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Posted: 4/4/2023 11:34:00 AM EDT
https://www.yahoo.com/news/youtuber-making-prank-video-virginia-104657336.html
A YouTuber was shot in the abdomen while recording a prank video at a Virginia mall on Sunday. Tanner Cook of Classified Goons said the shooting suspect didn't take the joke "very well." Cook, who was in intensive care, said he will continue to make prank videos after his recovery. A 21-year-old man said he was recording a practical joke for his YouTube channel in a mall in Dulles, Virginia, when a prankee got mad and shot him in the abdomen. Tanner Cook, a prankster on the YouTube page Classified Goons, was in intensive care on Sunday after a bullet pierced his stomach and liver, according to the CBS News affiliate station WUSA. He remains in a hospital following surgery. Speaking to WUSA from his hospital bed, Cook said: "I was playing a prank, a simple practical joke, and this guy didn't take it very well and shot me." Cook, whose YouTube account has almost 40,000 subscribers, regularly posts videos of him playing pranks on unsuspecting members of the public. Previous videos show him going behind the counter at a fast-food restaurant, trailing strangers in stores, and pretending to vomit on Uber drivers. In earlier videos his victims became aggressive and even called the police But on Sunday Cook got his most shocking response yet. He and his friend were recording a prank video near the Cheesecake Factory in Dulles Town Center mall's food court when the suspect, Alan Colie, allegedly pulled out a semi-automatic pistol and shot him. Cook's family told WUSA the footage is now part of the evidence against Colie, 31, who was charged with aggravated malicious wounding, shooting in the commission of a felony, and discharging firearms within an occupied building. Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that it doesn't appear that the suspect and the victim knew each other previously. Colie appeared in court on Monday and has a preliminary hearing scheduled for May. He's being held without bond at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center, the sheriff's office said. Cook was not publicly identified by name by police, but court documents identify him as the victim of the shooting. Despite his injuries, Cook told WUSA that he intends to continue making prank videos. View Quote |
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ETA: And this moron says he'll still pull pranks. Getting gutshot wasn't enough of a warning I guess. |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/261156/Screenshot_20230404_083542_Gallery_jpg-2770146.JPG View Quote fool about and find out? |
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Cook, who was in intensive care, said he will continue to make prank videos after his recovery. View Quote He's enough of a slow learner to go into politics. |
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I've seen some of those prank type videos and wondered when someone would get shot.
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If it was one of those "Run around with an axe and pretend to murder people" pranks, then ima vote not guilty.
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Did I miss it?
The article doesn’t specify the ‘prank’. Could be a good shoot if he was doing something that looks like a robbery, assault, etc. |
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These prank videos are fucking stupid and he got what he deserved.
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Quoted: I've seen some of those prank type videos and wondered when someone would get shot. View Quote Ok good, I'm not the only one who was thinking that. I'm almost 100% certain if you ask anyone who was in high school with this dickhead prankster, they'd say "Yeah he was a total asshole to everyone and we all hated him". |
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Looking at his channel his videos range from attempting to take people's property, to pretending to vomit on them in close spaces, to accusing people of stealing in public, to sexual harassment.
Dude seems like a world class piece of shit with an also ran youtube channel with under 40k subs. |
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generally speaking, it is a very bad idea to fuck around with strangers.
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Checked his channel out none of the pranks are worthy of shooting him over. They’re pretty funny.
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Barking In People's Ears Prank! Not really pranks, he is just an asshole to people. |
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Being a YouTube "prankster" should be a shoot on sight offense in itself.
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What was the prank? Pretending to be a mass shooter, shame he survived. Walking around as a clown or other silliness it may be terrible.
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Quoted: Did I miss it? The article doesn't specify the 'prank'. Could be a good shoot if he was doing something that looks like a robbery, assault, etc. View Quote Angry Guy Charges Cameraman! |
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Guy's a douchebag. He deserves to get his shit kicked in.
Shooting him in a mall was probably a bad move (although extremely understandable). Better to follow him out to his car and do a little kneecap batting practice. In Minecraft, of course. |
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Good reminder to use the Mozambique Drill if you have the opportunity to zap one of these YT assholes.
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Whats really sick is that I bet that retard isn't thinking about how he made dumb choices to wind up shot I bet he is thinking that his channel will really blow up since he got some media attention.
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Depends on the "prank". Jumping out with a ski mask and a fake hatchet? Yeah, you're an idiot and should get plugged. Walking by with a fart noise machine? Nah.
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There was a YT/TikTok guy not long ago that was shot dead doing stupid pranks like these. He thought it would be funny to run up on people with a butcher knife pretending like he was going to stab people. He fucked around and found out.
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/261156/Screenshot_20230404_083542_Gallery_jpg-2770146.JPG View Quote . Perfect for this. |
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Any publicity is good publicity. I bet he’s over 100K subscribers now, or shortly.
No media mention of the prank itself and the general vilification of gun owners indicates that the prankster had upped the ante on the wrong person. What if the prank was leveling a rifle at an unsuspecting person in a mall? |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/173755/Screenshot_20230404_114944_YouTube_jpg-2770157.JPG Lmao View Quote Hahahaha, where's that "oooof" gif when you need it. |
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What a fucking idiot
going to go with good shoot until proven otherwise |
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I'm surprised it took this long.
When you accost a stranger, he has no way of knowing your intention. He should react with violence in self defense. |
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Pranks should be limited to your friends. Pranking strangers is stupid and dangerous. I guess that he found that out, although it doesn't appear that he has learned anything from the experience.
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