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Everybody loses<\/a>: YouTube prankster fucks with the wrong guy, gets shot; prankster in ICU, shooter in police custody<\/span><\/p>\n What caught my attention about this story is that it happened up in Northern Virginia, and at a mall that I\u2019ve been to a few times before.\u00a0 Dulles Town Center, at least when I was still living up there, wasn\u2019t the bougiest mall or wasn\u2019t a Tysons, but was still well shopped as it was way the fuck far away from the blight-spreading that had overtaken Springfield and Landmark malls and was on its way towards Tysons with the expansion of Metro.<\/span><\/p>\n But it was still an unfortunate story where a shithead who tries to cultivate internet popularity by performing pranks on usually unwilling participants, tries to pull a prank on the wrong guy, and ends up getting shot in the gut.\u00a0 The wrong guy, who was just trying to mind his own business and pick up food for a DoorDash delivery, gets pushed into whipping out his piece, is now under arrest, and as said above, everybody loses.<\/span><\/p>\n I floated this story to a group chat of close friends, and the general consensus is that the shooter crossed the line by reacting with deadly force, but at the same time, I absolutely don\u2019t think that the prankster is absolved of any fault at all.\u00a0 Sure, I agree that deadly force should rarely be the answer to anything short of one\u2019s life being threatened in the first place, but I can\u2019t say I entirely agree that the prankster wasn\u2019t asking for it either.<\/span><\/p>\n Because I don\u2019t want to give anyone acknowledgment to the shithead prankster and his dumbass YouTube channel I won\u2019t use names or give any links and anyone really curious about this story can probably find it easily on their own, but the guy doing the pranks is a pretty big dude, and I feel like he takes for granted that his stature and the fact that he seems to target less-threatening individuals, probably prevents a lot of people retaliating on him for trying to get a rise out of them.\u00a0 So when he pressed his luck on a guy who reportedly gave him fair warning as well as tried to swat his phone away from him, I can\u2019t say I feel any modicum of sympathy for him when he got a gun pulled on him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Of course the shooter didn\u2019t have to shoot, but we live in a world where there are more unhinged people than ever out there, and the prankster got unlucky to have found one of them with an itchy trigger finger that did the deed.<\/span><\/p>\n What\u2019s obnoxious about this story other than the obvious shithead prankster, is that the guy\u2019s dad and grandfather are coming out and trying to defend him for \u201cjust trying to have some fun\u201d and other diluted rhetoric that coddles and justifies their shithead son\u2019s bad behavior.\u00a0 Like if I were the guy\u2019s dad, I\u2019d probably go on record that I don\u2019t condone my son\u2019s behavior, but I wish he\u2019d just got decked instead of shot.<\/span><\/p>\n I actually feel sympathy for the shooter, because I\u2019d wager he didn\u2019t wake up in the morning thinking there was any possibility that he was going to end up in jail at some point.\u00a0 Much less for an altercation that he didn\u2019t initiate.\u00a0 He was just trying to mind his own business, logged into DoorDash and wanted to make some money, and some shithead bro starts fucking with him, and won\u2019t let up.\u00a0 Obviously pulling a gun and shooting the guy was extreme, but at some point, people can only get pushed before they are forced to react.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, it\u2019s an unfortunate story where everyone comes out a loser, and I post about it because these are the types of stories that draw my attention when I don\u2019t feel like writing so much and I need to inspire myself to in order to keep up with the habit and practice continuing doing it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everybody loses: YouTube prankster fucks with the wrong guy, gets shot; 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