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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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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 279 points 10 months ago (2 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 95 points 10 months ago (3 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 68 points 10 months 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.

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That’s because it’s an easy way to cause the death of children. People become angry, understandably.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

It could also cause the death of a CEO, which is an even more serious concern.

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 151 points 10 months ago (17 children)

Now, this could qualify as terrorism.

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

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 68 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months 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 7 points 10 months 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 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

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

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (24 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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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 116 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah this is a mass poisoning.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dude, it's just a prank, bro!

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 67 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 52 points 10 months 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 33 points 10 months ago

Good, let him rot in irrelevance, and prison.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months 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"

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

...are you retarded?

It's a rhetorical question.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

It's just a prank, bro!

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

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 7 points 10 months ago

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

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

wait until you find out how much DDT we sprayed everywhere.

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