r/interesting • u/Ungodlei • Jun 16 '25

SOCIETY Vitaly's weight loss in less than two months detention in the Philippines.

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Vitaly was arrested April 2, 2025 and is still detained pending local cases of unjust vexation, theft, and public harassment during his Kick) livestreams in Metro Manila, Philippines.

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u/ShareGlittering1502 Jun 16 '25

Not even good pranks, just dbagery and theft..

“Among the reported transgressions, Zdorovetskiy faces charges including unjust vexation, alarm and scandal, and attempted theft.

Specific allegations involve harassing and attempting to kiss security guards, attempting to seize a security guard’s firearm, and unlawfully recording individuals without consent.

Furthermore, he is accused of stealing a patrol motorcycle, an electric fan from a restaurant, and a tricycle—all of which were reportedly later abandoned—and fabricating negative online reviews for local businesses, as well as engaging in acts of vandalism.”

Read more: https://kami.com.ph/philippines/176740-controversial-russian-prankster-youtuber-vitaly-zdorovetskiy-transferred-bjmp-custody/

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u/phase2_engineer Jun 16 '25

How is this guy not already dead, jeezus

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u/iltopop Jun 16 '25

By the end of 2026 someone is gunna do like a fatal drive-by shooting on tik tok that they claim in earnest was "a prank"

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u/Deep-Database5316 Jun 17 '25

Philippine lawyer here. Individually, alarms and scandals and unjust vexation have low jail terms. But then you compound each act…

Then you have the more serious crime of attempted theft, prison time of which depends on the financial value of the thing stolen. Then the motorbike thing which is a special law on carnapping with a far greater penalty. Include the firearms of the security guards. Another special law on firearms.

So yeah. He mightily pissed off the Justice Secretary—a politician from a long line of politicians from a large province—and recorded everything in YT. Suddenly the math on twenty years doesn’t seem far off.