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CNN webpage with a photo and text saying "We have a photo showing the suspect's unmasked face. How has no one recognized him and come forward to police?"

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Maybe everyone around him/her died from coverage refusal, nobody can identify that person cause they are dead. Which would explain why they decided to kill the leech-ionnaire

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

ask other CEOs and see if they can come up with any possible reasons

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Weird, shocker, complete mystery, total enigma; very puzzling, baffling, inexplicable, a “head-scratcher” as the hooligans say; indecipherable, unanswerable, consign it to oblivion and endeavor never to ask this quandary again.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

who is this person? what did he do any why are there plenty memes about him?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

No idea what you're talking about, but there's clearly something wrong with my phone. People keep mentioning pictures of some dude but the pictures never seem to load on my phone at all. It's wild how that only happens specifically with that one picture. Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago

He totally looks like Jake Gyllenhaal.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know who that is, it's Timothée Chalamet!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

Lisan al Ghaib!

[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love that the true crime investigator people on the internet, when asked about helping, responded with a resounding (actual quote) 'absolutely the fuck not'.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Class solidarity at last. Fuck y'all billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

I'd like to come forward and say that I also wear a hoodie when it's cold. Not that color though, I prefer a black or blue hoodie. I also wear glasses, have a beard and moustache, and am at least 3 times uglier than the guy in the photo.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why is CNN's CEO Sir Mark John Thompson looking to draw attention to himself? Could he be hoping for a new trend to develop where people surprise CEOs named Thompson in the streets? Seems weird, but maybe he's optimistically hoping that his surprise might be cake or something.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

Why would someone turn in this guy when he's clearly not the shooter? Different windbreaker altogether

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago

On the one hand, this probably isn't the same guy.

On the other hand he's really hot, and we love it when our folk heroes look good doing their heroics.

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