Ray William Johnson
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I told you that Yasutomo was a stuntman in a bunch of popular Japanese action-type TV shows like Tenso Sentai Goseiger and Kamen Rider OUS.
Well, Tenso Sentai Goseiger was actually later imported to the US as what you might know as Power Rangers Megaforce.
Now, the American versions of these Power Rangers shows, they use different actors than the Japanese versions.
But they actually will often use the same old footage from the fight scenes where the characters are in full costume.
So if you've ever seen an episode of Power Rangers Megaforce, it's possible that you've seen Yasutomo performing in one of the Rangers' suits.
Although there's no proof that Yasutomo was ever specifically a Green Ranger.
That part's actually an urban legend perpetuated by this specific meme that's been shared over and over again by people on Facebook.
This meme talks about the 43 burglaries and it shows the original Green Ranger next to a picture of Yasutomo's face.
So for years, people believed that the Green Ranger actor was out here robbing people.
Until... Until I came along and made this video and debunked it.
Anyway, back to Yasutomo.
Around 8 months go by, and it's now 2014, and Yasutomo is still out here Spider-Man-ing his way into houses in the area.
Then one day, police, I assume, get another call about yet another break-in, and they go investigate.
But this time, they find a set of footprints at the scene of the crime, and they're able to trace these footprints back to the local park, the same park that Yasutomo works out at.
So they search the park, and eventually they find some items that Yasutomo had stolen from some of the houses.
So now they know that their suspect spends time at this park.
And I guess they scope out the place and one day they see a guy there, Yasutomo, doing his training exercises.
And they're like, hey, I bet that's the Spider-Man thief.
And they approach him and they're able to match his footprints to the footprints that they found at one of the crime scenes.
And so, bam, they arrest him.