Mid-City Hand-Lettered Sign Bandit Strikes Again, Affirms Michael Jackson Appearance, Tags Marley, USC
By Ryan - Thursday April 09th 2009
Beverly @ Stanley 4/8/09
Times are so tough even Sign Bandit is strapped for cash. Won’t you give a Wolverine’s Daughter comic book-owning, gigantic ass-loving Michael-Jackson-alike some dough today? He likes Marley, yo.
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When you really think about it, “I would like to meet some People to give me money and help me with Things” is kind of a beautifully simple universal human sentiment. What IS life if not trying to meet some People to give us money and help us with Things?
This guy/gal/marketing scheme is an asshole. I no longer find it amusing.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elchavo/3365171784/
Maybe he needs help feeding the sex slaves. Big butts don’t just feed themselves, you know.
In Century City he’s evidently aiming for the Barack Obama angle (via BikinginLA blog):
http://tinyurl.com/cbf4xb
He’s really upped his output of late, trying all manner of strategies, tags, and bizarrely offensive messages all over town. We got another submission in the inbox this week from 3rd and La Brea, wherein he claims to look like Todd Bridges. So now he claims to look like MJ, Todd Bridges, and Obama. Great. As El Chavo already said above, not terribly amusing any more. I suspect it’s time to stop giving this guy attention. Search results are pouring in at present due to his recent output. So then! Guy, if you’re out there and you’re googling your own handiwork, nota bene: your five seconds on this site are fading fast.
Hmmmmmm… he looks like one white guy, one black guy and one who used to be black, none of whom look anything alike. Don’t know about anyone else, but my first thought when I saw his sign was to suspect serious metal illness; after seeing this and El Chavo’s photo, I’m pretty well convinced.
Either way, after I put up my post, I went back in a few hours later and took out the phone number. What ever is going on here, I don’t think he needs any more help getting his message out.
Our guy might be on his way to national meme status:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/16/rap-rap-chess-found.html
Glad to see that in the wake of M.J.’s passing, he has switched it up and now compares his looks to those of Michael from Good Times.
Wonderful Xeni, lord help us that’s all he needs. I stopped following his nonsense after the above post, though I have seen several iterations, some offensive, all bizarre, since the above.
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