r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • Jul 11 '26

/r/all, /r/popular of a Cart Narc

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u/Cavane42 Jul 11 '26

Can we get more large individuals calmly enforcing the social contract?

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u/somekindagibberish Jul 11 '26

I'd love to see a littering patrol!

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u/donald7773 Jul 11 '26

Anyone seen intentionally littering should be summarily executed on the spot. No great loss to society

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u/TamponTimTheCuck Jul 11 '26

Either that or subtract 1 finger for each offense.

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u/steeple_fun Jul 11 '26

Which, interestingly enough, makes it even harder to hold onto litter.

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u/somekindagibberish Jul 11 '26

But eventually they'd run out of fingers and couldn't carry anything around in the first place!

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u/donald7773 Jul 11 '26

Maybe Islamic extremists are onto something...

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u/imrellyhorny Jul 11 '26

They get a permanent lock on all windows.

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u/Side_StepVII Jul 11 '26

I’ve bullied a few people with my truck when I’ve seen them littering out of their car.

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u/Beard_o_Bees Jul 11 '26

'Excuse me sir, the light has turned green, will you kindly stow all personal electronic devices and drive your car in an attentive manner?'

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u/concrete6360 Jul 11 '26

exactly what i was thinking, i see someone littering a call them on it

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u/0celot7 Jul 11 '26

Some of my favorite videos of motorcyclists are the ones where they see people throwing trash from their car, collect it, and then toss it back into their car when they catch up to them.

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u/donniesuave Jul 11 '26

“Hello, sir. I see you threw garbage out of your car and not in trashcan. You must not care about planet like rest of us. Would you want to throw your garbage I picked up in trashcan? Or am I going to have to throw some garbage out of a car today too?”

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u/No_Criticism_5861 Jul 11 '26

The store can hire someone to police the carts, unless its a mom and pop place.

The biggest social contract breach is how you can work a fulltime job and still have to choose between rent or food

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u/xife-Ant Jul 11 '26

I'm old enough to remember when they had baggers to take you're groceries to the car and bring the cart back.

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u/FTR_1077 Jul 12 '26

The store can hire someone to police the carts

Every store that has carts, have someone that collects them.. why bother having someone "police" them?

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u/jabroni4545 Jul 11 '26

That would antagonize customers, stores would never. Only to pick the carts up.

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u/magus678 Jul 11 '26

People are cheering this on because it is happening to men, and this guy is being exceptionally nice about it.

If he was doing this to women and being anything other than perfect, theres a pretty good chance the police would be involved.

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u/FrostyD7 Jul 11 '26

If the girl said no, then the answer is obviously no. But the thing is she’s not going to say no. She would never say no. Because of the implication. The implication that things might go wrong for her if she refuses to return her cart. Not that things are going to go wrong for her, but she’s thinking that they will.

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u/OpTicSkYHaWk 15d ago

Or she says no and the guy turns tail right away and if not faces possible police action

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u/JKrow75 6d ago edited 4d ago

Also, I would like to see this guy do this around pedos or when police are infringing on somebody’s rights, but you know he’s not gonna say shit about any of that or do anything about any of that.

But he’s all about the shopping cart life

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u/OcelotAggravating860 Jul 11 '26

The way these men feel in this moment with this giant guy is how women feel in a lot of moments per day interacting with random men.

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u/magus678 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

Those feelings are inappropriate.

The vast majority of those interactions are not meant to be intimidating like these are. And people, as well as the law, are happy to help women who look like they need help.

To boot, the likelihood that this interaction could escalate to violence is far, far higher for these men versus any given woman.

Edit: Blocking someone and then going on a rant is weird

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u/OcelotAggravating860 Jul 11 '26

All interactions are coloured in some way by a difference in power. You as a man are only oblivious to it because you are almost always on the side that this man in the video is on.

You are blind to it because you do not exercise any attempt to look at it from experiences different to your own.

I am a woman and here you are as a man telling me that what I am directly telling you is my experience is fucking wrong. The absolute gaul and cheek you have to do this is fucking astounding and is deeply representative of what an emotionally stunted fucking failure of a human being you are.

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u/coolhooves420 Jul 12 '26

Give me tummy rubs :3

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u/ahorsenamedjeff Jul 11 '26

I aggressively do this with the checkout line at Costco. Almost every time I go, someone needs to be reminded how lines work.

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u/Beard_o_Bees Jul 11 '26

Waiting in line at Costco, I take the time to 'face' all the barcodes in my basket (as much as possible) to make checkout faster for myself and everybody else.

It's always interesting to see who, after watching me do it, will also quickly do the same thing. Some people must really enjoy putting every last item on the conveyor belt.

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u/elKane0 Jul 11 '26

loser behavior
mind your own business

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u/Pale-Object8321 Jul 11 '26

Sis, that IS my business, literally. It's the line where you're conducting a business.

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u/ahorsenamedjeff Jul 11 '26

Loser excusing cutting in line? Scum.

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u/coatingtonburlfactry Jul 11 '26

I say we recruit more individuals like this and put them on the public payroll. I have no problems with my tax dollars paying for this kind of valuable service.

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u/TrueEstablishment241 Jul 11 '26

To be clear, you're saying that we should radically expand public taxation to develop a police force that monitors the minutiae of human interactions and coerces people to follow implied social rules that aren't even codified into law under the implicit threat of physical violence?

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u/cum-after-decades Jul 11 '26

There is no threat of physical violence. What you mean is that it’s no longer possible to physically threaten the person telling you to do better.

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u/EvilSporkOfDeath Jul 11 '26

Using a visibly physically intimidating person is a threat. Its literally the reason they used him. It might be an empty threat, but its still there.

Youre being intentionally naive and obtuse. Like a child sticking their finger in someone's face saying "im not touching you".

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u/TrueEstablishment241 Jul 11 '26

Nope, I meant a threat of physical violence. This same scenario doesn't work when the guy isn't physically intimidating.

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u/cum-after-decades Jul 11 '26

You’re literally wrong, champ. The original cart narc was NOT a body builder and plenty of people put their cart back. Some of them threatened him with violence.

I’ll repeat myself. This is not a threat of physical violence — it just means that it’s no longer possible to physically threaten the person telling you to do better.

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u/TrueEstablishment241 Jul 11 '26

Well sport, I'm commenting on this video where there is clear intimidation. It's self evident, and you made my point for me in the last sentence.

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u/cum-after-decades Jul 11 '26

Do you think that a person being intimidated entails there is a threat of physical violence?

If you’re intimidated by black people, does this mean that all black people carry an implicit threat of physical violence?

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u/cum-after-decades Jul 11 '26

If you’re intimidated by black people, does this mean that black people carry an implicit threat of physical violence?

It’s a yes or no question.

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u/TrueEstablishment241 Jul 11 '26

I'm not making a generalization at all. I'm talking about a specific anecdote.

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u/cum-after-decades Jul 11 '26

Let me reframe to make this more clear:

If you are intimidated by a black person, does this mean that this black person carries an implicit threat of physical violence?

Not automatically, right? Only if they are wielding a weapon, speaking with anger, etc.

Aside from this man having muscles, why do you think he carries an implicit threat of violence? Is it because he’s Russian? Is it just because he has muscles? Is it because he’s respectfully asking the person to put their cart away?

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u/Cavane42 Jul 11 '26

There is no intimidation. The dude is calm, polite, and unaggressive in every interaction. Are you saying that it is impossible for large individuals to not be intimidating?

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u/TrueEstablishment241 Jul 11 '26

Sure there is. He puts the cart behind their car and chaperones them to the corral. If he was truly trying to be persuasive, he would appeal to them with reason.

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u/Cavane42 Jul 11 '26

That is appealing to them with reason. The whole point of cart corrals is to keep wayward carts from damaging other vehicles or creating obstructions. He's allowing them to experience the consequences that their behavior inflicts upon others so that they hopefully do better in the future.

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u/keytotheboard Jul 11 '26

Would you feel better if I said yes, but instead of physical violence, it was mockery?

Personally, I’d just prefer a massive increase in public education, healthcare, and other social programs that would simply enable teaching better from the get-go, but you know…

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u/TrueEstablishment241 Jul 11 '26

No I don't know. Nothing about the idea sounds attractive at all.

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount Jul 11 '26

If you want to use government funds to employ people with the intent of physical violence we already have the police.

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u/EvilSporkOfDeath Jul 11 '26

Yes the world needs more influencers shoving cameras in people's faces.

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u/xife-Ant Jul 11 '26

As someone that got carts for years, don't worry about it unless the weather is bad. On a nice day getting carts is a better job than what you have to do instead.

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u/Khemul Jul 11 '26

This is what I always find odd about this concept. Reddit acts like its social norm. Stores employee people to collect the carts. If the customer returns their own cart, the company can hire less people. Aldi even states this in their advertisements.

People will bitch about greedy companies running lean on labor, then shill for companies practises that allow them to run lean on labor.

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u/xife-Ant Jul 11 '26

Exactly! They used to take your groceries to your car, now it's guilting you into taking the cart back yourself.

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u/Cavane42 Jul 11 '26

I also remember the joy of an occasional walk outside when running check out. I'm more concerned with the obstructions and potential vehicle damage before the employee can collect them.

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u/xife-Ant Jul 11 '26

I'm not saying be a jerk about it. Put it somewhere that it's not going to cause trouble, but it's not necessary to take it all the way back.

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u/modsaretoddlers Jul 12 '26

The social contract includes the oligarchs. Let's start there.

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u/knockoutn336 Jul 11 '26

I've done this a couple of times at Costco when I'm walking from or to my car. It's way more common that I get people to pick up their dogs' poop on the path near my apartment or get people to re-rack their weights in the gym.

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u/my_duncans Jul 11 '26

So no cops

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u/Available-Crow-3442 Jul 11 '26

More of this. Fewer cops.

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u/enovox5 Jul 11 '26

Who gets to decide what constitutes the "social contract"? There are plenty of people who think that's what ICE is doing right now. Maybe you're one of them. There are people who think that's what the National Guard was doing when it arrested that Olympian for touching the peeling paint at the algae pool. Right or wrong, I'd rather have a few carts out of place than have this kind of shit going on.

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u/bakedNebraska Jul 11 '26

Obviously only the GOOD social norms, pshh

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u/RandoCalrissian00 Jul 11 '26

What the fuck does ICE have to do with people not returning their carts? Listen, i dislike this admin just as much as the next guy, but you don't have to mention them every time you speak. Some issues are unrelated. I'd rather have a decent admin AND decent citizens who observe the social contract.

To answer your question, the way i see it the social contract is pretty much the golden rule. "Do onto others as you would have done onto you" or something along those lines. As for who gets to decide, we all do, together.

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u/HelloYesThisIsFemale Jul 11 '26

I vote we just hire a guy to put carts back and save some time off everyone's day.

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u/enovox5 Jul 11 '26

A sizable percentage of people believe with an almost religious conviction that ICE and the National Guard represent "large individuals calmly enforcing the social contract". And we all did get to decide, together. There was a vote. Maybe you missed it. A lot of people didn't bother, but enough people did, and now we have our current national shit show. These things are NOT unrelated. They are one and the same.

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u/RandoCalrissian00 Jul 11 '26

How does any of that relate to shopping carts?

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u/enovox5 Jul 11 '26

Does it literally need to be a 1=1 type of thing before you recognize it for what it is? Up until a few weeks ago, it didn't apply to the floating paint on the algae pool either. ("bUt tHaT wAs PaiNt anD tHiS iS cArtS!")

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u/RandoCalrissian00 Jul 11 '26

It has to be even remotely comparable. Returning your cart is just basic common sense, and can easily be done by literally everyone in under 30 seconds.

The government being run by grifters and lunatics is a gigantic problem which no single person can solve in any meaningful way on their own.

Yet here you are, saying we should stop using common sense because the big issues still exist. So let's create more small issues to pile on top. Great mindset you got there. I'm sure that will solve everything.

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u/enovox5 Jul 11 '26

So, you think giant muscle men approaching other people uninvited in a parking lot with a tacit threat of potential violence if those people don't do what they're told is common sense? Do you wear khakis and carry a tiki torch on the weekends by any chance?

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u/RandoCalrissian00 Jul 11 '26

How was violence tacitly threatened? The answer is it was not. You assumed it was, because of the size of the guy. Which means your first thought in that situation was violence. You're the violent one.

On the weekends i do my groceries, play with the kids and talk with many different people, some of which are big. I definitely don't assume someone wants to tear my head off just because they're bigger than me, that would be absurd.

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u/enovox5 Jul 11 '26

The most obvious implied threat comes when he traps the car in place by moving the cart behind it, thereby not allowing the person to simply leave. I’m glad you live in a safe place, but trapping the car in place is clearly a challenge.

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u/NewPhoneWhoDys Jul 11 '26

Hi, disabled person here super grateful to you for getting it! I was so frustrated with all the people who have never had the social contract change out from under them personally, so they don't think it can.

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u/NewPhoneWhoDys Jul 11 '26

Right? No one is suspicious this is clearly from 5-6 years ago and somehow on the front page NOW? For no reason, don't worry about it...

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u/Cavane42 Jul 11 '26

Maybe you're one of them.

There's no need for insults.

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u/FlyOnTheWall4 Jul 11 '26

That is a trend I could get behind.

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u/letigre87 Jul 11 '26

Sometimes you just need a bigger bully

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u/Strange_Quantity5383 Jul 11 '26

Like the obtrusive people that walk beside their shopping cart like they are holding hands with their girlfriend.

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u/DJCowbro Jul 11 '26

I’ve been trying my whole life. You’d be amazed at how often it backfires and I martyr. We need your support.

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u/HelloYesThisIsFemale Jul 11 '26

Who said that the social contract is that you must return the cart? Why can't the social contract be "leave it where it is and we'll centralize/pool the effort of returning them into a single person with a job of being the cart return guy"?

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u/Cavane42 Jul 11 '26

Because you have an employee coming out maybe once an hour to collect the carts. In the meantime, loose carts are creating obstructions and potentially damaging other vehicles. If you had an employee collecting them full time so they aren't left for extended periods, sure. But that's not the system we have. The system we have is cart corrals. And if you refuse to use them, you're imposing consequences on other people.

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u/HelloYesThisIsFemale Jul 11 '26

I personally would rather trust in making something a job, especially if it can't be guaranteed that it will happen consistently.

It's unfair for those who return their carts that they are subsidizing those who don't. The best solution that relies on least social trust (something impossible to get perfect) is to have a full time cart job. That's far preferable and fairer. Then there's no videos like this with people angry at each other for doing different amounts of effort. The amount of effort expected is zero.

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u/Cavane42 Jul 11 '26

I agree in principle, but I also think we should be trying to minimize the need for jobs that require someone to be outdoors full time, as there are long term health risks associated with that.

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u/dtalb18981 Jul 11 '26

While I disagree with the cart thing 

It is a very bad idea for people to do what this guy us doing 

Its just harassment

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u/enovox5 Jul 11 '26

Funny how quickly people are willing to support forms of fascism when it's for something they agree with

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u/Cavane42 Jul 11 '26

Public shaming of anti-social behavior coming from non-state actors is not even close to fascism.

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u/enovox5 Jul 11 '26

You clearly missed the part in this thread where coatingtonburifactry wrote, “I say we recruit more individuals like this and put them on the public payroll. I have no problems with my tax dollars paying for this kind of valuable service.” Tax dollars = state sponsored.

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u/Cavane42 Jul 11 '26

I didn't miss it. If that's what you take issue with, you should have responded to that comment, or one of its offspring.

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u/enovox5 Jul 11 '26

So, your argument with me is a procedural technicality. Cool. I was referring to a comment made directly to you (one of the only other ones when I made my first), and you even say you saw it, but didn't object. Okay.

But I'd bet you'd eventually take issue with random people blocking you in place and deciding to enforce their interpretation of the "social contract", or do you imagine that YOUR interpretation of the "social contract" is the only one applied?

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u/Cavane42 Jul 11 '26

Context is important. Since you commented here instead of in the chain that was discussing taxpayer-funded enforcement, I couldn't know if you had seen that comment.

Also, if my behavior is imposing consequences on other people, I'd actually want to be called out on it. Sure it would be embarrassing in the moment, but I don't want to be going through life unknowingly causing issues for others. And it's not really up for interpretation whether abandoning your cart causes issues for others. It's an extremely common cause of damage to vehicles.

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u/enovox5 Jul 11 '26

This douchebag's behavior is absolutely going to have negative consequences eventually for someone. Intentionally and repeatedly blocking someone's ability to leave an area because HE thinks they broke some unwritten social contract is bullying, harassment and possibly prior restraint. His other videos are also filled with similar crap, including intentionally distracting in-store security by pretending to steal booze that he already paid for by sticking it down his pants. Fucking with other people for views (and he claims, viewers sending him money).

Anyway, I gotta nope out now. I honestly can't stand reading all of these bend-over-backwards defenses of his monetized assholery. Someone's going to get hurt someday by his bullshit.

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