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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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[–] [email protected] 42 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 19 hours ago

Good, let him rot in irrelevance, and prison.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

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"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

It's just a prank, bro!

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[–] [email protected] 238 points 22 hours ago (8 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 135 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Now, this could qualify as terrorism.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

What political cause or ideology do you think this was done in support of?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 21 hours ago

Now, this could qualify as terrorism.

🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

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....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

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

(They're the same story)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

What do you believe his political motive was in spraying the produce?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (18 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago

Whatever you think it is to fit your personal narrative /s

[–] [email protected] 59 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Doubt many CEOs shop at Walmart, otherwise it would totally be terrorism charges.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 22 hours ago
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