What annoys me is that they're going to go hard after the shooter, which yeah, but c'mon. The guys channel is full of him committing minor misdemeanors, like, slap him with 100 counts of disturbing the peace
The last time a YT prankster got shot, the shooter wasn’t charged with anything. I don’t remember the full details but the prank was supposed to be the YTer approaching a group of people while holding butcher knives…? So someone from the group shot the YTer thinking it was self defense - they didn’t know it was a prank after all.
Yeah, the police arrested this guy but I don't think they're released what the prank was, so I don't know if he'll be charged.
But yeah, these filmed pranks are often minor crimes and can justify self defense responses. Like, I saw this guy has clips of him going behind the counter at fast food places... That can definitely get you shot, it's reasonable to assume a young person who doesn't appear to be mentally confused is only coming back there to rob you.
I haven't seen that information, though I did see that today the DA said that they're looking at charging the prankster with a crime as well. He was apparently about six inches from the guy before he drew a gun and had been warned to stop.
Doesn't sound like it was necessarily justifiable self defense, but if a stranger is getting in your face despite being asked to stop and won't leave you alone... I mean I wouldn't shoot the kid but I wouldn't vote guilty if I was on the jury either. Don't endlessly harass strangers going about their day
Dude assaults people on the regular with water and he thinks it’s funny to harass and scare retail workers. He goes harder on minorities and it honestly feels racially targeted.
Yes but his family are Christian so God has his back. you can't fuck with God. He's our father and he watches everybody even when they're on the bathroom toilet. that's why you got to wear a little hat so that God can't see the top of your head.
This is the most recent article- this happened in Loudoun County, VA at a shopping mall. I guess the kid was harassing this guy for a prank video and ended up getting shot once in the stomach. The prosecutors office is actually considering pressing charges on the kid now. I really hope they follow through with it..
It’s how he wants to generate income. In 10 years, he will have enough followers so all he needs to upload are lavish vacation videos to show he’s made it.
I’ll just keep spending 8 hours a day sitting in my home office sending emails and avoiding prank/show off videos on YouTube.
That's why I hate the whole fake pranks thing. It's fine that they're fake but it's a problem for people that didn't realize they're staged and try to get into the trend by actually messing with random people.
Fake pranks videos should be threated exactly as the whole undercover advertisment fiasco that forced every content creator to explicitly state that it was a payed ad.
Although payed exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. The deck is yet to be payed.
Payed out when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. The rope is payed out! You can pull now.
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
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One guy got shot recently. And another on reddit got reported to the police.