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Food influencer known as ‘dine-and-dash diva’ arrested in Brooklyn (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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I was going to let this one slide as a sensible chuckle until the last graf.

Chung had been known to bring her own lighting equipment and camera to record herself trying out the dishes, the Post reported.

How the fuck can you expect to be inconspicuous when you're bringing studio equipment to a restaurant?

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

How the fuck can you expect to be inconspicuous when you're bringing studio equipment to a restaurant?

Lol, there's a actually a trope for that: Refuge in Audacity. It's probably one of my favorite tropes, TBH.

Usually, when characters do something illegal or socially unacceptable, they'll try to be discreet about it: keep their misdeeds small and subtle enough that either no one knows what they've done, or no one cares. Sometimes a character does the exact opposite — take their misdeeds so far over-the-top that there's no way they can't be noticed — and they still get away with it.

The key is to be so audacious in how you violate the rules (whether they be laws or a moral/ethical code) that no one can believe you did it.

Might need to dig up my old TV Tropes account and add this article to the "Real Life" examples.