The need for and use of donning disguise is like a staple in comedic and suspense popular fiction (comix, kids', some tv & film, etc) -- but does it actually happen in the real world? Anyone actually done this?
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 24 December 2007 01:27 (eighteen years ago)
Several times, but I can't talk about them in public. Statute of limitations etc.
― ian, Monday, 24 December 2007 01:57 (eighteen years ago)
My dad once put a plaid derby on my head and had me wear sunglasses to sneak me into the horse track when I was 10. Back then, you had to be 18 to enter.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 24 December 2007 02:22 (eighteen years ago)
was only thinking last night how i want to practise my private investigating, on say one of my mates. Like a GTA mission I'd have to take 5 different photos of them in various places without them knowing.
but how do you disguise yourself without overdoing it and sticking out like a sore thumb?
― Ste, Monday, 24 December 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)
this thread needs scott seward picture posting
― gr8080, Monday, 24 December 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)
When I was in high school, I wanted to get my Detective license from the "Rouse School of Detectives" after seeing the ad in Weekly World News.
Once I got my information kit though, I found that upon graduation you get a Rouse School bumper sticker.
It occurred to me that no real detective would have a bumper sticker saying that he was a detective. So I am still totally unlicensed.
― Nate Carson, Monday, 24 December 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)
Well done.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 24 December 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)
loved this book as a kid: http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Knowhow-Book-of-Spycraft-by-Falcon-Travis-Judy_W0QQitemZ110197420655QQcmdZViewItem
― gr8080, Monday, 24 December 2007 12:08 (eighteen years ago)
When I was a kid I had a similar book called "Loads Of Codes And Secret Ciphers". http://www.amazon.ca/Top-Secret-Handbook-Ciphers-Writing/dp/product-description/0763609714
― snoball, Monday, 24 December 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)
I once was bored in the interstate (in town) and decided I'd try to follow a random car to their location undetected. (I know this sounds creepy, but it was just generic detective practice, right?)
So I picked a car, and followed it from two cars back and all that. the car eventually turned into the parking lot for a television station, and under the lights I recognized the driver as a local anchorwoman.
I haven't tried that road parlor trick since.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 24 December 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)
The only disguise I need is my faux wine-merchant business cards used for the purpose of getting into trade-only liquor events. After that, I let the liquor do the talking and it works pretty well.
― saudade, Monday, 24 December 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)
!!
― gr8080, Monday, 24 December 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)
It's pretty amazing what color contacts and the right hat can do...
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 24 December 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)
Have you ever been in dis guys?
― Abbott, Monday, 24 December 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)
I tried to dress as a man once but NO ONE WAS FOOLED.
You forgot to not cry
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 24 December 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)
No I was hell of stoic.
― Abbott, Monday, 24 December 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)