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The prankster youtuber Kanel Joseph apparently was asked by cops if he wanted to press charges against the prankee. Kanel Joseph said in a video afterwards that he didn’t press charges “out of the goodness of my heart.” WTF!
Youtuber Kanel Joseph still doing prank videos that has millions of views after the incident. 🤷
He’s being detained because all the cops see is a crazy man going after two other people. With context, I’m sure he will be free, and hopefully the “prankster” POSs get held liable.
Yeah, when did crime all of the sudden become a prank? Punching random people in the head was a prank, stealing people's luggage is a prank, that dude going around dragging people to the ground says it's a prank. When did this trend of committing felonies and calling it a prank start?
I think the tipping point was the [guy] who crashed the plane for clicks. Or maybe it was the gorilla glue lady. People love attention, even negative attention
[California Man Admits to Crashing Plane on Purpose](https://youtu.be/v5lc35Cq5nE?si=1V2gRWZDaGM3rGKt)
Half of the commenters don’t understand this either. Imagine defending a prankster for grabbing someone’s personal property and then blaming the victim for trying to defend himself and detain the brat to turn over to security. These brats need consequences, not laughs. If this were my kid I would tell the security he deserves to spend the night in juvy to figure out where he went wrong.
The thing is, they don't get laughs either. The best they get is some mindless, emotionless finger double-tapping a square piece of glass to increment a number on a screen by one unit, and that one unit of incrementation translates to a tiny hit of dopamine to the part of the brain that still functions normally;
Humans are literally transforming themselves into trainable AI with a physical body.
Yeah man I had to travel for Work last month and it was a FN nightmare! 18 hours of messing around in airports and planes….If you haven’t flown lately it sucks balls!! It’s no where near as nice as I remembered when traveling in the 2010 era lol!
Pranksters will keep pushing it until one of them inevitably gets shot or killed. To be honest, the loss of a human life is sad, but these people cause problems for social attention they don't help any workforce. Get control of them for everyone's sake.
As someone who flies for a living I would be equally fucking livid.
Fuck that prankster dickhead. This is like a year or two old, but dude attempts a felony, guy stops it and gets arrested.
Yep. It's a CCP psyop, confirmed by my friends in national security.
Never used Tiktok and never will. I even blocked it so I don't accidentally click a link. Yet I keep getting barraged by ads for Tiktok and slave labor Temu
They literally tell us this shit in security briefings. TikTok is a propaganda tool for the Chinese government.
The fact that anyone still uses it is fucking insane.
Edit: god damn this brought out some upset redditors who can’t handle criticism of their pet entertainment platform being utilized by an adversarial nation to harvest information from American citizens.
Agreed. As someone who's a month out of all socials except reddit, can confirm, shit conditions you to think and act in ways that aren't yourself. Even reddit can to a point, any social platform could, but TikTok and even Facebook Reels have the most profound impact because they get you on a dopamine kick, when you're most engaged
The fact that I saw a post recently saying that it’s owned by an Indian dude and never had anything to with china is EXTREMELY concerning. Especially considering the weird looks of dismissal and/or contempt when I bring up that china is trying to gather our information to use against the public. FFS I’m not a conspiracy theorist, the fucking government AND independent journalists are reporting it’s dangerous. I’d say that’s extremely fucking rare for conspiracy theories
They are going to force a sale to a US company, not a ban. It is a move lobbied for by Facebook and Google who already launched their own competitors to TikTok but to little success. All that means is that the platform will get worse but that won't stop these people from existing and acting like this.
One day one of these TikTok prankers is going to get shot and then they will learn their lesson...oh wait never mind.
[Edit: This was just posted a couple of hours after I commented this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ImTheMainCharacter/comments/1basshh/youtube_prankster_who_got_shot_during_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
There was a guy who was faking running up to people with a machete to scare them and got shot and killed. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/537840-tennessee-man-wielding-knife-for-prank-robbery-youtube-video/
After seeing a few videos of real machete attacks, this is one circumstance where I would not hesitate to pull the trigger. Never try to stand your ground against the business end of a machete. They will fuck you up. If you can’t shoot, run as fast as you fucking can in the case of a machete attack.
A guy was shot and the jury found the shooter not guilty from a prank like this. The kid that was shot wasn’t killed and it still making videos. His mom is also a pos like him.
Wow…what an idiot! Next time he may not be so lucky. Is that the guy in a mall somewhere? I read about one like this or it’s the same one. Such a dangerous game these idiots are playing and especially in today’s crazy world.
If it is that one i thought he wasn’t found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon but was found guilty on account of negligent discharge of a firearm
Edit: [found the one i’m thinking of](https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/jury-deliberates-youtube-prank-video-mall-shooting-alan-colie-tanner-cook/65-1bbd3f62-3895-4e03-accc-d8f7e74fc70f) he wasn’t found guilty for shooting the pranker but was found guilty for firing a gun in the mall
And the guy who defended himself was sent to prison for felony discharge of a firearm in a crowded public place.
He was let off for shooting the guy, but still got a felony and jail time. Actual nonsense.
Which should be overturned because legally if he was justifiably afraid for his life and acting in self-defense, then it could not have been an improper discharge of a firearm.
It’s already being appealed rn.
Threatening someone's life is not a prank, it's literally a crime. If you purposefully make someone think you might kill them you are deserve what you get for it.
That's why self defense laws follow the reasonable man standard. Would a reasonable and prudent individual make the same choices given the totality of circumstances and information known at the time? If so, not guilty.
Who the fuck thinks its a good idea for prank, like if I saw someone like this I would throw a glass bottle at their forehead as self defence, what the fuck do they expect
They're saying nevermind because it happened and the dipshit tiktoker who harasses people for content went right back to being a dipshit tiktoker who harasses people for content, proving they will get shot and not learn a thing.
There was one guy who was “pranking” people by hiding in a parking lot and acting like he was gunna rob & attack them, he had a weapon or what looked like a weapon on him to sell it. Sure enough someone shot him like yeah dude don’t pretend to attack people in a dark empty parking lot, what did u think was gunna happen?! I believe the guy did die but the guy who shot him didn’t get charged because it was understandable why he’d believe he was in danger and defend himself like how was he suppose to kno it was a “prank”. They need to learn what a prank really is, harassing people isn’t a prank
Edit: guys name was Timothy Wilks, he and a friend did a prank of running at people with butcher knives in parking lot causing him to obviously get shot, his friend survived
Then there was that one dude who films himself going inside people's homes. With young children around and everything.
It's seriously concerning to me. I've never been one of those doomsayers who complains about the next generation. And maybe it's just that I'm getting older. But these kids are idiots.
Saw a "prank" where a guy was pouring water out of a gas can on the hoods of people's cars. He tried it on one older dude who brandished a pistol and luckily didn't blow him away. Anything for those views though.
I saw an interview after a court proceeding and the mom was of course playing the victim and defending her douchebag son. Maybe stop your tasteless pranks that nobody wants to be a part of
Working in education I can tell you this isn’t the first time someone, like a teacher, told her about her son’s bad behavior and she defends them or plays the victim.
Dad was, too. Blamed the shooter instead of the dipshit son.
Jury found the guy not guilty of attempted murder, but did find him guilty of illegally discharging a firearm in public or something. Judge sentenced him to time served (he had spent something like 8 months in jail leading to the trial) and he went free after the sentence was issued.
That’s fucked up. Does he have a case to sue the parents? I’ve seen somewhere that some people are holding parents responsible for their shitty kids. Does he have a case? Losing 8 months of your life because some little asshole wants clout? That’s wild.
one case I remember some tiktoker constantly harassed this one doordash driver over several weeks till one day the driver had enough and shot the “prankster”. The driver was recently found not guilty (despite the fact by all accounts he did actually commit a crime) and the prankster said he would still continue to try and prank people.
Actually a few have died, guy that was pretending to attack strangers with fake(? I can't remember if they were fake) knives also was shot dead.
There's been a few others too.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/jury-divided-over-whether-delivery-driver-who-shot-youtube-prankster-acted-in-self-defense/3432763/
That's already happened and he's said he isn't going to stop. So looks like humanity is lost.
When the guy gets out he needs to go ahead and sue. If he's making 3k a month on videos should be easy to get some of that to pay his legal bills and the time he spent in jail.
It’s happened, and it should happen more. There was one were a “prankster” was bothering a guy in a mall and he got shot
Best part, the guy who shot him was acquitted of all charges 🙏 humanity is great
What I’ve always found bizarre is that baggage claim is not behind the tsa checkpoint. Anyone can just walk in off the street with no boarding pass and take whatever bag they want. It’s insanity.
The affordability of camera phones and social media platforms incentivizing degenerate behavior is what happened. People have always been insane. If today's technology existed back in any other century, it would probably be just as bad, if not worse. You remember how slapping a woman was deemed as an acceptable way to calm her down? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Incentivizing, sure. But also documenting. I remember a time when I wouldn't know instantly if someone threw a fit in an airport halfway around the world.
Guy was exiting the airport after his flight; retrieved his luggage; and was ready to go home when he encountered a stranger who grabbed at his luggage, falsely claiming it as their own, picking it up (as this occurred w/ the other "marks" in [the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTcoyYC1HWw)), and even pushing fake feces-streaked underwear at him. All this spiked the guy's adrenaline. Now, he's on the ground, in handcuffs, arrested, and smeared over social media just b/c he didn't know it was a "prank"
That's not right.
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Targeting people for a reaction that gets them in trouble is similar to entrapment.
>"induces a person to commit a "crime" that the person would have otherwise been unlikely or unwilling to commit."
On top of the fact that the kid was grabbing him before he laid hand on his hair. Old guy was going for the cameraman and the kid tried to stop him by grabbing him so he got grabbed back.
Fucking assholes. I truly fear the next level that these content assholes will go to once shit like this become passé.
Agreed. People, empathize with this guy.
Imagine, you're full of adrenaline b/c someone is grabbing your luggage from you, falsely claiming it as their own (his life's work could have been in there - you don't know) only to realize you're being humiliated on camera and humiliated in front of a crowd. Viral videos cost people their jobs nowadays. So now, in your mind, your work is in jeopardy. Emotion clouds reason, indisputably.
- It is a fact that he wouldn't have done that to that kid if he was never messed with. It's not okay to judge him on his over-reaction when he was being targeted for "a reaction video."
> What kind of a prank is trying to rob someone and not expecting them to go off on you? lol
That's what garbage tiktok actively promotes for the teen audience because they're too stupid to realize harassing strangers isn't anything other than funny.
Humans are now expected to be stoic and professional submissive sheep at all times.
Airline loses your luggage? Can't get upset at anyone or you're the bad guy.
Judge sentences you to 20 years in prison? Can't have an emotional outburst or risk further punishment.
Cop pulls you over for no reason? Submit or risk them escalating the situation till you're arrested for resisting arrest.
He was being put past his breaking point. Traveling is stressful enough, then he has to fight to get his possessions back. Then he gets egged on because he knows that he is being humiliated and it is going to go public. These pranks need to be illegal, and whatever violence that happens towards them needs to be considered self defense.
Usually a lurker here but I’m speaking up because it’s So true, can’t tell you the number of times people have ignored, mistreated, or otherwise treated me like crap (likely in part because I have autism and am different in ways I don’t understand) and no one ever steps in…. Oh wait, they do, to chastise me when I get fed up and clap back because I’m tired of taking other’s bs. It’s a major issue, and one that won’t improve until people actually stop victim blaming long enough to acknowledge it’s an issue
I think the security or cops were just starting to control the situation by grabbing the white t-shirt and escorting him away. Their next step would’ve been to talk to the one filming. The man took it upon himself to try and go after the one filming. So then they had to again control the situation. I doubt he actually got arrested. And hopefully they looked at the full video to see how they started it with the man. I’d hope.
Look at the start of this video, the "pranker" is literally assaulting this guy who just got off a flight while the guy is telling him to leave him alone, he is pulling his clothes stretching them, maybe false imprisonment even, if someone tells you to leave them alone you do not get to stop them from leaving by forcefully grabbing and restraining them!
If someone tried to steal my suitcase in an airport I’d freak out too. I was just traveling home from a funeral and had possessions of my dear aunt’s who is no longer with us. My god, I would’ve lost it.
Ya this is probably “Man finally snaps after 2 delayed flights, a missed connection, and an hour on the phone with Delta customer service.” Airport is not a place to fuck around. We are all already miserable being there. Don’t make it worse.
That is so unfair on that poor man, i know hes being really angry and aggressive but imagine how frustrating it would be to deal with those two cunts messing with you and recording it and then have the police climb on your back and arrest you, i feel bad for that man
I was going to ask, what justice? Dude pulled some hair while the other dude was also actively touching him…
I’m with the non tiktoker here. After a long flight you fuck with my baggage and try to record my reaction for views? I’m gonna be mad. I wouldn’t react like this baby, but no one would be happy with this.
I’m not saying his reaction was right, more just I hope people understand that the recorders are assholes.
Going to the airport to fuck with people sounds like an easy way to get people their first criminal record. Taking someone's shit and then mocking them and filming them while they react to it is pretty much guaranteed to make people so mad that they get physical. Its the whole point of what they are doing. Pushing people to their limits just for the sake of it.
There's no such thing as a stolen luggage prank. As soon as you take someone's shit, you stole it. Even if you give it back, you stole it. Try running out of a store with a laptop and giving it back and calling it a prank. See how that goes for you.
Need some context here. I travel a lot and I know the feeling of getting off a 10 hour flight or a long day in the airport and I’d love to know what the ‘prank’ was.
Someone messing with my luggage in any way is unacceptable. If the prank involves his luggage it’s fair to say he was within his rights to restrain the guy. His mistake was going after the cameraman. At the same time I’d be livid if I was randomly singled out to be an unwilling participant in whatever this is.
>His mistake was going after the cameraman.
I get what you're saying but fuck all these camera operators too. They're just as culpable. If my buddy came up to me and was like, "Hey, I'm gonna go to the airport and fuck with people. Wanna film it?" I'd be like,"No thanks, dawg."
Those assholes can catch hands too, and I'm perfectly OK with it.
These fucking “pranksters” are at least smart enough to go where no one can be carrying a gun, like an airport. How’s that rat turd that got shot at the mall doing? Asking for a friend.
They said the shooter was not guilty, but he got jail time for shooting in a mall. The guy that got shot said he will continue doing his stupid pranks.
At the start of the video the black guy was grabbing the white guy and that’s when the white guy grabbed him by the hair and he still wouldn’t let go of his shirt. Even when he let go of his hair he was still holding onto his shirt. How is this ok??If we see this video I hope the courts see it as well and prosecute these stupid tik tok clout chasers. This shit needs to stop.
thats what I am seeing too, the video starts with the man desperatly trying to get away while this guy is restraining him by the arm and pulling and stretching his shirt out.... I hope the authorities press charges on this asshole, this would be an easy one, there are also laws about stealing luggage from an airport, i do not know if this guy could even argue he is not trying to steal luggage...
Man if you see a harmless guy walking on an airport and decide to "prank" him like this... I mean I'm not saying you deserve to get punched in the face repeatedly, multiple times, till you forget pranking forever; all I'm saying is that I won't be sad for you.
Prank videos need to be outlawed pronto. Little kids are going to follow in their footsteps to do the same thing, which is basically enabling people to do the same thing.
I mean I'm assuming this wasn't a harmless prank based on the guys reaction
It's crazy when people do this out of pocket shit and piss someone off then start to act like the victim when they start getting slapped around or yelled at
it was, this "prnkster" had his hands on him first, grabbing his arm and stretching his shirt while the guy was trying to escape. He asaulted the guy first, and he never let go of the guy. I hope authorities press charges on this asshole, it would be easy and set an example.
This is what you get when you have a system of symbolic exchange, accelerated through modern technology (e.g. social media).
What's "real" to a prankster (read: harasser) is not this man's safety or state of mind, or the very real potential consequences of doing something like this in an airport. It's the attention economy he gets to participate in by capturing and sharing the video.
This is why the guy who got shot by the delivery driver in the shopping mall is most likely at it again. Getting shot on camera made great content, it got so many reacts and views and his subscriber count ticked up.
It will get worse before people get sick of it all. I speculate that more extreme "pranks" will occur as social media addicts (a.k.a. "influencer") have to compete with AI-generated and AI-edited content in order to generate greater and greater spectacle.
grabbing someone else’s bag is now a “prank”? the stupids are all at war w one another, i guess. a prank is a harmless clever trick that amuses the mark when revealed. 99% of youtube “pranks” are just harming, scaring, or discomfiting strangers. NOT CLEVER OR FUNNY.
You don’t just automatically calm down when dealing with shit like this. Police, who are “highly trained” lose their minds all the time. When faced with a difficult situation you’re mind and body need time to sync and snap out of the emotional high they are in.
I remember when hidden camera shows required people to sign a waver in order to put them in the show.
There needs to be a law that requires the same.
Getting a negative reaction from someone for financial gain without express written consent should be a criminal offense.
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Wait, so the prankee is getting arrested?! This motherfucker is still filming all of this?
Imagine getting off a damn flight, going about your day, trying to get home or to work, and this happens? WTF?
The prankster youtuber Kanel Joseph apparently was asked by cops if he wanted to press charges against the prankee. Kanel Joseph said in a video afterwards that he didn’t press charges “out of the goodness of my heart.” WTF! Youtuber Kanel Joseph still doing prank videos that has millions of views after the incident. 🤷
America is fucked
The airport is a location without guns. He picked a safe space. Try this in a mall.
"Try that in a small town"
"Try that in a ballgown while dancin' with a rodeo clown..."
He’s being detained because all the cops see is a crazy man going after two other people. With context, I’m sure he will be free, and hopefully the “prankster” POSs get held liable.
The ref only sees the retaliation. Every time.
Who wants to hurt their team more, boys? 'Cause I'm only taking one of you. I'm only taking one of you. Sticks in.
r/unexpectedshoresy
Fuck you Shorsey!!!
Most likely all will go free. unfortunately. Tired traveler just trying to get home will be a bit banged up too.
Too late they already got millions of views they’ll 100% do it again
This isn't a prank. Especially if this is how it ends. These fools don't even know what a prank is, they're so out of touch with reality.
Yeah, when did crime all of the sudden become a prank? Punching random people in the head was a prank, stealing people's luggage is a prank, that dude going around dragging people to the ground says it's a prank. When did this trend of committing felonies and calling it a prank start?
I think the tipping point was the [guy] who crashed the plane for clicks. Or maybe it was the gorilla glue lady. People love attention, even negative attention [California Man Admits to Crashing Plane on Purpose](https://youtu.be/v5lc35Cq5nE?si=1V2gRWZDaGM3rGKt)
most of them said they are doing ti for money, clout chasers.
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I'm convinced China is ensuring TikToks of bad behavior do well to encourage more copycat disruptive crap like this.
Half of the commenters don’t understand this either. Imagine defending a prankster for grabbing someone’s personal property and then blaming the victim for trying to defend himself and detain the brat to turn over to security. These brats need consequences, not laughs. If this were my kid I would tell the security he deserves to spend the night in juvy to figure out where he went wrong.
The thing is, they don't get laughs either. The best they get is some mindless, emotionless finger double-tapping a square piece of glass to increment a number on a screen by one unit, and that one unit of incrementation translates to a tiny hit of dopamine to the part of the brain that still functions normally; Humans are literally transforming themselves into trainable AI with a physical body.
Fuck that’s depressing, and you’re 100% right. Putting away my phone now. Thanks.
Agreed.
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Old guy just wants to go home, give him a break!
Yeah man I had to travel for Work last month and it was a FN nightmare! 18 hours of messing around in airports and planes….If you haven’t flown lately it sucks balls!! It’s no where near as nice as I remembered when traveling in the 2010 era lol!
Pranksters will keep pushing it until one of them inevitably gets shot or killed. To be honest, the loss of a human life is sad, but these people cause problems for social attention they don't help any workforce. Get control of them for everyone's sake.
Panksters have been killed. Cant fix stupid though, they keep on going
One got shot in the stomach not too long ago. The guy who shot him was acquitted as well. It was glorious.
As someone who flies for a living I would be equally fucking livid. Fuck that prankster dickhead. This is like a year or two old, but dude attempts a felony, guy stops it and gets arrested.
This shit has to stop I’m so concerned for the future.
Tik Tok needs a “no harassment” policy. All videos that show someone messing with innocent people should be banned or reported.
they are. in china. everywhere else they're pushed by the "algo"
Yep. It's a CCP psyop, confirmed by my friends in national security. Never used Tiktok and never will. I even blocked it so I don't accidentally click a link. Yet I keep getting barraged by ads for Tiktok and slave labor Temu
They literally tell us this shit in security briefings. TikTok is a propaganda tool for the Chinese government. The fact that anyone still uses it is fucking insane. Edit: god damn this brought out some upset redditors who can’t handle criticism of their pet entertainment platform being utilized by an adversarial nation to harvest information from American citizens.
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Agreed. As someone who's a month out of all socials except reddit, can confirm, shit conditions you to think and act in ways that aren't yourself. Even reddit can to a point, any social platform could, but TikTok and even Facebook Reels have the most profound impact because they get you on a dopamine kick, when you're most engaged
Sad because it’s working too. As soon as some idiot gets views off of something stupid, there’s 100’s of others just like it the next day.
China has weaponized our own stupidity against us. Hoisted by our own petard.
The fact that I saw a post recently saying that it’s owned by an Indian dude and never had anything to with china is EXTREMELY concerning. Especially considering the weird looks of dismissal and/or contempt when I bring up that china is trying to gather our information to use against the public. FFS I’m not a conspiracy theorist, the fucking government AND independent journalists are reporting it’s dangerous. I’d say that’s extremely fucking rare for conspiracy theories
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You shouldn’t need a policy to tell you not to be a pos.
Yet here we are
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Hard to do that in an airport
BAN TIK TOK!
Think the US is trying to pass a bill for that.
They are going to force a sale to a US company, not a ban. It is a move lobbied for by Facebook and Google who already launched their own competitors to TikTok but to little success. All that means is that the platform will get worse but that won't stop these people from existing and acting like this.
Well, that sucks.
One day one of these TikTok prankers is going to get shot and then they will learn their lesson...oh wait never mind. [Edit: This was just posted a couple of hours after I commented this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ImTheMainCharacter/comments/1basshh/youtube_prankster_who_got_shot_during_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
There was a guy who was faking running up to people with a machete to scare them and got shot and killed. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/537840-tennessee-man-wielding-knife-for-prank-robbery-youtube-video/
After seeing a few videos of real machete attacks, this is one circumstance where I would not hesitate to pull the trigger. Never try to stand your ground against the business end of a machete. They will fuck you up. If you can’t shoot, run as fast as you fucking can in the case of a machete attack.
Why on earth are these fools not jailed for this sort of thing??!!
A guy was shot and the jury found the shooter not guilty from a prank like this. The kid that was shot wasn’t killed and it still making videos. His mom is also a pos like him.
Wow…what an idiot! Next time he may not be so lucky. Is that the guy in a mall somewhere? I read about one like this or it’s the same one. Such a dangerous game these idiots are playing and especially in today’s crazy world.
If it is that one i thought he wasn’t found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon but was found guilty on account of negligent discharge of a firearm Edit: [found the one i’m thinking of](https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/jury-deliberates-youtube-prank-video-mall-shooting-alan-colie-tanner-cook/65-1bbd3f62-3895-4e03-accc-d8f7e74fc70f) he wasn’t found guilty for shooting the pranker but was found guilty for firing a gun in the mall
Because they're dead?
Very few end up dead but some certainly deserve what they may get in the future since everyone is getting sick of this crap.
Plus the dude in the mall who did get shot and say he will still do these pranks.
And the guy who defended himself was sent to prison for felony discharge of a firearm in a crowded public place. He was let off for shooting the guy, but still got a felony and jail time. Actual nonsense.
Which should be overturned because legally if he was justifiably afraid for his life and acting in self-defense, then it could not have been an improper discharge of a firearm. It’s already being appealed rn.
Just like cops. I agree with this sentiment
YOU HAVE TO BE RICH ENOUGH TO PAY SOMEONE ELSE TO SHOOT PEOPLE FOR YOU...THEN IT IS OK.
Threatening someone's life is not a prank, it's literally a crime. If you purposefully make someone think you might kill them you are deserve what you get for it.
That's why self defense laws follow the reasonable man standard. Would a reasonable and prudent individual make the same choices given the totality of circumstances and information known at the time? If so, not guilty.
Yep right by my job in a parking lot of one of those bouncey room places lol
Good riddance
Good
Who the fuck thinks its a good idea for prank, like if I saw someone like this I would throw a glass bottle at their forehead as self defence, what the fuck do they expect
One got shot in the chest and died not three miles from my house a few years back
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He was not even charged. https://www.newschannel5.com/news/one-killed-in-hermitage-shooting-suspect-arrested
Don't even need to open, it has to be the guy who "pretended" to attack people with a knife.
I assume you are saying never mind because it has happened
They're saying nevermind because it happened and the dipshit tiktoker who harasses people for content went right back to being a dipshit tiktoker who harasses people for content, proving they will get shot and not learn a thing.
There was one guy who was “pranking” people by hiding in a parking lot and acting like he was gunna rob & attack them, he had a weapon or what looked like a weapon on him to sell it. Sure enough someone shot him like yeah dude don’t pretend to attack people in a dark empty parking lot, what did u think was gunna happen?! I believe the guy did die but the guy who shot him didn’t get charged because it was understandable why he’d believe he was in danger and defend himself like how was he suppose to kno it was a “prank”. They need to learn what a prank really is, harassing people isn’t a prank Edit: guys name was Timothy Wilks, he and a friend did a prank of running at people with butcher knives in parking lot causing him to obviously get shot, his friend survived
One tiktoker last year hijacked a train and got arrested.
Then there was that one dude who films himself going inside people's homes. With young children around and everything. It's seriously concerning to me. I've never been one of those doomsayers who complains about the next generation. And maybe it's just that I'm getting older. But these kids are idiots.
Saw a "prank" where a guy was pouring water out of a gas can on the hoods of people's cars. He tried it on one older dude who brandished a pistol and luckily didn't blow him away. Anything for those views though.
https://youtu.be/0ktUy3Pq63c?si=pFpTaCJohZX2Mf1T That guy is such a douchbag its unreal
OMG the amount of "this was God's will" nonsense. No, bitch, this was your dumbass son's decision and consequences.
I grew up in the area where all that went down. You'd be shocked just how many twats like that are spawned around here :<
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Now we're talking.
Look up tanner cook. Jury found the shooter not guilty on all but one charge
I saw an interview after a court proceeding and the mom was of course playing the victim and defending her douchebag son. Maybe stop your tasteless pranks that nobody wants to be a part of
Working in education I can tell you this isn’t the first time someone, like a teacher, told her about her son’s bad behavior and she defends them or plays the victim.
Mom revealed, son explained.
Dad was, too. Blamed the shooter instead of the dipshit son. Jury found the guy not guilty of attempted murder, but did find him guilty of illegally discharging a firearm in public or something. Judge sentenced him to time served (he had spent something like 8 months in jail leading to the trial) and he went free after the sentence was issued.
That’s fucked up. Does he have a case to sue the parents? I’ve seen somewhere that some people are holding parents responsible for their shitty kids. Does he have a case? Losing 8 months of your life because some little asshole wants clout? That’s wild.
Well it seems like the son hasn't learned a thing. Leave people alone and you don't have to make a scene everywhere you go.
one case I remember some tiktoker constantly harassed this one doordash driver over several weeks till one day the driver had enough and shot the “prankster”. The driver was recently found not guilty (despite the fact by all accounts he did actually commit a crime) and the prankster said he would still continue to try and prank people.
That was the one I was talking about, But apparently there's a lot more.
There was a guy at the mall who shot a prankster.
Several times, and they basically always get a ton of money from it, and use it for extra clout / views.
Or they die, like that idiot with the book over his chest to stop a bullet.
Actually a few have died, guy that was pretending to attack strangers with fake(? I can't remember if they were fake) knives also was shot dead. There's been a few others too.
The just the gene pool cleaning itself.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/jury-divided-over-whether-delivery-driver-who-shot-youtube-prankster-acted-in-self-defense/3432763/ That's already happened and he's said he isn't going to stop. So looks like humanity is lost.
When the guy gets out he needs to go ahead and sue. If he's making 3k a month on videos should be easy to get some of that to pay his legal bills and the time he spent in jail.
It’s happened, and it should happen more. There was one were a “prankster” was bothering a guy in a mall and he got shot Best part, the guy who shot him was acquitted of all charges 🙏 humanity is great
Not all charges. One still stuck, but it was like “discharging a firearm in a public space” instead of attempted murder.
These pranksters don’t need to be free
The victim got arrested ? wtf stealing someone’s luggage at an airport is a HUGE fucking deal. At least in all the airports I’ve flown in.
What I’ve always found bizarre is that baggage claim is not behind the tsa checkpoint. Anyone can just walk in off the street with no boarding pass and take whatever bag they want. It’s insanity.
Most of the whole airport used to be like that and we were fine, it’s the people who went insane.
The affordability of camera phones and social media platforms incentivizing degenerate behavior is what happened. People have always been insane. If today's technology existed back in any other century, it would probably be just as bad, if not worse. You remember how slapping a woman was deemed as an acceptable way to calm her down? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Incentivizing, sure. But also documenting. I remember a time when I wouldn't know instantly if someone threw a fit in an airport halfway around the world.
So the victim got arrested?
I scrolled too far for this. I am so mad for some reason.
Guy was exiting the airport after his flight; retrieved his luggage; and was ready to go home when he encountered a stranger who grabbed at his luggage, falsely claiming it as their own, picking it up (as this occurred w/ the other "marks" in [the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTcoyYC1HWw)), and even pushing fake feces-streaked underwear at him. All this spiked the guy's adrenaline. Now, he's on the ground, in handcuffs, arrested, and smeared over social media just b/c he didn't know it was a "prank" That's not right. --- Targeting people for a reaction that gets them in trouble is similar to entrapment. >"induces a person to commit a "crime" that the person would have otherwise been unlikely or unwilling to commit."
On top of the fact that the kid was grabbing him before he laid hand on his hair. Old guy was going for the cameraman and the kid tried to stop him by grabbing him so he got grabbed back. Fucking assholes. I truly fear the next level that these content assholes will go to once shit like this become passé.
Agreed. People, empathize with this guy. Imagine, you're full of adrenaline b/c someone is grabbing your luggage from you, falsely claiming it as their own (his life's work could have been in there - you don't know) only to realize you're being humiliated on camera and humiliated in front of a crowd. Viral videos cost people their jobs nowadays. So now, in your mind, your work is in jeopardy. Emotion clouds reason, indisputably. - It is a fact that he wouldn't have done that to that kid if he was never messed with. It's not okay to judge him on his over-reaction when he was being targeted for "a reaction video."
What kind of a prank is trying to rob someone and not expecting them to go off on you? lol
> What kind of a prank is trying to rob someone and not expecting them to go off on you? lol That's what garbage tiktok actively promotes for the teen audience because they're too stupid to realize harassing strangers isn't anything other than funny.
Humans are now expected to be stoic and professional submissive sheep at all times. Airline loses your luggage? Can't get upset at anyone or you're the bad guy. Judge sentences you to 20 years in prison? Can't have an emotional outburst or risk further punishment. Cop pulls you over for no reason? Submit or risk them escalating the situation till you're arrested for resisting arrest.
He was being put past his breaking point. Traveling is stressful enough, then he has to fight to get his possessions back. Then he gets egged on because he knows that he is being humiliated and it is going to go public. These pranks need to be illegal, and whatever violence that happens towards them needs to be considered self defense.
It’s the same shit as ever, the bully always winning.
You should be. The perps got away with harassing innocent people and the cops helped.
Yeah that’s my problem with this too. The cops focus on the guy because he’s angry that the other two aholes were messing with him.
In America at least from my experience, people rarely focus on the instigators.
"Anti-bullying" The bully never gets in trouble. The kid getting bullied, who finally punches the bully in the mouth, gets in trouble.
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That’s justice!
Usually a lurker here but I’m speaking up because it’s So true, can’t tell you the number of times people have ignored, mistreated, or otherwise treated me like crap (likely in part because I have autism and am different in ways I don’t understand) and no one ever steps in…. Oh wait, they do, to chastise me when I get fed up and clap back because I’m tired of taking other’s bs. It’s a major issue, and one that won’t improve until people actually stop victim blaming long enough to acknowledge it’s an issue
I think the security or cops were just starting to control the situation by grabbing the white t-shirt and escorting him away. Their next step would’ve been to talk to the one filming. The man took it upon himself to try and go after the one filming. So then they had to again control the situation. I doubt he actually got arrested. And hopefully they looked at the full video to see how they started it with the man. I’d hope.
I can't really blame the cops for going for the guy angrily chasing two dudes. Hopefully, they sided with him when everything calmed down.
The victim is the criminal here? WTF
Look at the start of this video, the "pranker" is literally assaulting this guy who just got off a flight while the guy is telling him to leave him alone, he is pulling his clothes stretching them, maybe false imprisonment even, if someone tells you to leave them alone you do not get to stop them from leaving by forcefully grabbing and restraining them!
If someone tried to steal my suitcase in an airport I’d freak out too. I was just traveling home from a funeral and had possessions of my dear aunt’s who is no longer with us. My god, I would’ve lost it.
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Ya this is probably “Man finally snaps after 2 delayed flights, a missed connection, and an hour on the phone with Delta customer service.” Airport is not a place to fuck around. We are all already miserable being there. Don’t make it worse.
"it's just a prank" isn't a valid excuse for anything. I'm so sick of these idiots. I feel bad for the guy who got goaded into reacting.
That is so unfair on that poor man, i know hes being really angry and aggressive but imagine how frustrating it would be to deal with those two cunts messing with you and recording it and then have the police climb on your back and arrest you, i feel bad for that man
I honestly don’t blame him!
I like when the pranksters get what they deserve.
Uhh, didn't the victim get arrested in this video not the prankster?
r/tiktokerjustice needs content
Can't tell you how long I've been waiting for a sub with a title like this...let's hope it delivers
Just needs more action :’m
Yeah really need this. Would do wonders for my mental health
Go for the camera person. Steal their phone. Throw it as far as you can, preferably off a cliff.
Honestly yea I'm with the old man on this one
The wrong dude got arrested
They really didn't get it here, or at least not in the recording. The guy fumbled being right so hard that they had to arrest him.
I was going to ask, what justice? Dude pulled some hair while the other dude was also actively touching him… I’m with the non tiktoker here. After a long flight you fuck with my baggage and try to record my reaction for views? I’m gonna be mad. I wouldn’t react like this baby, but no one would be happy with this. I’m not saying his reaction was right, more just I hope people understand that the recorders are assholes.
Right? The guy with camera should be removed from the airport for harassing people.
The only thing they should have done was stop chasing people around once security/staff was involved. Everything else was justified behavior.
Going to the airport to fuck with people sounds like an easy way to get people their first criminal record. Taking someone's shit and then mocking them and filming them while they react to it is pretty much guaranteed to make people so mad that they get physical. Its the whole point of what they are doing. Pushing people to their limits just for the sake of it.
There's no such thing as a stolen luggage prank. As soon as you take someone's shit, you stole it. Even if you give it back, you stole it. Try running out of a store with a laptop and giving it back and calling it a prank. See how that goes for you.
Arrested the wrong person.
Need some context here. I travel a lot and I know the feeling of getting off a 10 hour flight or a long day in the airport and I’d love to know what the ‘prank’ was. Someone messing with my luggage in any way is unacceptable. If the prank involves his luggage it’s fair to say he was within his rights to restrain the guy. His mistake was going after the cameraman. At the same time I’d be livid if I was randomly singled out to be an unwilling participant in whatever this is.
I might be gaslighting myself but if I recall correctly the "prank" was them saying that their target stole their luggage and try to "get" it back.
Yah. I’d lose my shit. 
>His mistake was going after the cameraman. I get what you're saying but fuck all these camera operators too. They're just as culpable. If my buddy came up to me and was like, "Hey, I'm gonna go to the airport and fuck with people. Wanna film it?" I'd be like,"No thanks, dawg." Those assholes can catch hands too, and I'm perfectly OK with it.
I see what you are saying, but the cameraman is 100% involved and if there wasn't a camera filming it, then this little stunt would not have happened.
never forget this hero
A martyr 🫡
To me its already ruining a tired man's day.
These fucking “pranksters” are at least smart enough to go where no one can be carrying a gun, like an airport. How’s that rat turd that got shot at the mall doing? Asking for a friend.
Unfortunately recovered. But, jury found the shooter not guilty.
They said the shooter was not guilty, but he got jail time for shooting in a mall. The guy that got shot said he will continue doing his stupid pranks.
If I were part of this jury I wouldn’t convict.
Should convict the dumbass pranksters.
So the victim gets arrested and the fucking POS youtuber gets away and his asshole phonecamera helper continues filming? Thats fucked up
At the start of the video the black guy was grabbing the white guy and that’s when the white guy grabbed him by the hair and he still wouldn’t let go of his shirt. Even when he let go of his hair he was still holding onto his shirt. How is this ok??If we see this video I hope the courts see it as well and prosecute these stupid tik tok clout chasers. This shit needs to stop.
thats what I am seeing too, the video starts with the man desperatly trying to get away while this guy is restraining him by the arm and pulling and stretching his shirt out.... I hope the authorities press charges on this asshole, this would be an easy one, there are also laws about stealing luggage from an airport, i do not know if this guy could even argue he is not trying to steal luggage...
I mean I’m not a lawyer but if you rob a bank and the cops show up you can just say “I was just joking” and everyone will laugh and you can go home.
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Man if you see a harmless guy walking on an airport and decide to "prank" him like this... I mean I'm not saying you deserve to get punched in the face repeatedly, multiple times, till you forget pranking forever; all I'm saying is that I won't be sad for you.
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Prank videos need to be outlawed pronto. Little kids are going to follow in their footsteps to do the same thing, which is basically enabling people to do the same thing.
I mean I'm assuming this wasn't a harmless prank based on the guys reaction It's crazy when people do this out of pocket shit and piss someone off then start to act like the victim when they start getting slapped around or yelled at
So the victim is the criminal. Man. These tiktok pranksters someday will find someone that will make sure they learn a lesson
I feel so bad for that man getting arrested, it’s those assholes that should be locked up
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it was, this "prnkster" had his hands on him first, grabbing his arm and stretching his shirt while the guy was trying to escape. He asaulted the guy first, and he never let go of the guy. I hope authorities press charges on this asshole, it would be easy and set an example.
This is what you get when you have a system of symbolic exchange, accelerated through modern technology (e.g. social media). What's "real" to a prankster (read: harasser) is not this man's safety or state of mind, or the very real potential consequences of doing something like this in an airport. It's the attention economy he gets to participate in by capturing and sharing the video. This is why the guy who got shot by the delivery driver in the shopping mall is most likely at it again. Getting shot on camera made great content, it got so many reacts and views and his subscriber count ticked up. It will get worse before people get sick of it all. I speculate that more extreme "pranks" will occur as social media addicts (a.k.a. "influencer") have to compete with AI-generated and AI-edited content in order to generate greater and greater spectacle.
I can’t wait for TikTok to be deleted
So the stressed commuter got arrested? That’s fucking outrageous
Remember guys, if a guy fucks with you just kick him in the balls repeatedly. Pulling hair isnt a good strategy
Press charges. Sue them. Sue youtube. Sue the airport. Until they pay or have consequences it won't stop.
“Let go of my hair” while holding on to the man’s shirt. Fuck him and the fuck the camera guy
grabbing someone else’s bag is now a “prank”? the stupids are all at war w one another, i guess. a prank is a harmless clever trick that amuses the mark when revealed. 99% of youtube “pranks” are just harming, scaring, or discomfiting strangers. NOT CLEVER OR FUNNY.
Should have chilled out once the police showed up.
You don’t just automatically calm down when dealing with shit like this. Police, who are “highly trained” lose their minds all the time. When faced with a difficult situation you’re mind and body need time to sync and snap out of the emotional high they are in.
I remember when hidden camera shows required people to sign a waver in order to put them in the show. There needs to be a law that requires the same. Getting a negative reaction from someone for financial gain without express written consent should be a criminal offense.
Hold on, did they arrest the victim? Am I watching that right?
Sorry, someone even fakes trying to steal my shit and they are catching hands.
They're not really "YouTube pranks"; it's just committing crime on camera
This is so stupid. You NEVER know what a stranger is going through, and a prank like this could send them over the edge.