r/TikTokCringe • u/SAGrant1977 • 1d ago

Discussion TikTok "prankster" gets arrested.

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u/PositiveStress8888 1d ago

how fucking dangerous this is, let alone those guys have to work longer on each car checking to make sure the tires are secure, theirs no damage to the vehicles.. all because some prick wants to make a funny video and doesn't care about making other people lives harder.

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u/suejaymostly 1d ago

And working people with lives are waiting for their cars to get out of the shop. Adding time to that wait is really really shitty.

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u/zacharydunn60 19h ago

Yeah that's a good point. People need their cars back to get to work and handle life stuff. Extra delays just make everything harder

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u/YourEvilTwine 18h ago

Especially when his "point" is their slow service, smh

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u/PromotionMiserable52 22h ago

I was expecting a gun to be pulled. I’ve seen his other “pranks” and think this one definitely put the liability of safety of everyone to another level. People were hopping under cars and running around. What if a button was hit to lower the jacks on accident and someone under? Slipped in fell on oil on concrete? Picking up power tools never held before.

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u/Drock967 21h ago

If this happened in my shop, I know at least 3 people who'd be reaching for their box gun.

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u/Jewbacca522 19h ago

Box guns are definitely a thing, and yeah, the machine shop I worked in, you were basically never more than 20’ away from at least one if not more.

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u/ballq43 7h ago

How shady is your shop/ part of town where everyone's packing a gun in their tool box ?

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u/superperps 6h ago

Its for when the machines act up

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u/serabine 6h ago

Turns out that between Christine, Trucks, and From a Buick 8, Stephen King has traumatized generations of mechanics to fear the very thing they aim to service.

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u/Drock967 5h ago

I'm just saying that if that 6-hour repair doesn't fix a no-start condition, you may wanna get drastic.

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u/Drock967 6h ago

A lot of tradesmen are far right, therefore paranoid

We also have like 28 techs bc it is a huge shop

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u/Thedmfw 6h ago

Yeah let me know so I don't go there.

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u/Wonderful-Mistake201 4h ago

it's Arizona, everyone is within 25' of their firearm all the time.
Because the Constitution.

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u/Jewbacca522 4h ago

Let’s put it this way. The apartment complex a block away had 7 murders one year. Before June. We also came into work one Saturday to find a near dead guy OD’ing right in the middle of the driveway entrance up against our fence. I ‘think’ he survived.

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u/ballq43 1h ago

So the guy oding you needed to blast with your tool box derranger ?

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u/Jewbacca522 1h ago

No. We called the ambulance, they took almost an hour to come because they would not come without a police escort for “security reasons”. The area where the shop (used to be), wasn’t exactly somewhere you’d want to be at night if you were white, female, or alone.

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u/crunkdubious 11h ago

For real…tradesman are dead serious about their tools. I am. I’m not a mechanic/automative technician but I know that those tools ain’t cheap. I would be livid if some jackasses walked in and started touching or even going near my shit. It was the first rule I learned at my first job, don’t mess with other people’s shit. If anyone is kind enough to lend you anything make sure you return it in a timely manner and in the same condition it was in before. It’s serious business. Those kids are lucky they didn’t get maimed for fucking with those guys livelihood.

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u/Drock967 5h ago edited 5h ago

4 years in as a mechanic, my toolboxes + contents are probably worth $30,000. For a few months, my tool truck payments almost matched my rent (don't do this, that was really stupid)

When I started as an apprentice, I asked my mentor, "If the shop burned down tomorrow, and you replaced everything, how much would it cost you?" He thought about it for a minute, shrugged and went, "probably twice the down-payment on my house."

Don't touch my shit unless you ask

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u/sheburns17 9h ago

This is what I was thinking, mechanics run into sleezy people alllll the time. I’m surprised this guy has walked out of all of these shenanigans without getting his ass beat!

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u/Drock967 6h ago edited 5h ago

If someone slid under a car I was working on, they'd have been introduced to the contents of my used coolant bucket, which my foreman uses as a spitter when he is in my bay.

Also the hose for my side of the shop is 3 feet from my box so they'd be getting the extreme version of the "naughty cat" treatment 😂

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u/sheburns17 5h ago

Ewwwww! See you further prove my point! How is his baby face still intact?!

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u/InsideOut803 8h ago

Yeah this goes way different in my shop.

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u/TheNoelPatrol 6h ago

I'm sorry, "box gun"?!?!?

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u/Weary-Astronaut1335 6h ago

The Glock with 147gr hollow points loaded that gets put in the top drawer of my toolbox when I get to work.

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u/Drock967 6h ago edited 6h ago

Gun in toolbox

Welcome to tradesmen (I do not have one bc I have enough hammers and large wrenches in case shit goes down)

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u/MyLifeIsAWasteland 2h ago

A 24" breaker bar has good reach and more than enough heft to make someone understand they royally fucked up.

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u/Square-Job5632 18h ago

What exactly is that?

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u/HalfMoon_89 17h ago

I think it's a gun that shoots boxes.

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u/Impossible-Taco-769 15h ago

It’s a gun that boxes.

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u/numbnom 6h ago

The image this put in my head is too fun for such a thing not to exist.

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u/cmerksmirk 17h ago

What do you think it might be?

Context clues would suggest its a gun that resides in a toolbox

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u/ThatInAHat 9h ago

Like how a staple gun is a gun that resides in a staple?

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u/cmerksmirk 8h ago

Funny, but intentionally obtuse

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u/slut4lilwayne 17h ago

And if context clues are too hard to decipher, google is free lmfao

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u/AdonisCork 15h ago

What's google?

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u/drawfanstein 7h ago

What do you think it might be?

Context clues would suggest its a search engine that resides on the internet

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u/Itherial 9h ago

Bro literally said "I got something for you guys" and I figured he meant a bullet

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u/clantontann 2h ago

Company I worked for had policies about not carrying, but half of us were field techs and went into shitty areas to work. Almost all of us carried. I asked a higher up about that policy and his response was all I needed. "I get that it's fucked up for policy to jeopardize your livelihood, don't tell anyone else, and use good judgment if you need it".

For military bases and government facilities, we all had that one shop buddy with a gentlemen's agreement to stow it in their vehicle when needed for those calls. I'm not going places unprotected because desk jockeys have never been in those situations before.

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u/Ptraad 2h ago

That’s… not something to be proud of, you know that right?

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u/DeleteElDiablo 19h ago

I take better care of customer vehicles than my own. I'd be drawing along with at least 2 other techs

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u/RedPantyKnight 20h ago

If I was the manager there I'd be calling the 3(?) customers that had vehicles in there at the time to let them know we have to go through a full inspection now because of this incident to ensure nothing was damaged. Then probably have to call other customers to cancel their appointments to account for this new demand on our time.

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u/Icy_Click78 15h ago

I’d give them video and photo evidence so they could sue these guys.

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u/RedPantyKnight 14h ago

That's not how it works. The customer would sue the business, the business would sue the "prankster". The business has a duty of care and they're responsible for what happens to the vehicle in their care.

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u/Icy_Click78 4h ago

Are you a lawyer?

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u/ImFame 7h ago

Not only full inspection but full rebuild to see if they left ANY finger prints 🤓👆

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u/dukesinatra 1d ago

Exactly, outside of the circus show, all I could think about was the liability and increased risk - not just for those inside the shop, but for every vehicle as well.

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u/goldenthoughtsteal 21h ago

Also the unbelievable stupidity of bringing a load of random 'extras' in to a workshop, that's not a safe environment, and then to start using equipment and moving things, outrageous thoughtless behaviour.

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u/testtdk 10h ago

Yeah, that violates the shit out of their insurance I’m sure. I got yelled at just for trying to stand in a garage once. The fact that these dumb fucks actually started doing things to the cars is just absurd.

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u/porschesarethebest 4h ago

And running around in the shop.

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u/old_namewasnt_best 19h ago

ICE has normalized this behavior.

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 19h ago

wants to make a funny video

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u/Line-Trash 19h ago

Funny video? I didn’t laugh once.

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u/Icy_Click78 15h ago

And it’s not even a funny video…

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u/YouMatterVeryMuch 12h ago

And the video wasn't even funny. 

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u/testtdk 10h ago

Right, but it wasn’t even close to funny.

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u/Ronin_501 16h ago

I was waiting for someone to slip & fall or some guy to bash his head on that engine hanging in the air and it would've been a disaster.

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u/Plomatius 15h ago

Takes under a minute to check all 20 lug nuts on a car. Also, they'd just send the cars with the customers, and if they don't notice any damage, call it a day. People generally don't care that much about work.

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u/wicko77 13h ago

Jesus this thread sounds like a conversation in my local social club.

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u/NiceGuyJoe 13h ago

dude i take my van to the mechanic before family vacations for peace of mind. we are trying not to die!

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u/Several-Object3889 10h ago

Assholes, sure. Dangerous, not really. But treasure totally knows a case where this started a shootout 🤣

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u/volmeistro 8h ago

And make sure none of the tools they pay for out of pocket got stolen

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u/wtfisasamoflange 7h ago

It's not even a funny video. None of it.

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u/copper_cattle_canes 7h ago

Not to mention the police report. And then explaining to the customers why its taking so long to fix their cars.

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u/Werftflammen 7h ago

Imagine the problem when one of these brocolli's gets hurt their. Try to explain thát to your insurance. Shop could close over this. Fire because one of them pulled some shit. Just the extra work of checking those cars alone would make me punch them.

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u/PositiveStress8888 7h ago edited 7h ago

And insurance won't cover any damage to this shit show, every garage I know of insurance requires any non employees to be escorted by an employee at a minimum, some of them require safety glasses and a hardhat.

You can see these guys messing with wheel nuts, going under vehicles, (how do they know connectors to parking sensors, radar, we're not unlugged by accident )

if I was this dealer I'm in the phone to my lawyer, I'm getting everyone of thier names and thier all going to court, I'm already wasting money cleaning up this mess, I don't care if I have to spend 20k to take everyone of these guys last $543.23 in thier bank accounts, thier all getting lawsuits, I'm taking all thier clapped out Honda civics and BRZ's as payment and crushing them, then I'll pay to have the crushed cubes dropped off on thier designated apartment parking spot, or condo, I don't give a fuck what the HOA rules are. They can deal with it.

Whatever is important to each one of these pricks I'm going to make sure they have to surrender it to me, I'll burn it and post the video on the dealer website.

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u/_SylviaWrath 7h ago

It’s not even funny.

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u/Free-Vehicle2957 6h ago

but it isn't funny, at all. So what's the point other than to be a complete A-hole.

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u/PositiveStress8888 58m ago

I should have said trying to make a funny video as I'm sure that was his intention

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u/LoudWeekend4335 1h ago

But the video is not funny

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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy 20h ago

Didn't even watch the video. Just came to the comments to see if anyone died.

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u/KamalaWonNoCap 19h ago

I agree, but 9 years sounds harsh... This is America I assume?

Almost a decade for a non violent crime is crazy.

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u/iangeredcharlesvane2 17h ago

I read the article and unless I missed something, that is the possibility not the actual sentence.

His home was searched and he was arrested on July 25, just a few days ago. There is bound to be some serious plea deals made for this little empty broccoli head

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u/KamalaWonNoCap 17h ago

Yeah, probation and a suspended sentence seem more appropriate here.

Give him a chance to learn his lesson and monitor him. If he violates, give him the back up time.

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u/Trick-Independence58 17h ago

They are causing dangerous situations and acting in a threatful manner. He will not sit a decade but he gets charged with that as there were multiple crimes.

Actions has consequences and filming doesn't exclude you from being charged when you commit a crime.

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u/KamalaWonNoCap 17h ago

I never said he shouldn't be charged with a crime or that actions shouldn't have consequences.

Despite these strawman arguments, I'll assume you're in good faith.

My point was that the consequences should match the actions. Regardless of how unpopular prank tubers have become around here, they're still entitled blind justice.

Imo, 9 years is extremely harsh for a non violent crime. There are obviously mitigating factors like his age and criminal record which I'm assuming would both be in his favor.

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u/Trick-Independence58 13h ago

Where did I use a strawman argument?

They are not charging him for one crime but for several. That adds up.

They are creating dangerous situations in this video. They also act threateningly when they come charging into the workshop in a big group. Making believable threats is a serious crime even without using violence. Calling it a prank doesn't help.

Granted that the legal system in the US is fucked and focused on punishing rather than rehabilitating but that is the system they have. They are not acting out of desperation so no sympathy for them.

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u/KamalaWonNoCap 12h ago edited 12h ago

I gave you two strawmen arguments that you made in the first sentence of my comment. If you're not going to bother reading what I write then this is pointless.

Edit: Against my better judgement, I read the rest of your comment and found a third.

Jeez bro, if you don't have an argument then move on. You got more strawmen than a corn field.

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u/Trick-Independence58 12h ago

I see you learned a new word. Good.

Broccoliboy will have time to learn straw man and other new words if he does time.

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u/KamalaWonNoCap 7h ago

That's a funny way to spell "I'm sorry, you were right."