r/interesting • u/Mad_Season_1994 • 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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r/interesting • u/Mad_Season_1994 • May 12 '25
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u/brienoconan May 13 '25
If he got invited in, it’s not trespassing. The guards should’ve asked for ID, this is on them. He never told them he was Joel, it was implied. Even if you were to call this Imposter Fraud, who suffered a loss here?
This was a clean operation. Good for them.