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a good ridiculousness. But I got one for you, and it features one of your favorite people who It's not the Pope, not Elvis impersonators, I know, and it's also not Chewbacco. But you'll like this one, Okay. Around four thirty a m. In the morning on March two thousand eleven, a sixteen year old boy named Max Wade repelled down into the British Motors dealership in San Francisco. It's a luxury auto dealership. They have fatly lambos lotuses like all

those nice big cars. Right, A sixteen year old boys dream place to break in. Now, Max Wade. He drops down out of the roof, lands inside the showroom with all the dream cars around him. He looks around, he

goes m which one should I take? He doesn't choose a Bentley, doesn't choose a Lotus, doesn't choose any of the cars you would expect him to take unless you knew that there was one particular car in the showroom, and you would know that's the car he's gonna take, right, So instead, sixteen year old Max Wade decides to steal the yellow and black two thousand eight Lamborghini. Guillardo Spider valued it over two hundred thousand dollars. Yellow and black Lamborghini.

Oh yeah, yellow and black like a like a high speed bumblebee. Yeah. But do you know why it was yellow and black because it had a very unique owner. The owner you know him as Guy Fieri. Yes, Max Wade stole a Guy fee Eddies lamboy, and not only that, he gets away with it. For the next few days, he's driving Guy Eddie's Lambeau all around the Bay Area. Six year old boy the audacity. Oh yeah, and this crime that's just the tip of this ridiculous iceberg. So

get ready for a good one. I'm ready, all right, y'all. This is Ridiculous Crime. A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's always murder free and ridiculous. I'm Zarin Burnett, I'm Elizabeth Dutton, and we are here to hit you with the ridiculous. Okay, Now you know how two thousand eleven was only like ten years ago? Was it? Yeah? Ten years ago a full decade, but in more ways than time, it was very much a different time. Back down,

just to give you a sense of the culture. In two thousand eleven, Harry Potter and the Deathly House is the most watch movie of that year, huge blockbuster. Right. Also we have Transformers, Dark of the Moon, the Twilight Saga Breaking Down. These are the one, two, and three most popular movies. Now number four or five and six are The Hangover Part two, Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides, Fast five of the Fast and the Furious Movies,

and lastly at the seventh spot is Cars Too. Now do you know what all those movies have in common? Gritty realism only if you're friend, intense character study, amazing acting work. No, all of those movies have one thing in common, which is they have teenagers changing the world if you think about it, right, Pirates, Breaking Dot whatever the light movies, transformers, young people totally other ones, criminals getting away with it super fast. This is the swirl

of culture spinning around young adolescent Max Wade. It is a wild and reckless time. Now we live in a pandemic. We don't think being reckless is cool anymore, not Max Wade. So picture it. Max Wade is on the roof of the luxury car dealership. Now he lifts open the rooftop like hatch, fixes his rope and he repels down to the floor of the car dealership just like that. Now he's in there in the show room like an adolescent cat burglar, and he's like, Okay, I'm gonna no wait.

You have to also keep in mind with this kid, Max Wade. The kids sixteen, He's never repelled before. This is not like some kid who grew up on the side of a mountain. He was like working with rocks. Looked it up on Google. He just looked over what did he google? Oh dude, he Google's Mission impossible style. Repelling literally's like why did Tom Cruise do that? Time? You know? But that's the confidence of a sixteen year old boy. They're like, I can do what Tom Cruise

did in that movie. I'm gonna go in and get me one of them, guy Fiery Lambo's I don't know why he sucks like that because he's from Marine County at all. He was feeling a little bit of sauce. Spicy. Oh yeah, like extra sauce. I mean, the boy was basically he's just like a walking dipping sauce. This kid, he's just flavored. Guy here, he probably would have like

donkey sauce. Oh, it starts already, it's already okay. So this kid he breaks in, he's walking around the show room, takes hi about fifteen minutes to get to his like lay of the land. And then now the detectives who have watched the surveillance video, they noticed that he seems to be talking on this like two way radio. He's all secrets of his front door to patio coming in, brandigade coming in, brandigade coming in. But he's just talking to himself. Well, we don't know that because there was

a janitor who was working. This is like four thirty in the morning. Now, most of the times janitors that this showroom don't show up to like five six in the morning, right, this guy is there way before his shift, which is way suspicious. So these two don't interact them. But then again, maybe that's the need for the radio. Maybe the janitor is his lookout. We don't know, because get this, after the break in, janitor disappears, never to

be seen again. Wait, like missing persons go on, just cuts, doesn't come back to work, doesn't get his last check, nobody ever sees him again. What if he was like one of those stowaway people who like climb into the wheel well of a plane and then it takes off, but he was actually like underneath the Lamborghini and then Max drove off and he's just like little bits of him are up and down the highways. That is terrific to pick. Yeah, but it explains it. It does explain

that right on that the logic is next. Next, so our boy Max Wade, he sees this yellow and black aforementioned guy Fieri Lambeau, so of course that's the car he's gonna take. He breaks in, which, by the way, he had also googled how to break cars. So you can learn anything on YouTube. I'm telling you, between YouTube and Google, there ain't a single thing that you can't find. I can you have like a I don't know, nineteen sixty seven Toyota land Cruiser and you need to change

the spark plugs. Check YouTube. There's gonna be somebody. They're going, here's my nineteen sixty seven, and I can change the spark book. It's amazing and it's also good for sixteen year old criminals. Perfect. So Max Wade gets his full on YouTube education and manages to get this car out of the dealership. He cuts through the locks, he disables the security, he opens the roll top door, and he drives right out of the One Man Crimes. Max Wade is no joke, but oddly, my man Max Wade. He

leaves behind his bag of tools. Now his tools are belt cutters, I'm sorry bout cutting some belts, spenders, snippers, and his bag of tools he has bolt cutters, a prye bar, climbing gear, and of course the rope that he used to repel. Now, this kid, although seems like he's kind of reckless and kind of forgetful, he still is able to pull off like basically the crime of his young century, and he gets away with it by

I don't know, like five am. He's on the road gone and at that same time, you gotta wonder, where's Guy Fiery. What's Guy Fiery doing? I mean, I know I always think that, but what do you think he's doing at that time? Well, I would have to check my surveillance camera of him. Yeah, he's probably like snuggled in bed, just tucked away, dreaming of fried goods, just dripping donkey sauce on his chest. He was asleep in

a vat of donkey sauce. He sleeps on a like a pool noodle floating and in a bowl of donkey sauce on a waterbed filled with doncus. No, actually he was in Chicago. Oh yeah, he was filming s pretty much the same thing. Yeah, Beantown, So they just have that big bean anyway, putting that aside, So Guy Theories in Chicago, he's filming his show Triple d Diners Drive ins and Diners drive ins and dive. Dash cams close. Let me see I get this right. The third time

Diners drive ins and dives. There we go. Okay, So he's filming in Chicago. But because he's like on set, he's like busy doing his thing or like I don't know what Guy Theory considers busy but whatever. He's in Chicago. He gets a phone call. It's his friends. Now, his friends are like, hey, man, are you in town? I just saw your Lambeau cruise by. He's all new it broish Chicago filming diners, drive ins and dib is. They're like, this isn't and then I like really quickly hang up

long number. So he's getting these calls from his friends. Now, what do you think Guy Fieri has to say to his friends about that? You know, do you think he's like, oh, thanks, guys, I really appreciate you looking out for me. I love that car. It seems like he's got like a lot of good friends, and so I was probably thinking like, wow, good looking out good guy. Right, So he's thinking, my friends are looking out for me. No, Instead, and I quote Guy Fieri said, we would get calls all the time,

and I mean all the time. I had friends call me. He would say listen, I just saw your car on the freeway. And I was like, believe it or not, there's more than one yellow Lamborghini convertible, probably in northern California. If people would call and we get reports and my attorney would hear about it, well, come to find out he was driving it. Brief kid, Oh my god, it felt like Guy Fiery was right here in the room with us. Could you heal the presence? I was just like,

I was so confused. I was like, I am looking at you, but I'm hearing Guy Fiery. I channeled him so much that my hair is starting to spike. Chills. Chills. So back to Oro thief Max Wade. He bolts out of San Francisco, takes the Lambeau out of the show room. People are seeing him. He lives in Marin County, which is not far away from Santa Rosa, which is where Guy Fiery grew up and where a lot of his friends are. And also he has friends down in the

Bay Area. So this dude is driving this car around where a bunch of Guy Fieri's friends could see him at any given time. But also the fact that he's from Marine County would suggest that this kid is a rich, spoiled bread Yeah, pretty much. Odds on, odds on, right, I mean, like, we both grew up in the Bay Area enough that we know those Marine County kids. Yeah, this kid, he ain't what you picture. Interesting. Yeah. Now, so he's driving around other than the fact it's a

yellow and black car, the Lamborghini, the Guy Fieri. There's one other way that you could know that this is Guy Fieri's car. If you're in the know, he has a custom license plate to let you know this is Guy Fieri's car. Now, can you guess what Guy Fiorry would put on his customer No, I really cannot. I just can't. I don't have it in me. It turns out he has the letters g U y t O r O Guy Toro. Ultimately he has the Italian for guy Bowl. Well, isn't that the Lamborghini logo Gallardo? Yeah?

But yeah, the Lamborghini. No, that's a horse. The Lamborghini is the horse. Which one is the bull? No, the Ferrari's the horse. Yeah, the Lamborghini the bowl. You know what I'm going to have to tap in and ask super producer Dave can set the right, Reverend Dave Kusten, can you answer this question? I'm going to have to look to us up here. Let's see it is in

fact a ball is a bowl. It's a It's like it's kind of jaunty head turned to the side, like it's going to attack something, not at you, but next to you, but very virile. Huh yeah, very muscular. Yeah, it's like looking at Guy Fieria just be four legs, yeah exactly. If you imagine the Wall Street ball, it looks a lot like that. Oh okay, yeah, I win. There you go one for dotton. Okay. So back to

my man, Max Wade. He knows he's got to get rid of this because it's going to be an indicator, So he swaps out the license plate and he uses one that he'd already taken from an audi He had stolen a license plate off and Audy pretty much getting ready for this heist. So he's now it's six fifteen in the morning on the morning he steals this car. He swapped out the license plates, He's going to be pretty much in the clear, and that is why everyone is able to see him driving around. He's pretty much

gotten away with it well at first. Turns out his luck will not hold, not because he's not a good criminal, but because he's a teenager. Max. Yeah, and I'll just tell you this much. It has the flavors of a Romeo and Juliette love triangle if you threw Guy Fiery in it. But We'll be back after a short break and I will tell you all about the weird love triangle of Guy Fieri, my man Max Wade, and that

yellow and black Lambo. Okay, so we got Guy Fieri getting calls from his friends whenever they spot this yellow and black lambo cruising around the Bay Area. Right, he's got this nuclear yellow paint shop. It's I mean, it's impossible to spot. In fact, the police are convinced this will be the one thing that will help them find it. How could anyone miss it? All that too, is just wait for people to start calling in. I saw this

teenager and a yellow Lambo. Turns out, even though the kid is driving it around, nobody can actually take a photo of him and send it to the police. Nobody can get a tip fast enough to say where he is. I mean, because people were mining their own business for once, people reminding the own business. When Guy Fiery gets to fallow, people are like, I'm turning away, not my business, no, I ke I t s. I love guy theory. I'll

stand up for that guy. If you can throw up a bar fight and Guy Fiery is getting his butt kick, I'm stepping on a guy theory side. I'll take a blow for him. I like, he's a good dude. He does all kinds of stuff, so as I tease him, keep that in mind. So exactly well, we all know who Guy Fiery is for the most part, or at least we know the caricature of Guy Fiery with the bleach blonde hair, the bowling shirts, the flames, the hey bro. Right,

what do we know about Max Wade? Remember I told you he's not a rich kid from Marinne County, So what's his deal? He lives in Marinne County and he's a proficient googler he is tell me more, he's not a tech kid, though he's good at tech, but he's not. What's what's the story with this kid? He comes from a home that I can only say was challenged. So Max Michael Wade was born to these young newlywed's right, they have him. It's they start raising him, but they

quickly run into trouble between the two of them. His mother has to call the police, tries to get restraining orders. The father and the mother both filed for divorce against the other. It gets bad, and it's so bad that at one point Max has to step in when he's about ten to stop his father from beating his mother. God. Yeah, the father has a towel and he's like trying to choke the mother. So a little ten eleven year actually

I think he's eleven. Eleven year old Max Wade steps in and basically stands up to his father, protects his mother, and it becomes something of a criminal bomb mitzvah. It's when he becomes a man and a criminal. He will not take guff or lip or orders from anybody who's given him some bs he doesn't believe in because of that relationship with his father is what psychologists the trajectory of his life changes in that moment. Oh boy does it. So that's a lot of people would say was probably

his origin story moment. Right. So this kid he then has to, as I told you, it becomes an adult. He has to go and testify against his father in a trial. Oh yeah. So that doesn't work though, because the trial ends in a hung jury. He goes in there, breaks open his heart, tries to protect his mother, and it doesn't help protector. The father gets by on a hung jury. So he learns that justice is not always just. So these are his early lessons. And that's why I

kind of pulled from a man Max Waite. I gotta feel bad for this kid. You'll hear why later on why that can be a little bit dicey. So anyway, back to Max Waite, He's bouncing around schools and he's in Catholic school. He gets kicked out because he was like defacing property. He's then he gets over to Delmar Middle School over in Marine County. It's the name has since been changed. He gets in trouble there, but before he gets in trouble, he is named the biggest Rebel

at his eighth grade yearbook. Yeah right, you started to see the soft spot I have. Yeah, this poor kid. Now, by the way, were you like in your high school where people voted most likely to do? Yeah, we had that. Now did you know any of the people that were like, were you friends with anyone who got the most likely to our biggest rebel or whatever? Um? Well there were only sixty six girls in my graduating class, so yeah, so you knew all of them. I was. I was

voted something. We were you voted class clown? Oh yeah, I'm not. How about you? I was also voted something You'll never guess you were probably voted most likely to were you know, you know what I'm thinking. It's something like really sweet and innocuous, like best smile. Alright, fine, all right, you've kind of got it right. It was I was voted most friendly. Yeah have your laughs. I have your laugh You're a friendly guy. Moving on after a while. Ye give you a time to warm up.

Maybe know me for a few years in school. I don't know anyway. I was surprised to win it. But so Max Wade, he wins rebel of his school, biggest rebel, right, and that's pretty much is how everybody treats him. It's who he thinks he is. That's a red flag superlative going forward at this at this school. If you get biggest rebel, like, they need to put that in your permanent record, in the invisible style cabinet that contains all of our permanent records. So our boy Max Wade, he's like,

you know, the rebel, and he's getting into trouble. But not only that, he's getting more aggressive. He starts the Marine Fight Club. Oh yeah, yeah, like little amateur Tyler Dirton. He decides I'm gonna go full Brad pitt and like walk around and convince these other kids to punch each other. He starts like spreading a little bit of chaos. Well, and he was raised in a really violent, chaotic environment. Yes, that's how he understands control. But nobody gets hurt, and

it's not a really bad thing. It's but it does become an issue. He gets kicked out of school. So this is before he finishes his freshman year. He's a young kid to be kicked out of school. So what does he do? What does the biggest rebel of eighth grade do when he's kicked out in ninth grade? Ah, kicked out in ninth grade? Does he just quit school altogether? Pretty much? And he starts selling fake I d s and pot. Well, you gotta gotta make a living, Yeah,

you gotta make a living. And if you know or a young teenager, those are pretty much avenues to fund. Everybody wants to find you. You're gonna be invited everywhere. It's like that are cold Stone Creamery, He got choices cream damn crazy bald. So he's selling fake I d s, he's selling pot, but also he's getting more criminal. At this same time, he steals his own mother's car. He paints moms venture so much. Oh yeah, but he you know, he wants to get away with it, so he steals

her car. He paints it all black. Do you think he painted it? Was just like spray paint from the store. Just Matt black, Matt Black. Yeah. So he's driving around in a black ski mask, in his painted masks like a like a ninja or something. I don't know. So yeah, it's this fast and furious business that's getting the kids all work and the ski masks and the painted cars. It's that damn vin Dieselae Diesel. I'm telling the kids they cannot take both the rock and Vind's will come at.

There's too much shine coming off of skull. They're gonna false weight to that criminality. I'm telling you, boy, how he's blinded. They're blinded. So let's fast forward. We've gotten through a little bit of Max Waite's past. Now he's sixteen. He steals Guy Fieri's Lambo. I love that we're talking about. He's sixteen. Let's lee we've moved through his path. Now is it the right? He's in his golden years, his criminal peak. So what does the sixteen year old kid do,

who has stolen Guy Fieri's yellow lambeau. You know what he does. He brags to every mother he knows. He's like, hey, guys, look at this man. He's telling every friend he has. Everybody's selling pot too. If he gets a fake I d you're getting to see his phone and see the pictures of the lambeau because he wants to be cool still.

I mean, he's a teenage four So one of the texts we know from some of this text one of my favorite ones is, man, I love my life boosting a lambo and picking up a cute girl when you're seventeen. So that's our cocky, over confident Max Wade. But the dude, he's no fool. I mean, like he sounds wild and he sounds like reckless, but he's super smart out so he does something that a good criminal would do. He hides the car, but not at his house, not even

in Marin County. He hides it over in Richmond. And you know Richmond. Ain't nobody looking for something that was stolen in Marine in Richmond unless it's scrap metal, so they don't think that the lambo is there. He goes over with a fake I d he gets himself a storage unit smart Kids Markets. I told you right now, can you guess? But the name was on the fake Ida he used to rent the star creative little fella. I don't know what was his name. I'll give you

a hint. He loves both cops and criminals. He loves both cops and criminals. He loves really detectives. Yeah, I don't know what was his name. Carmine Colombo. Oh that is beautiful, right, it just rolls off the tongue. That's beautiful. All right, You're spending the night with Carmine Colombo. Okay, so skip ahead a couple of months. The cops finally do here from mothers and fathers and Marine County whose children have been talking about one of the kids who

stole guy fears Colombo? What what name would you use? What name would I use for a criminal alias? Hypothetically? Yeah, hypothetically speaking, I would use alo Wisious huff and puff. That's a good one. I like it, just get you an idea that, Yeah, what what one would you do? I would call myself Regina corn Tower because Regina not Regina Regina, Regina corn Tower because it means, you know, it's like you sound like a strapping, like milk fed

midwestern gal just doesn't take guff. Oh no, it sounds like she wrestled Vikings for fun. Totally. That's that's my criminal alias. Your girl Regina be on the lookout. So the cops who are not looking for Regina after my man Max Wade. They can't find him, but they start getting these tips, right, so they call in Max Wade and they try to interview him, right but one, they can't really find Max Wade. He's very difficult to find too. They can't get any solid evidence that puts him with

the car. Although they've been told all about this, there's no pictures, right, so it's kind of looking like the kid's gonna get away with it. Now. Just try and guess what could undo based on the little hints they gave you earlier, what could undo our boy Max Wade Facebook? Mostly it's that he starts thinking with his Okay, so he's a sixteen year old, starts hormones coursing through his veins. Yeah, oh, skin is pretty much rippling with hormones. Voice is changing.

He's like, I stole a lambo and then he's like it's all Embaris. That's why it can't be in school. You're much more sensitive than the most adults were in his life. If only he had someone like you, if only he had Regina corn Tower in his corner, the corn Tower family with us would have stood behind, set that board down and just loved him up hearts, loved

him apart. You know, Lord, Lord, I'm gonna ask you to shine down on this boy the way that Vin Diesel's forehead light would shine on him, but in a good way. Prayers up, like the way the rocks hairline is retreating backwards. I want you to push the sin away from him. So we'll get into the dark troubled days on the morning of April a Friday, no less, because Max Wade also likes to, you know, really twist that screw. It's got styled so way you'd approaches a

white Dodge four by four pickup truck. It's parked outside at home in Mill Valley right inside or eighteen year old Landon Walstrom. He's a kind of a good old boy, which is not really a Marin County thing. But there are some like you know, cow there's some dairy farms and so forth, so there is a little bit of that, like you know, kickup boots Cannon. But yeah, so Landing is a little bit of an outliers driving that lifted white truck. He's likes you a dip. Now he's graduated

from Redwood High School. He's not a student anymore, but he's dating a high school student, a seventeen year old named Eva deady Air or dedier Eva. She's a senior and she knows Max Wade because he sells her fake I d s. She's in fact loses so many. He sold her about five to six fake it das. So she's just absent minded. Yeah, just you know, just a tan absent minded sprite of a girl. So he's smitten with this girl obviously, right, he's charging five dollars for

these fake IDs. He's pretty much hand in. She he charges pop and she keeps losing, and she's up to six at this point. That's the easy three grand, right, there's just just handed over to it, right, Yeah, I mean that's a lot of pumpkin spice lattees that she's going without. So that's a sacrifice, good for her. So he's smitten on her and Max Wade he had texted

her earlier saying, so who you're spending Valentine's with? And Eva had texted back my friend Landing, Well, that's why on Friday he pulled up next to my friend Landon's lifted white truck and my boy Wade, he pulls up on a black motorcycle stolen plates because it's you know him and probably that. But he's in all black because he wants to make that stylistic approach. It's very like matrix. Oh yeah, it's good call, good call. And he's got

a black helmet on. Keep that in mind, a black neck protector that this helmet is a very special one's called built. He's got a black built helmet, right, yeah, right, they're super cool. So he's also carrying, by the way, um you know, an old Saturday Night Special revolver like at like he's trying to kill someone in yeah so, and so the guns registered on someone else's name. He pulls up and Wade is on that motorcycle, rocks up next to lifted four by four white truck, and what

does he do? Got a gun? Pop pop pop, He lets five fly into the car. Landing is quick. He sees him like basically point the gun at him. He pushes down Eva's head on the seat. None of the bullets managed because the car the truck is lifted. He's down on a motorcycle. They all go into the ceiling of the truck. He doesn't adjust his height, he just starts capping off and he gets so excited he leaves one bullet in the chamber and you know, he's got one bullet left. He's used like five of the rounds.

One bullets left, and he's fumbling with the gun. This gives Landon a chance to peel out. They take off and then he grabs the gun and tries to chase after them on his motorcycle. He can't. They've made it away. They go and they hide at a place called Joe's Tacosa Landing and even ladd Eva. They pull up in the white lifted truck and Joe's Tacos and hide out

collect their thoughts at Joe's Tacos. Can we just say that, like Max didn't understand that he just made land In a legend because Landon is going to tell the story for the rest of his life about and it's gonna snowball every time, So that like how many years ago.

Is this like eleven years ago now when Landon tells the story, like someone came up with an a K forty seven and open fire and he like used his key chain as a throwing star and like yeah, and like tucked Eva under his shirt and drove Like yeah, I can totally Landon's a legend thanks to Max. Oh yeah, Landon is now getting a lot of free drinks from the boys at the ball totally totally. Now, obviously, Marine County, this isn't the home of the body bag. This is

not a place I mean where people are popping. I mean Marin City get some violence, but there wasn't much violence. So the police overrespond to the shooting. The neighbors are freaking out. People are calling in from the gas station down the street where they saw the shooting him and they saw the white lifted truck go to Joe's Tacos. The staff of Joe's Tacos is under counter like just like shivering and calling yeah, this was big news. This is bad business. Just getting chunks of lime ready in

case anyone comes in. So now the cops, though, remember they've never been able to pin Max Way down because my man is like a ghost, but Carmine Carmine Carmine Colombo. He he makes the mistake of basically creating incontrovertible evidence. He doesn't know this, but he did remember that black helmet. So a couple of the detectives are motorcyclists. They recognized the built helmet and they're like, bro, there's only one

shop that sell those around here. He couldn't have gotten it anywhere else than Cycle World over in San Francisco or cycle Gear over in San Francisco. So they pop over to cycle Gear and they're like, hey, man, you guys had anybody come in and buy a built helmet. They're like, yeah, this kid came in and paid cash. He bought a black neck protector, a black everything he's wearing. They just basically, can we see the sort of veillance footage now they have a good sense of what this

kid looks like. Oh yeah, the net is closing in on my man, max Way, but he doesn't know it yet. Right now, you went to an all girls school, all girls Catholic school. Did you know anyone who messed around with them bad boys? I was um what is known as a power nerd in high school, so I socialized outside. I didn't. I didn't have a social life. Um, but I do know there was a girl in my class who had a at the time we thought was a significantly older uh boyfriend. Looking back, he may have been

like nineteen, but it was it was scandalous. Um yeah. And now when I look back though, too, like let's say he was in his twenties, I was like, that's so pitiful that he's just like dating high school girl. High school girl, Like, what's wrong with you, buddy? But yeah, so that was I mean, like I said, I'm sure there were all sorts of girls running around with bad boys, but um, I was not aware of it, because you know, model you in well as a farmer semi bad boy.

I don't know if I can say that after also admitting that I was voted most friendly. What do they mean by friendly if you can allow for that dynamic to occur in your head. I was also somebody who the vice principal was questioning if I should return to school. So it was a little tugget war back there. And as a former bad boy, I can tell you it's fun, but the girls only want to have fun with you. They don't really want to necessarily make a life with you.

They prefer a guy like they don't want to make a life with a sixteen year old. Yeah, well, you know, sixteen year old was riding around popping off shots because he's mad. So I'm gonna put a pin in this for a second. We're gonna get back to Eva and Max Wade, Landon and Guy Fieri. Now it loves Square, and I'll tell you how this one ends. Now, Max Wade, as we've discussed, is infatuated with Eva. He's fighting in a love rival battle with Landon, and he's cruising around

and Guy Fieri stolen Lambeau right as one does. And he's already tried to shoot his way out of the friend zone, which ha apparently failed. Now at this time, there's like rumors going around on Facebook because all these kids know what this story is. So they start talking about like, oh, you know, he threatened Landing on Facebook. Landon's uncle finds this out, he tells the cops. The cops were like, wait what, And then they start being able to piece this together. The only problem is they

have no idea where to find Max Wade. He has falsified all of his stuff. There is no good address. The school doesn't have an address for him. He's not old enough to really have a legit license. He just fakes all of his i ds. So there is no way for the cops to find this cat. So how do you find a kid? Do you do? You don't know where he is, you can't write. That's what the cops very quickly figure out. But one detective gets lucky. This detective sees Max Wade into the Marine County courthouse

on a different case. He admitted like a whole party situation. He gets in trouble, right, so he's there. The detective recognizement goes, that's that kid who stole Guy Fieri's lambeau. He follows him and notices basically the kid goes through some house in Marine County and he's like, that's him. So now they start basically working with Eva. They're like, you gotta help us get this kid because we know he's on for you, right, They now know that he's

in the area. So around that exact same time, my boy Max Wade makes a faithful mistake of text and Eva, I know I tried to kill you the other day. I just want to see are we still cool? And she's like, well, do you have any more fake ideas? And she's working with the cops. Yeah, what's that called honeypot? Honeypot? So she's the classic honeypot. So she's like, you know, uh yeah, come and uh maybe show up and that's stolen lambo and we can go for a ride. That

cool with you? And he's like, like, go for a ride I don't know, like the police station. So there's really pretty parking line. She is why he stole that lambo. He wants to impress her. Oh yeah, completely just out of curiosity. What's the biggest thing you've ever stolen to necessarily impress somebody? Just that you know? Okay, well, you know,

I'm just going to be the truthful. The biggest thing I've ever stolen was the hearts of my countrymen with my piccolo rendition of Gasolina at the nineteen fifty two Pan American Games. I knew I shouldn't have asked. You should know better by now. That truly is the That's the biggest thing I've ever stolen. That's that's impressive. I thought it was gonna be the love of the Argentinian people that you stole from the via to Peron. Oh that's the Pales in comparison. Yeah, well, you know, what

can you do? So Wade agrees to meet Eva in Guys here he's stolen Lambeau. He shows up at his Richmond storage unit to go pick up his yellow car. The cops have figured out at this point where he is. They've tracked him, they know that he's there. There's fifteen cops waiting outside of the Richmond storage unit. It's a Saturday, ap roughly two weeks after the shooting event. Now there are fifteen cops sitting there waiting for him. They exactly right.

They let him go in, get the car, and drive away. He drives across the five ad bridge across rich Sandra Fell Bridge. Yes, you're old bridge. That thing is falling apart. He's lucky he didn't fall out, totally lucky he didn't get hit by a chunk of cement. So he's racing across that old bridge, headed to Marine County, going to Eva's place. Right, the cops are still, mind you back at the at the storage unit. So right, So they didn't give chase. They just let him. Oh, they're just

letting him. Remember you were saying about the honeypot you. So Eva contexts and text him according to police instruction, she says, I can't meet you today? Can we meet later? And shines him. He's like okay whatever, turns around, drives back to the waiting police. That gave them time to set up. Yeah, they literally are set up there in trees. They're in unmarked cars. There's a plane circling over the storage.

You know, you know that one of them was pushing an old grocery cart full of recycling and had like smeared stuff on his face and was all raggedy, but was wearing like Dockers and Kirkland elevens. Then he didn't tend to back the blue hat exactly. Just all oh my rooms, so bones like he's overplaying the whole character. They're just like, we can't we cannot invite Ken on these on these steakhouats anymore. It's embarrassing. If it doesn't involve the waterfront. Ken can't come. Kenn has like a

sailor costume. One ye, sorry. They're sitting there waiting in the trees. Ken's pushing his bag down the street and Wade shows up right he pulls back in. Do the cops take him. No, they let him go back inside. He doesn't come out for an hour. He's just They're like, wait, do we make a mistake. And VANGELI, I don't know. I like to imagine he's sitting there and guy fieres Lambo just crying to him, crying. Yeah, he got stood up. I mean he's tried so hard. He tried to kill

a man for her. He stole the guy fieres lambeau for her, and she just won't take him seriously, and he's either, why are you breaking a man's heart? So eventually he manages to come out, and he had been dropped off by a friend who drove a Crown Victoria and so the cop car he walks back out. He thinks he's you know, he's sitting there staring at his cellphone waiting for this guy to pick him back up, and he notices this Crown Victoria coming towards him, so

he like walks over, thinking it's his friend. Nope, it's an undercover car. The second one pulls up, he realizes, wait a minute, these are cops. He sees the cop in the tree, he bolts. He tries to make it a run for it. The cops jump out right now. One of the cops grabs him, another one kicks him, another one kicks him in the chest. They're beating on this kid, right, but they have good reason. According to the police. Apparently he's like reaching for his waistband, which

you know, I mean the kids a white kid. I don't even know they said that about white kids fan, but that's what they said about him. Ye, yeah, he's they're like ken. But turns out home he had a loaded glock forty five with about fifty rounds of ammunition, so he could have been like and they didn't just light him up and they didn't know that they found it when they searched him because remember before he had

just had that Saturday Night special like subway stick up gun. Yeah, but so they find that, uh, he's got a real gun. That explains why they had to beat the you know, the underhaged boy. Anyway, he's got, of course, a fake I d on him. Now. Can you guess with this fake idea is Oh my god, is it Guy Ferry his real name? That would have been great one. No, this one was Dr and Agnello Gotti, you know, like John Gotti, Remember well, and Agnello isn't that the Fiat guy. Yeah, okay,

on it with the Italian carmakers. It's in my blood and apparently the Max too. So the cops now rest Max Wade. He's busted. Everything's calmed down. They go down to a storage unit. They find the yellow Lambeau right where it was, and I'm talking this thing was tucked in within inches of the walls. Like he barely squeeze us into the storage unit. But in there with the with Guy Fierries Lambeau is the motorcycle, the guns, the outfits.

He's got jammers literally books for future crimes. Ken, you know Ken locked into the warehouse and put his hand on the hood of the Lamborkhan. He goes still warm, Kennan, your crack detective skills. Can someone get him out of here? Can we transfer him? So there also is a bill of sale. He had sold Guy Fieri's cards some owner in the Dominican Republic and it was supposed to get on like some like you know, storage unit container ship and sent down to the d R. It didn't make it.

He almost bought that close. Yeah, So now the luck of ge is gonna hold though, because now he's already filed with his insurance company because they couldn't find the car, so he's been paid out the two dollars. He's not really like, you know, too worried about it. Well, he loves it. Like he finds out it's stolen, He's not like on his knees screaming to the sky my my prize possession. He's like, oh one of my you know,

ridiculous supercars was stolen. Well we also, I'm not even know this, but guy fiery, you know, the love of my life. Yeah, he is a big Chevy man. So most of his cars are cor The first car he bought was a Corvette. When he first made his money on the Food Network, he bought some tricked out Corvette. He loves Chevy, so the Lambo to him is like

I think to impress other people. Okay. Also, by the way, he has this car, it's shown up on Driver or whatever Triple D, and he doesn't think the production associates mentioned. He doesn't drive it. He just opens the door, kids and open gets out. He just acts pull it up and he acts like I'm gonna drive away in this rad my bitchen lambeau, and then he just gets right back out and goes into the him. Good for him, it's just it's just fake as his prop. It's top.

So now Max Wade has to go to obviously have a trial because he's now being investigated for attempted murder impersonating. It turns out of police and all sorts of stuff he's got, like fake uniforms. The guy has jammers for police radios and for cell phones. I mean, he's doing all sorts of crimes. It's just a laundry list. And you know, he's also suspected to have been involved in some break ins, but it turns out he's too slight

for that. But they were trying to attach him to all these like crimes that they couldn't haven't been able to close the book on yet. Right, So, now, what do you think Max Wade's gonna do when he's locked up in remind you juvenile hall, because he's still not even eighteen. Does he do something terrible? Does he like shive somebody? No? Really, that guy, I mean, even though I know he did try to kill his love rival with us Saturday Night Special, he's not the kind of

shift somebody in jail. Instead, he's the kind of guy to get two of his idiot cronies to show up to Juvie with a sledgehammer and try to break him out. Bang bang. These guys had like four thirty in the morning, I'm working with sledge hammers, trying to fast sledge hammers from outside the cell. They're just sitting there smacking it at four thirty in the morning. There's nothing going on at four thirty in the morning except everybody's going to

hear that. Forty guards, forty Julie guards come rushing in and they stopped Max Wade from getting his masterminded getaway. And they go outside and they find the sledge hammers and everything, but his his associates have disappeared more honestly, yes, exactly. So why do you think he tried to do that, Well, I mean he wanted to get out. I don't know you wanted to get away, right, But also he was about turn eighteen, an eighteenth birthday was coming up, and

that meant he would be transferred to a prison. He didn't want to be around the real criminals. It was his last chance to avoid that. Like too bad, buddy. Yeah, So October rolls around and we now have the attempted murder and theft case. Guess who is a star witness, Your man Gie Fieri. So while like you have to understand this is like a circus of a trial, right, so that everybody wants in on this because this kid, I mean, he's basically become an internet legend. It's so

some people may not remember this. He was an internet legend. There were, in fact, a friend of his posted songs on YouTube about him. He had his own folk hero ballots, murder ballot exactly. So everybody is, like, you know, wanting to get in on this court case. Only one reporter is allowed in the room, a student from Redwood High School, one of alumni. Yeah, he's allowed to be the only one in the high school newspaper. Yeah, it's amazing. Right.

So then there, of course obviously is a court reporter right now. The court reporter is the way that we know what it looks like inside the courtroom, since there was no press other than the school newspapers. Like a sketch artist. So yeah, exactly, the courtate sorry, court sketch arts, not court reporters, court sketch artist. The sketch artist manages to capture your g Fieri and all his glory on

the witness stand. Now here, let me show you this photo. Okay, oh yeah, Now could you just try to describe it for the listening audience? Okay? Um, first of all, like we're putting this on the Ridiculous Crime Instagram so that everyone can take a look at this. You have to be able to see that. How did the artist manage to make him look sweaty? Like meat? Sweats are hard to capture in pastel. It really is a talented artist. Yeah, it kind of it looks like he'd have a stuicy

tattoo on his shoulder blade. And the look on his face. He kind of looks like the ticket taker just told him his general admission ticket to who was saying as counterfeit and he's going to have to go back out and enjoy the rest of the county fair. Like his hair, the hair, the hair cut. It looks like he was in a mac and cheese blossom and I swear to God people there are no lies. And looks the look on his face. Doesn't it look like his mom just found his trash bag full of stolen panties in the

bottom of his closet. What what is that? Weird look on the Oh my goodness, don't be mad at me, mommy. Yeah, that's a that's a gem. I'm going to get that printed and framed. Yeah for above the Heart. I mean, what a joy though, to have Guy Fieri on the witness stand in your trial and you're not even You're just an eighteen year old boy and he's bringing it. Max Wade coming up in the world. Dark power is

what that is. So but man, Max Wade. He gets busted, convicted on one count of attempted murder of Landing, and also he gets popped for auto theft and for possession of a stolen vehicle for shooting into the occupied vehicle, for trying to kill his love interest. And he gets acquitted on the attempted murder of Eva because apparently Eva doesn't want to press charges. I don't know, he couldn't be convinced that he was trying to kill her. Also, he is acquitted on the charge of stealing the car.

He doesn't get popped on commercial burglary. I'm not a lawyer, I'm not a judge. I have no idea. Now, remember that janitor who was or was not involved, Yeah, the one who wound up road chum because he was hiding into the car. Never shows back up never. So we have this one like mystery out there also the other mystery who dropped him off when he got we showed up at his storage unit to pick up the Lambeau. Remember the cops never talked about that. I know exactly

who it was. Who was it? Fiery, He's in the Crown vic It's all. It's like, I feel like it's the end of the usual suspects right now, right, it's all coming together, and all of sudden the footwork starts smoothing totally. Guy Fierry doesn't know Limp anyway, I just dropped my teacup, so so Max Wade, right, he tells his probation officer. Look, I was by myself. The janitor

had nothing to do with it. Nobody helped me, which seems like proof that the janitor helped him, right, And that just seems like immediately so I don't know if it's like a favorite uncle or somebody. Yeah, they're like, who helped you with this? He's like, not the janitor, Like wait what jandit He's like, never mind, I didn't I didn't say anything. Voices still so in janu Max Wade has given the maximum sentence life in prison. He sounds like, you know, I'm torn, How are you torn?

Because he sounds like a dangerous little guy. He sounds like he might be a little bit of a psychopath. But at the same time, like, I don't know, I feel bad for him. I was I was a handful, I was a troubled kid. I did some stuff. I never tried shooting anybody, but you know, shy of that. I can see how stories can be told that people would see, oh, he's gonna be a big danger when

he gets bigger, which never really was the case. So I think Max Wade, you know, if things were different, if somebody could have taken a hand, he might not have, you know, been this person everybody feared too late. Unfortunately, he is set up for twenty years of enhancements for premeditation of a use of a firearm California law dooms, so he's looking at basically has to do the life sentence,

the twenty years on his enhancements. Then after that he's got to do sixteen months for stealing Guy Fieri's car. Then he also has to do the rest of his life sentence. The other one, he's got to do another one. But luckily California law changes, he did no longer has to what would have been that he had to serve

of the twenty one years. He then ends up that they basically change his sentencing, so that now thanks to send It Bill six twenty, a California bill that gave judges the discretion over sentencing and said, no, we're no longer going to do these sentencing requirements basically that you have to do because of gun enhancements. Do you any time to use a gun into the commission of the prime the enhancement? Right, So they make that no longer the case. Now judges can decide. The judge of his

case decides and reduces him by ten years. So now he is eligible for parole in August. So you know that. Or is a little bit of good news that guy Fiery got his car back. Well he didn't, well because he got the payoff. He got the payoffs. So where is it now? Who has the who has the yellow Lamborghini? Right now? The insurance company I suppose took it. I suppose, I'm sure they sold it. So I'm sure we could find the person who bought the stolen Lambeau. Maybe we'll

come back to you with an update on that. I'm going to need that. So other than the fact that guy Fiery is the coolest man on earth, what was our ridiculous takeaway here? Well, my ridiculous takeaway I think is that, um, the kid is obviously troubled, but like, if you're gonna if you're gonna do a crime like this for a ridiculous reason, for the love of a seventeen year old girl, I say ridiculous reason. Totally ridiculous reason. I would have to disagree to a former seventeen year

old boy. I think it's just that's ridiculous. But if you're gonna do it, just go big. And he did, and like the most ridiculous We're gonna steal a car, steal a ridiculous car. And it's not even enough that it's a yellow Lamborghini is ridiculous in amazing ways. It's even more ridiculous if the car is belongs to one g Fieri, Like, that's prime ridiculousness. That's my takeaway. I think you nailed it. Personally. I think my due would have been fine if he just stole the car. I

mean nobody would. I think even guy Fiery would have forgiven him. He liked him, he said, brave kid. Remember he was like, hey, I like that kid. Yeah. I mean it's pretty much victimous crime other than the insurance company, which I have my opinions about that. I'm sure other listeners may have their opinions about that, But that's like not really a victim that we're worried about, right, But his real problem was was he became the victim of himself when he decided to go full Romeo and Juliet

and try to take out Landing. It was the gun that was the doom. If he would have been able to just keep trying to impress her, I think she might have changed her mind. I mean, well, and a young guy with a yellow Lamborghini. They're more girls out there than just Eva. Yeah, exactly. So never bring a gun to a stolen guy Fiery Lambo fight. Thanks for joining us, Elizabeth Sutton. You can find us online a

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