French influencer Amine Mojito faces prison sentence for syringe prank videos (tribune.com.pk)
from xc2215x@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 10:48
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SGGeorwell@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 11:14 next collapse

The internet was a mistake

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 07 Oct 11:29 next collapse

Influencers are cancer.

OldChicoAle@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 02:42 collapse

My company invited an influencer to come to campus to promote our company. I heard they had him jump around signage to get content for socials. So fucking cringe.

TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org on 07 Oct 12:13 collapse

We've known this since September 1993, but we just let it keep going. I don't think anyone can actually stop it or knows how, unless we get hit with an asteroid or something.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca on 07 Oct 11:38 next collapse

Humans were a mistake.

CluckN@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 11:51 next collapse

A&W’s Third Pound burger was a mistake

ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works on 07 Oct 12:18 collapse

Why do you hate America?

CluckN@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 12:52 collapse

They had the chance to fund Poochinski for 3 seasons and declined.

ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works on 07 Oct 13:00 next collapse

I didn’t leave my country, my country left me

venusaur@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 14:12 collapse

Arby’s. We have the meats.

elbarto777@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 16:11 collapse

Monsters.

irish_link@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 12:18 next collapse

“inject bystanders with empty syringes”

Injecting people with air can cause an embolism. The article may be wrong and this guy could’ve just been stabbing people with syringe however, if there was any kind of injection that was empty meaning air that can and will cause serious issues potentially death.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca on 07 Oct 13:21 next collapse

And getting an infection from the puncture wound.

workerONE@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 14:23 next collapse

He didn’t have a needle in the syringes

calliope@retrolemmy.com on 07 Oct 14:33 next collapse

The article just doesn’t care to tell you that the syringes were capped.

The Sun helpfully includes that important detail.

The influencer posted clips showing him creeping up on passersby and pretending to jab them with a capped syringe - just days before France’s massive Fête de la Musique street festival in June.

I went looking for the information because I was like “you can kill someone so easy that way, wtf?”

philpo@feddit.org on 07 Oct 21:30 collapse

Tbf,the last time I have jabbed myself with a needle it had a fucking cap on. I simply fell over against a wall. To make things better it contained some nasty drug that in theory could have hurt me badly,but luckily didn’t.

(Before anyone is concerned about my drug use - I work as a paramedic and the medication in the syringe is one I am highly allergic to…)

Still better than a contaminated one. Wouldn’t recommend both, though.

nullroot@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 14:37 next collapse

That’s not actually true.

village604@adultswim.fan on 07 Oct 15:47 collapse

It’s true, but you need a fuck ton of air to cause an embolism if you hit anything other than an artery. Like > 100cc of air.

nullroot@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 21:44 collapse

Which a needle is not going to inject

village604@adultswim.fan on 07 Oct 15:48 collapse

An embolism really isn’t a concern with a syringe unless you happen to hit an artery. You need a fuck ton of air to cause an embolism, like > 100cc, and most syringes are 1-3cc.

The biggest risk would be infection, as another commenter pointed out, but even then it’s a small risk if it’s a new needle tip.

But the argument is moot since a needle tip wasn’t involved.

NowThatsWhatICallDadRock@slrpnk.net on 07 Oct 13:52 next collapse

Doing this in the US would be a good tutorial on how to get shot

k_rol@lemmy.ca on 07 Oct 14:38 next collapse

To be fair, anything you do in the US may get you shot.

elbarto777@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 16:09 next collapse

Not true. C’mon.

Canconda@lemmy.ca on 07 Oct 16:12 next collapse

Disagreeing with established norms? That’s a shottin.

Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 07 Oct 20:53 collapse

Ding dong ditch, shot.

Lawn care? Shot.

Eating a sandwich in your car? Believe it or not, shot.

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 07:41 collapse

Going to school? Shot.

Going to work? Shot.

Walking back from the Golf Links? Shot.

friend_of_satan@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 16:28 collapse

*bang*

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 07:41 collapse

Tadakichi-san is dead

MBech@feddit.dk on 07 Oct 17:04 next collapse

Attempting to overthrow the elected government, threatening allies with war, spreading fear and hate, all while raping children may get you elected as president though.

bitjunkie@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 17:15 collapse

In fairness, those things have gotten him shot at a couple of times.

MBech@feddit.dk on 07 Oct 19:12 collapse

Good point.

Cybersteel@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 01:48 collapse

Yet, the don’t. The only people who really get shot are school children.

slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org on 07 Oct 17:50 collapse

A lot of influencer do similar shit in the US and no one got shot

burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de on 07 Oct 14:05 next collapse

So this fella was stabbing people with syringes? How did he not get the shit beaten out of him by an angry crowd? Did he always target smaller, vulnerable people who were alone?

What an absolute piece of shit.

workerONE@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 14:22 next collapse

There wasn’t a needle in the syringes.

calliope@retrolemmy.com on 07 Oct 14:30 collapse

They were capped syringes for the “pranks,” but your point still stands.

What’s worse is that at the time, there were actually a lot of syringe stabbings in France according to this Sun article (it’s the Sun, sorry about that). I was curious so I looked up more articles.

I’m speculating, but maybe people don’t want to beat someone up if they don’t actually get hurt, fearing worse punishment.

Inucune@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 14:11 next collapse

Bioterrorism. Unless they were changing needles, they’re risking a bad blood reaction or spreading a blood borne illness/disease. “Just a prank, bro” does not fix HIV.

SARGE@startrek.website on 07 Oct 14:28 collapse

No needle in the syringe, apparently.

Still a good way to get bodyslammed into a wall. I’m not waiting to see if there’s a needle or not.

NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip on 07 Oct 15:51 next collapse

There is so much stupid here:

  • people watching this
  • people actually liking this
  • why not stage it? A few friends no one is the wiser
  • AI could have done this too no point in real people at all

He deserves jail time, as over used as this word is, that does strike fear… Terror if you will. Nobody deserves that when they are in public.

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com on 08 Oct 01:51 collapse

people actually liking this

You mean you don’t like this‽

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 07:37 collapse

‘influencer’ - no, this person is a menace to society.

Rosanna Pansino is an influencer, Marques Brownlee is an influencer, JerryRigEverything is an influencer.

This guy is just a ‘prankster’ and live streamer. Influencers rarely if ever do live streams. They make carefully curated videos that are largely marketing as entertainment.

Pranksters just cause trouble.