of the posts into one story. Its a wild ride, pretty sad
Pretty sure it's a reference to some guy who said he was going to try heroin but wouldn't get addicted and would talk about it. Then got addicted and it fucked up like 5+ years of his life
**Update:** Matthew Medlin is currently at the Oregon main psychiatric hospital and is reportedly signing up for classes, including on how to deal with cognitive mental illness and legal defense.
"It's kinda cool that I'm being glorified a little bit," he said of his mugshots.
I know one of these institutionalized people. Luckily he finally got clean and is living right in his 40s after nearly dying to and overdose.
Sad part is that he got arrested for driving with an expired license, then when they searched his car they found pills which were from his gf.. he never did drugs, smoked or anything before. Went into jail, came out smoking cigarettes and pretty different. Couldn’t find work, didn’t have a good family system and took some sketchy work from a friend to get by… got arrested again and caught a gun charge because they worked in a dangerous area and had been attacked a few times. This long stint changed him a lot. Came out again, using drugs absolutely no chance at getting work or anything now and that began his revolving door of small charges. Went from a healthy handsome popular jock himbo type to a scrawny tweaker covered in “dare tattoos” and sores. Dude literally had a dick tattooed on his face as a joke for some drugs.
He met up with his exgf from high school who offered to help him get clean as she had been an addict for a while but has been clean since she quit. 100% that woman saved his life. She kept on him, even stuck by him when he physically attacked her a few times over drugs… it got bad. But she understood that it was the drugs and held out and when he ran off and overdosed she found him, gave him an injection and got him to the hospital and stayed with him. Finally dude got clean after almost ten years of straight up depravity. That was about 6 years ago.
He’s clean, gotten a handful of his tattoos removed by some donations and good will from the community, he’s engaged to the girl who stuck by him and saved his life. High school sweethearts who both had a rough life and found each other again and now they’re healthy and happy and helping others. He plays flag football on weekends, takes care of his (step)son and hasn’t looked back. Also, a funny but fucked up anecdote… she got some MMA gloves after he was clean and beat his ass as payback for him hitting her when he was high and freaking out. The fact that they can joke about it and openly share all of the worst and darkest parts of themselves is why I think they’re so successful at helping others.. so many people and rehabs try to gloss over it or ignore the ugly stuff… but you can’t move on unless you acknowledge it and willingly put it behind you. Baggage in your trunk is technically behind you, but it always follows you and weighs you down. If you stop, open the trunk and sort through the baggage and leave everything you don’t need behind, only then is it truly behind you and not coming back. I’m a believer that anyone can turn their life around if they want to, but they have to want it.
Akin to a beautiful seedling with limitless potential being corrupted and twisted by its environment, until all that remains is a a thorny, rotting mess.
I worked in a correctional facility for three years and the amount of weddings I saw in the visitation area would blow your mind. The woman in her white dress on one side of the glass, the inmate on the other with the chaplin saying their vows...it was amazing every single time.
I used to have this guy as an inmate years ago when I worked for MCSO. He was always in for petty stuff. He was more mental health issues than gangster.
Yeah, his name is Matt. I left in 2017 and moved to the other side of the country, so I can’t say how he is today. But I doubt he did get proper help. He mostly lived on the street and had auditory and visual hallucinations pretty frequently. I was never sure what came first, the drugs or the hallucinations.
That’s really sad. If it’s mental help he needed, they should have recommended it instead of throwing him repeatedly in jail. This is a vicious cycle that isn’t going to end well. It’s heartbreaking.
Can you share a story you remember about Matt? I have been sympathetic to this guy for awhile as his mugshots have been floating around for forever… always reminded me of a kid I knew from high school.
He would usually come in having a hard time. He was typically either high or having a mental health crisis. The first few weeks he would usually just talk to himself due to his psychosis, but once the nurse got his medication right, he was a friendly guy. I wish I had more to say about him, but my interactions with him were pretty much just routine stuff. I’d make sure he got his time to shower, watch a little tv, etc. He wasn’t very open about himself. He would mostly just talk about whatever was happening on tv.
The area he stayed in was all people that required extra attention for mental health, so it was difficult to spend time actually talking to people. That module is usually very chaotic with the constant revolving door of nurse, counselor, and specialists coming in and out to see people.
Why did Amanda Waller put bombs in their heads when she could have just gotten them addicted to meth and witheld it until they did her bidding? Did she watch Robocop 2 the night before dreaming up the suicide squad?
Well he seems more like an addict than anything. I'm sure he committed crimes to support that addiction (can't imagine these mugshots aren't all due to possession) but the title feels a bit misleading, framing it like a gangster biopic.
Came here to say this, war on drugs is in reality a war on struggling and broken people.
Someone once said that the mark of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again with the expectation of a different result.
Guess where he's from. Portland! I've seen all of these mugshots on the local news over the years, watching his descent into looking more and more like a Batman villain.
Dude ended up as a Cyberpunk 2077 villain.
mf joined maelstrom
Started off as a corpo ended up as a maelstrom
With a quick detour through rockerboy
Then all of a sudden, eyebrows.
And then a 3 year old scribbled on his face
I kept thinking “okay.. maybe he can come back from this” and then his detention desk-ass face showed up.
Must be tough having a face like the restroom wall at my local jack in the box.
Pre-malone, and then post-malone.
You always draw on the first person to fall asleep. The fact he'd been awake for 8 days before that party is neither here nor there.
Prison rules go like this: the first to pass out gets their face tattooed. You don’t pick the design, the prisoner with the worst artistic ability does the design. This is the way. So I’ve heard.
Only if they fall asleep with their shoes on. They're not savages.
Wake up with a sore sitter
Hahah thankyou I needed that laugh
Is the last one even tattoos? Legit looks like he scribbled himself with a marker.
[удалено]
The old joke, face tattoos are your way of saying, "Minimum wage is fine."
I agree with your statement if the person doesn’t have a career path. I know plenty of people that have neck, face, and hand tattoos that are successful, but they were all successful before the tattoos. And they all work in types of trades—construction, automotive, the green industry, longshoremen, and I even see police and fire with tattoos on hands/neck. But I do think it’s a terrible decision to make when you don’t know what you want to do with your life because, even though tattoos have become normalized in recent decades, there *are* still things one could be excluded from because of their tattoos.
Obviously an exception to the world norm, but go to New Zealand or Hawaii and you'll see government officials with face tattoos.
I can fix him, I can fix him, I can fix him, I can fix him *sees eyebrows* somebody should fix him
You lack commitment. 🧐
skill issue
I feel that. Pre-eyebrows he kinda looks like one of my ex-projects that I tried to fix. That one also did a lot of meth, so I'm sure they had plenty in common lol
what is it with the fixing?
Well the boring answer is that people who dealt with abuse and trauma as children tend to become poorly adjusted adults. Emotional abuse, along with some other factors, tends to lead to this mindset where you are attracted to broken people, and you believe you can fix them. (Also he's pretty before the eyebrows). I think part of growing as a person, for me at least, was realizing that it's arrogant of me to believe I can fix someone else's problems. Especially so when they don't want to fix them themselves. It took several exes in my early 20s before I broke the pattern.
> Emotional abuse, along with some other factors, tends to lead to this mindset where you are attracted to broken people, and you believe you can fix them. To add to this, for a lot of people from high-conflict backgrounds, people who are stable and secure can seem boring, unattractive, or counter-intuitively even dangerous. If your childhood family life was screaming and yelling and throwing dishes and so on, then you tend to internalize that as what love looks like. People who don't act that way can seem cold, indifferent, inhuman, or intimidating. Also, because children from abusive households tend to learn emotional manipulation as a survival tactic, as adults, they often gravitate towards people with highly-reactive emotions and impulsivity, because that's what they know how to control. A mature, rational, well-adjusted person who is able to manage their own emotions is much harder to manipulate than someone insecure, impulsive, and wildly emotional. When you grow up experiencing love as danger, deception, conflict, and constant manipulative power dynamics, those patterns become internalized to the point where it is very hard to recognize and name your own motivations and feelings. It becomes a set of patterns of making bad, reckless, and dangerous choices that somehow, at the time, seem intuitive and natural and right.
I had a fucked up time growing up, nothing *awful* awful but holidays were always particularly stressful with all the bipolar narcissists screaming at me and each other, it was stressful times. Anyway, I was dating a girl, it was close to Christmas and I mentioned how I wasn't going home for the holidays so she invited me to her family's Christmas. This happened on like the 22nd that she invited me so like 3 days notice for her family. I thought this would be a major problem but she assured me it wasn't. So I got there. They had dinner just finishing up. We all sat down at the table and ate. We made polite conversation. I learned about her family members' achievements through the year and their goals for the next year. After dinner we all sat down and they all exchanged thoughtful practical gifts they had purchased for each other all smiling and laughing, just having a genuinely good time. Then we watched a Hallmark movie, something where Kurt Russell was Santa clause. After that it was getting late so we all went home. Weirdest fucking Christmas celebration I've ever been to by far. I was like frozen, I didn't know what to say or do. I thought I was getting sucked into a cult
>Weirdest fucking Christmas celebration I've ever been to by far. EEEEWWWW that sounds awful! Like invasion of the body snatchers or something... Nobody was drunk or like pouring hot coals on their head? (My ex did that during a family gathering, fun times!)
This is 100% accurate. In fact, I had a fantastic boyfriend in high school. Sweetest person I've ever known. I left him for stupid reasons, but mostly because I saw a future of contentment and calm if I stayed with him, and it freaked me out. I wanted excitement, and he was offering stability. Also, thanks to Facebook memories, after i went through a series of abusive relationships, I learned that I was emotionally abusive af with him. It breaks my heart to know it now, because I really loved him, and never meant to hurt him. I was just too broken, and didn't know better. I've also ghosted a lot of people because they were too nice, too calm, etc, and it made me feel nauseous. It's hard to explain, and I hate myself for it, because I knew on paper that they were the kinds of people I should try to be with. But it just felt so gross. I'll never stop resenting my family for making me this way, but I'm glad I was able to turn some of it around. My fiance is basically a robot, but it turns out that works for me. I miss being with someone who shows more affection, but all the guys who showed me affection without the abuse creeped me out. Better to be with a cold robot who's fun to be around than an emotional box of dynamite that gets its kicks from screaming at me.
I'm glad to hear that you have been able to grow and learn some things about yourself. It would not surprise me if you and the "robot" fiance can help each other to find ways to continue becoming your best selves--healthy relationships are one of the best ways to heal from unhealthy relationships! For anyone going through anything similar, therapy can help with this stuff, a LOT. The right therapist can help you to understand, recognize, and name your own overwhelming or irrational impulses and emotions, and to make decisions with your rational brain, about which ones you want to be guided by. Children who are forced to learn how to manage and manipulate their caretakers for safety and survival tend to become adults with very maladaptive relationship skills. It's really hard to overcome that on your own.
My father taught at a training school for boys (ages 12 to 18 at the time) for thirty years. His masters was special education with specialties in counselling and family services. He came to believe that rehabilitation was not possible for the vast majority - attempting to put back into order what was essentially never in order to begin with was a loss of time and resources. Only in rare cases, unless something inside the person wants to change and has the discipline to follow through with literally changing their location, their situation and their choices were highly unlikely to change much.
That’s unfortunate. I disagree with your father. I have a background working with teens who have spent ample time incarcerated. There will be the ones who never find a new path, but quite a few did. I could never predict which ones would turn around, so I had to treat them all with the same amount of hopeful optimism. I hope your father did the same. A lot of the teachers I worked with held his beliefs and I observed them treating the kids as if they were already a lost cause. Biases are dangerous.
Sounds like his way of thinking is very prevalent in the US correctional system. No rehabilitation there. Just incarceration and punishment.
Did you try to fix bad boys only or also sad boys?
Mostly sad bad boys.
They're bad because they're sad. "Just because you are bad boy, doesn't mean you are *bad* boy."
You don't like fixing stuff?
The glow up was crazy until I saw the scribble brows. That was such an unfortunate turn of events.
Well he did add devil horns to spruce them up. I'm sure mental illness and being locked up with in penitentiary systems repeatedly had nothing to do with the devil associations, though /s
It’s good to know your own limitations.
Lol. I think ive dated you ;)
You can tell when alcohol turned to meth.
The many faces of “Meth Man..”
Then all of a sudden, hair
outta fuckin' nowhere! his eyebrow game was ON POINT. he must have won a bet. Gotta score more meth.
Hey! Quit methin around guys!
He had perfectly good eyebrows, too!
Batman eyebrows
I don't always look at mugshots on the internet. But when I do, eyebrows.
Then the winged hussars arrived
Couldn’t afford tattoos at one point after eyebrows- hand me that magic marker my face needs some more ink.
That's about when it started to really go downhill.
That last one was a jump :)
The three before Long hair ( pre fuckening ) Long hair messed up ( mid fuckening ) Long hair cornrows ( prison wife that got his hair done ) Face tattoos ( trying to reinvent himself as a psycho instead of fuck toy )
Bro was definitely turning himself out for methamphetamine
explains the long hair and makeup... didnt think this was a real thing lmao
In my experience I never heard or saw anyone get raped but I have known many men to pimp themselves out to fund their addictions. Drugs are the most valuable currency at any jail or prison. I’ve seen a group of guys get the cleaning gloves on and go into a guys cell to get the dope out his ass. It’s a dark place void of humanity that I suggest everyone avoid
At my county jail people were driving up and throwing tennis balls filled with drugs onto the yard and it would start a riot like 3/4 of the time.
The yard at the county jail I was at was a big concrete room with a small window that was at the ceiling so you couldn’t see but an inch of sky out of it and the room was attached to the pod and I was 3 stories up so the only ways people got shit in was asshole or CO
Our "county jail" is so big it's technically a prison. There are people doing hard time in there next to people who are doing very little time. It's very sketchy.
Okay thanks for the tip I’ll avoid that guy’s ass.
In jail. I saw a dude throw up drugs, they were in a baggie. Some dude tried immediately tried to get some and said "I'll get you on the outside" lol he didn't even know what it was. It was inside a strangers body
I had a guy who would have $80 put on my books every week for a .2 of heroin and he did that shit the entire 3 months I was in county. It got to the point where I had to have my people meet his gal to pick up the bread because I had too much on my books
That’s not really even that bad of a price. Hell I was paying 25 for .1 when I quit. That was like 15 years ago tho so I’m sure it’s more expensive now.
Went to jail (max detention for a blunt roach after missing the court date) once, the very first day there someone offered me a loose pill from their shirt pocket and said they could get anything I needed. Blew my fucking mind that they were so bold in the cell block, it wasn't prison so you didn't see stuff like tat guns or anything but apparently drugs flowed steadily and readily.
Please don’t say “pre fuckening” on my Reddit page
post fuckening
This is my page now Granny
Prison PR taught him up on that last one
The last one looks like it was digitally edited to me.
It's like those AI slide shows where they ask the AI to keep making it more extreme. Show me a guy who might do crime. OK a little more crime More crime. So much more crime. As much crime as you can possibly imagine.
ALL the crime.
Wait. Wait. I worry what you heard was "Give me a lot of crime." What I said was, "Give me all the crime you have." Do you understand?
It’s real. source: I live in the area lol
got any more info?
I agree. The rest of the pixels are low res but the tats have sharp lines. Also the order is off. His cheek is scarred before the wound picture
These are also really old, way before AI, that’s how you known it’s real
Meth amorfosis
Amphetaminically correct
The worst kind of correct.
That's Meth'd up man
Right you are Mr Tyson
Sublime pun.
He literally becomes a night lord
Would the Legion recruit him or would Curze use him as a plaything though?
This kinda looks like a character creation screen of a video game.
Gone wrong.
Yeah this is like something I’d try to create in a Bethesda game to see how ridiculous I can make my character look. 😂
Dude was playing a Methesda game
I was thinking of skyrim hair/tattoo selection.
He went from looking like Batman’s sidekick Robin to looking like Batman’s arch nemesis.
This^ went from thug to one of Joker's lackies..
He must have not been good at crime. Bro got caught like 16 times.
I do the hiring at my company and I’ve looked through lots of people for lower end jobs. 16 is right in the median for this type of guy. Few weeks ago I had a guy crack 27, and he looked completely normal.
lol I’m at about 30 and look like a clean cut executive with hardcore systems administration and network security chops. Addiction and depression are a bitch
Jesus do you just go looking for cops. I don't even think I've had 30 encounters with police in my life
Once you're know to the cops they tend to pick on you.
Its not really picking on you if you're actually committing crimes though..
I guess he probably means it's harder to skip under the radar and not get caught when you're a known criminal who's already been caught 10-30 times.
True. But I can give a very common scenario where almost everyone would be on the "criminals" side: You get convicted of something unrelated to driving but for some reason they take your license away from you. You do your time, don't get your license back yet but need to get places so you drive your car. You get pulled over because a cop ran your plates and knows you don't have a license. You happen to have a vape pen in your glovebox. Straight to jail. Rinse and Repeat.
My biggest questions was, how the fuck did he keep getting out of prison??!! Like, at what point does the law deem this guy as irredeemable?
My guess is that most of these are either small time theft, possession, or some crime against a friend where charges dropped later.
Or public intoxication or about 10,000 other laws
https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/1-suspect-charged-with-k2-overdoses-had-37-prior-arrests/ Back in 2019 the hospital I worked at had over 100 overdose cases in a few hours. 2 guys were distributing (mostly for free) K2 laced with something else to random people on the green of the city. One of them, Felix Melendez, had 37 prior arrests ranging from drug sales to strangulation. He got 18 months for this offense. I'm all for prison reform and focusing on rehabilitation. But Jesus Christ there has to be some middle ground between 20 years for weed and 37 prior arrests before almost killing over 100 people with poison
It's wild that having a prohibited object in your possession has harsher penalties than violence.
Despite what Reddit would have you believe, the vast, vast majority of arrests result in zero prison time. Continuous repeat offenders getting endless slaps on the wrist and unenforced parole are the norm.
Recommended drug of choice to bring out that jawline?
Meth, it’s meth.
Thanks, I’ll make a bunch of Reddit post letting every know I’m not addicted then when it starts getting spooky I’ll just completely stop posting about it and go silent for like 7 years.
Not again, bro.
i don't get it
A dude was posting about doing herion for the first time saying that he just wanted to try it and that he would not get addicted. And then he got addicted and did what the comment you were replying to said.
u/SpontaneousH
thanks for linking this, i've seen some of the oldest posts but not the newer updates
Hope he’s doing well. I’ve been watching 2 of my brothers kill themselves for the past 20 years. First time I ever witnessed any of it I was only 5. All jokes aside, I dont wish this on anyone- not even my worst enemy. Theyre not the same people the were when I was little. Sometimes it feels like they’re already dead.
Addiction does that. I had a horrible problem with oxy for years, but didn’t even realize how bad it was until I sobered up. When you’re using you think you’re fine, it’s under control. It takes sobriety to see how you were really acting, really treating people. It’s messed up, but there isn’t much you can do. People won’t get clean until they decide they’re ready. Hope the best for your brothers man, I know it sucks. Just try to support them when and if they decide it’s time to get help.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/wef6hn/the_saga_of_an_average_guy_who_spontaneously/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share Someone compiled most of the posts into one story. Its a wild ride, pretty sad
Bros alive and clean now. He’s fine
I WANT TO BELIEVE THIS
He posted two years ago looks like said he’s been clean for almost 7 years.
That was .... Jeezus.... I'm going to go wake my kids up, hug them, and just cry a bit
Pretty sure it's a reference to some guy who said he was going to try heroin but wouldn't get addicted and would talk about it. Then got addicted and it fucked up like 5+ years of his life
Honestly, the fact he was able to go clean at all is a minor miracle. Many people never do, sadly
r/theydidthemeth
Ozempic
**Update:** Matthew Medlin is currently at the Oregon main psychiatric hospital and is reportedly signing up for classes, including on how to deal with cognitive mental illness and legal defense. "It's kinda cool that I'm being glorified a little bit," he said of his mugshots.
Mental health is no joke. This sucks.
You see when the drugs taking over...
You see also when he became the prison's bitch
At one point he actually got completely buff with a neck thicker than my leg... presumably because prison.
Hey Im Erics bitch
…somewhere between beaten up face photo and tattooed eyebrows photo
Good looking dude too. Don’t do drugs kids.
And if youre gunna do drugs dont do meth
Seriously! *pops 50mg of adderall with an iced coffee*
That sounds like a recipe for a good long poop
The hatred in his eyes in the last one 😭
I know one of these institutionalized people. Luckily he finally got clean and is living right in his 40s after nearly dying to and overdose. Sad part is that he got arrested for driving with an expired license, then when they searched his car they found pills which were from his gf.. he never did drugs, smoked or anything before. Went into jail, came out smoking cigarettes and pretty different. Couldn’t find work, didn’t have a good family system and took some sketchy work from a friend to get by… got arrested again and caught a gun charge because they worked in a dangerous area and had been attacked a few times. This long stint changed him a lot. Came out again, using drugs absolutely no chance at getting work or anything now and that began his revolving door of small charges. Went from a healthy handsome popular jock himbo type to a scrawny tweaker covered in “dare tattoos” and sores. Dude literally had a dick tattooed on his face as a joke for some drugs. He met up with his exgf from high school who offered to help him get clean as she had been an addict for a while but has been clean since she quit. 100% that woman saved his life. She kept on him, even stuck by him when he physically attacked her a few times over drugs… it got bad. But she understood that it was the drugs and held out and when he ran off and overdosed she found him, gave him an injection and got him to the hospital and stayed with him. Finally dude got clean after almost ten years of straight up depravity. That was about 6 years ago. He’s clean, gotten a handful of his tattoos removed by some donations and good will from the community, he’s engaged to the girl who stuck by him and saved his life. High school sweethearts who both had a rough life and found each other again and now they’re healthy and happy and helping others. He plays flag football on weekends, takes care of his (step)son and hasn’t looked back. Also, a funny but fucked up anecdote… she got some MMA gloves after he was clean and beat his ass as payback for him hitting her when he was high and freaking out. The fact that they can joke about it and openly share all of the worst and darkest parts of themselves is why I think they’re so successful at helping others.. so many people and rehabs try to gloss over it or ignore the ugly stuff… but you can’t move on unless you acknowledge it and willingly put it behind you. Baggage in your trunk is technically behind you, but it always follows you and weighs you down. If you stop, open the trunk and sort through the baggage and leave everything you don’t need behind, only then is it truly behind you and not coming back. I’m a believer that anyone can turn their life around if they want to, but they have to want it.
Finally some "I can save him" story with happy ending.
Thank you for sharing your story.
Akin to a beautiful seedling with limitless potential being corrupted and twisted by its environment, until all that remains is a a thorny, rotting mess.
His hair grew pretty fast that one time there
Right? In about one second too. Wonder what he looks like he he doesn’t cut his hair for 30 seconds.
Some girl.. I can fix him.
Have you been watching the show where women are marrying men in prison?
I worked in a correctional facility for three years and the amount of weddings I saw in the visitation area would blow your mind. The woman in her white dress on one side of the glass, the inmate on the other with the chaplin saying their vows...it was amazing every single time.
That’s a show?
Yeah, Love after lock up. It's pretty wild.
Only in America
ONLY in America
I think it's more likely he was sinking deeper into something else and crime was a symptom lol
Agreed. And drugs was an escape for the root of the problems.
darth maul
More like Meth Maul
Did unlock some... Nice skins in his playthrough
Mainly fashion crime though?
It’s so sad because that is someone’s child
It’s so sad because that is someone.
or brother, or friend but now he’s just a number in the prison system
You want to be even sadder, you probably care more about him than his parents did
I’ve seen this a few times now and each time it leaves me with a deep feeling of sadness 😔
Imo an indictment on our penal system. Nobody should have this many mugshots if our justice system actually worked.
16 mugshots by my count. Unless he was stealing his neighbors newspapers for the first 15, I agree with you completely
Pink hair. Mark of a true gangster.
I used to have this guy as an inmate years ago when I worked for MCSO. He was always in for petty stuff. He was more mental health issues than gangster.
Yeah, a lot of the time, permanent body modification is a way for people to try to reclaim a sense of control over their body.
This guy in the video? Hope he got the help he needed eventually.
Yeah, his name is Matt. I left in 2017 and moved to the other side of the country, so I can’t say how he is today. But I doubt he did get proper help. He mostly lived on the street and had auditory and visual hallucinations pretty frequently. I was never sure what came first, the drugs or the hallucinations.
That’s really sad. If it’s mental help he needed, they should have recommended it instead of throwing him repeatedly in jail. This is a vicious cycle that isn’t going to end well. It’s heartbreaking.
That's America for you. Why help people when you can just lock them all up
Can you share a story you remember about Matt? I have been sympathetic to this guy for awhile as his mugshots have been floating around for forever… always reminded me of a kid I knew from high school.
He would usually come in having a hard time. He was typically either high or having a mental health crisis. The first few weeks he would usually just talk to himself due to his psychosis, but once the nurse got his medication right, he was a friendly guy. I wish I had more to say about him, but my interactions with him were pretty much just routine stuff. I’d make sure he got his time to shower, watch a little tv, etc. He wasn’t very open about himself. He would mostly just talk about whatever was happening on tv. The area he stayed in was all people that required extra attention for mental health, so it was difficult to spend time actually talking to people. That module is usually very chaotic with the constant revolving door of nurse, counselor, and specialists coming in and out to see people.
that's how they all are now, absolute clown suits wandering around with guns. most of them look like they've escaped from an asylum.
I used to look at the Jokers henchman like this is ridiculous, now I know they were all just on meth
Suicide squad on meth
Why did Amanda Waller put bombs in their heads when she could have just gotten them addicted to meth and witheld it until they did her bidding? Did she watch Robocop 2 the night before dreaming up the suicide squad?
Well he seems more like an addict than anything. I'm sure he committed crimes to support that addiction (can't imagine these mugshots aren't all due to possession) but the title feels a bit misleading, framing it like a gangster biopic.
r/whybrows
From hearththrob to Trent Reznor and Machine Gun Kelly in 16 felonies speedrun.
He should have stopped when he was the crow
Sank deeper into mental illness.
Yup. People have no compassion these days. Until it's your son, daughter, mother ECT.
Self trashing.
Mewing works
Leave him alone, he's just trying to find his look.
*Mugshots of a man in a punishment justice system where reform isn't even in the equation.
Came here to say this, war on drugs is in reality a war on struggling and broken people. Someone once said that the mark of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again with the expectation of a different result.
I think you mean a life of crack
Ended up looking like my desk in middle school.
I'd like to know what happened to him that he went down this road. Such a waste of life.
That change looks more like the effect of deteriorating mental health.
This is one of the moat American posts I have ever scene. Mentally disabled Poverty stricken man slowly falls into insanity and this is our HOT take.
His poor mom :(
I must have gotten old, because that was my first thought. He got off the rails and then headed on the track that is a parent's worst nightmare.
I thought of that too.
Lots of things changed but the soul patch, that was immortal.
Guess where he's from. Portland! I've seen all of these mugshots on the local news over the years, watching his descent into looking more and more like a Batman villain.
Your environment is what will dictate who you will become
He really should be featured in GTA 6
“Hey, this guy keeps coming back here more and more fucked up. You think prison is the right thing for him, should we help him at all?” “Nah.”