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Photos: Fifteen mystery Colorado mug shots and what the arrestees might have been thinking

KREX-TV in Grand Junction, for which I interned many, many years ago, takes a highly unusual approach to its latest booking-photos roundup. The station doesn't identify anyone or reveal why they were made to pose for a mug shot -- which inspires the viewer to use his imagination. Here are...
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KREX-TV in Grand Junction, for which I interned many, many years ago, takes a highly unusual approach to its latest booking-photos roundup. The station doesn't identify anyone or reveal why they were made to pose for a mug shot -- which inspires the viewer to use his imagination.

Here are our picks for the fifteen most memorable pics and what we imagine each person was thinking when the camera clicked.

Number 15: "Bow before my chin beard!" Number 14: "It makes me sad when you won't get off my lawn." Number 13: "Sorry about that. I just ate at Taco Bell." Continue to keep counting down our gallery of fifteen mystery Colorado mug shots and what the arrestees might have been thinking. Number 12: "No, I don't appreciate jokes about male pattern baldness." Number 11: "After this, can we go out and grab a beer?" Number 10: "Don't take that yet. I've got something stuck in my teeth." Continue to keep counting down our gallery of fifteen mystery Colorado mug shots and what the arrestees might have been thinking. Number 9: "No, I will not clean up my room." Number 8: "It started out as just a streak, but then it kind of took over...." Number 7: "How much longer do I have to stand here, fer Christ's sake?" Continue to keep counting down our gallery of fifteen mystery Colorado mug shots and what the arrestees might have been thinking. Number 6: "Actually, I'm kind of enjoying this." Number 5: "Yes, I am kind of a hipster, thank you very much." Number 4: "Frankly, I've never felt less guilty." Continue to keep counting down our gallery of fifteen mystery Colorado mug shots and what the arrestees might have been thinking. Number 3: "Can you please tell the other guys in the cell to stop making fun of me?" Number 2: "Wha?" Number 1: "Why would you think I've been smoking anything?"

Send your story tips to the author, Michael Roberts.

More from our Mug Shots archive: "Photos: Twenty most memorable mug shots of April 2014."

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