He had the perfect skill set: he used to be a commando who owned a roofing business but had his family killed in a horrible McDonalds incident. Ultimate villain back story
Charlie, if you’re wondering about what the inside of the Toys-R-Us bunker looked like, why not have Roofman on the podcast and ask him yourself? Many (most?) prisoners are happy to talk about their experiences and he would be a good source to ask directly (even though prisoners sometimes exaggerate). You’re certainly big enough that he is unlikely to refuse. Food for thought.
Imagine working at this specific Toys 'R' Us store not knowing there is this super genius engineer/thief/craftsman living under the roof. Eating baby food, creating trap doors, stealing toys and pipe in water. this is some serious suvival game madness.
thing is, some people will have noticed things going on, like noises in the walls, things going missing and probably thought they were imagining it or that the place was haunted
I’m not entirely sure why he chose to rob the restaurants this way, but my guess is he really just needed an excuse to rappel down from the roof. He was probably insanely bored. It’s just dope as hell.
I mean if I had the skills, God knows I'm doing it too. Family reunion? social gatherings? the cinema? work? a funeral? All very good places to rappel down the roof if you ask me.
Probably after hours when the restaurant is drive-thru only. Or perhaps trying to end up in the kitchen first, catching people off guard without the security of the counter in front of them. Possibly makes it a bit harder to call the police.
DUDE! I remember watching this news LIVE. So here's why he went through the roof: he would cut a hole in the roof and get in the in-between space. He waited until the restaurant closed and they had taken all the money to the back. Then, with the store locked up, but before they put it in the safe, he would drop down and rob them. He often brought a bag of goodwill sweaters and passed them to the employees when he asked them to wait in the walk-in fridge. Many employees refused to identify him and spoke highly of him.
That's big brained. That means usually only store manager and supervisor would be there nobody else, surprising them in comfortable private place the back office, very easy to control situation.
If he was so nice, I don't understand why people were so compliant. It's weird that a guy who is not even threatening could convince so many people to let him rob them or get them into the freezer room.
This man is just an incredible survivalist. He's aware he's doing wrong when he told the police they did a good job. Makes me wonder if this guy was doing this to test himself, for fun, or for some other reason.
There's a certain type of adrenaline rush somebody like this gets. And the only way to find that high is to do shit like this. He also happened to be extremely skilled at it (from what I can tell).
He is already living in the attic of that viewer's house. He escaped years ago. No one detected his escape because he created a convincing robotic decoy with advanced AI using a garbage can, a mop, VCR motors, and an iPhone
It all started with him breaking up with his wife, and ended with him trying to meet with his girlfriend. Poor man, nobody in the story quite seems to have caught on how heartbroken this guy was. Truly every story like this is just a personal tragedy above everything else.
At least he didn't harm others because of his problems. He was a robber and a criminal, true, but it seems that he never really harmed anyone except for that one person he punched to escape.
@@totemking9418 i agree with you. As long as he didn't hurt anyone. Seems like hurting is not what he's into either. In fact he was very respectful (except that one incident) to the employees.
Okay, so is no one gonna talk about how well this guy would do in a zombie apocalypse? Engineering skills to make sure everything is router properly from what I can tell, military training for good combat skills, great personality to keep moral up, and using available items properly. I imagine this guy could probably do really fucking well for awhile till he’d have to deal with other survivors.
I also thought of that when Charlie was questioning why the guy chose to eat baby food! Sure, one can enjoy chips and cookies during a survival event, but Manchester was clearly aware of the kind of nutrition he would need to stay sharp. Maybe baby food doesn't taste the best, but it'll cover the bases.
@@venombeetle7473 Ikr, really pumped for season 2 of Roof Top Robber, seeing what wacky shenanigans he gets up to. Leaked next season description: Using his time in prison to learn about architecture, engineering, computer programing, metallurgy, plumbing, excavation, and craftsmanship the RTR builds his most incredible lair yet! Tunneling under an abandoned blockbuster which somehow wasnt converted to any other store cause...idk ghosts? There he put all his new skills to work stealing from construction sites, dumps, the strange homeless guy who collects broken electronics cause he thinks he is an alien and needs those to build a teleporter to get back to his planet, and from other abandoned buildings to create a massive 20 acre underground lair just like the Hive from the 1st Resident Evil movie.
As a former Toys R Us employee that worked the bike section and someone who had to help tear down the store after it went under, I can confirm there is a decent amount of space behind the bike racks. He wouldn't have been doing any jumping jacks back there but he would have had about a 3 ft wide room to move around and stand in certain areas. I cant guarantee all stores were like this though. On a side note we had once found a little hideaway one of our back-of-house employees made for himself inside the storage bays by hollowing it out of boxes and building a wall of small boxes in front, it was complete with a couple baby mattresses and snacks too. It was found when that bay was scheduled for an audit but we never found out who it actually was.
A place I worked at years ago had a secret storage room hidden inside a basement bathroom. Looking at it you would assume it was a small supply closet but when you opened it up it was a 20x20 room filled with a bunch of crap from the 80s including the drafts for the renovation. The whole bathroom area apparently used to be storage and they kept half as storage but it was never used…. Long story short we added a bed and tv for people working splits and swing shifts.
When you first hear this guy’s story, you’re just waiting for that “point of no return” where he does something completely irredeemable. Yet, it never comes and you just end up liking this guy even more.
@@cawcawcaw9160 okay but no one died as a result of the fire and at no point did he ever cause any serious harm to anyone. I’m not saying this guy didn’t commit crimes or he shouldn’t face consequences for his actions, but he doesn’t seem like a terrible person.
@@NoPhlyZone20 that’s not the same as something like murder and that was done while he was trying to escape a sherif on the scene. He doesn’t seem like the type of guy to just punch women randomly. Again I’m not saying he didn’t do anything wrong or commit crimes, it’s just I don’t think he’s beyond the pale.
6:32 “Toys R Us had all kinds of snacks he didn’t need baby food!” Well he probably ate baby food for a very specific reason. Baby food is designed to have the most variation of nutrients and is meant to be as nourishing as possible, to help a baby grow. To put it simply baby food has a LOT more value in nutrition over Doritos. Think of baby food like a toddler version of MREs… thinking about it that was probably the guy’s thought process considering he was in the Navy…
It's also in a sauce like consistency, any remains are left in the jar and no crumbs as evidence. Dry food always leaves crumbs and these can also attract vermin if you can't clean or throw packaging away and have to stash the trash like he probably did.
This guy isn’t even unlikable. Through the whole vid I was rooting for him and his crazy ass schemes. Also, I would pay so much for a movie about this guy
Props to Charlie for giving people a reason to check out the video and creator before showing his reaction. A lot more classy than a lot of other reactors.
Robber: Curses, foiled again. I'll just leave now. Good day. McDonalds: But what about the money? Robber: Screw the money! I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
Honestly people can learn from this guy minus his lawbreaking and falling for the “girlfriend wants to meet up when things are on high alert trick” if he didn’t push over it with the robbery hold up at the end he could totally have a different end to his story. He’s good-hearted regardless of his crimes
@@davidmoyes7010 Now I’m think about Psycho Mantis working drive-thru: “Ah, so you want a Big Mac…you like McFlurries, don’t you? You are a prolific consumer of French fries…”
You know how when they show mugshots of some criminals, you can just see the evil in their eyes? This guy has the opposite. He just looks like a nice person.
@@littletechn8175 Yep. If they caught him with CP everyone would be like "Burn the witch!" while talking about how his "nice" face was the cover of an evil psychopath. Its a classic case of people seeing what they want due to bias.
I stayed the night at a toys r us as a kid in the 2000s and it’s genuinely one of my fondest memories. I slept on a crib mattress and watched a movie on the Mickey Mouse tv display in the break room. my dad worked a night shift there and couldn’t find a sitter. so I can imagine.
@@radradishradiator I believe he was an overnight stocker. but I think he was in a manager position as well. I’m not exactly sure since it was so long ago haha.
@@radradishradiator Just like any big retail store. They clean and restock overnight. You can have large pallets on the floor overnight without worrying about customers.
When I was in the army I was always taught that when you start to clear a building that clearing from the top down is the most advantageous route. Highly unlikely 99% of the time. But if you could take that 1%. Go for it.
I mean its also the fact that he's sane or obsessed enough to say hey I'm not going to ruin myself just for one last big score, but ya now adays he might end up mental
It absolutely baffles me the fact that the exact same toys R us is the exact same location I used to go to almost every week when I was little. Never did I realize until today I had walked in the same place as the notorious roof bandit. I still remember the entire store with pinpoint images in my mind, their giant rack of skylanders trap team figurines that I used to use back when the monroe toys r us was still open. The nostalgia and also the fear it brings me to think I ever so innocently walked in this guys footsteps is crazy.
That was probably the safest toys r us in the world. Imagine what would happen if there was an active shooter in there. He would of seen them with his cameras, repelled down, and disarmed them before they could try anything.
I actually went to school with his son, who would tell us that his dad was a famous criminal who had escaped prison by hanging from the bottom of a truck and rolling out underneath (not sure if that part was mentioned, but you can look it up). Of course none of us really believed him, until the Toys R Us incident, and it was believed Jeffrey was headed back to California. My friend had a police officer attached to him in case Jeffrey tried to make contact with his son. That’s when we knew he really wasn’t bullshitting. Edit: also the irony that Jeffrey is also the name of the Toys R Us mascot
I think the only thing more epic than that would be if the kid who's dad worked for Nintendo wasn't lying and you really could see Lara Croft naked by doing the Konami code at midnight on Friday the 13th while gargling dog blood
@@Stryfe52 Yeah like Doom or Wolfenstein. I just wish I was in a pure hellscape scenario in where the only option I have is to kill everyone I see in the slim chance I make it out alive. Yep thats why games are popular... because we really wish we were in those situations and the game is as close as we can get. I just wish I was mowing down pedestrians and being chased by a whole city of police cars. You see, I dont play those games because its fun to immerse myself in an extreme, exiting and fantastical situation where my action are free of real life consequence and if I die I just get to restart again, I play them because I long for my actual life to be like that and its as close as I'll ever get. Is that the point you where trying to make? Lol so stupid.
We're a bunch of goofy goobers playing on weenie hut juniors mode in life. While this man is living on the edge 24/7 like a stealth game with nightmare difficulty.
Considering how peacefully he accepted the first arrest and how hard he avoided the second, I feel like this is more evidence of how horrible America's prison system is. Upsetting to think that a modern-day Gentleman Thief got pushed to violence by its spectre.
Yeah, our prison system is horrible because it’s meant for punishment, not rehabilitation. It’s supposed to scare people away from committing crimes in the first place, but evidently it’s not very effective in doing so. I’d rather a criminal suffer than be pampered using my tax dollars, but that’s just me and I understand the arguments in favor of better rehabilitation. The prison subculture basically makes rehabilitating offenders impossible, it’s pretty obvious who is going to be a recidivist and who isn’t.
Privately owned prisons make most of their money off of repeat offenders. I'm sure that's got nothing to do with America's crime problem though-it's all those damn vidya gaemz!
@@Sniperboy5551 prison is a business, it encourages repeat offenders on purpose. Adam Hates Everything has a great video about this (plus he's still doing his thing lol). However, I feel like the 'm-muh tax dollars' argument is so worn out at this point, it's not like you're choosing what to do with it anyways. Why are people so quick to demonize fixing up our roads, rehabilitating our prisoners and taking care of our people when the military has to justify a budget in the 800 billion range with 40,000 dollar office furniture? If it were up to me, I wouldn't want my tax dollars spent on cushioning the behinds of pencil pushers and boot lickers. P.s: Prisoners lose a lot of fundamental rights. I think giving them proper living conditions isn't "pampering" when they're fundamentally below the average citizen. Keep in mind that prison budget also goes to training better staff and creating better facilities for THEM as well. Or at least it should... That's a whole 'nother topic tho.
@@Sniperboy5551 except the system unfairly and disproportionately targets minorities and sentences them to worse and worse prison times for the same crimes as those who are white or especially rich. All crime is by far not equal. The punishments for crime are certainly not equal either, especially when it disproportionately targets women, minorities, and the less physically strong. Prison rape is unacceptable, but everyone just knows it happens in prisons. That's disgusting. It should've never been allowed to became a main stay of prisons. The politicians, the system, the ruling class, and the rich corporations and wealthiest individuals who control and designed it to be this way after 100s of years of causing it to be this way can fuck off.
McDonald's breakfast makes me blow out the toilet like seriously those full out blow it out son. It's good. I mean it's kind of good but I'll tell you what the consequence so just not worth it. It's usually the best time to eat it before you go on a plane cuz I like blowing out those small bathrooms if you know what I'm saying. God damn Lord have mercy who goes in there after me. Damn
In reality you can break the rules and get away from it if nobody cares and you know the workers at toys r us certainly didn't care. Minimum wage life sucks.
Hes an inspiration to be kind no matter what you're perpetrating. Didn't try and kill anyone, wasn't rude, hell probably didn't cause anyone significant mental anguish.
Hiya, former 91B here. Going through the roof not only gives you the element of surprise it also gives you a bird's eye view of employees and camera placement...also, if pressed, you have a spare exit.
As a former Army 92G, I can absolutely say from personal experience that entering a target building, especially a McDonald’s or other restaurant/mess hall, from the roof is the best way of getting the drop on the employees and getting away with the goods.
Dude, the feds are totally gonna come by this guys prison cell, say "your country needs you" and hand him a fake id/passport, a get-out-of-jail-free card, and a ticket to europe.
@@Composty_lol Well, not when he was in the military. He was probably traumatized from it and once he got out, started doing dangerous illegal shit just to cope. He wouldn't have been so considerate to the mcdonalds employees if all he cared about was the money. It was probably the "thrill of the heist" or something that drove him
This guy is honestly a badass, part of me wants him to get an out by being recruited by the government or something. He could work wonders if he used his powers for good instead of evil. It's like he watched a bunch of spy films and said "I want to do this", but he actually followed his dreams
I feel like at least at first he was probably just a veteran down on hard times. Like he didn’t steal millions, targeted a well insured chain where the employees would still get paid their dues, and took absolute care to not harm anyone. Definitely knew employees received training to not fight back and acted by coming through the roof after close so that he wouldn’t encounter the public who might try to be heroes causing injury. The ToysRUs stunt is unhinged tho.
wait he broke out of prison where he had 45 years to serve meaning he would get out around 2045 then went and robbed toys are us and got locked up again after burning down a dentist shop and his sentence is now over in 2036 did this mans find a cheat code to shortening his prison sentence lol
Sounds like dude likes to live a different kind of existence amongst us. He got hammered for by the law for his actions. Pretty steep price too. Bet he was happy when he asked. He has a hell of a story to tell. Was fun to watch. Great video
Dude honestly sounds like a tortured soul. I know a vet who is so far gone he never came home from war in his mind and his body sadly kept moving but he didn’t. That’s why the baby food he wanted to live not live a life of luxury it’s actually tragic to think of. He needs some mental health while he’s in jail because I know that’s what he truly wants
If he didnt want to live a life a luxury he wouldnt have been playing with toys and bikes lol. He was just eating the baby food cuz it's the most nutritious thing in there. Everything else is junk food and candy. It's not that deep of a reason to eat baby food lol
@@Professorlicme8 Playing with toys is a life of luxury? Obviously he was doing that out of boredom cause what else is there for him to do inside a TOY store to pass time. As for riding bike they said he did it for exercise if you can listen.
He went through the roof because McDonald’s has any possible security measure they can for “record” rather than prevention, if he went thru the door they would have his exact height (they have a height marker by the doors) build (I’m pretty sure most McDonald’s doors are standardized sizes) and overall description (most of the cameras up front focus on the entrance) so it was a little extra but it did serve a purpose to prevent getting caught
I worked at McDonald’s for 8 years and can confirm the breakfast rush still happens every day. They usually compensate for this though by staffing more workers or stronger workers
Always though Toys R Us had more space that sense and was mostly deserted aside from the weekend, usually just 1 bored person at the counter during weekdays, yet the place full of expensive/overpriced toys, bikes and games. Dude saw a weakness and exploited it to the fullest, absolute madlad.
dude was literally just having fun, he realized the boundaries are imaginary and went all out, cartoon style, id bet it was probably a childhood dream of his (or childhood daydream which he turned true), cant blame him, at least he didnt put anyone in danger was just doing his thing
Didn’t seriously harm anyone, was nice to the employees, literally said “you did a good job today officers” when he got arrested, and literally made a criminal hideout behind a bike rack in toys r us with the power of toys
The tactical advantage of roof access is observational and stealth related. It's VERY easy to penetrate the roof if you know what you're doing and you can spend serious time up there w/o anyone noticing.
I worked at Waffle House back in 2019 and yes he’s absolutely right about the fighting aspect considering I myself was one of the employees that had to deal with the giant fight one night while simultaneously taking the orders from the drunken angry people that were part of the fight watching.
There was a show called "Masterminds" on what used to be CrimeTV that did a episode on this guy, and it was incredible. The episode actually had me rooting for the guy, since he didn't harm anyone and pulled off some insane heists.
I could definitely see roofman being a key member in suicide squad. With his unique set of skills, he can break in, escape, and hide in nearly any location
I feel like this guy did it all for the thrill. He could have used his intelligence for a multitude of different things to make money. But no, he put it on Hard Nightmare mode, dude was a marvel.
This man quite literally had no reason to do what he did there are so many other ways he could have gone about his life of crime but he decided to do it in the most cartoonish way imaginable
This guy is a extremely wholesome dude for being a criminal, congratulating officers when they caught him, donating toys, and not hurting or killing anyone. Holy crud this man is a true gigachad.
45 years, because he robbed two mcdonalds… nobody got hurt, no shots fired, no fight vs the cops. The other day, a dude killed 3 people, for no reason at all, and got 5 years… American justice system in a nutshell…
It's always hilarious when a criminal happens to be extremely polite like this. It's kinda like the D.B. Cooper story, where he literally paid the tab for his champagne or whiskey or whatever while he was committing the crime.
My 15 year old son turned me on to your channel, and he's the main reason I watch your videos. If your content sucked it wouldn't have worked, so... Charlie, you are literally helping generations stay relatable to each other. I don't mean to burden you with such a heavy responsibiity, but thanks, man. To show my appreciation, I'll offer an answer to your question: Why the roof? My career has been in service and hospitality, and I see the simple genius of choosing to drop in from the roof. A single McDonald's store may seem like a small, independent business, just selling happy meals in every town in America, but the corporate entity every store relies on to make it work is huge. It would not create the same reaction in a McDonald's for a dude to suddenly drop from the sky, like it would if he did it in your living room. To maintain a brand like this, there are always people coming an going who are separate from the usual staff who work the drive through, make the fries, and take payments. It would not be at all alarming to the workers at first, bc they are accustomed to extra people being there working on one system or providing promotional equipment support, which often involves the roof, banners, mcrib cutouts hanging from a string over the register, etc. If that makes sense? If you pay attention to stories about bank robberies, then you already know the odds are against getting away with it, but why? The most common way they get caught is that somebody calls 911 while the robbery is in progress. The whole strategy of rushing in to sieze the element of surprise, combined with the practical need to hide one's face from cameras jacks up the risk of regular people detecting something lawless is in progress. I mean, who else but a bank robber sprints out of the bank while yelling, then peels out of the parking lot to speed away from the scene? This guy managed his robberies in a calm, cool fashion, so he was able to get the money and get out without traumatizing the employees. They literally reported a pleasant event to the responding officers, lmao! The thing is, he could have stolen a LOT more money from a bank...maybe 20 years ago when banks actually had cash vaults, but bc they exist solely to handle money, they are also much more secure. Nobody non-chalantly descends from the sky down into a bank without somebody hitting the alarm, and same goes for currency exchanges, etc. However... A high volume store whose success depends on a time sensitive product made by inexperienced workers who are comfortable and accustomed to making it happen while surrounded by chaos and strangers, it is the perfect target for a highly organized and tactically trained criminal to hit. Why do I feel like standing up to clap for him? Weird. But wait, there's more... Think about what could go wrong for the side of law and order by putting this guy in prison! It's actually ironic in a franchise kind of way, if you think about it. We are living in a time where we are supposed to be the greatest, most wealthy country on the planet while, simultaneously, there are veterans sleeping under every bridge in America...partly due to the perversion of free market capitalism where public private partnerships are not called fascism. In that sense, McDonald's is the epitome of corporate abuse on the people, disguised as a restaurant chain. They have the power to make or break entire towns just by where they choose to source their potatoes, or make their paper products. Americans love them bc they are not aware the food is addictive, and Mickey D's has made billions serving billions of mcchickens world wide. So how do they celebrate their good fortune upon the magical people who dwell in the land of the free? Pink goo nuggets, factory farmed meat and poultry, underpaid staff, gmo russets, and an anti nutritional menu closely associated with obesity and questionable food stuff ingredients that may or may not also be used to make the foam found in yoga mats, without any regard for the safety of these ingredients when ingested by humans over the long term. Do you feel like a valued customer? Hmmmm. Something really needed to change, but what could be done? Trained by the least free market entity ever to have existed in world history, the US DoD, one man quietly slides down a rope from the ceiling. Jilted by a nation that taught him to make war on civilians in far away lands, where there are no drive thrus for anyone's convenience, and if there were, this guy would have blown them up...forgotten by the ghouls who sent him to war, he's not the type to just sit back and take it. So he targets the one brand that symbolizes the parasitizing heart of the matter, the golden arches of big mac territory. And what do they do to reward him? They lock him down in a secure facility filled solely with other men that all have balls as big as his, with nothing but time on their hands, and nothing to lose. Additionally, everything they can do to pass the time invlolves fitness, extreme competition, games of strategy, a deep understanding of human behavior, applied subversive psychology, where nobody ever regretted more literacy and learning new skills...and who are limited to weight lifting and fist fighting as a way to stay fit. Oh, the potential helplessness of doubling one's volume putting on lean muscle mass just to get through the day to day, in a highly combative environment of jungle law and dog eat dog, a jedi arrives to teach the master class of criminal thinking? This is where they chose to put THIS guy?!?! What could go wrong? My opinion is that Mr. Manchester is the canary in the coal mine, the one bad apple to spoil the barrel, the slave that can read. In other words, he now resides in a place of limitless opportunity to clone his criminal model and make it a franchise. I hope he is teaching his rooftop playbook in the prisons, where they keep all of our warriors, the only guys with enough balls to fight the power for the common man. The ironies just keep circling back if you understand that the system lets lawmakers profit from owning prisons, which should be a crime, and the people who own the prisons also hand down the convictions, and the convicts who fill them are there mostly due to addictions, but were willing to do whatever it took to feed them...addictions that is...bc brands like mcdonald's bought up all the competetion and under their arches consolidated all the opportunity in each separate region, leaving communities in poverty, hopelessness and without a vision. Getting rich from engineering their food to be addictive! Giving nothing back in terms of nutrition. So, the cities where there is a McDonald's are often crime ridden places, where to make ends meet everyone risks catching cases... just for the crime of being too broke to escape horrid conditions. If there is any justice in this universe under heaven, he'll devise a perfect plan for the guys he does his time with, so that when they make parole and get released back into society, and realize the only place that will hire convicted felons is the local mcdonald's? I have a dream that they will slang fries out the drive thru by day like employees of the month, and night by night, calmly and politely, doing no harm to the little guys, gut the local walmart for millions. Hip, hip, hooray! Robin Hood-Bonnie & Clyde-Manchester. This is a legend in the making, bc this is what the new great peasant uprising looks like on early 21st century earth. You are god damned right about this being an awesome story, Charlie. Thank you for sharing it. Cheers!
this is one of if not the most fascinating piece of text I’ve ever read. At first I thought I knew where this was going, then I didn’t, then i did. You’ve got a spectacular mind and you’re analysis has me completely sold.
He had the perfect skill set: he used to be a commando who owned a roofing business but had his family killed in a horrible McDonalds incident. Ultimate villain back story
Yeah I read up on him such a cool story
The mc-avenger
What exactly is a “McDonald’s incident” 😂
@@charizard1521 soft ice cream broken again
@@fogcat5 ahh yes, death by acute onset ice cream deficiency syndrome
*gets arrested*
"Officers, you did a great job today"
This is the most Gigachad criminal I've ever heard of
"Just because you're bad guy doesn't mean you're _bad guy_ !"
Bros the main character
He wanted to be caught for a long ass time, he was getting impatient
the irl equivalent of saying gg after losing
Gigachad kekw pogchamp no youre breathtaking ! Am I right my fellow redditors ??
Charlie, if you’re wondering about what the inside of the Toys-R-Us bunker looked like, why not have Roofman on the podcast and ask him yourself? Many (most?) prisoners are happy to talk about their experiences and he would be a good source to ask directly (even though prisoners sometimes exaggerate). You’re certainly big enough that he is unlikely to refuse. Food for thought.
This needs to happen
Hope he sees this
Everyone please vote this
+1 for Roofman interview
YES.
Imagine working at this specific Toys 'R' Us store not knowing there is this super genius engineer/thief/craftsman living under the roof.
Eating baby food, creating trap doors, stealing toys and pipe in water. this is some serious suvival game madness.
thing is, some people will have noticed things going on, like noises in the walls, things going missing and probably thought they were imagining it or that the place was haunted
The funny thing is I live right down the street from that store
He lived right up the street from me
Apparently the managers there were suspicious of employees stealing because of the high amount of shrink
I’m not entirely sure why he chose to rob the restaurants this way, but my guess is he really just needed an excuse to rappel down from the roof. He was probably insanely bored. It’s just dope as hell.
I mean if I had the skills, God knows I'm doing it too. Family reunion? social gatherings? the cinema? work? a funeral? All very good places to rappel down the roof if you ask me.
JESSE-WE NEED TO COOK
Probably after hours when the restaurant is drive-thru only. Or perhaps trying to end up in the kitchen first, catching people off guard without the security of the counter in front of them. Possibly makes it a bit harder to call the police.
@@wilfredomartell4856 I would want my dead body rappel'd down at full speed right into my coffin, smash into it like a ragdoll.
memth
DUDE! I remember watching this news LIVE. So here's why he went through the roof: he would cut a hole in the roof and get in the in-between space. He waited until the restaurant closed and they had taken all the money to the back. Then, with the store locked up, but before they put it in the safe, he would drop down and rob them. He often brought a bag of goodwill sweaters and passed them to the employees when he asked them to wait in the walk-in fridge. Many employees refused to identify him and spoke highly of him.
That's big brained. That means usually only store manager and supervisor would be there nobody else, surprising them in comfortable private place the back office, very easy to control situation.
Thnx for the explanation
If he was so nice, I don't understand why people were so compliant. It's weird that a guy who is not even threatening could convince so many people to let him rob them or get them into the freezer room.
Ok nevermind he punched a woman and took her gun lol
@@c.odubhlaoich2948 McDonald employees aren't paid enough to fight off a non-threatening robber
this man really took the whole "I am living in your walls" thing to heart.
I *AM* your walls
Fr though
I dont think theres any other way to take that haha
Rap tap tap… the man in the walls
Bruno 2.0
This guy: Robs several Mcdonalds
45 Years in Jail
Other guy: Murders 3 people
*3 Years in Jail*
Maybe cuz they don’t care about a single human life they care about their money so they get this
he broke out n then only got 13 after lol i guess breaking out was so impressive they let 32 years slide lol
He's a career criminal who has absolutely no intention of changing. Plus he punched a woman and burned down a building.
@@jaymike3302 woe be the woman who was punched, she wasn't harmed beyond that
@@ghostedemu3252 I'd give him only 10 years if he promised to change. And if he wouldn't have burned a building down.
This man is just an incredible survivalist. He's aware he's doing wrong when he told the police they did a good job. Makes me wonder if this guy was doing this to test himself, for fun, or for some other reason.
Fun
@ahhh no
@@Sharkbatess you know he's just saying that to provoke someone right?
There's a certain type of adrenaline rush somebody like this gets. And the only way to find that high is to do shit like this. He also happened to be extremely skilled at it (from what I can tell).
Get this man his own anime
Hey, thanks for watching the video. Super happy that you found it interesting!
Thanks for covering the man who took “I’m in your walls” too literally because holy hell that was entertaining
nice
@Denis please stop making me laugh
Lol all of the millions of viewers on this channel lost for your video lool
i wish Charlie favorited the channels of the videos he watches, But he clearly doesnt even read comments..
He is already living in the attic of that viewer's house. He escaped years ago. No one detected his escape because he created a convincing robotic decoy with advanced AI using a garbage can, a mop, VCR motors, and an iPhone
Lol
and a singular doorknob.
he made a hole in the roof of the prison to escape
bruh literally watched jimmy neutron and used that as his escape plan
Me picturing sonic 2 decoy sitting in a cell lmao
"Workers said he was very nice."
Just because you are bad guy, doesn't mean you are _bad guy_
wait, 45 years for two “nicest thief ever” robberies? There are people who get less time for murder. 45 years?? No wonder he broke out, sounds unfair
He did 100s of armed robberies and probably mentally scarred tons of people
He still committed multiple robberies so yeah, those sentences stack up
Kidnapping
@@alexd4566 Not against some of the egregious things that get less than half of that.
well now its 13 years because 2036 he's getting released
It all started with him breaking up with his wife, and ended with him trying to meet with his girlfriend. Poor man, nobody in the story quite seems to have caught on how heartbroken this guy was. Truly every story like this is just a personal tragedy above everything else.
At least he didn't harm others because of his problems. He was a robber and a criminal, true, but it seems that he never really harmed anyone except for that one person he punched to escape.
Heartbroken😂 what an excuse for all this shi😂 we all know that feeling but there’s gotta be something wrong with him
@@totemking9418 i agree with you. As long as he didn't hurt anyone. Seems like hurting is not what he's into either. In fact he was very respectful (except that one incident) to the employees.
@@Shrnirpledorp or he's a nice person that just got tired of decisions being made for him for society's convenience.
@@burnttoast.2017 ok joker kinnie
The whole donating stolen toys part makes him sound almost like a modern day Robin Hood. Almost.
The real reason toys r us went broke
@@weednose6030 man took all my PS5s
@@danishbutter1847 no that was me
@@Blue-fg8vt You bastard! How much for two?
@@victorconway444 well I stole them and I only need two so....five bucks and a funny picture of a skeleton.
he still brought flowers to see his GF. solid man right there, never forgets whats important
Okay, so is no one gonna talk about how well this guy would do in a zombie apocalypse? Engineering skills to make sure everything is router properly from what I can tell, military training for good combat skills, great personality to keep moral up, and using available items properly. I imagine this guy could probably do really fucking well for awhile till he’d have to deal with other survivors.
Man's a fucking Catacylsm: Dark Days Ahead character
only losers compare real life skills to a zombie apocalypse
He will do well in prison at least
He'll fucking get zombies to like him
I also thought of that when Charlie was questioning why the guy chose to eat baby food! Sure, one can enjoy chips and cookies during a survival event, but Manchester was clearly aware of the kind of nutrition he would need to stay sharp. Maybe baby food doesn't taste the best, but it'll cover the bases.
This dude is a gigachad. Instead of fighting back against law and killing innocents with firearms, he opted to kill them with kindness instead.
😂
Just Some Leech that likes to Leech
Hey it's you again
Yeah lol
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I know I shouldn't be complimenting him. I certainly don't condone his actions. But this dude had an incredible run.
He seems more polite than the majority of people I know
Can’t wait to see how his next run goes like, maybe it’ll be a Walmart.
His run is not finished yet, don’t worry
His only victims were mega corporations so meh 🤷♀️
@@venombeetle7473 Ikr, really pumped for season 2 of Roof Top Robber, seeing what wacky shenanigans he gets up to.
Leaked next season description:
Using his time in prison to learn about architecture, engineering, computer programing, metallurgy, plumbing, excavation, and craftsmanship the RTR builds his most incredible lair yet! Tunneling under an abandoned blockbuster which somehow wasnt converted to any other store cause...idk ghosts? There he put all his new skills to work stealing from construction sites, dumps, the strange homeless guy who collects broken electronics cause he thinks he is an alien and needs those to build a teleporter to get back to his planet, and from other abandoned buildings to create a massive 20 acre underground lair just like the Hive from the 1st Resident Evil movie.
As a former Toys R Us employee that worked the bike section and someone who had to help tear down the store after it went under, I can confirm there is a decent amount of space behind the bike racks. He wouldn't have been doing any jumping jacks back there but he would have had about a 3 ft wide room to move around and stand in certain areas. I cant guarantee all stores were like this though.
On a side note we had once found a little hideaway one of our back-of-house employees made for himself inside the storage bays by hollowing it out of boxes and building a wall of small boxes in front, it was complete with a couple baby mattresses and snacks too. It was found when that bay was scheduled for an audit but we never found out who it actually was.
A place I worked at years ago had a secret storage room hidden inside a basement bathroom. Looking at it you would assume it was a small supply closet but when you opened it up it was a 20x20 room filled with a bunch of crap from the 80s including the drafts for the renovation. The whole bathroom area apparently used to be storage and they kept half as storage but it was never used…. Long story short we added a bed and tv for people working splits and swing shifts.
That's called an "undocumented break room".
Both epic stories. Does anyone have any more? 🍿
When you first hear this guy’s story, you’re just waiting for that “point of no return” where he does something completely irredeemable. Yet, it never comes and you just end up liking this guy even more.
I dunno chief, burning a dentist building down ain't it?
@@cawcawcaw9160 okay but no one died as a result of the fire and at no point did he ever cause any serious harm to anyone. I’m not saying this guy didn’t commit crimes or he shouldn’t face consequences for his actions, but he doesn’t seem like a terrible person.
He punched a girl when he tried to get away lol thats enough for me
@@NoPhlyZone20 that’s not the same as something like murder and that was done while he was trying to escape a sherif on the scene. He doesn’t seem like the type of guy to just punch women randomly. Again I’m not saying he didn’t do anything wrong or commit crimes, it’s just I don’t think he’s beyond the pale.
@@NoPhlyZone20 because punching a girl's so much worse than punching a guy
this guy is like the overly charismatic main character thief in a anime/game that somehow makes everyone love him cause he's just too cool and nice
Its nice to see Jerimiah Watkins finding a side hustle.
Locke cole
Yamcha but minus the Wolf Fang Fist/sword and plus charisma
Jack Sparrow
Sakamoto
6:32 “Toys R Us had all kinds of snacks he didn’t need baby food!”
Well he probably ate baby food for a very specific reason. Baby food is designed to have the most variation of nutrients and is meant to be as nourishing as possible, to help a baby grow. To put it simply baby food has a LOT more value in nutrition over Doritos.
Think of baby food like a toddler version of MREs… thinking about it that was probably the guy’s thought process considering he was in the Navy…
@@choppiecortez8213 damn navy and their special boat chiefs
It's also in a sauce like consistency, any remains are left in the jar and no crumbs as evidence. Dry food always leaves crumbs and these can also attract vermin if you can't clean or throw packaging away and have to stash the trash like he probably did.
Do u have access to baby food?
So I'm assuming it's a big part of your diet? Knowing what you know.
@@MrBollocks10 such a good insult. 😐
@@choppiecortez8213 oh god shut up
This guy isn’t even unlikable. Through the whole vid I was rooting for him and his crazy ass schemes. Also, I would pay so much for a movie about this guy
Props to Charlie for giving people a reason to check out the video and creator before showing his reaction. A lot more classy than a lot of other reactors.
@dizzybread ratio
@dizzybread ratio
@dizzybread bad grammar
@@Omabatfartsbruh no it's not
it's the first link aswell
Robber: “I want all the money in the register and a ice cream.”
McDs: “Ice Cream machine is down”
“Could you fix it please?”
I mean those Ice Cream Cones and Sundaes are the shxt.
*Metal Gear game over motif*
Robber: Curses, foiled again. I'll just leave now. Good day.
McDonalds: But what about the money?
Robber: Screw the money! I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
“Could you check?”
“…no.”
Honestly people can learn from this guy minus his lawbreaking and falling for the “girlfriend wants to meet up when things are on high alert trick” if he didn’t push over it with the robbery hold up at the end he could totally have a different end to his story. He’s good-hearted regardless of his crimes
Wait, how is punching a retail worker and burning down a dentist office good-hearted?
@@xxkildarxx Haven't you heard? Dentists act all friendly and nice until they find out you have teeth, they love the stuff.
you copied this comment from the original video
@@DmmyIA Dang you right.
@@xxkildarxx He said minus the lawbreaking
He’s one of those guys the teachers said “if he’d only apply himself” about.
Imagine being a tired underpaid employee at the cash register before suddenly feeling small debris fall on your shoulder
I would stare at it, look up, sigh and accept my own fate. I am just that done with life.
Lol
He's definitely not just doing it for the money, he's a thrillseeker. That's better than someone who actively wants to hurt people.
This man is like the metal gear snake of McDonald’s thieves.
Maybe he literally stole a metal gear from the ice cream machine and that's why they never work.
He even hides in cardboard too
@TuskLovesJaguars jj
@ahhh You only have 2 videos. Also, *videos.
@@davidmoyes7010
Now I’m think about Psycho Mantis working drive-thru:
“Ah, so you want a Big Mac…you like McFlurries, don’t you? You are a prolific consumer of French fries…”
man was playing minecraft irl
You know how when they show mugshots of some criminals, you can just see the evil in their eyes? This guy has the opposite. He just looks like a nice person.
@@bigboynow7936 hmmmmmmmm
I really feel like if someone told you a story about how this person murdered a family then showed the mug shot, you'd say the opposite lol.
Nice people don’t burn down dentist offices
Nice people dont assault others, rob stores, and then burn down businesses. He's evil.
@@littletechn8175 Yep. If they caught him with CP everyone would be like "Burn the witch!" while talking about how his "nice" face was the cover of an evil psychopath. Its a classic case of people seeing what they want due to bias.
I stayed the night at a toys r us as a kid in the 2000s and it’s genuinely one of my fondest memories. I slept on a crib mattress and watched a movie on the Mickey Mouse tv display in the break room. my dad worked a night shift there and couldn’t find a sitter. so I can imagine.
why does a toys r us store have a night shift????
@@radradishradiator I believe he was an overnight stocker. but I think he was in a manager position as well. I’m not exactly sure since it was so long ago haha.
Nice
so cool
@@radradishradiator Just like any big retail store. They clean and restock overnight. You can have large pallets on the floor overnight without worrying about customers.
When I was in the army I was always taught that when you start to clear a building that clearing from the top down is the most advantageous route. Highly unlikely 99% of the time. But if you could take that 1%. Go for it.
Makes sense, you always want high ground. Even in civil war high ground was an advantage you always wanted
this man literally is the definition of a anime protagonist, escaping prison, and doing wacky things your normal person wouldn't do LOL
Yes
@ahhh says the one not even having a video with 1,000 views. GTFO of here!
🤓
@@capno830 💩
He honestly seems like an anime antagonist. Doing petty crime and otherwise being a completely nice guy. Like Team Rocket.
I feel like the baby food probably has more nutritional value than Doritos and Oreos, so I'd say it's a better choice
You feel like?that is literally the case.if doritos were better than baby food then why even bother with anything but junk food for your kid
@@yeegerszx8947 yeah i felt like that's the case
@@yeegerszx8947 I dunno. That doesn't feel right to me
@@yeegerszx8947 choking hazard
I mean its also the fact that he's sane or obsessed enough to say hey I'm not going to ruin myself just for one last big score, but ya now adays he might end up mental
- breaks into the roof
- takes the money
- locks them in the freezer
- gives them their coats
- *leaves*
CHAD
- refuses to elaborate
- gives them their coats
- locks them in the freezer *
He is def a canadian
-escapes prison
-hides at toys r us
-eats baby food
-leaves his facility
-wants to visit his wife
@@impr0perpawz680 nah the canadian would probably beat them up/kill them or be passive aggressive af if the canadian is doing something mean
It absolutely baffles me the fact that the exact same toys R us is the exact same location I used to go to almost every week when I was little. Never did I realize until today I had walked in the same place as the notorious roof bandit. I still remember the entire store with pinpoint images in my mind, their giant rack of skylanders trap team figurines that I used to use back when the monroe toys r us was still open. The nostalgia and also the fear it brings me to think I ever so innocently walked in this guys footsteps is crazy.
That was probably the safest toys r us in the world. Imagine what would happen if there was an active shooter in there. He would of seen them with his cameras, repelled down, and disarmed them before they could try anything.
It’s like the place actually had Spiderman
I'd like to think that he would drill a hole in the ceiling and drop it on them to crush them
@@DrGandW even better they had roofman
@@turtle-kl7ur Nobody expects Roofman. No really they don't.
I actually went to school with his son, who would tell us that his dad was a famous criminal who had escaped prison by hanging from the bottom of a truck and rolling out underneath (not sure if that part was mentioned, but you can look it up). Of course none of us really believed him, until the Toys R Us incident, and it was believed Jeffrey was headed back to California. My friend had a police officer attached to him in case Jeffrey tried to make contact with his son. That’s when we knew he really wasn’t bullshitting.
Edit: also the irony that Jeffrey is also the name of the Toys R Us mascot
Damn.
I think the only thing more epic than that would be if the kid who's dad worked for Nintendo wasn't lying and you really could see Lara Croft naked by doing the Konami code at midnight on Friday the 13th while gargling dog blood
What if Jeffrey *was* the mascot?
Small world
@@Helladamnleet ht the hell are u talking about dude gargling dog blood?
This man is living the life that we all want. This is absolutely crazy. This man was the protagonist of his story.
@ahhh shut up
Until he went to prison for the second time
@@HairyJuan he’ll be out just wait it’ll be the peak of his career
@Safwaan Why do you think GTA and RDR were so popular?! Use you heads people!!!
@@Stryfe52 Yeah like Doom or Wolfenstein. I just wish I was in a pure hellscape scenario in where the only option I have is to kill everyone I see in the slim chance I make it out alive. Yep thats why games are popular... because we really wish we were in those situations and the game is as close as we can get. I just wish I was mowing down pedestrians and being chased by a whole city of police cars.
You see, I dont play those games because its fun to immerse myself in an extreme, exiting and fantastical situation where my action are free of real life consequence and if I die I just get to restart again, I play them because I long for my actual life to be like that and its as close as I'll ever get.
Is that the point you where trying to make? Lol so stupid.
7:59 figure out what P.D. it is at and file a FOIA. you'll get your pictures
I’d be more afraid of someone that went through the ceiling than someone that just runs in
clearly this man is with the us military or something better do what he says
The Element of Suprise
The perfect criminal. Knew how to pull of the most intricate string of McRobberies, then covering himself Walmart baby style.
He's the real Hamburgler
In the end his mcspree was ended by baconators
We're a bunch of goofy goobers playing on weenie hut juniors mode in life. While this man is living on the edge 24/7 like a stealth game with nightmare difficulty.
I’m sure it helps having learned everything the military teaches you about survival and evasion.
Charlie Speech: 100
Naw fuck that we living on Nightmare and he's living on Ultra-Violence, shit sucks out here 😩
Dude was a real life Grinch stealing toys. Except he was very polite.
Considering how peacefully he accepted the first arrest and how hard he avoided the second, I feel like this is more evidence of how horrible America's prison system is.
Upsetting to think that a modern-day Gentleman Thief got pushed to violence by its spectre.
Honestly yea. . If the prison isn't brutal it's nonexistent. There's no happy in between
There's just pain or releasing dangers
Yeah, our prison system is horrible because it’s meant for punishment, not rehabilitation. It’s supposed to scare people away from committing crimes in the first place, but evidently it’s not very effective in doing so. I’d rather a criminal suffer than be pampered using my tax dollars, but that’s just me and I understand the arguments in favor of better rehabilitation. The prison subculture basically makes rehabilitating offenders impossible, it’s pretty obvious who is going to be a recidivist and who isn’t.
Privately owned prisons make most of their money off of repeat offenders. I'm sure that's got nothing to do with America's crime problem though-it's all those damn vidya gaemz!
@@Sniperboy5551 prison is a business, it encourages repeat offenders on purpose. Adam Hates Everything has a great video about this (plus he's still doing his thing lol). However, I feel like the 'm-muh tax dollars' argument is so worn out at this point, it's not like you're choosing what to do with it anyways. Why are people so quick to demonize fixing up our roads, rehabilitating our prisoners and taking care of our people when the military has to justify a budget in the 800 billion range with 40,000 dollar office furniture? If it were up to me, I wouldn't want my tax dollars spent on cushioning the behinds of pencil pushers and boot lickers.
P.s: Prisoners lose a lot of fundamental rights. I think giving them proper living conditions isn't "pampering" when they're fundamentally below the average citizen. Keep in mind that prison budget also goes to training better staff and creating better facilities for THEM as well. Or at least it should... That's a whole 'nother topic tho.
@@Sniperboy5551 except the system unfairly and disproportionately targets minorities and sentences them to worse and worse prison times for the same crimes as those who are white or especially rich. All crime is by far not equal. The punishments for crime are certainly not equal either, especially when it disproportionately targets women, minorities, and the less physically strong. Prison rape is unacceptable, but everyone just knows it happens in prisons. That's disgusting. It should've never been allowed to became a main stay of prisons. The politicians, the system, the ruling class, and the rich corporations and wealthiest individuals who control and designed it to be this way after 100s of years of causing it to be this way can fuck off.
At this point , Charlie should just start his own newsletter discussing topics that no one cares about yet entertaining😂
That would be the modern version of readers digest
@@kyledodson2992
And like Reader’s Digest, it would make for excellent toilet time content
@ahhh you have only two videos and they're just you playing terraria, you aren't a bot either considering your comment history.
McDonald's breakfast makes me blow out the toilet like seriously those full out blow it out son. It's good. I mean it's kind of good but I'll tell you what the consequence so just not worth it. It's usually the best time to eat it before you go on a plane cuz I like blowing out those small bathrooms if you know what I'm saying. God damn Lord have mercy who goes in there after me. Damn
@ahhh no babe. No they’re not.
This proves that the main difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.
That's a banger of a line, ngl
Truly poetic.
In reality you can break the rules and get away from it if nobody cares and you know the workers at toys r us certainly didn't care. Minimum wage life sucks.
Hes an inspiration to be kind no matter what you're perpetrating. Didn't try and kill anyone, wasn't rude, hell probably didn't cause anyone significant mental anguish.
He punched a woman in the face and caused mental anguish to the person who owned the dentist office he burned down.
@@Enigma75614 he most likely punched the women because he had too exp american prison system ya dunce
Hiya, former 91B here. Going through the roof not only gives you the element of surprise it also gives you a bird's eye view of employees and camera placement...also, if pressed, you have a spare exit.
it's a mcdonalds dude
@@WeebJail what is your point here?
As a former Army 92G, I can absolutely say from personal experience that entering a target building, especially a McDonald’s or other restaurant/mess hall, from the roof is the best way of getting the drop on the employees and getting away with the goods.
@@almostunliketea guys its a mcdonalds not a prison they dont get paid enough to give a shit
@@WeebJail that’s not the point of the comment, the point is to answer why he went in through the roof. I don’t understand how that’s hard to take in
Dude, the feds are totally gonna come by this guys prison cell, say "your country needs you" and hand him a fake id/passport, a get-out-of-jail-free card, and a ticket to europe.
I want that to happen so much
Lmao. He was already in the military, so idk
Europe is my favorite country ever. Btw what language do they speak over there?
@@uhuhno6441 european
@@rowanhulst7474
Ah thanks. Makes sense. Being Europe and everything.
This man was nicer to the employees than most soccer moms in the drive thru.
Are soccer mom's nice?
My theory is that this guy was just extremely bored so he decided that being a criminal with manners was a good way to put some spice in his life.
This is the classic "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
@YeaMan Sure
I mean, he was always a villain, albeit a very rootable one
@@Composty_lol Well, not when he was in the military. He was probably traumatized from it and once he got out, started doing dangerous illegal shit just to cope. He wouldn't have been so considerate to the mcdonalds employees if all he cared about was the money. It was probably the "thrill of the heist" or something that drove him
So this guy gets sentenced 45 years for breaking into McDonalds and bringing harm to no one, but murderers and r*pists will get 5-25? Okay, America.
Dude part of his charge was kidnapping...
@@003dylan locking someone in a room with the intent being them getting out safely when help arrives is hardly kidnapping
@@003dylan he didnt kidnap anyone he put them in a room took money and left he had no interest in harming human nature the point is our govt is a joke
@@sethmullins8346 Yeah. Legally it might or might not be but he hardly intended to “keep” the people
It's cause he threatened our economy
This guy is honestly a badass, part of me wants him to get an out by being recruited by the government or something. He could work wonders if he used his powers for good instead of evil.
It's like he watched a bunch of spy films and said "I want to do this", but he actually followed his dreams
He was on the US army reserve
@Don't Read Profle Photo hope your mom doesn't see you like this
i think working with the U.S. government is probably a lot more evil than what he was doing before
He doesn’t seem to have done any harm tho our obesity problem is bad enough he was doing us a favor lol
The suicide squad
I feel like at least at first he was probably just a veteran down on hard times. Like he didn’t steal millions, targeted a well insured chain where the employees would still get paid their dues, and took absolute care to not harm anyone. Definitely knew employees received training to not fight back and acted by coming through the roof after close so that he wouldn’t encounter the public who might try to be heroes causing injury. The ToysRUs stunt is unhinged tho.
wait he broke out of prison where he had 45 years to serve meaning he would get out around 2045 then went and robbed toys are us and got locked up again after burning down a dentist shop and his sentence is now over in 2036 did this mans find a cheat code to shortening his prison sentence lol
Yeah, it’s called a better lawyer
@@DrGandW did he call saul or something how he got less for burning a denist down
He probably did more in damages to the rooftop than he actually made cash-wise.
this guy is the definition of chaotic good
The lack of pictures for the Toys R Us lair makes it even more enigmatic, in my opinion.
As someone who is literally on their McDonald’s shift rn, I can confirm, that this guy was in the right.
Godspeed
Be careful, and bring a jacket just in case
Yeah, gotta agree lol
Seeing this guy's laboratory would probably be as eye opening as finding atlantis
True
Sounds like dude likes to live a different kind of existence amongst us. He got hammered for by the law for his actions. Pretty steep price too. Bet he was happy when he asked. He has a hell of a story to tell. Was fun to watch. Great video
among us lmao
Amongst?🧐
Amongst Us? Among Us?
*sus*
*AMOGUS*
@@ShinCadian27th Ruined it
amogus
Robbers get longer sentences than child molesters... Let that sink in.
He deserves his own toy line at every McDonald’s
what would the toys be, a build-your-own working water system set and a roof laser cutter stuffed toy
@@limeslayer5086 I'd imagine an action figure with a roof laser cutter that used laser pointers so kids could pretend its him.
@ahhh cap 🧢🧢🧢🧢
@ahhh nah
Dude honestly sounds like a tortured soul. I know a vet who is so far gone he never came home from war in his mind and his body sadly kept moving but he didn’t. That’s why the baby food he wanted to live not live a life of luxury it’s actually tragic to think of. He needs some mental health while he’s in jail because I know that’s what he truly wants
If he didnt want to live a life a luxury he wouldnt have been playing with toys and bikes lol. He was just eating the baby food cuz it's the most nutritious thing in there. Everything else is junk food and candy. It's not that deep of a reason to eat baby food lol
@@Professorlicme8 Playing with toys is a life of luxury? Obviously he was doing that out of boredom cause what else is there for him to do inside a TOY store to pass time. As for riding bike they said he did it for exercise if you can listen.
Tortured soul. Sitting Indian style on the floor playing with the operation game yelling "they drew first blood!"
@ahhh ROOP QOOP POOP LOOP ZOOP FOOP HOOP
@@Professorlicme8 riding a kids bike around = life of luxury
He went through the roof because McDonald’s has any possible security measure they can for “record” rather than prevention, if he went thru the door they would have his exact height (they have a height marker by the doors) build (I’m pretty sure most McDonald’s doors are standardized sizes) and overall description (most of the cameras up front focus on the entrance) so it was a little extra but it did serve a purpose to prevent getting caught
Absolutely diabolical. I dont even know how we could let such a heinous criminal live.
I worked at McDonald’s for 8 years and can confirm the breakfast rush still happens every day. They usually compensate for this though by staffing more workers or stronger workers
The stronger part made me laugh
McDonalds app be like "Can you attain KaioKenx5 on demand?"
Always though Toys R Us had more space that sense and was mostly deserted aside from the weekend, usually just 1 bored person at the counter during weekdays, yet the place full of expensive/overpriced toys, bikes and games. Dude saw a weakness and exploited it to the fullest, absolute madlad.
dude was literally just having fun, he realized the boundaries are imaginary and went all out, cartoon style, id bet it was probably a childhood dream of his (or childhood daydream which he turned true), cant blame him, at least he didnt put anyone in danger was just doing his thing
45 years?! Those McDonald’s lawyers are fucking monsters.
I know you're not supposed to cheer for criminals. But I was internally cheering for this man. Damn impressive
Didn’t seriously harm anyone, was nice to the employees, literally said “you did a good job today officers” when he got arrested, and literally made a criminal hideout behind a bike rack in toys r us with the power of toys
Honestly this would be such an interesting and entertaining original netflix movie than half shit on there nowadays lol
I haven't seen a good Netflix original movie in 3 years so yes
Have you seen The Platform? Or The Hole, I forgot the name but it's good
@@4thi13 power of the dog
I'd watch that, I mean I am showing interest of it here so why the heck not?
Maybe a anime based on this story.
He's a real life cartoon villain, my god. He's even got a toy store lair.
Reminds me of Marv and Harry hiding in Duncan's Toy Chest
The tactical advantage of roof access is observational and stealth related. It's VERY easy to penetrate the roof if you know what you're doing and you can spend serious time up there w/o anyone noticing.
Speaking from experience?
@@IntensePeppers solar install
I still remember half a lifetime ago, hearing about this dude as a kid growing up and always being fascinated by the story.
When the armed robber shows more kindness and humility to the employees than the management...
Through the roof you can drop into the kitchen without been caught on cam or raising suspicion from people in the restaurant
The reason that works it, the room the safe is in usually has a strong door with a auto lock
I worked at Waffle House back in 2019 and yes he’s absolutely right about the fighting aspect considering I myself was one of the employees that had to deal with the giant fight one night while simultaneously taking the orders from the drunken angry people that were part of the fight watching.
@🌸KohAy he wishes
I like to consider Waffle House as a coliseum with waffles as snacks
There was a show called "Masterminds" on what used to be CrimeTV that did a episode on this guy, and it was incredible. The episode actually had me rooting for the guy, since he didn't harm anyone and pulled off some insane heists.
0:36 “Professionals have standards.”
I could definitely see roofman being a key member in suicide squad. With his unique set of skills, he can break in, escape, and hide in nearly any location
I kinda wish we lived in an alternate universe where he continued to live in these walls undetected and became an underground toy dealer
“I’ll give ya two Yo-Yos for a Monopoly board, George.”
I feel like this guy did it all for the thrill. He could have used his intelligence for a multitude of different things to make money. But no, he put it on Hard Nightmare mode, dude was a marvel.
45 years for this guy and 7-15 years for killers?
This man quite literally had no reason to do what he did there are so many other ways he could have gone about his life of crime but he decided to do it in the most cartoonish way imaginable
Respect
dude went along with the stupidest idea he had and executed it with the smartest moves imaginable.
They should make this a movie and Charlie can be part of the main cast.
The employee
This guy is a extremely wholesome dude for being a criminal, congratulating officers when they caught him, donating toys, and not hurting or killing anyone. Holy crud this man is a true gigachad.
45 years, because he robbed two mcdonalds… nobody got hurt, no shots fired, no fight vs the cops.
The other day, a dude killed 3 people, for no reason at all, and got 5 years…
American justice system in a nutshell…
5:14 he should have an award for "world's most polite robber"
I think it’s for shock and awe, so that the employees were too stunned to do anything.
It's always hilarious when a criminal happens to be extremely polite like this. It's kinda like the D.B. Cooper story, where he literally paid the tab for his champagne or whiskey or whatever while he was committing the crime.
"I am living inside your walls" but real
My 15 year old son turned me on to your channel, and he's the main reason I watch your videos. If your content sucked it wouldn't have worked, so... Charlie, you are literally helping generations stay relatable to each other. I don't mean to burden you with such a heavy responsibiity, but thanks, man. To show my appreciation, I'll offer an answer to your question: Why the roof?
My career has been in service and hospitality, and I see the simple genius of choosing to drop in from the roof. A single McDonald's store may seem like a small, independent business, just selling happy meals in every town in America, but the corporate entity every store relies on to make it work is huge. It would not create the same reaction in a McDonald's for a dude to suddenly drop from the sky, like it would if he did it in your living room. To maintain a brand like this, there are always people coming an going who are separate from the usual staff who work the drive through, make the fries, and take payments. It would not be at all alarming to the workers at first, bc they are accustomed to extra people being there working on one system or providing promotional equipment support, which often involves the roof, banners, mcrib cutouts hanging from a string over the register, etc. If that makes sense?
If you pay attention to stories about bank robberies, then you already know the odds are against getting away with it, but why? The most common way they get caught is that somebody calls 911 while the robbery is in progress. The whole strategy of rushing in to sieze the element of surprise, combined with the practical need to hide one's face from cameras jacks up the risk of regular people detecting something lawless is in progress. I mean, who else but a bank robber sprints out of the bank while yelling, then peels out of the parking lot to speed away from the scene? This guy managed his robberies in a calm, cool fashion, so he was able to get the money and get out without traumatizing the employees. They literally reported a pleasant event to the responding officers, lmao!
The thing is, he could have stolen a LOT more money from a bank...maybe 20 years ago when banks actually had cash vaults, but bc they exist solely to handle money, they are also much more secure. Nobody non-chalantly descends from the sky down into a bank without somebody hitting the alarm, and same goes for currency exchanges, etc. However... A high volume store whose success depends on a time sensitive product made by inexperienced workers who are comfortable and accustomed to making it happen while surrounded by chaos and strangers, it is the perfect target for a highly organized and tactically trained criminal to hit. Why do I feel like standing up to clap for him? Weird.
But wait, there's more...
Think about what could go wrong for the side of law and order by putting this guy in prison! It's actually ironic in a franchise kind of way, if you think about it. We are living in a time where we are supposed to be the greatest, most wealthy country on the planet while, simultaneously, there are veterans sleeping under every bridge in America...partly due to the perversion of free market capitalism where public private partnerships are not called fascism. In that sense, McDonald's is the epitome of corporate abuse on the people, disguised as a restaurant chain. They have the power to make or break entire towns just by where they choose to source their potatoes, or make their paper products. Americans love them bc they are not aware the food is addictive, and Mickey D's has made billions serving billions of mcchickens world wide. So how do they celebrate their good fortune upon the magical people who dwell in the land of the free? Pink goo nuggets, factory farmed meat and poultry, underpaid staff, gmo russets, and an anti nutritional menu closely associated with obesity and questionable food stuff ingredients that may or may not also be used to make the foam found in yoga mats, without any regard for the safety of these ingredients when ingested by humans over the long term. Do you feel like a valued customer? Hmmmm. Something really needed to change, but what could be done?
Trained by the least free market entity ever to have existed in world history, the US DoD, one man quietly slides down a rope from the ceiling. Jilted by a nation that taught him to make war on civilians in far away lands, where there are no drive thrus for anyone's convenience, and if there were, this guy would have blown them up...forgotten by the ghouls who sent him to war, he's not the type to just sit back and take it. So he targets the one brand that symbolizes the parasitizing heart of the matter, the golden arches of big mac territory. And what do they do to reward him? They lock him down in a secure facility filled solely with other men that all have balls as big as his, with nothing but time on their hands, and nothing to lose. Additionally, everything they can do to pass the time invlolves fitness, extreme competition, games of strategy, a deep understanding of human behavior, applied subversive psychology, where nobody ever regretted more literacy and learning new skills...and who are limited to weight lifting and fist fighting as a way to stay fit. Oh, the potential helplessness of doubling one's volume putting on lean muscle mass just to get through the day to day, in a highly combative environment of jungle law and dog eat dog, a jedi arrives to teach the master class of criminal thinking? This is where they chose to put THIS guy?!?! What could go wrong?
My opinion is that Mr. Manchester is the canary in the coal mine, the one bad apple to spoil the barrel, the slave that can read. In other words, he now resides in a place of limitless opportunity to clone his criminal model and make it a franchise. I hope he is teaching his rooftop playbook in the prisons, where they keep all of our warriors, the only guys with enough balls to fight the power for the common man.
The ironies just keep circling back if you understand that the system lets lawmakers profit from owning prisons, which should be a crime, and the people who own the prisons also hand down the convictions, and the convicts who fill them are there mostly due to addictions, but were willing to do whatever it took to feed them...addictions that is...bc brands like mcdonald's bought up all the competetion and under their arches consolidated all the opportunity in each separate region, leaving communities in poverty, hopelessness and without a vision. Getting rich from engineering their food to be addictive! Giving nothing back in terms of nutrition. So, the cities where there is a McDonald's are often crime ridden places, where to make ends meet everyone risks catching cases... just for the crime of being too broke to escape horrid conditions.
If there is any justice in this universe under heaven, he'll devise a perfect plan for the guys he does his time with, so that when they make parole and get released back into society, and realize the only place that will hire convicted felons is the local mcdonald's? I have a dream that they will slang fries out the drive thru by day like employees of the month, and night by night, calmly and politely, doing no harm to the little guys, gut the local walmart for millions. Hip, hip, hooray!
Robin Hood-Bonnie & Clyde-Manchester. This is a legend in the making, bc this is what the new great peasant uprising looks like on early 21st century earth. You are god damned right about this being an awesome story, Charlie. Thank you for sharing it. Cheers!
...What
This sounds like a chaotic good conspiracy theory
This comment is so underrated
Shouldve make this a biography
this is one of if not the most fascinating piece of text I’ve ever read. At first I thought I knew where this was going, then I didn’t, then i did. You’ve got a spectacular mind and you’re analysis has me completely sold.
You son of a bitch... IM IN