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A new level of tattoo stupidity may have been reached. This falls under terrible tattoos, bad tattoos, what not to tattoo, tattoo regrets, funny tattoo pictures and many many more.....

Gang tattoo leads to a murder conviction

Inked on the chest of a Pico Rivera gang member was the detailed scene of a liquor store slaying that had stumped an L.A. County sheriff's investigator for more than four years. It leads to a jailhouse confession from Anthony Garcia — and a first-degree murder conviction.

By Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times

April 22, 2011

The process was routine. L.A. County Sheriff's homicide investigator Kevin Lloyd was flipping through snapshots of tattooed gang members.

Then one caught his attention.

Inked on the pudgy chest of a young Pico Rivera gangster who had been picked up and released on a minor offense was the scene of a 2004 liquor store slaying that had stumped Lloyd for more than four years.

Each key detail was right there: the Christmas lights that lined the roof of the liquor store where 23-year-old John Juarez was gunned down, the direction his body fell, the bowed street lamp across the way and the street sign — all under the chilling banner of RIVERA KILLS, a reference to the gang Rivera-13.

As if to seal the deal, below the collarbone of the gang member known by the alias "Chopper" was a miniature helicopter raining down bullets on the scene.

Lloyd's discovery of the tattoo in 2008 launched a bizarre investigation that soon led to Anthony Garcia's arrest for the shooting. Then sheriff's detectives, posing as gang members, began talking to Garcia, 25, in his holding cell. They got a confession that this week led to a first-degree murder conviction in a killing investigators had once all but given up hope of solving.

For Lloyd, the image on the chest of the delicate, doe-eyed gang member brought back a rush of memories. The snapshot was taken inside the sheriff's Pico Rivera station after Garcia was arrested in a routine traffic stop and booked on suspicion of driving with a suspended license.

Before they are released, suspected gang members typically are asked to remove their shirts and have their tattoos photographed by graffiti team deputies. Taggers often mark their own bodies with the same signatures they spray on buses and storefronts — and eyewitnesses to crimes sometimes help close cases by recalling distinctive tattoos.

Homicide Lt. Dave Dolson said gang members frequently get symbolic tattoos to bolster their street cred: three dots on the hand to signify "mi vida loca" ("my crazy life"), sketches of prisons where they've done time, gang insignia prominently stenciled on their heads and torsos.

But a tattoo laying out a detailed picture of a crime scene is something far outside the norm. "I haven't seen it before, and I haven't heard of anything like it either," Dolson said.

Garcia's tattoo shows a man with the body of a peanut being hit by bullets and falling back toward the liquor store. In gang slang, the word "peanut" is used to derisively describe a rival gang member.

Lloyd had been at the scene of the Pico Rivera killing as a station sergeant. After he recognized it in the tattoo, the 30-year veteran called up the cold case file. He pored over the crime scene photographs alongside the photos of Garcia's chest. He also drove to the site of the slaying.

"I worked Pico Rivera a lot of years, so I'm pretty familiar with that area," he said. "It was incredible."

With the help of major crimes investigators, deputies found Garcia living with relatives in La Habra. They arrested him and began setting up a ruse to secure his conviction.

A detective posing as a Los Angeles gang member who'd been arrested on attempted murder charges was placed in Garcia's Norwalk station jail cell. He soon got Garcia talking, sheriff's investigators said. Garcia was proud, and he bragged about the shooting. He didn't know the conversation was being recorded and that it would soon be played for a jury.

But perhaps it was all bound to end up this way, said Capt. Mike Parker.

"Think about it. He tattooed his confession on his chest. You have a degree of fate with this," Parker said. "The detective who spotted it had been a Pico sergeant who went on to become a homicide sergeant. I never worked Pico station. I never would have recognized that Pico liquor store."

Investigators don't believe Garcia's elaborate tattoo was a rash decision. Photos from several bookings over the years show the mural on his chest evolving as he added details to the tattooed murder scene — until one day Lloyd saw them as a whole and something clicked. LA Times

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Yeah I think the slouching model chick as tattooer with no tattoos was the first giveaway..

apparently, that slouching model with no tattoo's is Tattoo Dex and the propieter of this shop, which appears to be just as horrible as any other shop owned by someone who seems to be in the business for the money and not the trade.

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and......the truth is revealed....

Facebook Tattoo Video Was Just A Fantastic Viral Marketing Hoax

Jeremy Scott

This is just awesome. The Facebook tattoo video, which I wrote about here yesterday as part of a “videos that become news” article, turns out to be an elaborate fake. A viral marketing video. It’s nothing but a hoax. And what a wonderful hoax it was–and successful! The video has 1.6 million views as of this writing, and it’s barely a week old.

It’s been revealed that the tattoo wasn’t actually permanent, but rather it was some kind of temporary thing that disappears after a few days–no doubt it’s already gone. The tattoo artist, Dex Moelker, will surely get a higher profile from this whole thing, though I have so little knowledge of that industry that I can’t say how much it will mean to her in terms of profit or new customers.

No, the real “advertiser” here is Pretty Social. Who’s that, you ask? Well, they’re a company that lets you buy gifts and trinkets printed with… wait for it… your Facebook friends’ faces. In the original video, the company is specifically thanked, and they’re listed as the “tattoo designer” in the video’s description.

Here’s the original clip in case you missed it:

Why Did The Hoax Work?

Viral hoax videos work best when they are squarely on the line between being incredible and being hard to believe. On the one hand, most viewers were critical of the girl, having a hard time understanding why anyone would get such a silly tattoo–and such a big one, covering the entire arm. On the other hand, the clip is completely believable, because honestly… people tattoo unthinkably weird crap on their bodies every day.

Have you ever seen one of those tattoo-parlor reality shows on cable? Watch just one episode and you’ll realize that there’s very little limit to what some people are willing to permanently ink on their bodies. There are entire Tumblr sites devoted to photos of ridiculous tattoos. So ultimately, even though viewers largely thought this woman was crazy, they didn’t have any trouble buying the fact that the tattoo was real.

Over the past few days, the video has received hundreds and hundreds of mentions on mainstream news sites, blogs, and everything in between. It fooled nearly everyone, and it did so because it was a perfectly executed concept intended to be believable and unbelievable all at the same time. In the end, for relatively little cost, Pretty Social was able to use an extreme example to demonstrate their service, and got it in front of the eyes of millions. That kind of thing could put a business on the map, no?

Source: Facebook Tattoo Video Was Just A Fantastic Viral Marketing Hoax Facebook Tattoo Video Was Just A Fantastic Viral Marketing Hoax

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