FAFO: California Couple Bait and Attack Bike Thieves

A CALIFORNIA COUPLE SPENT FIVE MONTHS BAITING BIKE THIEVES INTO THEIR YARD, BEATING THEM WITH BASEBALL BATS, AND POSTING THE FOOTAGE ONLINE

This collage meme is split into three sections: the top left and right show police booking mugshots of a California man and woman respectively, positioned against a standard police height measurement backdrop. The lower section displays dark, grainy night surveillance footage showing an orange car on the left and a person lying prone on the ground on the right, identified as an alleged bike thief attacked by the couple. Large white text over the bottom of the image explains that the couple spent 5 months luring bike thieves onto their property, assaulting them with baseball bats, and posting the attack footage online, leading to their own arrest. The meme is paired with the title 'FAFO :)' (Fuck Around and Find Out), which applies ironically to both the thieves facing consequences for theft and the couple facing legal repercussions for their illegal vigilante violence.

This meme was shared via 9Gag's RSS feed with the original title 'FAFO :)'. The image collage was first created by the verified social media account @morbidtruth, as indicated by the watermark on the image, using publicly available police mugshots and surveillance footage from real news coverage of the couple's arrest for their vigilante attacks. It was subsequently reposted to 9Gag for viral sharing.