According to police, Charles Smith, 27, entered the Walmart at 1955 S. Stapley Dr. on Dec. 19 intending to film pranks for social media platforms.

Instead, police said Smith grabbed a can of Hot Shot Ultra Bed Bug and Flea Killer from a shelf without paying for it and then sprayed the pesticide on various vegetables, fruit and rotisserie chickens that were available for purchase.

Smith recorded his face, the pesticide can and the act of him spraying its contents. He later posted the recording online.

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    22 hours ago

    Now, this could qualify as terrorism.

    Not a single murder of a psychopathic indirect mass murderer CEO.

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        22 hours ago

        you’d be surprised. A fairly large number of them are quite miserly, even in their personal lives.

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      22 hours ago

      I mean, I get your point…but not every story has to be compared to other stories. In this case Luigi. I also see other people bring up politics during stories that have nothing to do with politics.

      And I wonder why people do that. Why talk about an unrelated topic when there’s already an interesting topic?

      I guess it’s not as bad as reddit, where they would instead just post a random unrelated quote from the office, but still…

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        17 hours ago

        It’s quite simply what’s on people’s minds right now. It was a major event, it outlines some of the systemic inequalities, and people are interested in the subject.

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        22 hours ago

        It’s a current event being compared to another current event. One about a murder, and the other potentially attempted homicide, depending on the pesticide used. Seems to be pretty related to me, regardless of any politics.

        Just because they call it a “prank”, and the media uses the same shitty term, that doesn’t make spraying pesticides on food for unsuspecting citizens to grab any less dangerous.

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        22 hours ago

        It reminds me of the dupes on Facebook that comment “must have been a Kamala voter” on every video of someone doing something stupid.

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        20 hours ago

        Corporate needs you to find the difference between this story and this story.

        (They’re the same story)

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      21 hours ago

      What political cause or ideology do you think this was done in support of?