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Man Accused of Really Liking Piggy Back Rides
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."
What, were all the bills wadded with a prime number of bills and seventeen cents taped to each wad?
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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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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.
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.
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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He looks a little like John Belushi.
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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.
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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Man a Piggyback ride is NOTHING compared to a Piggybelly ride.
Amateur.
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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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