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Tennessee man shot, killed after YouTube video 'prank' goes wrong
NBC News ^ | Nicole Acevedo

Posted on 02/06/2021 1:47:37 PM PST by Impala64ssa

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To: Impala64ssa

I tend to think it was a real attempted robbery, that messed with the wrong people. The surviving man is just trying to stay out of jail.
So he makes up a tale.


21 posted on 02/06/2021 2:21:20 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I would have tested that phone book theory against a tree and not my chest.


22 posted on 02/06/2021 2:23:28 PM PST by Cecily
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To: Impala64ssa

Stupid pranks deserve radical results.


23 posted on 02/06/2021 2:24:35 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: snarkytart

Yeah, scare “pranks” are often just sadism, I think.

There are several popular videos (tens, if not hundreds, of millions of views) of ”pranks” where guys go from standing still to suddenly going crazy and attacking some innocent person in an elevator. The fact that they intentionally miss with their punches and kicks doesn’t make it any less frightening for the victims who naturally are screaming and trying to escape. They are damn lucky no one had a gun.


24 posted on 02/06/2021 2:25:55 PM PST by Stravinsky
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To: Impala64ssa

yeah, “prank”, sure...


25 posted on 02/06/2021 2:27:59 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cableguymn

if it saves just one person’s life,....


26 posted on 02/06/2021 2:28:29 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: snarkytart

I was thinking the same thing.


27 posted on 02/06/2021 2:35:50 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: FreeAtlanta

Me too and surprised more people haven’t run into serious problems screwing with people for their childish pranks. It’s a good way to get shot.


28 posted on 02/06/2021 2:38:40 PM PST by NWFree
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To: Impala64ssa

Surely, somebody has commented about bringing a knife to a gunfight...


29 posted on 02/06/2021 2:40:25 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Halftime score: COVID-19, Constitutional Freedoms - 0)
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To: Impala64ssa

Calling it a prank doesn’t change it. It is threatening someone with bodily harm. He deserved to die, and all who were on on it.


30 posted on 02/06/2021 2:43:36 PM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: OrangeHoof

You, sir, are somebody!


31 posted on 02/06/2021 2:45:23 PM PST by null and void (Since I'm a punster, a jokester, and a well rounded funny guy, my personal pronoun is "He He")
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To: Impala64ssa
Tennessee man shot, killed after YouTube video 'prank' goes wrong

Extreme self-inflicted de-platforming.

32 posted on 02/06/2021 2:46:39 PM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I think it was an encyclopedia. And I heard she ended up getting six months in a plea agreement.


33 posted on 02/06/2021 2:50:47 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: FreeAtlanta

Sad, but good. I am sick of these stupid “pranks” and wondered when someone was going to get killed.
= = = = = = = = =

When they started the ‘funniest videos’ TV shows I figure it wouldn’t be long before people started dying or kids maimed by trying to do stupid stunts just to get on the tube.

Like PT Barnum (supposedly) opined..’There’s one born every minute’

I say supposedly because there is (naturally) some controversy over whether he said it or not...
HOWEVER, I am sure if he had thought of it, he would have said it...


34 posted on 02/06/2021 2:52:08 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "Message to GOP "GO FUnd YOURSELF")
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To: Impala64ssa

it’s guaranteed he won’t do that again...


35 posted on 02/06/2021 2:57:11 PM PST by heavy metal (your reward will be in heaven not on your paycheck...)
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To: snarkytart
I think you are right. “It was just a prank” is exactly what school bullies yell when someone finally fights back and they don’t like the comeuppance.

Also it’s kind of suspicious that every article on this repeats the “prank for a youtube channel” claim but none of them mention his screen name and his name doesn’t seem to have ever come up in connection with any other story. Even if it really was a prank it would not exactly be a “starter prank” and many people who run popular youtube channels have their real names out there in connection with it or have been the news for some reason.

36 posted on 02/06/2021 3:02:37 PM PST by fluorescence
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To: Rebelbase

Like one who grabs a stray dog by the ears
is someone who rushes into a quarrel not their own.

Like a maniac shooting
flaming arrows of death
19is one who deceives their neighbor
and says, “I was only joking!”


37 posted on 02/06/2021 3:04:44 PM PST by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: snarkytart
No, really.

Walking up to a complete stranger, brandish a knife and say "give it all up or I'll stab your girlfriend" is hilarious!/sarc

Yes, I agree with you.

38 posted on 02/06/2021 3:13:40 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome tothe Matrix/1984)
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To: Impala64ssa

Somewhere on YouTube, there is a video of a guy who used to dress up in a clown outfit and surprise people in a park. But he jumped out of the bushes this one guy and that guy beat the crap out of him. Now that was a funny video!


39 posted on 02/06/2021 3:21:05 PM PST by Panzerfaust (The HK P7 .....it's what Jesus would carry.)
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To: Navy Patriot
that face you make right before you get whats coming to you...

40 posted on 02/06/2021 3:35:09 PM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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