This.
As John Correia from 'Active Self Protection' says "bless the deserving with the hot sauce".
If one wants to keep more distance between them and the perp, a pepper ball and rubber projectile gun may help.
Posted on 10/02/2023 5:31:26 AM PDT by DoodleBob
This is the shocking moment a 21-year-old YouTuber prankster's stunt went badly wrong when a deliver driver he was targeting pulled out a gun and shot him in the chest.
Video shows Tanner Cook, 21, who runs the Classified Goons YouTube channel, harassing Alan Colie as he picked up a food order at the Dulles Town Center mall in Sterling, Virginia, on April 2.
Cook can be seen following Colie around the mall while thrusting his phone in his face as it plays the bizarre phrase, 'Hey dips**t, quit thinking about my twinkle' multiple times using a Google Translate app.
Colie backs away from Cook and tells him to stop three times before trying to knock the phone away from his face as the YouTuber continues to advance towards him.
It was at this point that Colie's stunt went badly wrong when the delivery driver pulled out a gun and shot the YouTuber in the lower left chest.
The shooting sparked panic as shoppers fled what they feared to be a mass shooting as police officers pinned Colie to the ground and arrested him. He was charged with aggravated malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and discharging a firearm inside a building.
But last week, Colie, who has a license to carry a concealed weapon, was found not guilty of aggravated malicious wounding in the shooting after he said he was acting in self defense.
He was found guilty on a lesser charge of shooting into an occupied dwelling but a judge will hear arguments to set aside this conviction at a hearing next month after his lawyer appealed against it. If found guilty of this lesser firearms count, he faces up to 10 years in prison.
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This.
As John Correia from 'Active Self Protection' says "bless the deserving with the hot sauce".
If one wants to keep more distance between them and the perp, a pepper ball and rubber projectile gun may help.
I like Fox pepper spray. Quality stuff. Easy to carry. Can’t be mistaken for something else.
But as the old saying goes, to each his own.
A 21-year-old dumb ass proof why the stupid die first.
HE might not make it to 30.
Did the Popeyes order ever get delivered?
FA/FO
“found not guilty”
Yep, I’d vote not guilty too. It’s not a “prank” if you are just harassing people.
The idiot didn’t learn a thing.
Can his insurance refuse to pay, since he provoked his hospital visit.
If it was staged, wouldn’t that have come out at trial?
My bad, I didn’t read the part where it said it took place in April.
I pretty think everything is staged, unless proven otherwise.
This was a case of “proven otherwise”.
His main value is as a cautionary tale.
What a d!ck head. If he is the future we’re all in trouble.
The guy was annoying, and he was harassing the man. But, how is that justification for shooting him?
Once again:
A a juror, I will never convict anyone of any crime in connection with taking out the trash.
I am surprised that Sacha Baron Cohen never got shot. He did get punched in the face at least once ...
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