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Texas man's lie about paying someone with Covid to lick groceries sends him to federal prison
NBC News ^ | 6 October 2021 | Minyvonne Burke

Posted on 10/06/2021 9:22:01 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

A Texas man who posted on Facebook that he paid someone sick with Covid-19 to intentionally spread the virus at San Antonio grocery stores by licking items was sentenced Monday to just over a year in prison.

Christopher Charles Perez, who also goes by the last name Robbins, was found guilty by a federal jury of two counts of making false hoaxes related to biological weapons, the Justice Department said in a statement.

According to court documents, Perez posted: "My homeboys cousin has covid19 and has licked every thing for past 2 days cause we paid him too [sic]. Big difference is we told him not to be these f------ idiots who record and post online. . .YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!!"

A screenshot of the post was sent April 5, 2020, to the Southwest Texas Fusion Center, which then contacted the FBI bureau in San Antonio.

Perez, 40, told investigators that the post was a hoax. He said he wrote it because he thought too many people were still out grocery shopping and "was trying to scare people from the stores in order to stop them from spreading the virus to keep people safe," court documents state. He added that he did not know anyone who had the coronavirus, according to the documents.

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And people believed this?

On the radio yesterday they discussed how Democrats thought that the likelihood of dying if you get COVID is around 50 percent. Outside of the 60+ age range, the chance of surviving is generally much higher than 99.5 percent

1 posted on 10/06/2021 9:22:01 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: Fractal Trader

He’s headed for a year of giving some lickings....


2 posted on 10/06/2021 9:27:32 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Fractal Trader

It’s a very goofy lie, but it presses several red hot panic buttons. For those already inclined to awaken clutching their pearls, this would be something to worry about and pass on to a friend. Similar to an old method called a Chain Letter.
You read this crazy missive and it’s your duty to pass it on to 10 of your closest personal friends.


3 posted on 10/06/2021 9:32:38 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Do you remember the urban legend that, if you flashed your lights at a car whose lights were off, they would do something REALLY BAD to you?


4 posted on 10/06/2021 9:34:40 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: Fractal Trader

Texas man trying to steal Florida man’s thunder.


5 posted on 10/06/2021 9:38:55 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: Fractal Trader

Uhh...That particular Urban Legend has turned out to be true.
I stopped helpfully flashing my lights about 15 years ago.
Too many insecure big babies who can’t handle being told they are doing something wrong.


6 posted on 10/06/2021 9:39:13 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

we still do it when we see cops in their little hidie spots, to let cars goign the other way know there is a speed trap ahead-


7 posted on 10/06/2021 9:51:44 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Same here.


8 posted on 10/06/2021 10:19:28 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Fractal Trader

Meanwhile those involved in violent crimes are set free in most major American cities. Insanity.


9 posted on 10/06/2021 10:28:30 PM PDT by consult
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To: lightman

But wait...they amid the Coof IS a biological weapon, finally?


10 posted on 10/06/2021 11:19:46 PM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: Salamander

*admit


11 posted on 10/06/2021 11:20:51 PM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: Fractal Trader

I would interpret a “hoax” post like that as Internet sarcasm.

The Swamp wants to punish speech in this case as an example to intimidate all of us.

The Swamp is outlawing criticism, skepticism, political opposition and mild Internet sarcasm.


12 posted on 10/06/2021 11:53:38 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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Christopher Charles Perez, who also goes by the last name Robbins, was found guilty by a federal jury of two counts of making false hoaxes related to biological weapons, the Justice Department said in a statement.

Did NBC just tell us that the Justice Department said Covid-19 is a biological weapon?

13 posted on 10/07/2021 12:54:08 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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...man who posted on Facebook...

That's when I stopped reading. Idiot.

14 posted on 10/07/2021 1:24:40 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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No, but if you spread the virus to harm others, you are using it as a bio weapon.


15 posted on 10/07/2021 1:28:12 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Fractal Trader

What exactly is a “false hoax”? Since a hoax is akin to a lie, then a false hoax must be the truth, no?

Anyway, recall those viral videos from not too long ago, where people opened ice cream tubs, liked the top, and then put them back in the freezer. That was real.


16 posted on 10/07/2021 3:21:42 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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*licked, not liked, darn it.


17 posted on 10/07/2021 3:22:48 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Fractal Trader

A lot of crazy people on the loose remember the guy with aids licking the door knobs in the WH when Bush took office.

Got to get more happy farms back open.


18 posted on 10/07/2021 8:38:31 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: lee martell

“Too many insecure big babies who can’t handle being told they are doing something wrong.”

The way I heard it, this was part of a gang initiation (you know who), and how they randomly selected their victim. Don’t know how true it was.


19 posted on 10/07/2021 8:51:53 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: lightman

A year in federal prison probably means minimum security and is fairly easy time to serve. And since it’s slightly over a year, he’ll build good time for an early release.

It’s not like ending up in Parchman or Angola or even Huntsville.


20 posted on 10/07/2021 11:20:45 AM PDT by PAR35
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