A 27-year-old TikTok "prankster" named Charles Smith was arrested in Mesa, Arizona, after causing a dangerous scene at a Walmart on December 19. Smith, known for his reckless social media stunts, filmed himself committing a criminal act where he sprayed bug poison on food items in the store, including vegetables, fruit, and rotisserie chickens. He uploaded the disturbing video to his social media account, showing his face while committing the crime.
According to court documents, Smith initially entered the Walmart around 8:30 p.m., intending to film pranks for his followers. Instead of performing harmless tricks, he took a can of bug spray from the shelf and deliberately sprayed it on the food products. He then returned to the store about 10 minutes later, attempting to collect the contaminated items, but instead wheeled them to the back of the store.
Walmart had to remove nearly $1 million worth of potentially tainted food from the shelves, though it's unclear if all of the sprayed items were retrieved in time. Police noted that there was enough time between when Smith sprayed the items and when he attempted to remove them for customers to have bought and consumed the contaminated products, posing a serious health risk.
Smith was arrested and charged with several offenses, including felony charges of Introducing Poison, along with misdemeanor charges of Criminal Damage, Endangerment, and Theft. His actions not only resulted in significant financial damage to the store but also endangered the health and safety of potential customers.
A 27-year-old TikTok "prankster" named Charles Smith was arrested in Mesa, Arizona, after causing a dangerous scene at a Walmart on December 19. Smith, known for his reckless social media stunts, filmed himself committing a criminal act where he sprayed bug poison on food items in the store, including vegetables, fruit, and rotisserie chickens. He uploaded the disturbing video to his social media account, showing his face while committing the crime.
According to court documents, Smith initially entered the Walmart around 8:30 p.m., intending to film pranks for his followers. Instead of performing harmless tricks, he took a can of bug spray from the shelf and deliberately sprayed it on the food products. He then returned to the store about 10 minutes later, attempting to collect the contaminated items, but instead wheeled them to the back of the store.
Walmart had to remove nearly $1 million worth of potentially tainted food from the shelves, though it's unclear if all of the sprayed items were retrieved in time. Police noted that there was enough time between when Smith sprayed the items and when he attempted to remove them for customers to have bought and consumed the contaminated products, posing a serious health risk.
Smith was arrested and charged with several offenses, including felony charges of Introducing Poison, along with misdemeanor charges of Criminal Damage, Endangerment, and Theft. His actions not only resulted in significant financial damage to the store but also endangered the health and safety of potential customers.
Ukrainian forces successfully attacked Russian vehicles in the capital city of Kyiv thanks to a public tip made through the encrypted messaging app Telegram, Ukraine's top law-enforcement agency said on Tuesday. Soloviev also promoted the channel in a post he shared on his own Telegram, which has 580,000 followers. The post recommended his viewers subscribe to "War on Fakes" in a time of fake news. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. Following this, Sebi, in an order passed in January 2022, established that the administrators of a Telegram channel having a large subscriber base enticed the subscribers to act upon recommendations that were circulated by those administrators on the channel, leading to significant price and volume impact in various scrips. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores.
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