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According to police, Charles Smith, 27, entered the Walmart at 1955 S. Stapley Dr. on Dec. 19 intending to film pranks for social media platforms.
Instead, police said Smith grabbed a can of Hot Shot Ultra Bed Bug and Flea Killer from a shelf without paying for it and then sprayed the pesticide on various vegetables, fruit and rotisserie chickens that were available for purchase.
Smith recorded his face, the pesticide can and the act of him spraying its contents. He later posted the recording online.
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wait until you find out how much DDT we sprayed everywhere.
…are you retarded?
It’s a rhetorical question.
I do not agree with the use of “prankster”.
Yeah this is a mass poisoning.
Dude, it’s just a prank, bro!
Right to jail
on the vegetables some will already have pesticides from the factory
Smith recorded his face, the pesticide can and the act of him spraying its contents. He later posted the recording online.
“Arrest me Daddy uwu”
Yeah, that’s not a prank. That could have killed people if nobody noticed it.
I hope they lock his dumb ass up for a long time.
From the last wave of pranks when people licked ice creams and put it back I have learned that messing with food is a federal crime in the US and is taken quite seriously.
That’s because it’s an easy way to cause the death of children. People become angry, understandably.
It could also cause the death of a CEO, which is an even more serious concern.
As it should be. The regulations were significantly increased after the Tylenol murders in 1982. It’s also why we have no tamper things on many ingestible items.
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Uh oh, but will that department get the ax after inauguration? Might be time to do delivery only groceries. Where I live they come from special stores with no general public access.
I think they’d have a harder time getting rid of the FDA than the Department of Education, which sadly is in the crosshairs.
We shall see. I think anything with regulations is going to be added to the swamp. https://www.science.org/content/article/mixed-reactions-greet-trump-s-pick-longtime-fda-critic-head-agency
Now, this could qualify as terrorism.
Not a single murder of a psychopathic indirect mass murderer CEO.
It would need to be politically motivated
Doubt many CEOs shop at Walmart, otherwise it would totally be terrorism charges.
you’d be surprised. A fairly large number of them are quite miserly, even in their personal lives.
The CEO types have people who are responsible for filing the fridge and pantry. Those people probably shop at Walmart just like everyone else.
What do you believe his political motive was in spraying the produce?
Whatever you think it is to fit your personal narrative /s
What was the political motive behind Luigi YAHOOO-ing the ceo?
I would recommend you reading his manifesto as long as you can, its not long but its being taken down from pretty much everwhere
I mean, I get your point…but not every story has to be compared to other stories. In this case Luigi. I also see other people bring up politics during stories that have nothing to do with politics.
And I wonder why people do that. Why talk about an unrelated topic when there’s already an interesting topic?
I guess it’s not as bad as reddit, where they would instead just post a random unrelated quote from the office, but still…
It’s quite simply what’s on people’s minds right now. It was a major event, it outlines some of the systemic inequalities, and people are interested in the subject.
Yeah.
It’s also just fun to talk about because it probably makes US healthcare CEOs nervous.
After all they’ve done to the rest of us, it’s nice to think of them feeling nervous. If they’re not going to feel our grief, or appropriate remorse, or empathy, at least they can feel nervous.
There’s a good book about capitalism and what happens when the CEO class gets nervous about the underclass getting tired of their shit. It’s called The Iron Heel by Jack London. It’s what inspired 1984 and is the start of the dystopian future sci-fi writing.
The basic premise is it never ends like the French Revolution when the workers revolt because the regular person has too much invested in the status quo.
It’s a current event being compared to another current event. One about a murder, and the other potentially attempted homicide, depending on the pesticide used. Seems to be pretty related to me, regardless of any politics.
Just because they call it a “prank”, and the media uses the same shitty term, that doesn’t make spraying pesticides on food for unsuspecting citizens to grab any less dangerous.
One has a potential villain above the law and a moral purpose in removing him, or is at least a sympathetic figure striking out at one of the many causes of our misery, and who we can applaud. There is a root cause in desperate need of fixing but corporate voices in search of profit who are somehow more important than people’s lives
The other is threatening people’s lives and health by contaminating food, and dismissing as a “prank” for clicks. He needs plenty of time in jail and to forfeit whatever cash those clicks might bring. There is no morality play, no political difference, only exploiting the worst of humanity for cash
Corporate needs you to find the difference between this story and this story.
(They’re the same story)
Now, this could qualify as terrorism.
🤣
He only got ~300 likes on his posts, too. Dude’s picking up a felony charge for 300 likes.
Good, let him rot in irrelevance, and prison.
Wait till you learn what the growers sprayed on those veggies. And what it did to the farm worker’s children…
neat, I personally like my roasted chickens ripe off the vine without pesticides.
Sounds funny until you see just how stuffed with antibiotics they are
I think it’s nice that they get a little healthcare
As a treat!
Antibiotic use in livestock is the major driver of resistance. Soon people will start dying from minor cuts just like we did before antibiotics were discovered.
It’s remarkable that it needs to be said but… Don’t record yourself doing crimes and post it on YouTube.
So you want people not getting caught for illegal, and immoral actions?
actually, do record yourself doing crimes.
Right? I’m all for it.
I want stupid people to remove themselves from society as quickly as possible.
Unless you do universally hated shit like this dickhole, then by all means, tell us exactly who you are and what you did.
