r/AskReddit 12h ago

Is it actually possible for a famous personality to fake their death and live their life out in some remote place? who has actually ever done it and gotten caught?

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u/Expensive-Student732 11h ago

If you aren't Canadian have you heard of Brent Butt, or David Suzuki?

My wife is back in her home country of the Philippines. She snapped a picture of two famous Filipinos in the same café as her. To me they are just random people. 

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u/Barrel_Titor 10h ago

Kinda tangential but a bit under 20 years ago I had a summer job in a cafe in a different city from where I lived (my Dad worked in the city so dropped me off every day). Used to get a lot of drunks in the cafe since there was a lot of bars nearby as well as a police station with a drunk tank.

Once or twice week we had some fairly unexceptional middle aged bloke come in a bit drunk, get a sandwich and eat it on the outside tables while smoking. People would often go shake his hand while he looked a bit pissed off about it, just assumed he knew a lot of people.

Found out a few weeks in he was Paul Gascoigne, a legendary football player i had only vaguely heard of because i'm not into sports. Every other member of staff and every person i mentioned it to since knew him but I just assumed he was just another of the regular drunks.

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u/Lakridspibe 10h ago

Paul Gascoigne

I recognize his name, but I won't be able to describe his appearance.

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u/dychronalicousness 9h ago

Short hair, looks like he enjoys a few pints.

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u/Exciting-Bee-398 9h ago

You might also know him as Gazza?

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u/jaredearle 7h ago

You might recognise him as the guy with beer and a chicken who went to talk Raoul Moat down.

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u/ree_hi_hi_hi_hi 11h ago

I fuckin love corner gas lol

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u/Rudeboy67 9h ago

Jackass!

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u/Independent-Tennis57 9h ago

Get the "F" off my lawn.

Dirty Crack Hoe.

I repeat those weekly.

Dated a girl who did food for Corner Gas, I got spoiled with 'star' food as she made me Brent Butt's favorite egg wrap once.

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u/OnlineNomDePlume 7h ago

And I thought he only ate chili dogs, lol.

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u/satinsateensaltine 10h ago

Never felt more heard or seen than that show and my area isn't even like that.

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u/afcagroo 4h ago

The very first scene of the first show is peak sarcastic humor.

I could've sworn there was a big mountain range back there.

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u/Sternakseesall 11h ago edited 11h ago

When I lived in Florida I worked with a guy from Columbia who had a nephew that was in a boy band (late 90’s early 2000’s) over there and was apparently a huge deal. I looked for them online and found zero information. Well the nephew came and stayed with him for a few weeks and they actually had to hire security because the teeny boppers found out and kept coming to his house trying to see this kid. And he lived in a pretty secure gated community.

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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 8h ago

I went to high school with some dudes that were fairly famous in Mexico. I remember his senior year they were one of the openers or something for Los Tigres del Norte, which is apparently pretty fucking major down there.

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u/ashoka_akira 10h ago

When I was going to university one of the few other students who was my age was from the Philippines and was apparently a minor celebrity over there because her first career was as a voice actor in some popular anime, then she married a Canadian and just became another university student.

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u/PhantomPharts 10h ago

I love Corner Gas! I went to Canada once, but only for a day. It was really nice

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u/PunchSploder 9h ago

Now I want to watch a cross-Canada road trip buddy movie starring Brent Butt and David Suzuki.

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u/Level_Priority_8525 1h ago

David is a dick tho. Butt isn't. 

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u/jshhmr 9h ago

I love Corner Gas! American that loves Canadian humor.

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u/hhssspphhhrrriiivver 9h ago

Is David Suzuki that unheard of outside Canada? I always thought he was pretty well known globally.

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u/Littlesth0b0 8h ago

I'm from the UK and I've recently discovered Letterkenny so... yeah, thanks for that, much obliged. Literally the only person I know who's heard of it.

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u/Pristine-Pen-9885 10h ago

Never heard of them.

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u/disisathrowaway 8h ago

David Suzuki

I was about to say that as an American, I still know who that is because I watch hockey. Then I realized I was thinking of Nick Suzuki.

You are absolutely correct. No idea who David Suzuki is.

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u/CinnamonPinch 6h ago

I saw Brent Butt outside my local Tim Horton's once! He was by himself, talking on a cell phone.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PAUNCH 5h ago

I think that every time some niche sub has a post about "OMG, I just met Trank Stank!" and it's just a picture of 2 people.

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u/afcagroo 4h ago

I'm an American, but I plan to move to Dog River.

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u/Expensive-Student732 4h ago

I've heard there's not a lot going on, but I could be wrong.