This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

At some point in your life, you've probably encountered a problem in the built world,

something that was poorly designed and the fix was obvious to you. Maybe a door that opened the wrong way were a poorly

painted marker on the road. I noticed this kind of stuff all the time even more so

now after creating this show. I'm sorry if you do too because

you listen to this show and mostly when we see these things we grumble on the

inside and then do nothing.

There are all sorts of reasons for our inertia.

We don't know how to fix it.

It's not ours to fix.

We could get in trouble.

That's producer David Weinberg.

You might notice these little design flaws for years,

silently fuming, until one day.

He called me and said, you know, okay, we're doing it.

It was early Sunday morning August 5, 2001 in Los Angeles, California.

Richard Ancrum and a group of friends were on the 4th Street Bridge over the 110 freeway.

They were about to commit a crime.

It's going to be a high profile dangerous situation.

Not only could I get arrested, I could kill really I was terrified of that but let's back up

About 20 years prior

Richard Ancrum an artist living in Orange County was driving north on the 110 freeway.

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