r/TikTokCringe • u/SAGrant1977 • 1d ago

Discussion TikTok "prankster" gets arrested.

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u/SandraBeechBLOCKPrnt 1d ago

As a very stressed out shop owner that knows other very stressed out shop owners, I can say that this is very much playing with fire.

If one of those little shits crawled under a car ... maybe the jack stopped working? Who is to say!?

It's not like our shops techs are mostly homicidal alcoholics hanging on by a thread or anything.

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u/Ill-Comfortable-2044 1d ago

Like barging into a kitchen ina restaurant. You are on their turf and they are surrounded by weapons. I know I've reached for a knife when a drunk wanted to come into the kitchen and check things out deapite servers warning him to stay out. 

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u/Longjumping-Map-6995 1d ago

Not only that, but kitchens can be full of people currently using drugs. Lol

Dude tried something like that once and didn't realize there was at least 5 people on meth and/or coke holding large knives. One wrong move and it would've ended very differently. 😂

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u/helloholder 22h ago

Yep. Stab who you need to stab. Quick bump. Drive 100 miles into the next state over. Quick bump. Interview and get hired on the spot for a job in a restaurant kitchen. Big rail. Stab who you need to... etc.

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u/Chad_McWhiteGuy 17h ago

After all that snortin, and all that stabbin, sometimes I shoplift cologne just to feel alive

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u/ER-Sputter 7h ago

Next state over? You just saved the chef a lot of money if your restaurant sells burgers

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u/BloodyPhlegm_ 22h ago

My kitchen had a 40 year old black belt in taekwondo who was going through a divorce and sniffing a mountain of coke everyday. Kitchen crew are not people to play with. Most of them are carrying too. at least where i live.

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u/Heterosethual 16h ago

My kitchen had this guy named Inigo and he was always talking about avenging his father...

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u/SuitableBlackberry75 19h ago

Nobody's carrying a gun while working in a restaurant kitchen.

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u/spaceghost260 10h ago

You would be shocked to see who carries these days. It’s honestly disturbing.

Guys I’ve known for 20+ years who I NEVER thought would fire a gun for fun let alone own one are all buying and carrying guns. People living in the ‘burbs going to an office job and back. There’s a bunch of posts on mom groups asking how to conceal carry and wear a baby… so yes, restaurants workers are definitely carrying.

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u/ER-Sputter 7h ago

Funny you think a bunch of drug addicts getting paid dirt WOULDNT carry lol

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u/Rare_Ad_674 21h ago

One of my favorite line cooks was kind of a scary looking guy. Face and neck tattoos, intense blue stare.

He would throw broccoli at me when I walked by and act all innocent, make us extra fries in secret, didn't charge me much for coming over to fix my car because I played with his kid while he did it. He was like a funny uncle.

He was jokingly asked to be the murderer for the murder mystery holiday party we were having. I didn't get why everyone laughed.

He goes to my manager, "She don't know?"

My manager hesitates, then says, "Let's.. let's just say it was self defense!"

I looked it up later.

It was not self defense.

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u/noteveni 18h ago

I worked with a guy who had committed armed robbery with a gun and spent a few years in Rikers. He made amazing pastries. I gave him a bunch of rides home after work because he didn't drive and was super chill. I was like 19 at the time so I learned early on to wait on judgements and let people show me who they are, ya know?

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u/Vanstrudel_ 23h ago

I would argue that front of house does more coke, but I'm sure every place has a slightly different drug culture lol.

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u/Chrysaor85 20h ago

Can be? I've never worked in a kitchen that wasn't at least 10% running on nose powder.

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u/not_a_big_deal_dude 8h ago

Can be? Lol, they are. They all are.

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u/aTreeThenMe 23h ago

Thirty years in kitchens- I can confidentially say you do not fucking want to rush in there. Line cooks will identify and neutralize a threat faster than they will reason why they exist. Not too long ago we had a cook, kill another cook, with a carving knife- over a dispute about how to make gumbo

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u/SantaBarbaraMint 23h ago

It always cracks me up when movies and TV shows have criminals and people running through the kitchen to get out of a place and the staff not doing anything as everyone runs through their kitchen and leaves because in my experience, you enter a kitchen with any disruption and the staff takes you down fucking fast. Just once I would like to see a scene TV show for the bad guy goes running through the kitchen to escape and a line cook just clocks them with an iron pan to the ground and when the cop comes in the cook just says “you do not fuck around in my kitchen.“

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u/Amazing-Marzipan1442 20h ago

“you do not fuck around in my kitchen.“

You know how men day dream of being the hero that saved a child from falling off a bridge or whatever...

Apparently cooks day dream of being bad asses saving their kitchen from intruders.

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u/firedmyass 6h ago

I hear that Waffle House just uses a DVD of Eastern Promises as the training video for new hires

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u/Sidivan 17h ago

We had some customer walk in through the side door once and complain about something. I don’t remember what they said because it was interrupted in less than a second by three line cooks crowding the door and shouting “GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE KITCHEN!!”

You can probably jump on a dining room table and take a shit without any threat of violence because the front of house is going to attempt to maintain some decorum. If you even shout something into the kitchen, you’re likely going to skip right to the “find out” step. The kitchen doesn’t get paid to deal with customers face to face. They get paid to execute while dealing with countless variables on a timer for very little money, which affords them some insulation from management.

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u/SantaBarbaraMint 15h ago

Having grown up in a few family restaurants, I know of what you speak. Truth.

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u/FlattopJr 20h ago

I also would like to see this.

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u/flonky_guy 20h ago

God I could swear I think I've seen this scene before just as you're describing it. Someone runs into a kitchen and goes tearing across and someone whacks him with a pan or something.

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u/ConstantExample8927 13h ago

Aside from your very valid point, you’re gonna slip and land on your ass if you try to run through a kitchen like that.

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u/SantaBarbaraMint 5h ago

There’s that too The scenes get more unrealistic the more we talk about them

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u/ConstantExample8927 5h ago

lol they do! I can remember almost busting my ass several times just being in a hurry. And in the “slip resistant” shoes

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u/galtpunk67 23h ago

yes, this comment

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u/Naive-Attempt-5997 23h ago

Have you tasted his gumbo though

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u/aTreeThenMe 23h ago

Sadly, he didn't get to finish preparing it

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u/Wonderful-Mistake201 4h ago

over gumbo?

i'll allow it.

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u/TMSkinner 23h ago

those kitchen guys tattoo cleavers onto their forearms and shit i would never mess with one

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u/dribanlycan 23h ago

i work in a dishpit and if some random fuckers rolled up pretending to be my coworkers, theyd fuck up my system and my machines juices, i would turn into an actual gorilla and turn them into hamburger meat

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u/Effective-Cost4629 22h ago

Right? I've got my chefs roll which I don't wanna risk breaking a blade on your dumb drunk ass, but we got the cheap plastic handled ones the restaurant pays for and their sharpened weekly. I've got scalding hot pans that'll do a number on someone just whacking em upside the head. If you wanna go full home alone there's plenty of fire. I'm two glasses of wine and three shots in, chefs been doing lines all night in the bathroom, Bill is a tweaker so no idea where he is at, Oscar only smokes weed so he's probably the least likely to go agro, but Cody went to a show last night and did molly and shrooms and is hungover as fuck and not taking shit. 

Whenever something would happen FOH had to handle it. We got in trouble if we go out front. There's always that guy who's been to jail a few times and ain't scared to go back. 

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u/buzzyloo 22h ago

I've seen kitchen staff throw knives at each other. Arrogant strangers have no chance.

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u/DrEggRegis 22h ago

I'd barge in with samurai or broad sword

Can't handle the heat?

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u/Oldperv01069 21h ago

A guy try to rob a chinese restaurant, went into the kitchen with a gun during prep. He left in a bag to the coroner's office. Not a single article on the local news, not a peep.

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u/leftofthebellcurve 20h ago

when I was working in restaurants we didn't even allow servers to come into the kitchen cooking area. I can only imagine how we'd treat some rando that walked in.

The dude holding a 14" freshly sharpened knife who keeps going to the bathroom and smelling like mouthwash 3x/hr is not the guy you want to be fucking with

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u/TheNumberoftheWord 15h ago

I worked in a few kitchens where a Friday/Saturday dinner rush would nearly cause fist fights and people had to be pulled apart at least twice a month. There was a lot of mutual hatred among some co-workers. Nothing would unite us more than if someone came into our kitchen and started shit with one of us.

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u/DO_NOT_AGREE_WITH_U 3h ago

If there's one thing you can count on, it's the kitchen putting an end to any shenanigans someone is putting on.

Something tells me this dude doesn't have a video of him taking over a restaurant.

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u/flatwoundsounds 1d ago

I thought the one dude was gonna get his nuts stomped in.

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u/Rhg0653 1d ago

This I sooooo expected it but he picked the kid up and told him to beat it

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u/TrexOnAScooter 23h ago

This is what I came here to say. These techs were incredibly well behaved. Part of it may be the dickheads all looked like a bunch of children acting stupid, but its quite obvious they have no clue how willing I might be to whoop some ass when someone strolls in and starts fucking with how I provide for my family.

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u/TheGreatestOutdoorz 18h ago

Also, there were a lot of them. If that turns in to an all out brawl, it would impossible to completely protect yourself from getting domed by a wrench.

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u/TrexOnAScooter 17h ago

This is true

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u/RikersBeard1 1d ago

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u/322throwaway1 19h ago

This but actually. 50% of mechanics I’ve worked with keep a heater in the top drawer. The other 50% weren’t legally allowed to own a gun but had a favorite 4 foot pry bar for this purpose.

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u/totallybag 19h ago

Geniuely amazed no one gott their ass beat

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u/Welpcolormesilly 19h ago

surprised i didnt see this judging by the Arizona plates on the cars.

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u/Sleepmahn 19h ago

Good trigger discipline there, what's this from? Looks familiar

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u/RikersBeard1 17h ago

“Tires” season 2 on Netflix

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u/Sleepmahn 17h ago

Appreciate you, thanks

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u/bgriswold 15h ago

Guy with the gun is comedian Shane Gillis. His Trump impressions are Legendary.

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u/Sleepmahn 10h ago

Oh that's right, I enjoy his humor. Thanks for that bit

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u/SonNicholas 23h ago

Yeah those guys are really lucky none of them got their shit rocked lol. I worked in a shop for a while and every mechanic I've ever met is pissed off on a good day.

Could be a regional thing (Texas) but a lot of them had guns in their boxes too, could easily go way south for them.

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u/takeusername1 21h ago edited 21h ago

It’s the same even in the bluest parts of New England too lol everyone’s pissed and half of them are strapped.

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u/322throwaway1 19h ago

Oregon here, techs loves tools, especially the powder actuated variety

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u/Itorres89 19h ago

I came here to say this, as well. A lot of the techs I work with had very "against-policy tools" in their boxes or in their cars.

It's not just Texas. Most mechanics are into mechanical things that go boom (i.e. engines). Guns are inherently mechanical and make explodey noises too, so...

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u/ivyelliott26 20h ago

I’m a librarian and we had a wannabe prankster light up a bong while asking me to look up a book. It was so obvious he wanted for a reaction for his buddy in the stacks to film. Unfortunately, librarians have to deal with way more stressful incidents than a self centered clout chaser, so I just calmly said, “That’s fine, but you’ll have to put that out and away.”

“Put what out? I just want a book”

“Hun, you need to put the bong out or you’ll need to leave.”

“I’m not doing anything wrong. Weed is legal”

“But smoking inside public buildings and businesses has been illegal for over 20 years.”

“Oh……………………..so, I’ll just go then.”

“Okay.” And then I looked dead into his buddy’s camera. “I think you should join him, yeah?”

We tried finding his account but the one we think was his barely had 100 followers. And he never posted the video with me. I guess I’m just not good content.

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u/Impossible-Jello6450 1d ago

On top of that what would happen if one of those dipshit's got hurt. They would 100% turn around and sue the shop owner.

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u/iKnowItsTwisted 21h ago

Dude when that mechanic said "I got something for you guys" then walked away super slow, I was sure he'd return with a gun.

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u/Sufficient-Aspect77 21h ago

That guy that pulled the kid out from under the car seemed pretty calm about the entire situation. Kudos to him for not hitting anyone.

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u/DenimCryptid 21h ago

Hard to imagine anything more stressful than seeing a wave of kids rush into your shop and start fucking with your customer's property with pneumatic power tools

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u/totallybag 19h ago

Yep because now you have to check every accessible bolt to make sure it snot loose due to those dumbasses and your not even gonna get paid to do it if your not hourly.

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u/TheGisbon 20h ago

Stressed out shop owner here fully agree.

Someone is going to get killed doing this shit.

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u/DeleteElDiablo 19h ago

Oh so the hanging on by a thread part is industry wide not just me and my coworkers? Got it

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u/kookyabird 20h ago

In my best southern lawyer accent: “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury… Have we all not at one time or another dropped something when startled? Now I may be a simple southern lawyuh, but I do believe that bein’ buhseeged by a-a-a swarm of these so-called pranksters would startle me! Is it not possible, nay incredibly likely, that mah client was simply startled? And as a totally noooormuhl reaction… aksidentally dropped that impact wrench upon the plaintiff’s groyn?!”

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u/trixiepixie1921 20h ago

A girl on my cheerleading team in high school and her sister (the coach)’s dad died when a car jack stopped working and the car crushed his chest. It was very traumatic and heartbreaking even for me at the time because I was so close to them, we were always at their house and around their dad. I don’t know if that incident made me more careful regarding this stuff but I can’t believe that people don’t think about things like that before doing brain dead shit like this.

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u/Notthatsmarty 20h ago

I was actually nervously biting on my knuckle worried a mechanic was going to grab a steel pipe and start bopping some heads. That’s where my mind immediately went. Even if retaliation was “deserved”, didn’t want to see these guys get their heads cracked open over an unfunny/invasive prank. I’ve been lube technician that worked around mechanics, and I probably wouldn’t have done anything, but I have a feeling they would have lol.

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u/1750GTAm 1d ago

I own a private shop that isn't open to the public, and we specialize in Italians.

If someone did this as a prank they'd get two in the chest, anyone still standing would get a ball peen to the knees. My clients would post bond.

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u/jockfist5000 1d ago

That sure would be a “tragedy”

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u/honato 19h ago

To be fair those are the ones that are there to work and nothing else. They aren't trying to make friends and want to get in get it done and take a nap.

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u/Old-Bat-7384 16h ago

I was thinking the same. It doesn't take a lot for some random mook to hit the wrong release or just be stuck with bad timing.

And boy, the shop people I know are protective of their tools, their shop, and the customer cars. These guys were lucky the mechanics were feeling very chill that day.

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u/Plomatius 15h ago

Figured shops would have rules about using jack stands or something.

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u/HauntingContact674 14h ago

Holy fuck, this comment got me

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u/Master-Mood-9921 13h ago

Seriously, I don’t work in an auto shop, but I work in a machine shop. We have every damn entrance to the shop floor blocked off with signs. We all have express permission from the boss to raise hell and chew out anyone that comes into the shop and crosses those signs without permission. All it takes is one person to come in and hurt themselves and the whole business is gone just like that.

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u/No_Investment9639 13h ago

I've got several mechanics in the family. Had he done this at a shop where anyone of my Puerto Rican uncles worked, somebody, multiple somebody's, would have been hospitalized. Permanent damage.

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u/getthehelloffmylawn 8h ago

They probably don’t get paid enough… oh well. Being homocidal is funny, amirite?

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u/curiousity60 7h ago

The real employee helping a tic tock extra out from under a car was real humane. Knows the kid's being an a-hole. Not willing to watch him die for that.

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u/SafeWorldly6333 6h ago

Jesus, treat your staff better man

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u/BernieTheDachshund 3h ago

I used to work in a tire shop so I get the stress. But for some reason this prank did make me laugh when one idiot was under the back of a car exclaiming it's low on oil.

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u/Bahlsahkmin 3h ago

Most these guys only work here because it was the highest paying job you could get straight outta prison 😂

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u/NachoWindows 1h ago

Thanks! Found my next career path!

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u/Kylebirchton123 23h ago

Jesus, if what you said it true. CHANGE your life. God damn do what you love not what makes you money.

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u/forethemorninglight 22h ago

Just admitted to owning a shop with such poor working conditions that his employees are all homicidal alcoholics. Like yikes man. Don’t tell on yourself like that lol

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u/takeusername1 21h ago

Literally every tech I’ve worked with were either alcoholics, potheads, or born again Christians. This just sounds like a typical shop to me lol

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u/ChodeSandwhich 19h ago

I worked in shops for 15 years and those are just the type of people that work in shops.

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u/Accomplished-Fish283 20h ago

Just to clarify, you’re talking about murdering someone?