News YouTuber Shot While Doing A "Prank" Video

[Velvette]

YouTuber Shot and Killed While Attempting 'Prank' Robbery

A 20-year-old man was shot and killed in Nashville, Tennessee on Friday night in what police say was a YouTube video shoot gone wrong. According to a report by local NBC News affiliate WSMV, Timothy Wilks was shot by 23-year-old David Starnes Jr., who is claiming self-defense. Wilks and some...

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Mean, he had to know this wasn't going to go well? You live in Tennessee and came up on people with knives drawn...bad as I hate to say he kind of got what was coming to him.

 

[Beerus]

Yeah I heard about this. If you are going to walk up to a group of people and "pretend" to rob them with a real weapon, wtf you expect? If he did that to me and I had a gun, I likely would have shot too. Could have been a crazy drug addict or something.

YouTube really needs to put a stop to this crap. They lose their minds over people making jokes but let this kind of filth gain millions of views, mostly from impressionable young kids... They are just going to encourage more of this behavior.

 

[Super Kami Guru]

Natural selection at work, IMO. Kid looking to get famous does something stupid for attention, guy with no idea what's going on at the center of kid's stupidity reacts the way one expects...yeah, natural selection. One day these idiots will learn not to do stupid things like this, but in this instance I have absolutely no sympathy for the "prankster," dumb thing to do and he got exactly what he asked for, essentially.