Getting arrested sucks, but the unpleasantness of it all doesn't stop thousands of people from being apprehended every day -- and, to be fair, not everyone who gets nabbed is even close to what most would consider a criminal. Mugshots can tell us a lot; some spice up their gloomy trip by maintaining a cheerful attitude through the booking process, the results of which are funny and sometimes endearing mugshots.
Others are unintentionally hilarious and their mugshots are proof that the ravages of drug addiction and street life can occasionally be funny (to others). The Smoking Gun has an enormous database of these photos. We've chosen the best from their bunches and scoured the rest of the internet for previously unseen comedy gold.
Here are 41 hilarious mugshots.
- 5.24.10 - 3:00PM
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- Drew Villano
41 Hilarious Mugshots
A marker makes a great knife if humiliation is the desired result.
He's been perfecting the look for a while now.
Weird Al Wanna-Be
Man with flexible face is arrested on domestic violence charges.
Coolest Mugshot Ever
The argyle shirt doesn't really go with the look.
Clearly
Stay Positive!
The best of both worlds: beautiful locks and a rugged beard.
O_O
Beavis... Is That You?
Birds could live in there.
A Ray of Sunshine
Poor Baby!
"Ladies Love It"
Gold is supposed to be the strongest, maaaaaan.
It's exactly where he's going.
Sleepy Head
His Forehead Says "Tattoo"
This charming fellow ran his girlfriend over with a truck.
Make Up Your Mind!
A Doctor or a Spitter?
An Apprehended Garden Gnome
The Sexiest Prostitute Ever
Mud Face
This guy's hair is a bird... Your argument is invalid.
Fashion First
We're not sure this woman even knows where she is.
Surprisingly, Arrested for Possession of Narcotics
This grandmother was caught selling crack. Yes, really.
Smug
Stay Off the Drugs, Kids
This security officer was arrested for driving without a license.
A Really, Really Bad Hair Day.
The Halo Lies
Peace!
We hope this guy got a re-do.
This just seems inefficient.
Even his hair is afraid of that forehead.
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5.25.10
By Clandestine Johnson
Making fun of the mentally ill and the retarded is so cool.
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5.27.10
By SoDa
Yes...yes it is!
5.29.10
By Wolfechu
Sure is.
1.24.11
By SKUNKAPEMAN
These people aren't deformed or mentally ill. They are drunks, drug addicts, and dumb asses. These people don't deserve our sympathy. Anyone this screwed up deserves to be laughed at.
HARD COLD TRUTH: If you make an ass of yourself in public, or in life in general, you will get laughed at. If you don't like it don't make an ass of yourself.
2.01.11
By pnut166
Yep. You`re next.
3.03.11
By Kaiti
The tattoo ones are hilarious, and the ridiculous poses (I think my favorite is the blur). I agree, however, that a good chunk of these feature people with serious medical issues that just aren't funny. But...is that gold spray paint? Sharpie masks? That's the kind of stuff that's funny. Not the woman with Graves or anything like that. How about the security guard?
3.28.13
By Blog
Webmaster's openly tell mainstream media that they are stealing public records and each state and the fed's charges money for the records. The amount stolen goes into the hundred's of +$100 millions of dollars.
INTERPOL
http://www.interpol.int/Forms/Contact_INTERPOL
18 USC § 1030 - Fraud and related activity in connection with computers
(2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains—
(C) information from any protected computer;
18 USC § 641 - Public money, property or records
Whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use or the use of another, or without authority, sells, conveys or disposes of any record, voucher, money, or thing of value of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, or any property made or being made under contract for the United States or any department or agency thereof;
Whoever receives, conceals, or retains the same with intent to convert it to his use or gain, knowing it to have been embezzled, stolen, purloined or converted—
Department Of Justice Manual
Criminal Resource Manual 1663 – Protection Of Public Records and Documents. “The taking of a public record or document is prohibited by 18 U.S.C. § 641.”
DOJ. Retrieved from http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/crm01663.htm
Converts public records to his use or the use of another. Without authority, sells conveys or disposes of public record.
18 USC § 1028A - Aggravated identity theft
Whoever, knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses (website), without lawful authority, a means of identification (government photograph) of another person shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such felony, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 2 years.
18 USC § 2319 — Criminal infringement of a copyright & 17 USC § 506 — Criminal offenses
For the purpose of commercial advantage (website) and private financial gain.
Governmental Prima Facie Evidence of name and likeness copyright:
State Certified Birth Certificate, State Driver’s License, Passport and other government documents and records “created” to identify and validate name and likeness.
18 USC § 1584 - Sale into involuntary servitude
(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully holds to involuntary servitude or sells into any condition of involuntary servitude, any other person for any term, or brings within the United States any person so held, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
Internet Spyware (I-SPY) Prevention Act of 2007
“Intentionally obtains (steals/screen scraps), or transmits (internet) to another person information with the intent to defraud (unpublish/repair reputation).”
18 USC § 875 - Interstate communications
Transmits (internet) communication interstate (world wide web) with the intent to “injure reputation” to extort (unpublish/repair reputation).
18 USC § 873 — Blackmail
Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
18 USC § 1962 - Prohibited activities
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person through a pattern of racketeering activity or through collection of an unlawful debt to acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, any interest in or control of any enterprise which is engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce.
18 USC § 880 - Receiving the proceeds of extortion
A person(s) who receives, possesses, conceals, or disposes of any blackmail (unpublish/repair reputation) money.
Bizarre Logic and Reasoning
If kidnappers called the ransom amount the returning person fee would it bedazzle the system again? If the kidnappers rationalized their acts with the same logic would the system be mystified by them? Reasoning, they had to go through the hassle of kidnapping someone hence they are entitled to the returning person fee (Ransom Money).
If blackmailers called the extortion amount the unpublish/reputation repair fee would it bedazzle the system? Further, if the blackmailers rationalized their acts with the same logic would the system by mystified be them? Reasoning, they had to go through the hassle of stealing government property, identity theft, criminal infringement of a copyright, stalking people, holding people to involuntary servitude, injuring their reputation, blackmailing them, collecting an unlawful debt/extorting and other illegal money hence they are entitles to the, unpublish/reputation repair fee.
Governmental issuance of public record voids it from public records.
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/contact.html?ref=menuside
Public Records of an individual: Birth Certificate - Drivers License History - Court Records - Marriage Records - Divorce Records
I'm an American so I must “promote” and make “money” for individuals and corporations both foreign and domestic with my Public Records and Life.
Why is the USA government so bewildered that they invalidate their own identification records and documents?
18 USC § 2319 — Criminal infringement of a copyright & 17 USC § 506 — Criminal offenses
For the purpose of commercial advantage (website) and private financial gain.
Governmental Prima Facie Evidence of name and likeness copyright:
State Certified Birth Certificate, State Driver’s License, Passport and other government documents and records “created” to identify and validate name and likeness.
5.25.10
By ANTONIO
In the Middle Ages they would put people in cages and parade them before lords and ladies so the aristocracy could laugh at them. The people in the cages were seriously mad and physically deformed. Apparently it has become fashionable again for a decadent society to make fun of poor, sick and deformed people.
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5.29.10
By stone
You are right; it is disgusting that we parade them around and mock them. What are you doing to help them? Have you invited any such under privileged people in to your home to share the wealth and comfort of the American Dream with your family . . . or have your limited your concern for them to petty verbal assaults on others that coincidentally also have done nothing for these people. Sometimes its better to stay quiet.
6.02.10
By Swinging Sack
That's what we do now! Why do you thing Heidi & Spencer are on TV?
5.25.10
By JW Ternab
RE "We're not sure this woman even knows where she is."
This woman has Graves Disease (hyperactive thyroid gland and swelling of tissue behind eyes ) and needs medical care, not laughs.
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5.29.10
By Justin Sandonato
laughter is the best medicine
6.06.10
By linda
Really, Doctor? I knew someone who could pop their eyes out like that by holding their nose and putting pressure in their sinuses. It was truly weird. But it wasn't a disease.
6.09.10
By LakeLover
As a person with a thyroid disorder myself, I agree she likely has Graves. I admit some of these photos are funny in the "what the hell were they thinking way" and others show physical deformities, sad, not funny.
5.27.10
By r310lambert
Clearly alot of these people are meth addicted. You can see the blank lifeless stares on them, thats what it does. Google faces of meth and you will be frightened of some of them. All arrests are public, therefore your info and photo are accessible to everyone. Be careful out there, its a scary world.
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6.06.10
By Linda
I DID google 'faces of meth' and it occurred to me that these people had pre-meth mug shots. WTF? They were apparently in trouble before meth came into their lives. Been there, done that, got out cold turkey. No sympathy for those who don't.
12.17.10
By L
Very few meth addicts recover. It's truly sad. Only a little over 10% successfully kick the habit. The fact that they were previously in trouble only shows the casual link between poverty, crime, and drug abuse.
I know a very successful father who has his head on straight, yet still struggles with meth addiction every single day. If you don't want to hit the pipe every single day of your life, you were never "addicted" in the first place. You are never fully recovered from meth- it is a plague until the day you die. Each and every day clean is a victory for these people.
5.27.10
By Davy
"Hilarious"? Try depressing. I can't look at a lot of these faces without immediately feeling sorry for the lifetime of abuse they must have endured. Society - by which I mean cruel people like the fool who posted these - undoubtedly warped these people into the criminals they became.
Grow up and get some empathy.
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2.01.11
By pnut166
It`s somebody else`s fault that these people are in jail ? Well, tell me this : who in society "warped" you into a sniveling, liberal imbecile. I would really like to know, so I can go smack the shlt out of `em.
5.27.10
By HarleyQuinn1121
I dont think that's "mud" on his face. It looks like he's been burned.
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