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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, 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 Weirdness Censor 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 awesome. Characters who try this and fail often get a brutal This Is Reality moment, which can make for good Cringe Comedy instead.

They're not Getting Crap Past the Radar. 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, Mot�rhead 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 rude hand gesture.

Compare Sarcastic Confession, which works on a smaller scale. The Bavarian Fire Drill 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 Kill Me Now or Forever Stay Your Hand situation and Appeal To Audacity are subtropes.

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