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The idea that facial tattoos mean "this person expects to spend his life in prison" is ridiculous. I know a dozen programmers with neck and facial tattoos, one of whom is also a VC-funded entrepreneur in Seattle. I bet the closest any of them have gotten to prison is in a video game.

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Which actually proves the article's point -- the criminal fraternity have to try even harder to distinguish themselves from the mainstream. I'll bet, however, that the programmers you know with facial tattoos look more like this: http://freshfunnypictures.com/funny-pictures/2113/facial-tat... than like this: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphics/art3/0130063tattoo1.jp...

I was sure you were gonna post this guy as your second example: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/cur...

Seriously what type of life can you expect to have looking like that? It's not like it was a snap decision either, that much work would take a lot of time. This guy definitely went above and beyond to differentiate himself from ordinary people who have tattoos.

Heh ... I looked for that one but couldn't find it in a brief search. A classic example, for sure.

Which actually proves the article's point

What would be evidence against?

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