Would you hire this man? Unemployed dad with enormous face tattoo can't get work
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Mark Cropp just wants to to get a job and support his family, but something unique is holding him back.
A giant tattoo saying "DEVAST8" covers half of his face, and, perhaps not suprisingly, it's off-putting for potential employers.
The Oamaru-born teenager told the New Zealand Herald he had it inked a few months ago, while drunk on homebrew in a jail cell in Christchurch.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}He was locked up in 2015, at 17, for aggravated robbery, after he and a friend pulled a knife on a tourist in Nelson.
Cropp pleaded guilty to a range of charges, including aggravated robbery, escaping custody and assault with a weapon.
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He told the Herald he committed the crime to get enough money to help house himself and his pregnant girlfriend after they were kicked out of his parents' home.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"My partner Taneia was just a month due to drop my baby, and we had nowhere to go so I committed the crime - and I never got to see [the baby] again."