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Researchers came to this conclusion by showing participants two videos of a reconstructed violent robbery and then asking them to look at a police line-up of possible subjects – an overweight one, a muscular one, some skinny fuckers, a real grab bag – none of whom were the actual video criminal. The face of the criminal was disguised in the video and the faces of the potential suspects were all randomly assigned, so all of the vague inklings of suspicion were based almost exclusively on body type.And hey, guess what: 51 percent of participants accused the muscular criminals of being the perp, 37 percent said those in the normal weight range were the criminals, and just 10 percent finger the fatty. Finally, being hench is bad. Take that, Roy from my gym! You can't "beat me in an arm wrestle" your way out of prison, can you! You can't "bench press a gigantic weight using just the raw power of your fantastic, oiled arms" while you're doing 8 to 10 for aggravated assault, can you! Actually, being fat is good! Consuming protein instead of doughnuts is bad!From VICE Sports: Premier League Player of the Weekend – Rudy Gestede
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"Body type is often overlooked as a basis for discrimination, and has rarely been examined in legal contexts. The present research is evidence that the body type of a suspect can impact the partiality of eye-witness accounts."Anyway, in short: next time you need to rob a bank or something, forget the balaclava and just stick a pillow up your jumper. Yell something about how difficult it is to find jeans that fit you on the high street while you sprint to the getaway car. Eat a couple of eclairs really quickly while firing a spray of bullets into the air. The police will never find you.@joelgolbyMore stuff from VICE:We Asked a Defence Expert What a British Military Coup Would Actually Look LikeThe Attack on the Cereal Killer Café Was a Fight Between Overgrown ChildrenIt's Not Your Imagination, Single Women: There Literally Aren't Enough Men Out ThereFrom NOISEY: We Made Will Young Listen to Young Thug, Slim Jesus And More