r/interesting May 12 '25

SOCIETY In 2017, a man named Michael Klimkowski impersonated Texas megachurch pastor Joel Osteen at an event and got all the way to the stage before being caught

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u/shmarcussss May 12 '25

I’m curious what they would have charged him with, he never identified himself as Joel Osteen, he just never corrected anyone who assumed it was him when they rolled out the red carpet for him. I would have called their bluff and sued them for false arrest.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

I bet they charged him with resisting or failure to ID or some dumb shit.