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That’s what I immediately thought. Like how else would you benefit from waiting so long to release it after saying there was no footage.
They release the tape
Epstein sits alone on the bed in his cell wearing a fancy golf shirt and jeans, the standard prison uniform, according to the FBI
He reaches for a burlap rope from his Acme toolbox with all three of his arms.
As he ties the rope around his neck, his face slowly appears to morph into different actors from royalty-free stock videos.
Once he secured the leather belt around his neck, the couch he was sitting on vanished underneath him, concluding his demise.
Several minutes later, the guards burst through the door to Mr JEFPY ESTÆN's cell. They realize they are too late and conga line dance out of the prison.
I want to watch that video.
When I was a kid, there was a black and white magazine sold in stores that had articles about bigfoot, and elvis being alive, and all this other absurd bullshit. I knew it was all fake, but thats why I loved it. It was absurdism for the sake of unintentional comedy.
This would be the modern day version of that.
Weekly World News! They still have an email newsletter it's pretty funny
Oh my god......I wonder if I could find someone selling a collection on ebay. This is ABSOLUTELY it.
My mom would never buy it. She kept telling me how it was fake. Yeah. I know. I wasn't trying to buy actual news. I wanted crazy shit.
I bet SOMEONE is selling these.
It was at least kinder, humorous and creative. The National Enquirer which is packed with made up stuff designed to hurt and exploit people.
The bat boy stuff always astounded me at the grocery store.
I miss this kind of conspiracy theory/crazy subculture. Innocent and fun.
Like Bigfoot isn’t real, but I would be happy if he was. Bigfoot still lets you be around the kinds of people who are far off the beaten path, but you don’t get the disgusting racism/sexism/harmful insanity that we’re getting with the current lot of crazies.
So good!!!
I still remember when Bat Boy took down Osama Bin Laden.