The Ballad of the Piggyback Bandit

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This is such an odd story.

 

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8154931/on-trail-piggyback-bandit

 

 

The Ballad of the Piggyback Bandit

 

Retracing the steps of Sherwin Shayegan, who was banned in five states for jumping on high school athletes' backs

 

By Bryan Curtis on July 11, 2012

 

Two detectives walk into a café in Helena. They remove their sunglasses. They dislodge the chaw from their cheeks. "We don't flash our badges till we get the food," Lawrence tells me. The other day, a Montana cop got a little surprise in his drive-through.

 

Listening to Detectives Chad Lawrence and Randy Ranalli talk about their recent criminal apprehension is like listening to the cops in Fargo. There's a certain amazement, a perverse sense of honor, that an arch-fiend wandered into their corner of the world.

 

Ranalli: "It was like, 'Oh my Lord, we caught this guy red-handed.'"

 

Lawrence: "It was one of the most bizarre things I've seen!"

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"At that point," the player wrote in a witness statement, "I realized there was something mentally wrong with the guy." As the player was leaving the library, Sherwin jumped on his back for a piggyback ride.

 

A little weird. Okay, really weird. But the guy seems harmless enough. At least to athletes who don't mind a 260 lb guy jumping on their back for a piggyback ride.