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Prankster arrested for spraying pesticide on Walmart produce (ktar.com)

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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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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's just how cops talk. Police are trained to speak as vaguely as possible in order to not give the defense any ammunition. If they say "he was not a customer" then the defense can use that in the trial, and why would they want to help the defense?

Now answer my question. Do you think he was a customer, and they just haven’t found out yet?

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How on the bloody earth would assassinating his character help his defense? Maybe if they were lying, that could help I guess?

He is either ought to be, or he is a set up! It is very suspicious that after a week of headless panicking they found the suspect with the murder weapon and an apparently false paper explaining that he did it

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

The most likely explanation for that is he's not the criminal mastermind you want him to be.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Dude you're thinking way too deeply into, it really is as simple as "that's just how cops and lawyers talk, nobody is going to give away anything."

On top of that we have pretty serious restrictions called HIPAA on releasing private healthcare information and no insurance provider in the world is just going to go ahead and confirm plans details or lack of one if they don't have to.

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So you think the police shared a semi-guess on the conference?

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What was their guess? Their statement was a non-answer at best.

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can copy in the same quote from a few comments above? “We have no indication that he was ever the client of United Healthcare…” (https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/us/ceo-shooting-luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare/index.html)

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure what you think that statement means.