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Usually, when characters do something illegal or socially unacceptable, they'll try to be discreet about it, keep their misdeeds small and subtle enough that either no one knows what they've done, or no one cares. Sometimes a character does the exact opposite -- take their misdeeds so far over-the-top that there's no way they ''can't'' be noticed -- and they ''still'' get away with it.

The key is to be ''so'' audacious in how you violate the rules (whether they be laws or a moral/ethic code) that no one can believe you did it. If someone tells the police how you tried to stab them with a knife, you'll be arrested. However, if they tell the police how you tried to throw them into [[SharkPool a tank full of hammerhead sharks]], [[SpikesOfDoom razor blades]], and [[DeadlyAcid sulfuric acid]], there's good odds the police will just [[CassandraTruth laugh them off and not bother investigating]]. Alternatively, suppose you’re in a food court and start picking food off people's plates; they'll take their food back and tell you to leave them alone. However, if you dash through the food court with a wheelbarrow, tossing everyone's food into it, yelling, "Quickly! All your food in here! {{No time to explain}}!", [[BavarianFireDrill they might be so flabbergasted by what's happening that they can't bring themselves to stop you]]. Basically, people have a WeirdnessCensor when it comes to human behavior; since most people follow the rules (or pretend to), someone who breaks the rules with such flagrant abandon is so unusual that people have a hard time accepting that they exist, and will try to rationalize what's happening by assuming that the violator has some sort of exceptional reason for breaking protocol; otherwise, they wouldn't even ''dare'' to be so open about it, right?

Usually, when characters do something illegal or socially unacceptable, they'll try to be discreet about it, keep their misdeeds small and subtle enough that either no one knows what they've done, or no one cares. Sometimes a character does the exact opposite; take their misdeeds so far over-the-top that there's no way they ''can't'' be noticed and they still get away with it.

The key is to be ''so'' audacious in how you violate the rules (whether they be laws or a moral/ethic code) that no one can believe you did it. If someone tells the police how you tried to stab them with a knife, you'll be arrested. However, if they tell the police how you tried to throw them into a tank full of hammerhead sharks, razor blades, and sulfuric acid; there's good odds the police will just [[CassandraTruth laugh them off and not bother investigating]]. Alternatively, suppose you’re in a food court and start picking food off people's plates; they'll take their food back and tell you to leave them alone. However, if you dash through the food court with a wheelbarrow, tossing everyone's food into it, yelling, "Quickly! All your food in here! No time to explain!" they might be so flabbergasted by what's happening that they can't bring themselves to stop you. Basically, people have a WeirdnessCensor when it comes to human behavior; since most people follow the rules (or pretend to), someone who breaks the rules with such flagrant abandon is so unusual that people have a hard time accepting that they exist, and will try to rationalize what's happening by assuming that the violator has some sort of exceptional reason for breaking protocol; otherwise, they wouldn't even ''dare'' to be so open about it, right?

This is usually a good source of comedy since it inverts how we normally expect people to behave. Characters who pull it off successfully usually come off as [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome.]] Characters who try this and fail often get a brutal ThisIsReality moment, which can make for good CringeComedy instead.

They're not GettingCrapPastTheRadar. They're crashing the crap through the front doors and out the back doors of the radar installation in an armored model of the Oscar-Meyer Weinermobile, painted as a penis, with sunglasses-wearing flaming skull decals on every flat surface and a Hieronymus Bosch reproduction on the door, hood-mounted machine guns blazing, Music/{{Motorhead}} blasting on the jury-rigged PA system, the tires leaving tracks painting sex and violence on the floor and walls and one arm hanging out of the window making a [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking rude hand gesture]].

The key is to be ''so'' audacious in how you violate the rules (whether they be laws or a moral/ethic code) that no one can believe you did it. If someone tells the police how you tried to stab them with a knife, you'll be arrested. However, if they tell the police how you tried to throw them into a tank full of hammerhead sharks, razor blades, and sulfuric acid; there's good odds the police will just laugh them off and not bother investigating. Alternatively, suppose you’re in a food court and start picking food off people's plates; they'll take their food back and tell you to leave them alone. However, if you dash through the food court with a wheelbarrow, tossing everyone's food into it, yelling, "Quickly! All your food in here! No time to explain!" they might be so flabbergasted by what's happening that they can't bring themselves to stop you. Basically, people have a WeirdnessCensor when it comes to human behavior; since most people follow the rules (or pretend to), someone who breaks the rules with such flagrant abandon is so unusual that people have a hard time accepting that they exist, and will try to rationalize what's happening by assuming that the violator has some sort of exceptional reason for breaking protocol; otherwise, they wouldn't even ''dare'' to be so open about it, right?

-> '''Captain Jack Sparrow:''' Well then, I confess. It is my intention to commandeer one of these ships, pick up a crew in Tortuga, raid, pillage, plunder, and otherwise pilfer my weasly black guts out.\\
'''Murtogg:''' I said no lies!\\
'''Mullroy:''' I think he was telling the truth.\\
'''Murtogg:''' If he was telling the truth, he wouldn't have told us!\\
'''Captain Jack Sparrow:''' Unless, of course, he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if you told him to.
-->-- ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''

->''Well, I was on my way to this gay gypsy Bar-Mitzvah for the disabled when I suddenly thought, "Gosh! The Third Reich's a bit rubbish. I think I'll kill the Führer." Who's with me?''
-->-- [[spoiler:'''Melody Pond''']] to a group of heavily-armed Nazis, [[Series/DoctorWho "Let's Kill Hitler"]]

->''"Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity."''
-->-- '''Tacitus''', ''Annals'', Book XI Ch. 26

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This is usually a good source of comedy since it inverts how we normally expect people to behave. Characters who pull it off successfully usually come off as [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome.]] Characters who try this and fail often get a brutal ThisIsReality moment, which can make for good CringeComedy instead.

->''"Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity."''
-->-- '''Tacitus''', ''Annals'', Book XI Ch. 26
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Usually, when characters do something illegal or socially unacceptable, they'll try to be discreet about it, keep their misdeeds small and subtle enough that either no one knows what they've done, or no one cares. Sometimes a character does the exact opposite; take their misdeeds so far over-the-top that there's no way they ''can't'' be noticed and they still get away with it.

The key is to be ''so'' audacious in how you violate the rules (whether they be laws or a moral/ethic code) that no one can believe you did it. If someone tells the police how you tried to stab them with a knife, you'll be arrested. However, if they tell the police how you tried to throw them into a tank full of hammerhead sharks, razor blades, and sulfuric acid; there's good odds the police will just laugh them off and not bother investigating. Alternatively, suppose you’re in a food court and start picking food off people's plates; they'll take their food back and tell you to leave them alone. However, if you dash through the food court with a wheelbarrow, tossing everyone's food into it, yelling, "Quickly! All your food in here! No time to explain!" they might be so flabbergasted by what's happening that they can't bring themselves to stop you. Basically, people have a WeirdnessCensor when it comes to human behavior; since most people follow the rules (or pretend to), someone who breaks the rules with such flagrant abandon is so unusual that people have a hard time accepting that they exist, and will try to rationalize what's happening by assuming that the violator has some sort of exceptional reason for breaking protocol; otherwise, they wouldn't even ''dare'' to be so open about it, right?

This is usually a good source of comedy since it inverts how we normally expect people to behave. Characters who pull it off successfully usually come off as [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome.]] Characters who try this and fail often get a brutal ThisIsReality moment, which can make for good CringeComedy instead.

They're not GettingCrapPastTheRadar. They're crashing the crap through the front doors and out the back doors of the radar installation in an armored model of the Oscar-Meyer Weinermobile, painted as a penis, with sunglasses-wearing flaming skull decals on every flat surface and a Hieronymus Bosch reproduction on the door, hood-mounted machine guns blazing, Music/{{Motorhead}} blasting on the jury-rigged PA system, the tires leaving tracks painting sex and violence on the floor and walls and one arm hanging out of the window making a [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking rude hand gesture]].

Compare SarcasticConfession, which works on a smaller scale. The BavarianFireDrill is also related to this: it works because no one thinks to question the (false) authority of the ones pulling it, and may be unwilling to believe or admit that they were conned afterwards. May be used to maintain the {{Masquerade}}. Setting up a KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand situation and AppealToAudacity are subtropes. WeirdnessCoupon is related and tends to be applied to characters who do things like this so regularly that everyone just accepts it after a while.

Has nothing to do with using [[http://audacity.sourceforge.net this program]] when you're tired of dealing with [=ProTools=] or Soundbooth.

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Compare SarcasticConfession, which works on a smaller scale. The BavarianFireDrill is also related to this: it works because no one thinks to question the (false) authority of the ones pulling it, and may be unwilling to believe or admit that they were conned afterwards. May be used to maintain the {{Masquerade}}. Setting up a KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand situation and AppealToAudacity are subtropes.

->''Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.''

The key is to be ''so'' audacious in how you violate the rules (whether they be laws or a moral/ethic code) that no one can believe you did it. If someone tells the police how you tried to stab them with a knife, you'll be arrested. However, if they tell the police how you tried to throw them into a tank full of hammerhead sharks, razor blades, and sulfuric acid; there's good odds the police will just laugh them off and not bother investigating. Alternatively, suppose you’re in a food court and start picking food off people's plates; they'll take their food back and tell you to leave them alone. However, if you dash through the food court with a wheelbarrow, tossing everyone's food into it, yelling, "Quickly! All your food in here! No time to explain!" they might be so flabbergasted by what's happening that they can't bring themselves to stop you. Basically, people have a WeirdnessCensor when it comes to human behavior; since most people follow the rules (or pretend to), someone who breaks the rules with such flagrant abandon is so unusual that people have a hard time accepting that they exist.

->''[[TropeNamers Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.]]''

Usually, when characters do something illegal or socially unacceptable, they’ll try to be discreet about it, keep their misdeeds small and subtle enough that either no one knows what they’ve done, or no one cares. Sometimes a character does the exact opposite; take their misdeeds so far over-the-top that there’s no way they ''can’t'' be noticed and they still get away with it.

The key is to be ''so'' audacious in how you violate the rules (whether they be laws or a moral/ethic code) that no one can believe you did it. If someone tells the police how you tried to stab them with a knife, you’ll be arrested. However, if they tell the police how you tried to throw them into a tank full of hammerhead sharks, razor blades, and sulfuric acid; there’s good odds the police will just laugh them off and not bother investigating. Alternatively, suppose you’re in a food court and start picking food off people’s plates; they’ll take their food back and tell you to leave them alone. However, if you dash through the food court with a wheelbarrow, tossing everyone’s food into it, yelling, “Quickly! All your food in here! No time to explain!” they might be so flabbergasted by what’s happening that they can’t bring themselves to stop you. Basically, people have a WeirdnessCensor when it comes to human behavior; since most people follow the rules (or pretend to), someone who breaks the rules with such flagrant abandon is so unusual that people have a hard time accepting that they exist.

The key is to be ''so'' audacious in how you violate the rules (whether they be laws or a moral/ethic code) that no one can believe you did it. If someone tells the police how you tried to stab them with a knife, you’ll be arrested. However, if they tell the police how you tried to throw them into a tank full of hammerhead sharks, there’s good odds the police will just laugh them off and not bother investigating. Alternatively, suppose you’re in a food court and start picking food off people’s plates; they’ll take their food back and tell you to leave them alone. However, if you dash through the food court with a wheelbarrow, tossing everyone’s food into it, yelling, “Quickly! All your food in here! No time to explain!” they might be so flabbergasted by what’s happening that they can’t bring themselves to stop you. Basically, people have a WeirdnessCensor when it comes to human behavior; since most people follow the rules (or pretend to), someone who breaks the rules with such flagrant abandon is so unusual that people have a hard time accepting that they exist.

--> Tacitus, ''Annals'', Book XI Ch. 26

They're not GettingCrapPastTheRadar. They're crashing the crap through the front doors and out the back doors of the radar installation in an armored car with sunglasses-wearing flaming skull decals on every flat surface and a Hieronymus Bosch reproduction on the door, hood-mounted machine guns blazing, Music/{{Motorhead}} blasting on the jury-rigged PA system, the tires leaving tracks painting sex and violence on the floor and walls and one arm hanging out of the window making a [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking rude hand gesture]].

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->''[[TropeNamer Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.]]''

They're not GettingCrapPastTheRadar. They're crashing the crap through the front doors and out the back doors of the radar installation in an armored car with sunglasses-wearing flaming skull decals on every flat surface and a Hieronymus Bosch reproduction on the door, hood-mounted machine guns blazing, Motörhead blasting on the jury-rigged PA system, the tires leaving tracks painting sex and violence on the floor and walls and one arm hanging out of the window making a [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking rude hand gesture]].

Compare SarcasticConfession, which works on a smaller scale. The BavarianFireDrill is also related to this: it works because no one thinks to question the (false) authority of the ones pulling it, and may be unwilling to believe or admit that they were conned afterwards. May be used to maintain the {{Masquerade}}. Setting up a KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand situation is a subtrope.

The key is to be ''so'' audacious in how you violate the rules (whether they be laws or a moral/ethic code) that no one can believe you did it. If someone tells the police how you tried to stab them with a knife, you’ll be arrested. However, if they tell the police how you tried to throw them into a tank full of hammerhead sharks, there’s good odds the police will just laugh them off and not bother investigating. Alternatively,suppose you’re in a food court and start picking food off people’s plates; they’ll take their food back and tell you to leave them alone. However, if you dash through the food court with a wheelbarrow, tossing everyone’s food into it, yelling, “Quickly! All your food in here! No time to explain!” they might be so flabbergasted by what’s happening that they can’t bring themselves to stop you. Basically, people have a WeirdnessCensor when it comes to human behavior; since most people follow the rules (or pretend to), someone who breaks the rules with such flagrant abandon is so unusual that people have a hard time accepting that they exist.

Usually, when characters do something illegal or socially unacceptable, they’ll try to be discreet about it, keep their misdeeds small and subtle enough that either no one knows what they’ve done, or no one cares. Sometimes, however, it’s refreshing to see a character do the exact opposite, take their misdeeds so far over-the-top that there’s no way they ''can’t'' be noticed, and still get away with it.

The key is to be ''so'' audacious in how you violate the rules (whether they be actual laws or a moral/ethic code) that no one can believe you actually did it. If someone tells the police how you tried to stab them with a knife, you’ll probably be arrested. However, if they tell the police how you tried to throw them into a tank full of hammerhead sharks, there’s good odds the police will just laugh them off and not even bother investigating. Or suppose you’re in a food court and start picking food off people’s plates; they’ll probably take their food back and tell you to leave them alone. However, if you dash through the food court with a wheelbarrow, tossing everyone’s food into it, yelling, “Quickly! All your food in here! No time to explain!” they might be so flabbergasted by what’s happening that they can’t bring themselves to stop you. Basically, people have a WeirdnessCensor when it comes to human behavior; since most people follow the rules (or pretend to), someone who breaks the rules with such flagrant abandon is so unusual that people have a hard time accepting that they exist.

This is usually a good source of comedy, since it inverts how we normally expect people to behave. Characters who pull it off successfully usually come off as [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome very awesome.]] Characters who try this and fail often get a brutal ThisIsReality moment, which can make for good CringeComedy instead.

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This isn't GettingCrapPastTheRadar. This is crashing the crap through the front doors and out the back doors of the radar installation in an armored car with sunglasses-wearing flaming skull decals on every flat surface and a Hieronymus Bosch reproduction on the door, hood-mounted machine guns blazing, Motörhead blasting on the jury-rigged PA system, the tires leaving tracks painting sex and violence on the floor and walls and one arm hanging out of the window making a [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking rude hand gesture]].

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