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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    Now, this could qualify as terrorism.

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

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

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        What was the political motive between Luigi YAHOOO-ing the ceo?

        I would recommend you reading his manifesto as long as you can, its not long but its being taken down from pretty much everwhere

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          It’s been publicallly stated neither him nor his parents were customers of that specific insurance company, so the manifesto is likely fake.

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              So… do you think he was a customer, and they just haven’t found out yet?

              Like you said, it shouldn’t be hard to find out. Therefore, he almost certainly wasn’t a customer. They’d know.

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                  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?

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                    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

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                They are not giving a definitive answer and merly giving their (less legally binding) professional opinion. Its like they dont want to know or publish an absolute.

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

        (They’re the same story)

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        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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        Honestly, there doesnt have to be a political motivation. The default assumption is getting a reaction out of people.

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        I didn’t see what store it was but maybe he was trying to kill all of the flies in his local Whole Foods.