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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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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 points 1 minute ago

I do not agree with the use of "pranksters".

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 11 points 1 hour ago

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"

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 29 points 3 hours ago
[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 194 points 11 hours ago (1 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.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 47 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tyfud@lemmy.world 31 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 115 points 11 hours ago (7 children)

Now, this could qualify as terrorism.

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

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 46 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 hour ago

The CEO types have people who are responsible for filing the fridge and pantry. Those people probably shop at Walmart just like everyone else.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (17 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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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (4 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....

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 2 points 9 hours ago

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

(They're the same story)

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 points 10 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.

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 31 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 hours ago

Good, let him rot in irrelevance, and prison.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 53 points 11 hours ago
[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

actually, do record yourself doing crimes.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 19 minutes ago

Right? I'm all for it.

I want stupid people to remove themselves from society as quickly as possible.

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

Unless you do universally hated shit like this dickhole, then by all means, tell us exactly who you are and what you did.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 9 hours ago

It's just a prank, bro!

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 7 points 10 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"

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