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Youtube 'prankster' shot whilst trying to film someone

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Nuca · 02/10/2023 12:12

I'm amazed things like this don't happen more often considering how many people make these kinds of videos winding up random members of the public. Obviously nobody should be shot, but if you think it's funny trying to get a rise out of someone for a video then surely you should understand that one day you may do it to the wrong person

The guy asked him to stop 3 times and tried to push his phone away but he shoved it back in his face again

(sorry for the DM link, it's the only article I could find that didn't have a paywall)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12583491/Moment-YouTube-prankster-Tanner-Cooks-stunt-goes-badly-wrong-shopper-targeting-pulls-gun-shoots-chest.html

Moment YouTube prankster Tanner Cook's stunt goes badly wrong

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.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12583491/Moment-YouTube-prankster-Tanner-Cooks-stunt-goes-badly-wrong-shopper-targeting-pulls-gun-shoots-chest.html

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Zipps · 02/10/2023 15:26

His dad's comments explain why his son is a brainless entitled twat.
I'm glad he got his comeuppance. Maybe he'll think twice about harassing people in future.

Booklover40 · 02/10/2023 15:26

You could be delivering leaflets and walking on someone's property"

What, just doing your job like the poor delivery guy?
Repeatedly getting up in someone’s face, filming and harassing them is sod all like walking in someone’s property to deliver a leaflet. Don’t be so silly.

DragonFly98 · 02/10/2023 15:47

MariePaperRoses · 02/10/2023 13:18

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Maybe don't just get your facts from mumsnet :the Mail he was convicted of illegally discharging a firearm and quite rightly remains in jail.

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MrsCarson · 02/10/2023 15:52

What a complete twat. He was harassing Colie and he got shot, serves him right I see why Colie got off with it. He could have been charged with attempted Murder for shooting him, but got illegal discharge of a firearm, a much lesser charge.

Kaill · 02/10/2023 15:53

The bottom line is that it's wrong to shoot people who aren't presenting any actual danger to you
Agreed. But a large adult male harassing you with sexual phrases playing on his phone, and refusing to leave you alone even after you’ve repeatedly said stop and walked away… to me that would appear as an actual threat. I’m a rape survivor and would have been terrified, and I would have defended myself against the attacker with any weapon I had available.

FancyRat · 02/10/2023 16:05

Yeah? That’s what you would have thought if a random 6ft4 man came up with this sexualised message playing on his phone, is it?

Right?! Prankster is such a twat he towers over the other guy and is following him around, harassing and embarrassing him

littleducks · 02/10/2023 16:09

I foolishly hadn't clocked immediately that there were 3 men following him, the two in shot and one filming. That's quite intimidating and there manner was odd and frightening.

Obviously firing gun in public building is dangerous and lucky no bystanders got harmed.

I do very hard to sympathise with bit who was shot though and struggle not to think he deserved it

anunlikelyseahorse · 02/10/2023 16:28

So the delivery guy has had his life ruined by a stupid 'prankster'. As I imagine getting a job after this will be really hard, and no doubt serving time in prison hasn't been easy. That idiot boy looked really intimidating. I feel very sorry for the delivery driver. That youngster was right up invading space. What an atrocious thing to do to someone trying to earn a meagre wage. Parents should be utterly ashamed of their very foolish son.

randomrandom · 02/10/2023 17:09

I just can't have any sympathy for someone that sees messing with strangers as their career path. It's like that stupid 'killer clown' phase a few years ago, and people were surprised that one got beaten with a baseball bat...

VisaWoes · 02/10/2023 17:19

So the shooter has been acquitted of the more serious charge but found guilty of something else and could still get ten years in prison? Don’t think he’s been sentenced yet.

PumpkinsAndCoconuts · 02/10/2023 17:27

Queucumber · 02/10/2023 13:20

Gun laws in the US are frightening. The level of violence used in self defence should be proportionate to the level of threat you’re defending against.

In this case it’s easy to feel sympathy for a man going about his business who was harassed by an idiot. The fact that the idiot was harassing the man so he could film his reaction and put it on YouTube to earn money makes him even less sympathetic. If the man had turned out to be a martial arts expert and knocked the YouTuber out I would have been cheering him on. Shooting him, leaving him requiring major surgery to survive, not so much.

As hard as it is to understand US gun culture, it’s harder to understand a grown adult who goes around harassing people for likes when he knows that lots of them are legally armed.

I am not agreeing with the shooting either.

But I do understand why somebody would do this.

He kept following him around, kept shoving the phone in his face. And Colie (the shooter who defended himself) apparently tried to shove him away/knock the phone away from his face. He shot him when the "prankster" continued despite being told to stop and after he had tried to physically remove the phone.

One of Colie's defense attorneys Adam Pouilliard said that his client felt menaced by the 6 foot 4 inches tall Cook during the confrontation, which was designed to provoke a reaction and to draw viewers to his YouTube channel.

That does seem plausible (to me).

The fact that filming people (private person, not a public figure) without their consent - and especially for personal gain - is allowed in the US and various other countries always seemed incredibly strange to me. I am very glad that it isn´t legal where I live / that I own my personal image.

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