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Man Accused of Really Liking Piggy Back Rides

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the duck-duck-please-don't-goose dept.

Police in Bonney Lake, Wa. are warning high school students to watch out for a man who might have a developmental disability and a fixation with high school athletes and piggy back rides. On Monday a Bonney Lake High School football player was lured to the public library by the man, who'd said he would help the player with a college term paper interview. Instead of helping the student the man starting acting strangely, jumped on the student's back and asked for a piggy back ride. The football player left soon after when the man gave him a package that contained "odd amounts of money."

28 comments

  1. Everyone else must be getting piggy back rides by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Because I'm all alone here.

  2. Odd amounts of money? by TheABomb · · Score: 3, Funny

    What, were all the bills wadded with a prime number of bills and seventeen cents taped to each wad?

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    1. Re:Odd amounts of money? by geekoid · · Score: 1

      I tried sing odd amount of money to pay my mortgage. Apparent imaginary numbers one count if you have an imaginary house.

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    2. Re:Odd amounts of money? by Locke2005 · · Score: 1

      I tried doing an electronic transfer for a negative amount, hoping it would credit the money back to my account. It didn't work. Apparently the credit union's web designers are not quite as stupid as I hoped they were.

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    3. Re:Odd amounts of money? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apparent imaginary numbers one count if you have an imaginary house.

      I think there are some banks that might disagree - Level 3 asset pricing is pretty close to being in "imaginary" numbers...

    4. Re:Odd amounts of money? by b4upoo · · Score: 1

      Prejudice afoot! What about leap frog? Why should we allow a preference for piggy back when leap frog can offer the same rewards!

    5. Re:Odd amounts of money? by Arthur+B. · · Score: 1

      Try to transfer $2,147,483,648

      Sure it takes a leap of faith, but imagine if it works ^^

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    6. Re:Odd amounts of money? by vga_init · · Score: 1

      This is technically incorrect... 2 is considered the first prime number, and there are $2 denomination bills. Also, 2 is not an odd number.

  3. Sweet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A man with a mental illness. Hilarious.

    1. Re:Sweet! by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 2, Interesting

      What's funny is how stupid the kid must have been to be fooled by the guy in the first place.

      Kinda reinforces the stereotypes about dumb jocks.

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    2. Re:Sweet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Ugh, Stereotypes are fantastically ridiculous, especially in this case. I've met just as many imbeciles at LAN Parties and Comic Book shops, as I've met at boxing gyms and football events.

      The only difference is what they focus on.

    3. Re:Sweet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      While your point is probably valid, I call shenanigans on your visits to boxing gyms, LAN parties and comic book stores. No self respecting jock would be caught dead at the latter two, just like no real geek would ever enter a boxing gym.

    4. Re:Sweet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Except since it was with reference to a term paper interview, presumably the student knew the man to be unstable or at least odd though probably on the subject of his term paper, but just not that the unstable man would attempt a piggy-back ride.

    5. Re:Sweet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      just like no real geek would ever enter a boxing gym.

      He was standing in for the punching bag.

    6. Re:Sweet! by Kell+Bengal · · Score: 1

      Maybe the guy lured him to the library by offering "to ride him" and the jock misinterpreted it, and though he was going to get some action instead?

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    7. Re:Sweet! by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 1

      The computer in the Testosterone Vending Machine had crashed :)

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    8. Re:Sweet! by HaZardman27 · · Score: 1

      Come on, are we really still stuck on this image of a geek? I'm a self-professed geek who goes to LANs and comic book stores, plays GURPS and D20 RPGs, and I still lift weights and go for runs.

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  4. Neg's Urban Sports? by funehmon · · Score: 0

    Stranger Rodeo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Fpd5HibiQ LEG-IT!

  5. What fun! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What is the program with giving a wierd looking stranger a piggy back ride?

    I do it all the time.

  6. Baseballs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Lucky he didn't try to take his headphones off. Have you seen my baseball?

  7. Robert Crumb by DiscountBorg(TM) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like he shares the same kind of kink as the famous cartoonist, who was notorious for his piggy-back rides.

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  8. Resemblance by treeves · · Score: 1

    He looks a little like John Belushi.

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    1. Re:Resemblance by negRo_slim · · Score: 1

      More like Horatio Sanz.

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  9. Hey, I know that guy! by horatiocain · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My girlfriend and I were wandering around Seattle in 2005, when he ran up and did his thing:

    http://periluna.livejournal.com/35935.html

    Haha, awesome. I can totally testify that he really really likes piggy back rides.

    1. Re:Hey, I know that guy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I posted this here somewhere else, but he was actually in St. John's Newfoundland in early 2001 when I started university as well, and...yeah. The article title describes him perfectly, he's one of the biggest freaks I've ever had the misfortune to run into. Asked me all kinds of questions about what sorts of sports I play too...ugh. He approached about 10 other people in the same hallway, all guys.

      Only on the Internet can you wake up to the horrifying reality that there's some gigantic, greasy bastard travelling the world in search of athletic guys to give him a piggy-back ride around town...it's not until you have a permanent broadband connection that you realize just how fucked up people really are!

  10. PIGGYBACK?? Pshaww! by CODiNE · · Score: 1

    Man a Piggyback ride is NOTHING compared to a Piggybelly ride.

    Amateur.

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  11. This guy was actually in Canada as well! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    St. John's Newfoundland, at Memorial University. The guy wanted directions to the library and I decided to just walk down there to show him, since it didn't seem like he knew where he was going (or belonged there). Next thing I know he's asking me if I play any sports, and when I said I used to play basketball literally the next words out of his mouth were, "can I get a piggy-back ride on you?" He was pretty insistent about it up until the point that he saw campus security wandering by, then he quickly shut up and left.

    Creepy stuff.