Today's fake 'killed child pornographers'

Child pornographers are the new scapegoats, really. Who would possibly defend them? Who would convict someone who brought them to justice or even carried out vigilante actions against them?

This is the ethos behind a fellow named David Race Bannon, a North Carolina computer instructor at a community college (nothing says loser like being a community college instructor of a skill most people pick up intuitively) who claimed to be an Interpol assassin:

He said he led a 1998 raid on the Florida branch of a worldwide child-prostitution ring, rescuing an 8-year-old girl and killing one of her kidnappers with a knife to the throat. ... He filled a book with tales of two decades as a secret agent and assassin for Interpol, the international police force. He gave TV, radio and newspaper interviews detailing his adventures.

And he claimed to be a martial arts expert for a while, but was exposed on a website -- dig this -- called bullshido.net, a website devoted to exposing phony black belts. Love that. (Courtesy Galley Cat)

His ex-wife has the perfect deflating analysis: "He wants to be special, but he doesn't want to put in the work." There are so many people who fit that description these days.

David Race Bannon, fakes, hoaxes