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.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 hours ago

    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.

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    Now, this could qualify as terrorism.

    Not a single murder of a psychopathic indirect mass murderer CEO.

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        you’d be surprised. A fairly large number of them are quite miserly, even in their personal lives.

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      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…

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        Corporate needs you to find the difference between this story and this story.

        (They’re the same story)

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        It reminds me of the dupes on Facebook that comment “must have been a Kamala voter” on every video of someone doing something stupid.

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        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.

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    He only got ~300 likes on his posts, too. Dude’s picking up a felony charge for 300 likes.

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    It’s remarkable that it needs to be said but… Don’t record yourself doing crimes and post it on YouTube.

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    I don’t know what community I thought I was in, but I thought this was gonna be some joke story about Jar Jar Binks running a police force. Those cops need to fix the spacing for “Mesa”