The fact that she strolled up to a police station to perform fraud is the funniest thing I've ever heard.

Honestly props to the guy "I just didn't ask enough questions" he knew he fucked up and he owned it we need more of this

"The police say it's an ethical violation but it isn't a crime." 😂😂😂

I'll also add for the second case that simply knowing ASL doesn't mean you're qualified to interpret. There's a whole other level to it as you have to taken in a language, go over it in your head very quickly, and output it while also still taking in the other language. There's a lot of work involved in making sure you are paying attention to both what you hear/see and what you are signing/saying. It's all simultaneous. So him knowing ASL does not mean he would've been comfortable interpreting even in a less important situation. Also this is just a byproduct of places like Florida having little to no quality control. Some states have levels of testing you have to do in order to even apply to interpret at certain events, especially for legal and government-based ones.

I cannot lie, this woman mimics the mannerisms and movement of an actual interpreter with so much confidence that it's genuinely convincing

If I had 1% of this women's confidence I would be able to take on the world

I love how the new reporter says “IT HAPPENED AGAIN” like it was the dog getting out of the house

I feel so bad for the dude that was forced to sign for that news broadcast when he didn't even want to XD lol that's so sad

At this point I’m convinced there’s higher beings that whisper these ideas into random Florida citizen’s heads at night

it is honestly insane how many people will believe blatant lies as long as you have confidence behind it

The guy who hired her seems like a genuinely well - meaning guy who was just reckless and made a big mistake. Hopefully he doesn't lose a lot from this.

Imagine being deaf and seeing some random lady go 👍🤜👌🤌✌️👐🤲👏🫳✋👋🤙🫵💪🫱🖐️👉🤏👎👎🤘🤞🤝🤝👏🖕🤙👈👋🫲👈🫴👌👍🤲🤘🤜✌️🤟🤌👆👇🖖🤚🖐️🤙🫴🤜🤞👊🫰✊

The fact that she did this for free is hysterical

Respect to the man who made the mistake of hiring that lady. He didn't try to deflect blame, he didn't act like she was this incredible con-woman who could deceive the entire FBI or something... No, he owned up to it, took it like a man, and was honest about his mistake to the world. This is a man who should keep his job because I guarantee he's learned from this experience and will be an even better and more thorough employee in the future. He really showed us his character! I'd rather have an honest man who makes a few mistakes every now and then working for me as opposed to a selfish narcissist who doesn't make mistakes but is a complete jerk and thinks they're perfect.

as someone who has barely started to learn sign language she actually looks legit. She’s actually signed a decent amount of real words. Anything else not recognized I would have assumed I just didn’t know enough sign yet. So she clearly has spent time studying the language. So she should have known she wasn’t ready to do this yet. Like the second guy, he knew he didn’t know enough to do it.

Pretty admirable that the guy who didn't ask enough questions admitted to his wrong doing.

Faking your job and still getting paid is a craft and a talent

As a South African I vividly remember when we had a fake sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial service. All he could sign was "Hello. How are you?"

A lot of the comments say, “Fake it until you make it.” I get that logic but some of the best jobs I have ever had were when I was transparent in the interview and said, “I don’t know how to do that specifically but I want the position to learn how.” My favorite job to date was that. I was attempting to change careers and had some overlapping experience as an intake specialist in regards to paperwork but at the time no clinical experience. It was at the peak of the pandemic, so medical staff was necessary. But I said, “I need training on that.” Anything I didn’t get I owned up to immediately and got more support. By the end of my time there I was training new staff and was able to get the S.O.P. on paper for them AND had an entire new skill set/trade. My new position runs different diagnostic test then what I’m experienced in and I was honest in the interview and let them know I was inexperienced in those things and that I was going to need training before I was on my own. I started as a Community Health Aide and I am now a Certified Community Health Worker II and have given community health presentations to audiences that have consisted of political aids, my respected peers and colleagues, I even did a free health series at a college. Boomers have the working style of never admitting to mistakes and acknowledging you didn’t know something, so fake it till you make it is a relic of that Protestant work ethic. Admitting to your deficiencies, asking permission to mistakes because you are learning come from a growth mindset model that’s actually more healthy and leads to more success. This lady was just scamming to scam, I don’t think she wants to be an ASL interpreter, I think she just got bored and wanted to start drama. I don’t think there was anything genuine in her intent.

Charlie, you left by far the the funniest case out which was the guy who fake signed at Nelson Mandela's funeral. That one was particularly hilarious and they went to his home to interview him after which was also funny!

I feel bad for Marshal. I’m bilingual and I took up a translator job and it absolutely kicked my ass. I spoke fluently but that’s just daily conversation. Formal business language was a whole different story. Saying “I’m fluent in ___” means two completely different things depending on if you’re telling a friend, or informing your workplace

The fact that she even managed to be able to get some key words out was surprising

What an amazing prank! HAHA my boy Marshall is the second guy 😂 love it.

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I nearly burst into tears at 2:53 seeing a well-seasoned actor effortlessly slip back into a role so easily is truly astounding

I mean. Hats off to the guy who admitted to being responsible. Most people would find a way to push the blame. Not him. Just a simple. “Yup, i messed up, and I won’t do it again” we need more people like that.

@1:45 Ironically, she got this wrong. This is the sign for "14" LMFAO

2:12 "I've got to the admite the 'fake until you make it' attitude here, but unfortunately the only thing to make was a fool of herself" I love Charlie's way with words (I wonder if that's scripted or if he's just a natural wordsmith)

"They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard."

You gotta appreciate this man for being upfront and admitting he didn't ask enough questions. We rarely get that level of honesty these days.

3:18 *THE MEME POTENTIAL.*

"Insane how something so stupid becomes so smart" I bet if she got away w/ it she would've used that as proof/experience to actually get hired at another place.

I feel pretty bad for the guy that was forced to do the signing for the evacuation, can't imagine how scary and nerve-wracking it would have been to be put in a situation where you were asked to say things you didn't know how to say. I speak a second language pretty well conversationally, but if I was asked to describe in detail the state of the economy (or some other complicated topic) in that language I wouldn't be able to, so I really sympathize with this guy's situation.

I lied my ass off to get the job I currently have. Funniest thing is I do better work than the people who are actually "qualified" for it.

"I don't know why she would do this other than having fun with it" Most likely she was hoping to spin it off into some kind of money making scheme, and having a televised conference of her interpreting for the police she could use would give her some legitimacy in a lot of potential victims eyes. She just got caught faster than she was probably hoping.

I love how a decade later Charlie will still subtly sneak in a Hunger Games reference as if it's not well known as his career's crowning achievement.

Can we just taka a moment to appreciate the honesty that that conference dude had when they asked him how she got to translating there? He just owned up to it saying he messed up and took it like a real champ. Huge kudos to him for carrying those massive balls of steel around, because God knows that we don't have enough people that are that honest these days

best part of this is how the news segment starts with “It happened again!”

The number one rule I learned in welding "Fake it, til you make it". I still get calls about people working at "Eric's Auto Shop" all these years later.

The savage-ness of walking into a office uninvited to freely volunteer to be a interpreter for absolutely nothing in return and absolutely have no idea what she’s doing is the most Hilarious part of it all!

The major problem with the “fake it ‘til you make it” mentality is that most people with the mentality never develop the skills they claim to have once they obtain the jobs. If you are going to lie to get a job, then develop the skills you lied about in order to do the job competently.

people don't understand how awful this is for members of the Deaf community. because of the lack of knowledge around accessibility in society for the Deaf community, and the fact that captions don't cut it at all for a multitude of reasons, interpreters provide a critical service in providing information for the Deaf community, and when hearing people get up and decide to interpret because they wanna make a quick buck or whatever, it not only makes a mockery of the community, it instantly destroys their ability to understand the broadcast. it's disgusting

Just a tele prompter behind them could have fixed all of this

You know that lady trolling the police department for free committed no crime doing it, but god damn it was hilarious and somewhat respectable of the police to just own up to that like "yeah we're idiots, none of us know sign-language to even verify, we made an S-rank blunder."

I've been faking being an accountant for like 4 years now. I've actually learned enough to barely be competent. I am literally the embodiment of fake it til you make it.

For an evacuation warning, you can have messages at the bottom of the screen. It just has to contain the elements crucial to evacuation: It's very easy for a local news network to do, it doesn't have to line up with what the officials are saying and can be prepared beforehand. You can even have it repeat throughout the entire day/days regardless of what's being shown which is helpful to the deaf and non-deaf alike. Why this wasn't the chosen method is the question.

"when you go into the KZfaq comments you go into the swamp" says the man with the worst Twitch chat in existence. 😂

What's crazy is that if you know ASL you can tell she's taken at least one class, and I guess she decided that was good enough because the only signs she knew were ones you would learn as a beginner

The absolute BEST was the guy who faked being a doctor and was put in charge of several patients at a clinic near me in Florida. He was a week away from securing a super high paying job in another state but he got too greedy and got caught before he left.

you know what? The cop could've made excuses, he could've blamed someone else, but no. He owned up to his mistake. We need more people like him. so good on him

Getting a pizza and riding it out is usually my go-to move for a tornado.

How she has all that confidence while I actually know the basics of BSL and still doubt myself while working with deaf people at my jobs astounds me

My mom was a sign language interpreter for years. And there’s levels of interpreters depending on the kind of speech being used. The ones interpreting for doctors and lawyers are on a whole other level compared to ones translating everyday speech.

This is like someone walking up to the podium and going: “jr wkalcheveu whiskers ehevw jake.”

So sad they basically threw that guy under the bus.

The best part is they can't even really charge her for anything since she didn't even get paid. Its almost like people pretending to be sign language interpreter is some kind of competition now.

I think the real faking your job were the friends we made along the way.

Lol if I was the dude... I'd have just sign language "Sorry, my ASL is bad they made me do this" then just repeat that over and over again hahaha

8:55 you can tell the newscaster holding in laughter that his mom came to his defense for signing words like "pizza" and "monsters" as if he was a 5 year old.

My mom reads Braille and you’d be shocked how many times she points to something written in Braille in public and it’s either complete nonsense, filled with typos, or dangerously wrong (we were once in an airport that had the “men” and “women”s signs reversed in the Braille translation)

Fun Fact: For On Her Majesty's Secret Service, George Lazenby suggested a scene where Bond skis off a cliff and opens a parachute. This was scrapped, as the filmmakers lacked the resources to pull it of, but it was later used as the opening for The Spy Who Loved Me.

Poor Marshall. Best I could do is spell out E V A C U A T E and then shrug my shoulders and look confused before adding something unhelpful like "please" and "thank you"

The funniest part is that she didn't get paid for it. She just did it completely out of the fact that she loves to lie and comitt fraud. It's crazy.

That story about George Lazenby lying his way into getting the Bond film wasn't entirely true by the way: Lazenby was offered a chance to audition for the part after meeting producer Albert R. Broccoli while they were both getting haircuts. While Lazenby did have a fake resume of acting experience that he showed to the Bond producer Harry Saltzman, Lazenby immediately admitted that it was fake during the meeting - before getting the part. On Her Majesty's Secret Service is one of my personal favorite Bond films too.

My wife's step mothers father faked his entire lifes career. Several. He was actually pretty in the news when he got caught. He was a teacher, a psychologist, a chemical engineer etc. He would have to pack up and leave town, create a new identity etc. Ruined his kids childhood but he banked. He easily could have actually been any of his careers but chose to just find the highest paying job around and take it. Genius.

I know Charlie has always reacted to random videos from ages ago, but multiple videos connected by a common theme (like in this video) is uncommon and pretty interesting to watc. Hope we see more of this stuff.

She was throwin gang signs

Learning ASL is very rewarding, if you work in a service job. you wont use it often, but on the odd occasion you need it, it really goes that extra mile to make someone's day. Just knowing the basics is huge. I went out of my way to learn conversation basics, and how to fingerspell so i can at the very least, hold a slow conversation if i dont know the words.

No matter how goofy this story is, the best thing about it is how someone in a (relative) position of power actually straight up said "yeah its my fault" That just doesnt happen too often

Dude that first lady is a fucking legend. She just went in for shits and gigs

2nd sign language translator is actually the equivalent of someone saying you're funny, then you get asked a joke or something randomly on the spot lol. Poor guy

“I just didn’t ask enough questions” - I really admire the accountability of the guy who hired her. Nowadays it would be some nonsense insincere press release like “Our department is disappointed at the mistake that was made, and we’re working out any areas in which we can improve to prevent this from happening again in the future”.

You can't be even mad at the lady, she gave us one of the most iconic videos of all time 😂

“When you’re going into the KZfaq comments, you’re going into the swamp” words couldn’t say it better

Imagine thinking there's a hurricane and now monster pizza bears are invading!!

I remember learning about a guy who faked his way into an airline pilot position, and was finally found out when someone he was flying with decided to make him land the plane and the guy just nosedived twice and almost killed them. This was a really long time ago though

In France, there was a guy who acted as the director of Limoge's airport (a french city) for a few months. He had zero qualifications to do so and actually did a pretty good job. People realised he wasn't who he pretended to as he was arrested for one of his previous frauds

She is doing the "no crime no jutsu"

As someone who studied and learned ASL, EMERGENCY Signs are VERY different from everyday "talk."

"Can you prove you know sign language?" "Can you prove I don't?" "You're hired."

ASL interpreters go through so much training to be able to hear english and translate it into ASL’s completely different grammar structure. The fact that they expected a random guy to be able to do that is insane

one thing i’ve learned from working a lot in hospitality where the quality of service was really important, as long as you act like nothing you just did was by mistake or faulty, most people wont notice a mistake ever happening.

Im picturing this lady being in that seinfeld episode where kramer goes to a job and never had any job experience, "i dont even really work here"

poor dude was forced to do something and then made fun of about it

As a signer I love the fact that she knew some of the signs and just faked the rest 😂

Okay this shit has me dead asf 😂 I’m just picturing someone who is deaf just like wtf am I looking at 😂

That first woman would fit right in at a Joe Biden speech

The weirdest part is half of ASL is your facial expressions because it helps convey the emotion. The way she was signing made it seem like a casual conversation but attempting to talk about a major investigation. Wild

I always find it hilarious in situations like these where humans prove sometimes you dont need a motive to do some goofy shit

New drinking game: take a shot every time Charlie says "smooth brain," "reptile brain," and 3 shots for any combination of the phrases.

Man, Charlie has covered so many cases of people doing the horizontal dance, I mistakenly read it and went "ah shit, here we go again"

When Charlie uploads, its truly a time to sit back and relax. Then relfect on the stupidity that is our world.

i'm not fluent in sign language by any means but one thing to check for when someone is faking sign language is how they sign the number three. in asl at least the number three is thumb, index, and middle finger whereas a lot of people assume it's index, middle, and ring

This woman is the ultimate troll. I can't believe she just stood there throwing gang signs with a serious face... Sign language expert 😂😂😂

The sign language woman did a little bit of TikTok dance and a lot bit of gibberish I couldn’t stop laughing this just made my day🤭😄😂😂🤣🤣

She was just sharpening her fraud skills. She's really dedicated to her art

The way Charlie signed the Hunger Games gesture looked like something only a true extra could have done.

You're wrong about one thing: George Lazeby was a great Bond and that movie was criminally underrated.

"bear hug, pizza, monsters" he was relaying the plot of FNAF to the masses.

My friend is a chef in a pretty nice restaurant. My dude completely bullshitted his way in and winged it. He just luckily started small and now he does it better than most of the people there. He mainly tried his absolute hardest, because they paid him really well. You know, since he was actually a professional chef with a couple years of experience.