It's possible that you have never heard of William James Clark if you're not from Oklahoma. But if you are, there's a good chance you've already seen him on the news once or twice. Clark can't stop acting like military troops, and he likes to do it in the biggest, most obvious ways possible. Simply wearing a uniform is insufficient because Clark continually getting embroiled in inappropriate activities.

Let's begin in 2002, when a bridge on I-40 collapsed, leaving 14 people dead and numerous others injured. William James Clark arrived wearing a uniform and claiming to be an Army representative. He took charge of the relief effort and even gave interviews to the media. Clark has no prior military experience. At least one of the victims' medical documents were taken by him as well. He was accused of having a gun in his possession and impersonating an officer.

When Clark called the Russian Embassy in 2007 and revealed he was a member of a clandestine military operation to assassinate Vladimir Putin, he made a comeback after serving 70 months in prison. Later, he admitted to authorities that he had heard nearby bingo hall workers discussing Putin's assassination plot and believed it to be true. He acknowledged having a mental disorder and occasionally experiencing hallucinations. He was apprehended once more in uniform in 2010, this time in Alaska. He had been defrauding check companies nationwide for tens of thousands of dollars in addition to pretending to be in the military.

People learned from Bart Simpson and Shaggy that telling the truth when you're caught are acceptable defenses. But in the face of empirical facts, neither one is very successful. You need another person's agreement that you didn't do something bad in order to get away with it, Someone like the district attorney. When Lisa Landon was accused of stalking and drug possession, she believed this. She required the prosecutor to dismiss such allegations.

Landon went with Plan B and pretended to be the prosecutor, filing her own paperwork to dismiss the charges because it was likely that the real prosecutor would not be sympathetic to her situation. The plan did not succeed, and as a result, she was charged with seven more offenses, including false personation and tampering with evidence.

She ran into trouble when a forensic examiner who was supposed to speak with Landon to assess her competency called the prosecutor to inquire whether the interview should go ahead now that the charges had been dismissed. Who knows if it had succeeded had it not been for that.

Howie Mandel has been a comedian since the 1980s and has maintained his popularity by participating in reality competitions like Deal or No Deal and America's Got Talent, as well as lending his voice to films like Gremlins and Bobby's World. Who would have believed he was a troublemaker in school and was expelled for pretending to be an official from the institution?

Mandel attended a high school in Toronto where, in order to arrange for a construction project to add a building to the school, he took it upon himself to pretend to be a member of the school board. He further clarified this in an interview by stating that he engaged a contracting company to expand the library. He was expelled from schools three times total, including this one.

It takes some time to completely comprehend this one because it is the Inception of strange imitation. Here is the condensed version. Online, a 14-year-old boy assumed the identity of Janet, a British spy. He attempted to enlist a 16-year-old acquaintance in the British Secret Service while posing as Janet, but in order to establish his mettle, he had to murder a 14-year-old. Sound perplexing? In fact, it was.

The other youngster, Mark, was persuaded by John, the 14-year-old, that he would earn £80 million, meet the prime minister, and, of course, have sex with Janet, the married spy who is 44 years old. He only had to knife John to death, which is exactly what he tried to do.

John had two stab wounds but lived. Mark was the one who did it and then dialed for assistance. John was the first person in British history to be accused of encouraging their own murder as a result of the investigation.

The foundation for World War One was being steadily put in place in 1906, and even then, the German Army was renowned for its slavish submission to authority. People are aware of this because German shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt took advantage of it to further his own interests.

Voigt, who already had a somewhat shady criminal past, acquired himself a Prussian captain's uniform that he put together from used parts and pieces, and he located two squads of soldiers who had just finished their shift. He gave the orders for the men to follow him into town, so he could arrest the mayor and other authorities before stealing the money from the town in two sacks like a retro cartoon villain.

Then, as he disappeared with the money, he ordered the troops to accompany the mayor and others to the police station. Naturally, the police were completely ignorant of the situation. The scam netted Voigt 4,000 marks, but he was discovered a few days later. He was given a four-year sentence, but Kaiser Wilhelm allegedly found it amusing and had it reduced to less than two.

The Ku Klux Klan was not something that most of us would ever identify with Mr. Rogers, the epitome of morally upright entertainment and children's development, and he certainly didn't want to be. However, the Klan continued to pose as Rogers to the point where authorities had to intervene.

The Missouri Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were ordered by the courts to stop creating messages that mimicked the music and speech patterns of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood after Fred Rogers filed a lawsuit in 1990. Someone who resembles Rogers may be heard on the recordings spouting racial insults and even imitating a lynching. A second version focuses on remarks that are derogatory to homosexuals. When a specific number was called—a number that had been issued to students—the recordings would play.

Usually, when someone impersonates someone else, you can assume that the "someone" is a real person. Let's assume that this tale concerns individuals who impersonate other entities. It's monkeys in this instance, but not only for pleasure. It was a legitimate employment.

To act as monkeys, the Indian government hired 40 individuals. In addition to being hilarious, this had a point. The macaques that live in and around India's parliament are a major annoyance. They don't just attack people; they also steal, intimidate, and generally make it unpleasant to be around them as they prowl the corridors of parliament. And no one wants to kill the monkeys, especially since Hindus adore Hanuman, the deity of wealth. However, no one wants to experience monkey attacks. The answer is to scare the monkeys away using fictitious monkeys in order to out-monkey them.

Prior to the phony money scheme, genuine languor monkeys of a different species were utilized, although it too offended some people. As you may guess, putting one type of money in jail to frighten off another monkey wasn't good for animal rights groups. The macaques are scared by the monkey impersonators' ability to mimic languor sounds.

Sometimes it's simpler than you might think to pass for someone else, and the outcomes might be far more shocking and deadly. That was the situation in 2004 when a con artist started phoning fast food establishments. While on the phone, the man convinced an 18-year-old McDonald's employee to be strip searched by acting like a police officer.

The employee was humiliated and tortured by the con artist for more than three hours, all at the hands of her manager, who later testified that she had been led to believe it was a police officer directing her what to do. The manager called her own fiancé to come and spank the girl for 10 minutes in addition to making the girl perform jumping jacks. Following then, things only got worse.

Due to the fact that McDonald's knew a fraudster was calling employees without informing them, the employee ultimately sued the company and won $6.1 million. In the end, a man was detained but not found guilty. However, following his incarceration, the calls did stop.

About 1000 years ago, Ibn Sinna was a physician, astronomer, and philosopher. He contributed to the development of psychiatry as part of his career. He knew that certain illnesses were influenced by psychology and treated patients medically. And rather than just dismissing this out of hand, he made an attempt to play along with his patients in an effort to understand their difficulties and meet them where they were at.

In one well-known instance, he was tending to a Persian royal who was allegedly suffering from severe malnourishment. He was convinced he was a cow for this reason. He was convinced he was a cow for this reason. He is said to have bleated like a cow and pleaded to be made into a stew.

Ibn Sina gave the man treatment while posing as a butcher. He brandished a knife as he approached the cow prince before informing him that he was unable to kill him. The cow was unsuited for butchery and excessively thin. He therefore needed to eat and put on weight in order to be ready for slaughter. The prince gave in and started eating. As he did so, he gradually started to feel better and eventually left the illusion behind.

Darius McCollum adores traveling by bus and train. The New Yorker has Asperger's syndrome and has always had a passion for the transportation systems that keep the city moving. So much so that he has been detained 32 times for stealing those vehicles while posing as a transportation employee.

When he was a young child, he made friends with a metro driver, who actually taught him how to operate the trains as he was trying to dodge bullies on the trains. When he was 8 years old, he knew the whole subway system by heart.

McCollum has essentially stolen hundreds of trains and buses during his life. But he only works; he doesn't go for joyrides. He travels the routes and stops at all of the designated locations. None of the travelers has ever failed to arrive where they were supposed to.

He has also spent a third of his life in prison as a result of his arrests. But as soon as he exits, he immediately returns to it. As a result, he has developed into a sort of local celebrity, and a documentary has even been made about him. No matter how many times he is detained, he cannot fight the temptation to return.