Crime museum: When a bad man strikes the city
In our shared affection for McGruff the Crime Dog, who recently wears pants* and receives no justice from WMATA, friend Melissa and I have been wanting to visit the National Museum of Crime and Punishment.
As I now work in its neighborhood, we visited and were not let down.
The dummy demonstrating medieval torture and I compare beards.
Melissa channels the true emotions of being in the stocks.
Old pirate flags or Threadless shirts waiting to happen?
If only I'd been a teen and an orphan!
For real: An ancestor of mine helped catch and hang Jack McCall.
For Meghan, [SPOILER ALERT] the car from Bonnie and Clyde.
Loved this quote. Have tried for years to write on something like this.
We've never been able to prove his relation to the family.
But, seriously, it's like we're the same person.
I tried cracking the safe. Repeatedly. I would be a bad safe-cracker.
"When a Bad Man Strikes the City" would be a great album title.
I pretend to be Cosmo Kramer.
Melissa pretends to be Andy Dufresne.
Also, Erik Estrada. I think.
The summer of shooting things continues, this time digitally.
Disqualifying herself from Police Academy for excessive celebration.
How I show on a heat scan. I think this means I'm super hot. And pale.
We also visited the America's Most Wanted set. No John Walsh present. Elsewhere, a fingerprint scanner arrested me for larceny and battery.
As a D.C. native, going to a non-Smithsonian museum remains bizarre. The museum was a good, interesting time, but I felt a little bit like I'd watched a marathon of true crime shows on TV. Lots of people enjoy those shows. Me, I change the channel for something more escapist.
I think Melissa and I found enough fun stuff at the museum; but if you visit, tell me what you think. How do you find the cool-creepy ratio?
*Bonus thing to love about McGruff now wearing pants? The FAQ on wearing the costume. Sample answer: "To maintain consistency of the image, the wearer should be 5'7" to 6'3" in height, should appear reasonably fit and of normal build, and should not appear obviously female when in costume." Sample question: "Do I have to wear the pants provided with the McGruff costume?" Price: very expensive.
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:53 PM
In reference to your last photo, I seem to recall the museum attendant pointing out your cold nose and hands. Why doesn't this show up in the photo? Did you doctor this? (Much like the doctored photo of my hooked nose? Seriously? Melissa does not have a hooked nose.)
Sincerely,
Arrested for grand theft
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:59 PM
Lost all kinds of heat detail from lack of flash, I think. Or the holding the camera in front of my face knocked out those patches? Who knows.
August 28th, 2010 at 5:13 PM
[...] and read about on Facebook and Twitter for years and hadn't been able to partake in. I was charged with grand theft at the Museum of Crime and Punishment, then watched real bad-ass gangsters Bonnie and Clyde at Screen on the Green (balancing out the [...]