Very interesting piece from Errol Morris on unknown unknowns, The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is, but here’s the juicy bit:
Wheeler had walked into two Pittsburgh banks and attempted to rob them in broad daylight. What made the case peculiar is that he made no visible attempt at disguise. The surveillance tapes were key to his arrest. There he is with a gun, standing in front of a teller demanding money. Yet, when arrested, Wheeler was completely disbelieving. “But I wore the juice,” he said. Apparently, he was under the deeply misguided impression that rubbing one’s face with lemon juice rendered it invisible to video cameras.
“But I wore the juice” is now my new catchall excuse for my own stupidity.
