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Creativity secrets from armed robbers, fraudsters and other criminals
“You’ve changed your earrings.” I was sitting opposite a prisoner I worked with regularly, and he’d noticed I’d switched from sleepers to studs. He also observed that I’d caught some sun, my hair was lighter, I had a scratch on the back of one hand. This level of attention was one that my closest friends
He’d been arrested on marijuana smuggling charges, and was found with large sums of cash, unused cheques on a Swiss bank account, and a passport indicating he’d visited a dozen different countries in a month. During the six-month planning phase, they’d fashioned a drill from the motor of a broken vacuum cleaner, used more than 50 raincoats to build a raft and life vests, and made dummy heads of plaster, flesh-tone paint, and real human hair to fool the night guards. Unlike my more extroverted colleagues, I inwardly groan when I see a famil (press trip) itinerary loaded with drinks, lunch, dinner and other social engagements, all of which satisfy hosts and PRs, but don’t contribute to the stories I’m writing.
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