One of the most satisfying parts of the grindhouse vigilante fantasy flick Hobo with a Shotgun was when he went after the camcorder-toting asshole who was clearly meant to be a reference to that guy who made the “Bumfights” videos.
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In a shocking number of Usian communities, you could probably get away with an “attempted government mind-control” charge tho…
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I think it’s fair to say that this guy shouldn’t be anywhere near homeless people and food.
if the judge was serious about punishing this guy, he would have banned him for using the internet for a few months.
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He explained to the judge that the cruel stunt wasn’t really his fault, but that he was only giving his audience what they demanded: “I do things to mount a show: People like what is morbid,” he said.
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If they are going to just commute it - why not change it from prison to community service? If someone could benefit from working a soup kitchen or something, it would be this guy.
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I’m not sure how eating a small amount of toothpaste would make one throw up. In fact, when astronauts in space brush their teeth, they have to swallow the toothpaste - no place to spit it. Anyway, I think toothpaste is innocuous enough - probably better for you than the sugar/fat mix normally found in Oreos - that it wouldn’t induce vomiting. Still, no sympathy for the perp. Pranking homeless people is never a good look.
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It’s interesting the way the internet and social media have changed our human interaction.
The fact that shocking acts like this are monetized via youtube reminds me of the classic idea of the “circus geek”-- usually someone really down on his luck who would bite the heads off live chickens at a carnival-- entertaining horror. Except we’ve found a way to monetize torturing or humiliating other people instead of ourselves. I recall hearing about a youtube channel where parents constantly pranked their own kids, and how they justified this by saying the money it generated went to the kids college fund.
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We don’t know what that homeless guy last had to eat, or when they last ate, or what health issues they may have. Sure toothpaste isn’t normally harmful but that’s not to say it can never be harmful under the right circumstances. I doubt it could’ve killed the guy but i can imagine that he just thought he was eating something minty, his body started reacting a particular way thinking it had been poisoned and made him vomit.
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Most mint toothpaste makes me want to puke. Doubly so if I was expecting something yummy.
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Also when people are fed something that is shocking, say what appears to be a cookie but from taste is clearly not meant to be eaten, there is an innate gag reflex that kicks in. Being homeless doesn’t inherently suppress your natural physical impulses to things like eating food that seems unsafe/contaminated in some way.
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Last week, The Barcelona court issued Ren a 15-months prison sentence and a €22,000 ($24,647 USD) fine for violating the “moral integrity” of the homeless man, according to the New York Times. The court also ordered Ren to shut down his YouTube and social media accounts for five years.
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Which means his YouTube channel is dead. Good riddance.
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Presumably a fluoride toothpaste, so yeah, poisonous if swallowed.
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It’s one thing to swallow a mouthful of toothpaste when you were expecting to swallow toothpaste. It’s another thing entirely to swallow toothpaste when you’re expecting a mouthful of cookie.
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I’m going to assume that the toothpaste the astronauts use in outer space is different from what you buy in your local supermarket. 
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I used to swallow tooth paste when I was real little (I know you’re not supposed to make a habit of it, though.), but the idea of toothpaste with that Oreo cookie sounds gross AF.
As for toothpaste in space, now they just use off the shelf stuff. They did have some specially made toothpaste in the 60s that was non-foaming and didn’t need water, but at some point they were like, meh, and just went to Crest or what ever they liked.
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“Who loves you and who do you love?”
Ah the memories.
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Which is good business as long as you know where the line is. It is invisible, it is flexible and it is not a straight line, and most of all it moves - but it is there.
Recent proof? Two words. Jeremy Kyle. (At LAST! Thank the gods!)
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He explained to the judge that the cruel stunt wasn’t really his fault, but that he was only giving his audience what they demanded…
Well, now it looks like a lot of people are demanding horrible things happen to him as retribution. Better give it to them, Mr. Showman!
And my reaction to this YouTuber:
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Really? You’re going to try to sell that shit here?
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