# Attractive Convict Attractive Convict is a 2013 advice animal image macro built on the mugshot of Meagan Renea McCullough, a Florida woman arrested for DUI in 2010. The captions turn arrest and jail vocabulary into pickup lines, playing on the gap between her striking booking photo and the reason she was booked. ## Overview Attractive Convict is an advice animal image macro built on the mugshot of Meagan Renea McCullough, a young Florida woman photographed in an orange jumpsuit after a 2010 DUI arrest[1]. Captions play on the contrast between her looks and her criminal booking, using pickup-line puns like "Guilty of taking my breath away" and "Arrested for breaking and entering YOUR HEART"[1]. The format sits in the same lineage as Ridiculously Photogenic Guy, where an unusually flattering photo taken in an unflattering situation is the whole joke[3]. ## How It Spread Vestra's post gathered more than 8,800 upvotes and 550 comments within 48 hours[4]. Hours later, Redditor squirrelbo1 uploaded a follow-up captioned "Can I have her / cell number" that cleared 18,000 upvotes and 700 comments in a single day[4]. BuzzFeed rounded up the best entries on April 4th, 2013, and by that week the Quickmeme page for Attractive Convict already hosted more than 280 templates[3]. McCullough, who by then used her maiden name Simmons, told the Daily Mail on April 5th, 2013, that the sudden interest baffled her and that "people should get over it"[1]. She said the picture, snapped after she had been crying and while drunk, later became a "wake up call" that pushed her toward work as a medical assistant while raising four children[1]. In February 2014, Simmons sued background-check company InstantCheckmate.com for using her mugshot in advertisements without permission, arguing through attorney Matthew Crist that the site was profiting from her image where earlier reposts had been "more for fun and enjoyment"[5]. ## How to Use The template typically pairs the McCullough mugshot with a two-line caption built around courtroom, jail, or arrest language repurposed as flirtation. Common setups lean on puns like "guilty of," "wanted in," "breaking and entering," or "cell number." The line lands when the phrase reads as both a legal term and a compliment. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Attractive Convict? Attractive Convict is an advice animal image macro built on Meagan McCullough's 2010 Florida DUI mugshot, with captions punning on her looks against her criminal booking[1]. ### Where did Attractive Convict come from? The mugshot dates to a July 25th, 2010 DUI arrest in Florida[1], but the advice animal took off on April 3rd, 2013, when Redditor vestra posted it captioned "Wanted / In 50 states" to /r/AdviceAnimals[4]. ### What does Attractive Convict mean? The joke turns arrest and courtroom vocabulary into flirtation, treating an obviously attractive booking photo as the setup for pickup-line puns about crime and jail[1]. ### How do you use Attractive Convict? Take the McCullough mugshot and add a two-line caption that puns on jail, court, or arrest language as if it were a pickup line, such as "Guilty of taking my breath away"[1]. ### Is Attractive Convict still popular? It is a classic mid-2010s advice animal rather than an active format; Simmons's February 2014 lawsuit against InstantCheckmate.com was the last major news moment tied to the meme[5]. ## References 1. [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304623/Attractive-Convict-meme-woman-revealed-mom-Florida-waitress-Meagan-Mccullough.html]() 2. [https://dailynewsagency.com/2012/08/13/the-cutest-mugshots-ever-20-pics-c9a/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/attractive-convict]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/]() 5. [https://www.tampabay.com/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/attractive-convict Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library