8mo ago

Prankster arrested for spraying pesticide on Walmart produce

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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8mo ago

Prankster arrested for spraying pesticide on Walmart produce

ktar.com /story/5640139/prankster-arrested-pesticide-walmart/

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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.
  
  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.
Now, this could qualify as terrorism.
Not a single murder of a psychopathic indirect mass murderer CEO.
- 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.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  Corporate needs you to find the difference between this story and this story.
  (They're the same story)
  
  Politics is everywhere because it affects every aspect of our lives even if we consider ourselves apolitical and don’t pay attention to the news or politics.
  This story isn’t going away because even amongst the apolitical our healthcare system has fucked over nearly everyone either directly or a close loved one. The only people not getting fucked over are those on the tippy top. Even the upper middle class - if they get cancer they can lose their life’s savings. And our end of life care is essentially vultures picking clean a body only replace vultures with the health care system that keeps people alive for far too long past their natural life span to milk every last cent out of them.
- Now, this could qualify as terrorism.
  🤣
- It would need to be politically motivated
I do not agree with the use of "prankster".
- Yeah this is a mass poisoning.
  
  Dude, it's just a prank, bro!
- on the vegetables some will already have pesticides from the factory
  
  oh yeah i bet the employees themselves spray RAID all over em
- The chief pilot at the flight school I worked for used to say "Let's go commit a few counts of aviation."
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.
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"
It's remarkable that it needs to be said but... Don't record yourself doing crimes and post it on YouTube.
- 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.
- So you want people not getting caught for illegal, and immoral actions?
...are you retarded?
It's a rhetorical question.
- No it isn't.
wait until you find out how much DDT we sprayed everywhere.
I misread the police car on the thumbnail as "Meesa police" and thought it was going to be a jarjar binks meme before I read the title
Wait till you learn what the growers sprayed on those veggies. And what it did to the farm worker's children..
- Sounds funny until you see just how stuffed with antibiotics they are

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