Masks so realistic they're arresting the wrong guy

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A white man who robbed Ohio banks looked so convincing in a black-male disguise that an innocent man was held. That's not exactly how SPFXMasks of Van Nuys had intended its masks to be used.



By Sharon Bernstein, Los Angeles Times
December 8, 2010, 6:21 p.m.
They're not just for Halloween anymore.

Expensive, realistic masks — the kind that are the hit of the costume party — are increasingly being used out of season, and not always for laughs.

A white bank robber in Ohio recently used a "hyper-realistic" mask manufactured by a small Van Nuys company to disguise himself as a black man, prompting police there to mistakenly arrest an African American man for the crimes.

In October, a 20-year-old Chinese man who wanted asylum in Canada used one of the same company's masks to transform himself into an elderly white man and slip past airport security in Hong Kong.


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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mask-20101209,0,3122458.story

So....if I rob a bank wearing a hyper-realistic Dick Cheney mask do you think they would finally arrest him?

[Uben]

1. No

If you went out in public with a Dick Cheney mask on, you'd probably get assaulted!

[Sal Minella]

2. Please do, it's worth a try.

Anything is worth a try. If no one will go after him for his heinous crimes, we need to go after him for something else.

They got Capone on taxes, after all.

[Javaman]

3. So what exactly is the difference between realistic and hyper-realistic.

they are either realistic or they are not. How can something be more real?

[Edweird]

6. Really the problem is that marketing uses 'realistic' when they should use 'not much like it at all'

So now, what is actually 'realistic' has to be called 'hyper realistic' to be understood.

[Occulus]

4. Everyone go to the link for the picture

Those are Hollywood-quality full-face prosthetics.

Wow.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

5. Yeah, those are not going to be a fad, security...

...cameras are virtually useless.

[lame54]

7. Not if you shoot your partner in the face