Chad Johnson impersonator jailed; Ocho Cinco may help "mentor” the man

Maybe we’d all like to be Chad Johnson for a day, but if you were actually going to pretend to be the former Bengals wide receiver, then maybe you should look a little more like him than the guy who got busted for trying to buy more than $18,000 worth of stuff while posing as Johnson.

According to the Aspen (Colo.) Daily News Online:

Mervin Cabe, 25, of Plantation, Fla., and two people he was with Friday were "grabbing random items off the shelf" and . . . to pay for $18,548 worth of items (at a Louis Vuitton store in Aspen) . . . Cabe came up with the name of Chad Johnson, a former star receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, "seemingly at random," wrote Aspen police officer Ian MacAyeal.

They’re not exactly spitting images of one another.

No less strange, Johnson suggested on Twitter @ochocinco that he might bail Cabe out of jail and "be his mentor."

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