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>> Did you ever want to solve crimes
when you were a kid?
>> I mean I read Encyclopedia Brown.
>> I think when kids really want to solve crimes
the juvenile surveillance state starts.
>> Wait, wait, wait, wait,
you talking about snitches?
>> You just start spying on everyone?
>> I did do a ton of spying. >> I know you did.
>> Kept detailed notes, finding hiding spots.
>> Mic'd your parents' bedroom?
>> Okay, that's a real thing.
God dammit.
[laughing]
I'm so glad they found it.
God, how scarring would that have been.
[laughing]
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Hey man, we got articles over at
themodernrogue.com
where we tell extraordinary stories
of exceptional people
and this week we are talking about five awesome kids
who solved real ass crimes.
>> Okay, now the first one is
pretty great!
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I was like an amateur cartographer when I was a kid.
>> Yes.
>> Drawing maps of just everything.
But mostly--
>> Real things or made up things?
>> Dungeons and Dragons, it was Dungeons and Dragons!
It was fine!
>> [laughs] called that one.
>> Okay, so in 2017 we had two kids
in the German town of Oer-Erkenschwick?
>> Oer-Erkenschwick.
>> Oer-Erkenschwick. >> Oer-Erkenschwick,
Oer-Erkenschwick!
>> That's good >> There you go,
if you shout it it sounds more German.
>> Sure, and the kids are eight and nine
and they're, like me, cartographers.
>> Amateur cartographers.
[laughs]
They witnessed a hit-and-run.
>> Yeah and this is no minor detail,
we're watching a car just back the heck up, boom!
Smack into a car and peel out
and then drive around
and then get the hell out.
It's like in that panicked moment
somebody backs up and you're like
"That's thousands of dollars of damage,
"let me just go this way."
You're like "That's a cul de sac,
"let me turn around and go that way."
>> It's like when you panic
and you don't know how to get out of a situation
so you're just bumping into people
like you're suddenly half blind.
>> But in this case, the cops talked to 'em
and asked them to recreate,
to actually draw out stuff
and they gave such a detailed account,
that so precisely matched the evidence,
that they were able to make an arrest.
>> One of the police officers involved says
if he's being honest,
it was actually just as good
as any one of his colleagues.
>> All right, as an amateur cartographer
what do you say?
>> Okay, let's see.
Looking at the map here,
they've got a garden,
well that's misspelled.
[laughs]
>> It's german you ass
all right, keep going keep going.
All right so obviously those are
at the top of our leaderboard right?
Kids draw a map that gets somebody arrested.
>> Solid, they solved a crime.
>> Sure.
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>> So in 2016, our next one's outside of London,
there was an Easter egg hunt.
Police were chasing after some bad guy--
>> With the Easter eggs? >> Yeah
>> He was like, the Easter egg burglar [laughs]
>> I'm picturing Chief Wiggum
He's dressed up in a bunny outfit.
>> Robble robble robble robble.
[laughs]
>> Suddenly he's the Hamburglar.
>> [laughs] Yeah.
But the point is the kids were out on an
an Easter egg hunt
and then they see a police helicopter
clearly looking for someone
just seconds before they
had seen two dudes racing across the field
and they knew,
they were just like okay
whoever these dudes are they're looking for them.
So this is the part that breaks my mind,
I would just go, that way, he went that way!
>> [laughs] Jumping a waving.
>> It's like, can't see the enemies, over.
Kids dabbing all over the place.
[laughs]
They're doing the Harlem Shake I guess.
[laugh]
Over.
>> And so these kids all lay down
and they make a human arrow in the dirt.
>> I want to know who's idea that was.
>> That could've gone horribly array,
that's the first thing that I thought.
Because these guys are up in the helicopter
looking around and they think,
they just murdered like nine kids.
They're all dead.
>> They arranged the bodies.
>> [laughs] In an arrow.
>> Call reinforcements.
>> We're dealing with some real sick customers here.
>> But apparently this was totally effective
they now knew which way
they were able to relay the information
they ended up catching the bad guys.
>> Yeah, they had a sniper up in the chopper
and they just nailed >> Nope nope
>> The Easter Bunny >> nope [laughs]
>> And the kids were just screaming.
>> Robble, robble.
>> Yep. [laughs]
You know what the Easter Bunny is right?
It's not the Hamburglar,
he's a different thing.
>> Not in this kid [laughs]
>> I'm kind of excited about this new twist now.
>> Okay, to me this is an easy new champion
this kind of level of co-ordination
and the fact that I happened so fast.
They're my current favorite.
>> I'm still with the kids drawing the map.
>> Amateur.
>> Amateurs cartographers,
I want to see some of there other work.
>> The freaking cartographers guild
is strong in this one.
>> I want to join it but they keep rejecting me
because I draw dragons on everything.
[laughs]
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>> Australian school kids go full CSI on a vandal
and I assume that's not like a violence thing,
they don't like go full CSI.
>> Well, when you were in school did they offer
like any sort forensic science class?
>> They offer the coolest classes now!
My kid just signed up for a movie watching class
and she's like "Dad, we just watch movies
"and talk about them."
and I thought yeah, no, that tracks,
that's the world that we live in.
>> God that sucks, I had like 4-H
and home ec to choose from, what a drag.
>> The important thing is that
this school actually offered
a forensic science class.
>> So these kids were super into it,
they thought they were
like Jonny Lee Miller in Elementary.
Someone was cutting up the tennis nets
on their tennis courts right?
>> Sure, yeah.
>> And so they decided to go out there
and use their skills that
they had learned in class
searching for everything
and they found what they thought
were footprints of the culprit, right.
>> And because they learned
the proper way to take photography,
they got these high detailed shots.
They essentially made a full,
complete forensic map of
how this crime happened,
but the criminal came back later
and robbed the store canteen,
or as they call it down there,
the tuck shop.
And when the police showed up
they were thrilled to suddenly see all
of these markers that they were able
to match to the existing crime
and they were able to find the bad guy.
>> He would've gotten away with it
if not for these damn kids.
>> It's totally true this time.
>> Right?
>> They were literally, meddling kids.
>> Yes. [laughs]
So, I watch all of those CSI shows,
no I don't, that's not even true.
I watch one of them. [laughs hysterically]
That's not even--
>> Please, leave this in, this confession,
that's amazing [laughs]
>> I watch one of them.
Yeah.
>> All right, so where do these guys go on your ranking?
>> The ingenuity and the precision,
I think, is to be commended,
that's the top, right here,
this is the best >> Yeah it's, oh really?
See this one is the least glamorous
and it's kind of the most obvious.
If you spend all day studying how to do a thing
and suddenly you have a real life crime
for you to solve, it seems like you would solve it.
Plus what was that Netflix show
that was pretty--
>> BoJack Horseman.
>> No no no no no no, who drew the dicks?
American Vandal!
Dude this is real life American Vandal.
All of a sudden they're taking their skills
and expertise and applying it
to a high school crime.
>> See now I wish they'd show
the cops like mud impressions of penises.
[laughs]
Like we've got a penile rivulet that he left [laughs]
>> All right where do you put them on the ranking?
>> They're at the top.
I think that they're,
they're taking some really detailed skills
and applying them to solve crimes, much respect.
>> Yeah, I'm going to say
it doesn't have that in the moment pop
that making a human arrow has.
So I'm going to put them at solid second place.
>> All right.
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Okay so when you were eight years old
and you lost something,
what would you do?
>> Cry.
>> Exactly.
[laughs]
>> I'd just cry and throw a fit
until my parents bought me a new one.
But not Landon Crabtree.
>> Yeah, in this case his iPad got stolen
and keep in mind iPad
was pretty much brand new back then
but also his parents totally got robbed
and in this case,
now this is before Find My iPhone,
this is before any default tracking apps
or any of that stuff.
He happened to have installed a tracking app on his iPad
and days after the crime happens
he just you know, beep bop boop,
walks up to his dad
and says "Hey, I know where all
"of our stolen stuff is."
>> I'm not capable of that now.
>> Okay, realize this is one year older
than my youngest daughter.
>> Oh, wow!
>> Just imagine Cally coming up
and being like "Yeah so anyway,
"here's all your stolen stuff."
>> [laughs] I can't even comprehend that
I have a difficult time
just remembering my Apple password.
>> Yeah sure.
Now this is a hard one
to put into our ranking system
because we got to figure out
which is the most important part,
the fact that this happened in 2012
before all of this was standard?
The fact that it was done by an eight-year-old?
The fact that the dad had no idea
how this son knew this incredible wizardry?
>> And he was right, it was found four miles away.
So he did get his iPad back.
>> Well, so how do you rank him?
>> It's good but I'm still
I'm going to place him second
because I still like the CSI >> Above the human arrow?
>> Above the human arrow.
>> Oh my god, what have you got against
those teenagers?
>> They laid in the dirt.
>> Agh, are you kidding me?
They were signal to the skies!
It's fine, look--
>> No CSI's the best but this one's close second.
>> I'm going to put this kid above the cartographers
that's right, cartographers in last place.
>> Okay, okay fine.
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Stratford, Connecticut, 2015.
Rebecca Pietro draws a sketch
of a guy she saw burglarizing houses in the area.
>> And it's so good that
it actually gets the dude arrested
at which point he confesses.
>> Now we've drawn bicycles before
[laughs]
on this.
And they needed to be labeled, bicycle.
>> Yeah that's pretty charitable.
I like that you wrote seat with two E's [laughs]
>> Yeah I wanted, no that's an A,
there's an A there
but I just wanted to make sure there was no,
because this is maybe a cloud or some sort of amoeba.
>> But can you imagine 11 years old
look at it,
it is very much a stick figure drawing
but you can tell, it gets all
of those important details exactly right.
I don't blame the cops that they're like
yep, that is definitely a picture of that dude.
>> Now you can't just draw a picture of someone
and have the cops arrest them.
Believe me, I've tried.
>> I was about to say, I wish [laughs], you're like
now this troll.
>> Oh the guy from South Austin
once again turned in a picture
of some spiky-haired magician
said he was a murderer.
>> [laughs] In this case they had a suspect
they were looking at
but they can't just
also just go arrest anybody that they suspect
but this is close enough
to the person they suspected
that it's like, well that's enough to bring him in.
>> Yeah, so they already had a suspected burglar
they superimposed this picture,
with images of the suspect
and said, oh well yeah, that's him.
>> And of course, you know you bring someone in
for questioning and when people are guilty
also unfortunately sometimes when they're not guilty,
they eventually break down
and tell the truth
and in this case the dude admitted
to 10 different robberies.
>> Okay so you're 11 years old
and you're drawing a police sketch,
maybe of a guy that broke into your house.
>> Yep.
>> What does he look like.
>> Oh my god, first of all he's topless
and he's got like these giant pecs
and 12-pack abs
and he's got the head of a bull
with like snort coming out--
>> A Minotaur broke into the house!
>> And laser eyes-- >> Laser Minotaur!
The laser Minotaur is a scurge,
he's got a rap sheet like you wouldn't believe.
>> I'm going to draw a picture of it
and show it to you guys. [laughs]
>> I want a T-shirt
Laser Minotaur breaking into your house!
>> I hate to say it
but I would've put this one slightly above cartographers
because I can draw [laughs]
so for me, it's cartographers,
stick figure, iPad,
forensics
and number one, teenagers laying in the dirt.
>> They laid in the dirt, no. >> Yeah!
>> They're at the bottom for me,
at the very top, the CSI forensics team,
those are some skills,
second place, my cartographers,
map drawing kids solving crimes, love it.
Very bottom, kids laying in the dirt
just snitching going "Well there's your guy."
>> All right look, we got genuine controversy,
so you know what that means,
that means everybody in the comments
has to decide who's right
and also, spoiler alert, we're both wrong
but put your own list down in the comments.
And of course we've got to give a huge thanks
to Pauli Poisuo for writing this article
and so many more of the other
articles at themodernrogue.com.
>> It's a good looking site
check it out. >> It is.
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>> What is the bravest moment you ever had as a kid?
>> Waited up all night with a pellet gun
to catch Santa Claus breaking into my house.
>> Wait.
>> He never showed.
Shoot him with a pellet gun,
he pulls out a knife.
>> He grabs a candy cane,
[impression of shotgun loading]
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