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SpoilerFrench antiques fraudsters found guilty of Versailles chair scam

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Bill Pallot was considered the top scholar of French 18th Century chairs.

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago

His getaway vehicle...

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago

OSHA shut down his Choolate Factory

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Eating a succulent chinese meal

This, is, democracy, MANIFEST!

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Robbed his own bank while brandishing a pepperbox pistol causing several faintings among the witnessing public

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

pepperbox pistol

A few months ago I googled that and then watched a few Youtube vids. I'm not a gun guy so at first I didn't understand stuff. The pistol appeared in the tv series Hell on Wheels.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

I've always wanted to shoot one. With a vice and some string. Cuz I ain't holding one of those unwieldy fuckers.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

Trying to kill Dr. Venture

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Canceled for fucking too many women in Louis XVI's court.

[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No that would make him really popular. But he might've been poisoned by a cucked husband with arsenic based wig powder.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He is popular and you're just jealous.

[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Uhg you're right.

I'm going to find out who does his colonics and make sure the next time he boofs some poison. That's teach the smug mustard colored bastard.

[–] robotElder2@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

Stealing forehead polish

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

Willard Wonkler ran a large unpaid labor force and injured a bunch of children on a tour of his Butter Factory.

[–] Lenins_Sabocat@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I thought this was a shitty wax statue of Benjamin Franklin.

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

I thought Penn and Teller had fused together

[–] HakFoo 5 points 2 weeks ago

Counterfeit $100 notes then?

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He stole all the saltwater taffy in Atlantic City!

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Just for lookin like that

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

He's a ringmaster for a circus and several of his acrobats have been eaten by tigers.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

I'm an expert in chairs, so sit your fat arse down in this vintage rocking chair.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

We all know what Kevin Spacey did.

[–] Koolio@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Scribbling furiously. Moustache. Monocle. Barbe. Cicatrice de duel....

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I used Google Translate: "Mustache. Monocle. Beard. Dueling scar. ..."

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

Not enough beanis

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

He cheated on Bargain Hunt

[–] curmudgeonthefrog@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

For being the mayor of a town where everyone sings

[–] mendiCAN@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

free this tiger! what they do in their own bedrooms is no business of the state

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago

Drank riboflavin like cool aid.

I wish it was on YouTube, cuz I don't link to fucking Insta here, but comedian Eric Fretty had a skit where he pretended to be one of those "Pedo Catcher" influencers who went to the park to confront a dude, and the guy was some weirdo in a top hat with a cane who when confronted was like "Oh I am here to meet a 12 year old boy with the intent to have intercourse with him, have you seen this 12 year old boy?!?!?! I want to boink him!"

So I imagine something like that.

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

He was banished to the shadow realm for arguing with the menswear guy while his suit seams were puckering

[–] Blep@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Evrart is helping me find my gun