This has to be one of the most unbelievable crimes ever
In 1995, McArthur Wheeler robbed two banks in Pittsburgh — no mask, no disguise. He even looked straight into the security cameras and smiled.
That night, the footage aired on the news. Someone recognized him instantly. Within an hour, police were at his door.
When officers showed him the tapes, he was stunned. All he could say was,
“But… I wore the juice.”
Wheeler believed lemon juice could make him invisible to cameras. He had learned that lemon juice works as “invisible ink,” so he assumed coating his face with it would hide him.
He even “tested” it by taking a Polaroid photo — but he had accidentally gotten juice in his eyes and mis-aimed the camera. He thought it proved his theory.
He went to jail, but his case became legendary. Psychologists later studied it, helping define the Dunning-Kruger Effect — the idea that people with low ability often overestimate their intelligence.
In 1995, McArthur Wheeler robbed two banks in Pittsburgh — no mask, no disguise. He even looked straight into the security cameras and smiled.
That night, the footage aired on the news. Someone recognized him instantly. Within an hour, police were at his door.
When officers showed him the tapes, he was stunned. All he could say was,
“But… I wore the juice.”
Wheeler believed lemon juice could make him invisible to cameras. He had learned that lemon juice works as “invisible ink,” so he assumed coating his face with it would hide him.
He even “tested” it by taking a Polaroid photo — but he had accidentally gotten juice in his eyes and mis-aimed the camera. He thought it proved his theory.
He went to jail, but his case became legendary. Psychologists later studied it, helping define the Dunning-Kruger Effect — the idea that people with low ability often overestimate their intelligence.
This has to be one of the most unbelievable crimes ever
In 1995, McArthur Wheeler robbed two banks in Pittsburgh — no mask, no disguise. He even looked straight into the security cameras and smiled.
That night, the footage aired on the news. Someone recognized him instantly. Within an hour, police were at his door.
When officers showed him the tapes, he was stunned. All he could say was,
“But… I wore the juice.”
Wheeler believed lemon juice could make him invisible to cameras. He had learned that lemon juice works as “invisible ink,” so he assumed coating his face with it would hide him.
He even “tested” it by taking a Polaroid photo — but he had accidentally gotten juice in his eyes and mis-aimed the camera. He thought it proved his theory.
He went to jail, but his case became legendary. Psychologists later studied it, helping define the Dunning-Kruger Effect — the idea that people with low ability often overestimate their intelligence.
