Back in 2017 we wrote about this teenager in Brazil who got caught stealing a bike, with two grown men then kidnapping him and tattooing ‘I am a thief and an idiot’ on his forehead. They even filmed the whole ordeal and shared it on the internet.

At the time, human rights activists went absolutely nuts about the story and the culprits went to prison for 3 years each. Which is fair enough, as it’s such an unbelievably f-cked up thing to do to someone, let alone a 17-year-old kid. Unfortunately – it didn’t serve as a deterrent to the lad whatsoever because he was once again arrested last week after being caught stealing by police in Cotia, São Paulo.

It’s like not he’d been on the straight and narrow till that point, though. Ruan Rocha da Silva was also arrested for theft in 2018, and again in 2019 and has since spent time in prison and rehab. So he’s basically just carried on stealing and being arrested for it on at least three different occasions since receiving his brutal inking.

On the plus side, he seems to have removed at least some of the tattoo – but not enough for officers not to recognise him when they caught him breaking into a home while high on crack:

Well, I guess you can’t accuse him of not living up to the hype. Can’t help but feel sorry for the lad either as we’re obviously dealing with a very tortured soul here, but to continue thieving after going viral for getting ‘I’m a thief and an idiot’ tattooed on your forehead pretty much confirms you are both of things. No two ways about it. The maddest part is that someone started a GoFundMe for Ruan in order to help him get the tattoo completely lasered off. When it got to about $5000, the person shut the account down and disappeared with the money! What can you say really? Brazil gonna Brazil.

To watch a man force two thieves to fight each other after he caught them trying to steal his car, click HERE. Better than going to jail I suppose.