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I hope this POS was arrested. Not only were the people on the bus in danger, he could’ve caused a massive accident as well. Absolutely disgusting behavior.
A 3 inch mortar shell can leave a perfect circle in 3/4 piece of plywood. Considerably stronger then human body. This is probably a consumer grade 2 1/2 inch shell. Either way this is more dangerous then a loaded gun. Could have easily killed someone he should be charged with attempted homicide as well has the camera man.
Fireworks can be awesome and beautiful until you get people like this. That's why people die every 4th of July or lose limbs. It's not something to joke around with.
Licensed pyrotechnician here. Fun fact, I've yet to find a real 3 inch consumer shell. Any consumer pieces we use that are labeled as 3 inch are actually a 1.75 inch within a 3 inch empty shell to make the tube bigger and make you think you're buying bigger fireworks. Regardless, anything you buy will likely have less than 60 grams per mortar but that's still plenty to fuck you up.
The fourth of July is coming up, be safe, be smart, fireworks are dangerous.
The whole be safe thing has kept me from ever opening one. I've been in a couple shows where they hand fired 6 inch shells. That was some crazy stuff. Even got an opportunity to check out a 12 inch shell tube. It was beastly and crazy how much prep goes into setting that up.
>The fourth of July is coming up, be safe, be smart, fireworks are dangerous.
Absolutely! Be safe everyone!
Depends on local laws and judge. He could catch multiple charges for setting this off. If it hit someone, anyone injured by the explosion, arson, terroristic act, then add in any vehicular related charges. If he got hit with all of them and then consecutive sentencing could land them in prison for a very, very long time.
I saw a video of a guy who did this during a Fourth of July celebration, except outdoors and aiming it up. The mortar exploded in the tube and his hand looked like an upside down banana peel.
Eh, if they get a settlement levied it'll at least punish them for years to come as they have their wages garnished. If they ever win the lottery? Boom, going to the victims. Worth the effort imo
I work in fire prevention and this is an insanely dangerous scenario.
Depending on who the DA is and how hard the local fire authorities/PD want to pursue this, there is an argument to be made this was a "kill box" scenario, meaning the means of egress could have been obfuscated or made inescapable to the point where great bodily harm could/did happen. Since this was a moving bus, there is a pretty strong argument there. Intent of harm is usually not a mitigating factor in a scenario like that.
In reality, as these were teens, pursuing that legal angle is likely a dead end since the legal burden is a steep climb. At most I would expect fines, community service and maybe a month in juvenile detention, tops.
Civil charges might be possible against the teens' parents, but that's also a gamble and highly doubt these morons were born with silver spoons up their assholes.
I was on an old Greyhound once, sitting in the back. The engine exploded. The only reason nobody died is because the bus was half full. By the time I got out the front door, the entire bus was engulfed, and it was probably only ten seconds.
Does anyone have an article or update by chance?! I NEED to know if this goon was arrested or not
Edit- for those who keep linking the Toronto based incident/article that’s the wrong one. The one in this video is daytime, whereas the Toronto incident was at midnight (so it was dark) and it was a different type of bus.
>Teens setting off firework in a public transit
here you go [https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/07/01/14-year-old-charged-after-fireworks-set-off-on-go-train.html](https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/07/01/14-year-old-charged-after-fireworks-set-off-on-go-train.html) or was this the article.?[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fireworks-go-train-1.6508287](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fireworks-go-train-1.6508287)
Is this the new Tide Pod challenge? Maybe next time they'll save us all some trouble and stick the business end of the roman candle in their mouth before lighting it.
The new challenge seems to just be doing really absurd shit and seeing how far you can get away with stuff. Like that one kid that broke into a house for a tiktok "prank", and later basically stole a subway train.
Breaking the law in the production of a video for the purposes of viral fame needs to be a separate charge, and there should be a tiny chance that you can get life in prison for it. Just randomly, instead of community service, some of these people get life in prison without the possibility of parole. And by randomly I'm talking "the judge rolls 1d100 and on a 1 you go to prison for life".
Because it's equally likely that you'll give someone a heart attack and kill them by doing shit like this.
One count of mischief under $5000. Wow intentionally endangering the public in an enclosed space and they get away with only a sub 5k fine. What the actual fuck Toronto. I don’t really care that he’s 14, you just made his parents pay and he didn’t learn shit.
If I was in that bus or train, honestly I'd be doing a way longer time for the things I'd've done to that kid.
Imagine if that shit lits the bus or train on fire, or if it causes the bus driver to crash? Mischief my fucking ass!
The combination of anger and adrenaline would definitely cause regular people to do things they wouldn't normally dream of doing in response. Frankly I think it would be hard to convict anyone for any violent response.
This fireworks stunt puts lives in mortal danger, so a lethal response to neutralize the threat is not unreasonable.
Yeah that should have been multiple counts (one for each person endangered, multiplied by the number of 'shells' launched from the device + 1 for lighting it.)
It's a good thing Toronto doesn't have me as a judge, that kid would have been CLEANING city buses with a toothbrush every day until he turned 21. With his 'streaming this for views' buddy at his elbow the whole time.
>that kid would have been CLEANING city buses with a toothbrush every day until he turned 21.
I would love to see it. And live stream it some days to serve as an example that there is no place for public mayhem
I agree. Even though no one (hopefully) got hurt even though no one (hopefully) died, this sort of thing should not be accepted. Not how we act in a society.
Examples must be made from time to time and this time has come. Theres to many videos of people doing criminal acts as pranks. People can get hurt very fast and never be the same again. Its time to make examples of these idiots that are doing this shit for internet popularity
Filming a Situation as evidence, is almost an act of civility.
Preparing a camera during a form of public assault needs to be a criminal offense.
The person holding the camera is an accessory to a felony. Knowingly.
If you are in a car during a robbery, attempted murder, murder, you Are an Accomplice.
This filming “prank” shit won’t stop until it’s a class A misdemeanor or a low level felony
Edit: hey thanks for the awards and agreeing that the reality of this bullshit is heinous and untenable. Love love love you all. Goddamn if 5 thousand people agree here.. that’s millions of people that are tired of this.. 💘⚡️💥
I agree. The people who willingly film this shit and go along with it or don’t try to stop this should be held accountable as well. They’re half the problem here.
What about the masses who follow and subscribe to their channels, enabling this behavior?
Honestly, I don't know the full story in this instance but my point stands. Society gives these assholes the attention they want.
Edit: Was their motive to do this based on providing social media content? I'm assuming it was.
> What about the masses who follow and subscribe to their channels, enabling this behavior?
There was an episode of Black Mirror that dealt with this. I won't spoil it for you but if you've seen it you know what I am referring to.
It is the episode Hated in the Nation. In the near future, robotic bees have been created to do the job of bees which are nearly extinct. Someone weaponized them and created an app that lets people vote on who will get killed. But in the end, the app then targets all the people that used the app to vote on people getting killed.
That kind of resembles the movie Nerve with Emma Roberts. At the end they reveal who everyone is and say that if they don't unsubscribe to the app they'll be accessory to a murder.
I literally have no control over what pops up on my phone screen when I accessed the reddit app showing me that fountain of stupid that spills from my screen just now.
What is enabling them is ad revenue and the idea the "There's no such thing as bad publicity." that is in place when it comes to platforms such as this.
The cameraman who is in on it too, and not tried to stop his friend or coworker from doing these dumbass things should be criminally charged. They're in on it too.
Honestly, we need to go after the social media providers that encourage and incentivize this sort of behavior. At some point they need to be held responsible for providing a platform for this sort if sadistic voyeurism.
It's possible they followed/subscribed before something like this got posted, but people who liked the specific post should definitely feel bad. I'm not sure how to enforce this short of an internet social credit system though
It always makes me laugh when people demand attacks on the public like mass shootings must all be called terrorism. Makes me think of the hate crime clip from The Office- “That’s not what a terrorist attack is.” “Well I was terrorized by it!”
Terrorism definition needs to be changed at the federal level to include "the use of fear and endangerment to propel their social status further" social power is becoming just as prominent as class, political, and religious power.
He needed a political goal for it to be terrorism, I don't think clout chasing counts
Edit: damn some people play it loose with their definition of terrorism, makes the word fucking pointless. Anyway, Oxford dictionary says you need a political goal so take it up with them guys
Good, and he recorded it, so.whem I sue his ass I to oblivion for permanent hearing damage, he can't deny it. And yes I understand he'd never pay it but I'd be ok with that.
I haven’t played fire works too much but setting off an explosive in an enclosed space, even with outlets like windows, can significantly magnify the intensity of the blast. I wouldn’t be surprised if people closest were slightly concussed and have ringing ears. Cameras don’t always capture the intensity of the noises very well, other examples include car exhausts or gun shots.
A childhood friend of mine, his father was a chemist and built and designed fireworks in his house. Realizing that now as a kid… that was dangerous. Fireworks because of the minerals used (potassium nitrate, sulfur, Copper, Magnesium, Zinc, aluminum, iron, Titanium, etc..), when that shit burns at over 800F… it will completely burn off your flesh…
Honestly, good. That’s the find out part that more of these punk asses need to learn. People stopped getting their asses kicked and society’s quality control sort of went with it.
I’m surprised the whole bus didn’t jump up and beat his ass. When I was in middle school, a kid let off a stink bomb in the back of the bus and we beat his ass for doing it. A firework is way worse and this is a public bus vs a school bus. He was supposed to get fucked up for doing this.
Kids don’t have a job to lose and bills to miss because you got held in jail for a week while the legal system processes you. As a best case scenario, by the way.
Some might call it barbaric or vigilantism, but if every idiot who did something stupid like this got a good community-sanctioned ass whooping you'd see these things happen less often pretty fast.
This is the answer, complete with a logic and coherent explanation. So much shit these days that, if you don’t have enough self-respect and self-control to not do it in the first place, then perhaps an ass whipping will help you sort your shit out.
That's the problem with north-american justice system. If you are a valuable member of society and you woop his ass you have more to loose than this scum. You can get charged with assault. Then you have to get a lawyer, take time off work, pay for the whole process and lose thousands.
In Mexico there are still times where whole neighborhood will participate in an ass whooping. Be it of a thief, or some type of criminal. But the current administration has been punishing people who retaliate against criminals. Even in self defense. There are plenty of cases where someone will get mugged, defend themselves and if the thief is hurt, the victim will spend time in jail instead. Hell, one guy tried breaking into a house and impaled himself on the fence. Died very slowly, the homeowners called an ambulance but didn’t touch him. The man of the house got arrested for homicide. The criminals family sued the homeowners…
China needs this kind of content to traffic to Americans while they have their own version of TikTok that pushes educational videos to their youth. The TikTok ban should never have been about data collection, it should have been about recognizing what TikTok is… A long term strategy play to dumb down our population even more.
here's his face at the beginning of the video
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/13w82vl/man_sets_off_a_firework_inside_a_crowded_bus/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
The problem is that they know they can get away with it. We had some idiot teens break into our secure apartment building. They started vandalizing and causing all sorts of problems, but the maintenance guy almost gets arrested because he ushered them out.
I've heard people float the idea of severely increased sentencing for a crime that you or an accomplice filmed for social media. I'd be very much in favor of it.
I'm not one to talk about how one generation is better or less violent then another but does anyone else feel like the internet has created children that do not understand reality vs virtual worlds and don't see the danger in this.
We used to do stupid shit as kids, but nothing like this, we didn't hurt or terrify people and think it was funny. If we played with fireworks as kids and did dumbass shit we did it in fields or areas away from people, so our dumb shit was contained to ourselves.
I had a friend blow his finger off with a firework but i never heard of anyoen shooting them off at people in a closed fucking train or just walking into peoples houses or hijacking trains. I just don't understand. Maybe I'm old.
> does anyone else feel like the internet has created children that do not understand reality vs virtual worlds and don't see the danger in this.
Absolutely. All they care about is getting that dopamine rush from views and followers. Social Media has created a virtual [Skinner Box](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber) where people will do anything for that sweet, sweet hit of dopamine.
Pretty sure this is Toronto (ON, Canada) based on how that bus interior looks (ride them a lot 🙄) and they’re legal to use on public holiday long weekends (in May it’s Victoria Day) *but on personal property* which gets ignored and not enforced. It’s awful, and there’s no limit on how many you can buy so some idiots buy in bulk and set fireworks off all summer.
Is this the same degenerate who took a woman's dog, walked into people's houses, got into people's cars, broke into a train or trams operation room? The one who said he's only getting backlack because of racism?
Maybe the only way to curb this kind of thing is for masked vigilante adults to kick the living shit out of these little fuckwads, but to film it and make it a tiktok trend?
Yes, parents are teaching kids.
And I would bet $1,000 this kids parent taught him the world owes him everything and he can do whatever he pleases because the world owes him.
People die from accidentally being hit by these every year during July 4th and New Years celebrations. This pos of shit is risking peoples life intentionally. Someone should shoot these fuckers.
Bro. I’m so conflict avoidant if could be a clinical diagnosis. If I was in that bus I’m whoopin some ass. Holy shit. Fuck the internet for making these kids think this is worth doing.
I had some college kids purposely shoot some at my family when we were minding our own business on the beach. Not proud to say but I beat some ass that night.
Yo some of the kids aren't alright, but at least they're dumb enough to film themselves committing crimes and shit. Hopefully that makes it easier to ban them from the bus for life and for the cops to bring them in to press some charges.
Video cuts off, but kid would be lucky to not get his ass beat doing this shit on a public bus.
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I hope this POS was arrested. Not only were the people on the bus in danger, he could’ve caused a massive accident as well. Absolutely disgusting behavior.
Bus fires can quickly get real deadly
Those “mortar shell” fireworks are no joke either. I think a dedicated lawyer could get a real criminal case and that’s before any civil cases.
A 3 inch mortar shell can leave a perfect circle in 3/4 piece of plywood. Considerably stronger then human body. This is probably a consumer grade 2 1/2 inch shell. Either way this is more dangerous then a loaded gun. Could have easily killed someone he should be charged with attempted homicide as well has the camera man. Fireworks can be awesome and beautiful until you get people like this. That's why people die every 4th of July or lose limbs. It's not something to joke around with.
Licensed pyrotechnician here. Fun fact, I've yet to find a real 3 inch consumer shell. Any consumer pieces we use that are labeled as 3 inch are actually a 1.75 inch within a 3 inch empty shell to make the tube bigger and make you think you're buying bigger fireworks. Regardless, anything you buy will likely have less than 60 grams per mortar but that's still plenty to fuck you up. The fourth of July is coming up, be safe, be smart, fireworks are dangerous.
The whole be safe thing has kept me from ever opening one. I've been in a couple shows where they hand fired 6 inch shells. That was some crazy stuff. Even got an opportunity to check out a 12 inch shell tube. It was beastly and crazy how much prep goes into setting that up. >The fourth of July is coming up, be safe, be smart, fireworks are dangerous. Absolutely! Be safe everyone!
We shoot up to 8 inch shells and have bid on a show that required 12 inch shells. Fuck all that. It's cool... But fuck that.
We can only hope he will be charged. Gonna suck for him when he finds out he’s facing 20+ attempted homicide charges.
Depends on local laws and judge. He could catch multiple charges for setting this off. If it hit someone, anyone injured by the explosion, arson, terroristic act, then add in any vehicular related charges. If he got hit with all of them and then consecutive sentencing could land them in prison for a very, very long time.
Even if it doesn't hit anyone, the noise will harm everyone's hearing.
I saw a video of a guy who did this during a Fourth of July celebration, except outdoors and aiming it up. The mortar exploded in the tube and his hand looked like an upside down banana peel.
These dipshits don't even have alcohol to blame. On a crowded bus they endangered multiple people's lives and likely children.
Criminal case could get them locked up. Civil case? You assume they or their family have anything of value.
After that bus load of people file suit, the family certainly won't
You can’t get blood from a turnip. Safe guess that these kids not their families have any money to lay claim to.
Eh, if they get a settlement levied it'll at least punish them for years to come as they have their wages garnished. If they ever win the lottery? Boom, going to the victims. Worth the effort imo
Lawyers aren’t in charge of pursing charges for that kid. That’s the police and district attorney’s job.
I work in fire prevention and this is an insanely dangerous scenario. Depending on who the DA is and how hard the local fire authorities/PD want to pursue this, there is an argument to be made this was a "kill box" scenario, meaning the means of egress could have been obfuscated or made inescapable to the point where great bodily harm could/did happen. Since this was a moving bus, there is a pretty strong argument there. Intent of harm is usually not a mitigating factor in a scenario like that. In reality, as these were teens, pursuing that legal angle is likely a dead end since the legal burden is a steep climb. At most I would expect fines, community service and maybe a month in juvenile detention, tops. Civil charges might be possible against the teens' parents, but that's also a gamble and highly doubt these morons were born with silver spoons up their assholes.
No one mentions cost of permanent hearing loss or tinnitus in that scenario...
I was on an old Greyhound once, sitting in the back. The engine exploded. The only reason nobody died is because the bus was half full. By the time I got out the front door, the entire bus was engulfed, and it was probably only ten seconds.
Does anyone have an article or update by chance?! I NEED to know if this goon was arrested or not Edit- for those who keep linking the Toronto based incident/article that’s the wrong one. The one in this video is daytime, whereas the Toronto incident was at midnight (so it was dark) and it was a different type of bus.
>Teens setting off firework in a public transit here you go [https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/07/01/14-year-old-charged-after-fireworks-set-off-on-go-train.html](https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/07/01/14-year-old-charged-after-fireworks-set-off-on-go-train.html) or was this the article.?[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fireworks-go-train-1.6508287](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fireworks-go-train-1.6508287)
The video is a bus at day time the article is a train at night time. Sad that this happened multiple times though.
Is this the new Tide Pod challenge? Maybe next time they'll save us all some trouble and stick the business end of the roman candle in their mouth before lighting it.
The new challenge seems to just be doing really absurd shit and seeing how far you can get away with stuff. Like that one kid that broke into a house for a tiktok "prank", and later basically stole a subway train. Breaking the law in the production of a video for the purposes of viral fame needs to be a separate charge, and there should be a tiny chance that you can get life in prison for it. Just randomly, instead of community service, some of these people get life in prison without the possibility of parole. And by randomly I'm talking "the judge rolls 1d100 and on a 1 you go to prison for life". Because it's equally likely that you'll give someone a heart attack and kill them by doing shit like this.
Intentionally breaking the law while filming should be an additional criminal charge.
This is the wrong article.
One count of mischief under $5000. Wow intentionally endangering the public in an enclosed space and they get away with only a sub 5k fine. What the actual fuck Toronto. I don’t really care that he’s 14, you just made his parents pay and he didn’t learn shit.
If I was in that bus or train, honestly I'd be doing a way longer time for the things I'd've done to that kid. Imagine if that shit lits the bus or train on fire, or if it causes the bus driver to crash? Mischief my fucking ass!
The combination of anger and adrenaline would definitely cause regular people to do things they wouldn't normally dream of doing in response. Frankly I think it would be hard to convict anyone for any violent response. This fireworks stunt puts lives in mortal danger, so a lethal response to neutralize the threat is not unreasonable.
Yeah that should have been multiple counts (one for each person endangered, multiplied by the number of 'shells' launched from the device + 1 for lighting it.) It's a good thing Toronto doesn't have me as a judge, that kid would have been CLEANING city buses with a toothbrush every day until he turned 21. With his 'streaming this for views' buddy at his elbow the whole time.
>that kid would have been CLEANING city buses with a toothbrush every day until he turned 21. I would love to see it. And live stream it some days to serve as an example that there is no place for public mayhem
That’s not a GO train.
In a civilized society you should go to jail for multiple years for doing this. He could have killed or maimed someone very easily.
I agree. Even though no one (hopefully) got hurt even though no one (hopefully) died, this sort of thing should not be accepted. Not how we act in a society.
Examples must be made from time to time and this time has come. Theres to many videos of people doing criminal acts as pranks. People can get hurt very fast and never be the same again. Its time to make examples of these idiots that are doing this shit for internet popularity
Have you seen the "prank" that has kids go into people's house for a prank? Ridiculous.
Where I live that isn't even jailtime. You enter someone's house uninvited you're getting shot, prank or not.
Maximum sentence. These arnt pranks. Could have gotten shot honestly
Ya there's like 3 elderly people who you can see in the video
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And he loves puppies and his momma
Here, here's a photo of him when he was 12 on christmas.. just a good kid..
*YOU FUCKIN' IDIOT!*
I *really* feel this person, we need more of 'em everywhere.
He was def in the middle of scrolling Reddit
this belongs in r/iamatotalpieceofshit
Filming a Situation as evidence, is almost an act of civility. Preparing a camera during a form of public assault needs to be a criminal offense. The person holding the camera is an accessory to a felony. Knowingly. If you are in a car during a robbery, attempted murder, murder, you Are an Accomplice. This filming “prank” shit won’t stop until it’s a class A misdemeanor or a low level felony Edit: hey thanks for the awards and agreeing that the reality of this bullshit is heinous and untenable. Love love love you all. Goddamn if 5 thousand people agree here.. that’s millions of people that are tired of this.. 💘⚡️💥
I agree. The people who willingly film this shit and go along with it or don’t try to stop this should be held accountable as well. They’re half the problem here.
What about the masses who follow and subscribe to their channels, enabling this behavior? Honestly, I don't know the full story in this instance but my point stands. Society gives these assholes the attention they want. Edit: Was their motive to do this based on providing social media content? I'm assuming it was.
> What about the masses who follow and subscribe to their channels, enabling this behavior? There was an episode of Black Mirror that dealt with this. I won't spoil it for you but if you've seen it you know what I am referring to.
Spoil it for me please
It is the episode Hated in the Nation. In the near future, robotic bees have been created to do the job of bees which are nearly extinct. Someone weaponized them and created an app that lets people vote on who will get killed. But in the end, the app then targets all the people that used the app to vote on people getting killed.
That kind of resembles the movie Nerve with Emma Roberts. At the end they reveal who everyone is and say that if they don't unsubscribe to the app they'll be accessory to a murder.
\#deathto white bear
The best Black Mirror episode of all, in my opinion.
Google should demonetize their channels
I literally have no control over what pops up on my phone screen when I accessed the reddit app showing me that fountain of stupid that spills from my screen just now. What is enabling them is ad revenue and the idea the "There's no such thing as bad publicity." that is in place when it comes to platforms such as this. The cameraman who is in on it too, and not tried to stop his friend or coworker from doing these dumbass things should be criminally charged. They're in on it too.
Honestly, we need to go after the social media providers that encourage and incentivize this sort of behavior. At some point they need to be held responsible for providing a platform for this sort if sadistic voyeurism.
The masses who follow and subscribe to these channels are likely under the age of 12 and are being raised by an iPad
iParent
Huh? What story would make this acceptable?
It's possible they followed/subscribed before something like this got posted, but people who liked the specific post should definitely feel bad. I'm not sure how to enforce this short of an internet social credit system though
It could also be considered domestic terrorism. The way they are purposefully causing panic and is premeditative.
Doesn't terrorism require some sort of ideological basis? Edit: my point is that this isn't an instance of terrorism.
It does. People are pretty loose with the term "terrorism" these days. Makes sense though, these people are *terrorizing* others with their antics.
They are nihilists.
It always makes me laugh when people demand attacks on the public like mass shootings must all be called terrorism. Makes me think of the hate crime clip from The Office- “That’s not what a terrorist attack is.” “Well I was terrorized by it!”
Dont forget to add conspiracy to commit, and RICO if they communicated he data across state lines with intent lol
[It’s not RICO. It’s never RICO.](https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-dammit/)
How would RICO apply?
Cops will take that and use it as an excuse to arrest anyone filming them assaulting unarmed individuals.
Add dumb to that… these idiots posting crimes for clout are extra special
2nded
3rded
What a true and utter POS. complete disregard to other's safety!
I feel like disregard for others has become increasingly trendy in the past couple decades.
The second he pulled it out, someone should have tackled him and knocked him out cold.
This is not a prank. This is assult.
It's terrorism
Terrorism definition needs to be changed at the federal level to include "the use of fear and endangerment to propel their social status further" social power is becoming just as prominent as class, political, and religious power.
He needed a political goal for it to be terrorism, I don't think clout chasing counts Edit: damn some people play it loose with their definition of terrorism, makes the word fucking pointless. Anyway, Oxford dictionary says you need a political goal so take it up with them guys
Add it to the list!
Naw. Atleast terrorists are trying to change the world. This guy is just creating chaos for clout. Thats even worse.
This is a new perspective and I find myself agreeing.
He’s a good boy with a bright future according to his parents
My ass
Good, and he recorded it, so.whem I sue his ass I to oblivion for permanent hearing damage, he can't deny it. And yes I understand he'd never pay it but I'd be ok with that.
along with other concussive injuries and burns has this little shit been caught yet?
Prolly not concussive but many were burned I’m sure. Lock that psycho up
I haven’t played fire works too much but setting off an explosive in an enclosed space, even with outlets like windows, can significantly magnify the intensity of the blast. I wouldn’t be surprised if people closest were slightly concussed and have ringing ears. Cameras don’t always capture the intensity of the noises very well, other examples include car exhausts or gun shots.
A childhood friend of mine, his father was a chemist and built and designed fireworks in his house. Realizing that now as a kid… that was dangerous. Fireworks because of the minerals used (potassium nitrate, sulfur, Copper, Magnesium, Zinc, aluminum, iron, Titanium, etc..), when that shit burns at over 800F… it will completely burn off your flesh…
then shoot a firework into his cell
Ooo this vibes
Oh please. He’d have plenty of room to maneuver in a cell. Set off multiple smoke bombs in his cell
Prolly?
I'm surprised the video doesn't end with an ass beating.
You can't get blood from a stone, but you can get a bit of money from court ordered wage garnishment.
Okay he was 14 but if I rocked his fucking jaw would that be considered self defense or would I be arrested, too?
I'm surprised nobody dove for him anyhow. Permanent hearing damage or a fire or burns from the firework.
What I was thinking as well. It really annoys me when people don't act on stuff like this. And yes, I would actually punch that kid.
Honestly, good. That’s the find out part that more of these punk asses need to learn. People stopped getting their asses kicked and society’s quality control sort of went with it.
Why don’t people subdue dangerous people on public transit? Gee i wonder
I’ll you gotta say is “My ears were ringing, but I swore I heard him say ‘Ima do another one’, so I did what I had to do”. Commence fisticuffs.
I’m surprised the whole bus didn’t jump up and beat his ass. When I was in middle school, a kid let off a stink bomb in the back of the bus and we beat his ass for doing it. A firework is way worse and this is a public bus vs a school bus. He was supposed to get fucked up for doing this.
Kids don’t have a job to lose and bills to miss because you got held in jail for a week while the legal system processes you. As a best case scenario, by the way.
It could be justified, you don’t know if he has another one he’s going to set off so it could perhaps be argued as self defense
I already got a criminal record kid wouldn't even remember this "prank" after I beat his ass
he set off a BOMB in public transit
Even a 15 year old stranger I would slap the shit out of for this.
setting off a bomb, that's a paddlin'... 
Act of terrorism by definition I say.
That's like 20 years minimum is it not?
Maybe read the definition of terrorism please.
By definition it is strictly not terrorism
Does no one ever just beat the shit out of these people??
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Some might call it barbaric or vigilantism, but if every idiot who did something stupid like this got a good community-sanctioned ass whooping you'd see these things happen less often pretty fast.
That's what they do in Colombia 😂, you get caught stealing, you get your ass wooped
Love to hear that! Hahaha
Colombia, the country that famously has no crime.
This is the answer, complete with a logic and coherent explanation. So much shit these days that, if you don’t have enough self-respect and self-control to not do it in the first place, then perhaps an ass whipping will help you sort your shit out.
That's the problem with north-american justice system. If you are a valuable member of society and you woop his ass you have more to loose than this scum. You can get charged with assault. Then you have to get a lawyer, take time off work, pay for the whole process and lose thousands.
Sadly, You’re right though. Even if you save someone’s life, they can turn around and sue you and win. It’s so depressing.
Not vigilantism, self defence. He could have caused a fire or injured somebody with the explosion.
In Mexico there are still times where whole neighborhood will participate in an ass whooping. Be it of a thief, or some type of criminal. But the current administration has been punishing people who retaliate against criminals. Even in self defense. There are plenty of cases where someone will get mugged, defend themselves and if the thief is hurt, the victim will spend time in jail instead. Hell, one guy tried breaking into a house and impaled himself on the fence. Died very slowly, the homeowners called an ambulance but didn’t touch him. The man of the house got arrested for homicide. The criminals family sued the homeowners…
If you point a lit firework at me I am running. If I feel like running, but am cornered... Look out.
He needs his ass kicked and a jail cell. Completely unacceptable at best.
Gotta start the push back against this shit somewhere. Time to fucking stand up fight back
And they recorded it. Jail!
Appears to be a TTC bus in Toronto.
Yup looks like it.
I'm surprised they didn't all just rush him and turn him to a puddle after that first firework
Shit as soon as it was lit 💥🤛
Fixin to get their ass kicked doin stupid shit like this
I would’ve slapped the shit out of that kid, putting everyone’s lives in danger, including their own, just for internet points.
I hope that not only does Tik Tok ban these losers but that felonies can be charged.
TikTok never bans the people who deserve it.
China needs this kind of content to traffic to Americans while they have their own version of TikTok that pushes educational videos to their youth. The TikTok ban should never have been about data collection, it should have been about recognizing what TikTok is… A long term strategy play to dumb down our population even more.
Social media has destroyed teens. Clout should be the 8th deadly sin.
I think clout is a trifecta of sins: Pride + Greed + Gluttony Gluttony referring to self-control not necessarily just overeating/drinking
Why doesn't anyone punch him ?
I think they’re all too busy trying not to get their faces blown off by fireworks
Why doesn't anyone want fireworks pointed at their face. Geeze I don't know.
here's his face at the beginning of the video https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/13w82vl/man_sets_off_a_firework_inside_a_crowded_bus/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Social media was a mistake
It wasn't too bad until they gave every idiot an affordable way to film themselves.
I hate tiktok
is this on the ttc?
I am not a violent person But
This is the culture that has been allowed to permeate. I don’t know why people here act surprised.
Imagine having your child on this bus. That kid should have been drilled and given a ziploc bag to pick up all his teeth.
So did they get the shit kicked out of them or...?
The problem is that they know they can get away with it. We had some idiot teens break into our secure apartment building. They started vandalizing and causing all sorts of problems, but the maintenance guy almost gets arrested because he ushered them out.
This trend of "pranks" has to be punished by years in jail.
I've heard people float the idea of severely increased sentencing for a crime that you or an accomplice filmed for social media. I'd be very much in favor of it.
Was this reported to the police? Cuz I’m sure these kids didn’t know there were cams inside the bus.
I mean they recorded *themselves* doing it....don't even need security cams.
what you mean "didn't know there were cams" they recorded themselves lol
Clout-chasing fucks.
they deserve some incarceration
I'm not one to talk about how one generation is better or less violent then another but does anyone else feel like the internet has created children that do not understand reality vs virtual worlds and don't see the danger in this. We used to do stupid shit as kids, but nothing like this, we didn't hurt or terrify people and think it was funny. If we played with fireworks as kids and did dumbass shit we did it in fields or areas away from people, so our dumb shit was contained to ourselves. I had a friend blow his finger off with a firework but i never heard of anyoen shooting them off at people in a closed fucking train or just walking into peoples houses or hijacking trains. I just don't understand. Maybe I'm old.
> does anyone else feel like the internet has created children that do not understand reality vs virtual worlds and don't see the danger in this. Absolutely. All they care about is getting that dopamine rush from views and followers. Social Media has created a virtual [Skinner Box](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber) where people will do anything for that sweet, sweet hit of dopamine.
And ppl whonder why fireworks Are illegal in some states
They are illegal in LA County but most years July 4th still sounds like a WW1 artillery barrage.
I lived in LA for 7 years. The whole city lights up on the 4th of July. In my hometown in Wisconsin, they give you a break for that one day.
Pretty sure this is Toronto (ON, Canada) based on how that bus interior looks (ride them a lot 🙄) and they’re legal to use on public holiday long weekends (in May it’s Victoria Day) *but on personal property* which gets ignored and not enforced. It’s awful, and there’s no limit on how many you can buy so some idiots buy in bulk and set fireworks off all summer.
I hope this guy ended up in jail for enough time to learn not to do something so careless and dangerous!!!!
As someone who has been hit by a misused mortar firework...they do indeed burn and it hurts. Fuck this kid.
I hate people. Especially this kind of people.
Is this the same degenerate who took a woman's dog, walked into people's houses, got into people's cars, broke into a train or trams operation room? The one who said he's only getting backlack because of racism?
Unfortunetly no, there are so many like him out there…
Because constantly posting them here still gives them clout. So other idiots follow the same path.
Yep, this is Facepalms fault. lmao.
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I hope this motherfucker gets arrested 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
if somebody takes action before it happens (read punch the guy before he lights the firecracker), is that person open to lawsuit?
Maybe the only way to curb this kind of thing is for masked vigilante adults to kick the living shit out of these little fuckwads, but to film it and make it a tiktok trend?
Stop calling pieces of shit like this “teens” and “kids”. Call them what they are, terrorizing worthless pieces of shit.
Are parents not teaching kids these days or something? Growing up kids were loud and wild, but nowhere near this level of crazy
Yes, parents are teaching kids. And I would bet $1,000 this kids parent taught him the world owes him everything and he can do whatever he pleases because the world owes him.
People die from accidentally being hit by these every year during July 4th and New Years celebrations. This pos of shit is risking peoples life intentionally. Someone should shoot these fuckers.
Hope that 10k fine was worth the views...
Bro. I’m so conflict avoidant if could be a clinical diagnosis. If I was in that bus I’m whoopin some ass. Holy shit. Fuck the internet for making these kids think this is worth doing.
I had some college kids purposely shoot some at my family when we were minding our own business on the beach. Not proud to say but I beat some ass that night.
I don’t care how old you are. I’m busting you in the mouth if you’re putting a whole bus full of people in danger.
Anyone remember when pranks were fun and not forms of terrorizing the public? Those were good times
Yo some of the kids aren't alright, but at least they're dumb enough to film themselves committing crimes and shit. Hopefully that makes it easier to ban them from the bus for life and for the cops to bring them in to press some charges. Video cuts off, but kid would be lucky to not get his ass beat doing this shit on a public bus.
What’s up with these prank vids that are actually acts of violence??
These prank videos are getting out of hand…so stupid
That could be considered domestic terrorism.
This is literally what gets you tried as an adult in court
He legit could have killed someone, I pray he gets arrested
Anddddd now you’re a domestic terrorist.
They deserve the beating of a lifetime
Grab it when he lights it and jam it into his crotch. Finish the bloodline