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Filling Oreo With Toothpaste Earns YouTube Prankster a Jail Sentence
Posted on 6/4/19 at 7:44 am
Posted on 6/4/19 at 7:44 am
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MADRID — It was a humiliating video that fueled outrage on social media. A YouTube prankster filmed himself offering a homeless man in Barcelona an Oreo cookie filled with toothpaste rather than cream.
Now, the prankster, known as ReSet to his followers on YouTube but whose real name is Kanghua Ren, has been handed a 15-month prison sentence and must pay 20,000 euros, or about $22,300, compensation to his victim.
Mr. Ren was found guilty of violating the moral integrity of the homeless man. He is unlikely to serve any time behind bars, however, as Spanish law normally allows sentences under two years for first-time offenders in nonviolent crimes to be suspended.
The Barcelona court, in a verdict published on Friday in the Spanish news media, also ordered Mr. Ren’s YouTube and other social media channels to be shut down for five years.
Mr. Ren, who was 19 at the time, filmed himself in early 2017 replacing the cream inside the cookies with toothpaste after being challenged by one of his 1.2 million followers to carry out the prank. He gave them to the homeless man outside a supermarket, along with a €20 bill. The homeless man was identified only as Gheorge L., a man in his early 50s who was born in Romania and who once worked as a shepherd before migrating to Barcelona, according to the newspaper El País. The homeless man vomited after eating the cookie.
After the posting of the video prompted widespread condemnation, Mr. Ren replaced it with one in which he visited the homeless man again and offered him another €20 bill. According to the police, he later offered €300 to the daughter of his victim in return for not filing a lawsuit.
In his defense, Mr. Ren said that the video was just a bad joke, for which he had later sought to make amends. “I do things to mount a show: People like what is morbid,” he told the court, according to reports in the Spanish news media.
But the judge noted that Mr. Ren had earned more than €2,000 from advertising revenues generated by the video, one of several he filmed in response to various challenges received from his followers.
“This was not an isolated act,” the judge, Rosa Aragonés, concluded in her ruling. In other videos, Mr. Ren also displayed “cruel behaviors” toward “easy or vulnerable victims,” the ruling added.
Mr. Ren was born in China but has lived in Barcelona since childhood, according to Spanish news outlets.
In the original video, which was later removed from YouTube, Mr. Ren acknowledged that he “may have gone a bit far,” but added that there was “a positive side,” saying, “This will help clean his teeth — I don’t think he has cleaned them since he became poor.”
This post was edited on 6/4/19 at 7:46 am
Posted on 6/4/19 at 7:46 am to trom83
It was just a social experiment jeeeez!1
Posted on 6/4/19 at 7:46 am to trom83
Good. The YouTube prank scene is getting old.
Posted on 6/4/19 at 7:46 am to trom83
YouTube prank channels are some of the biggest douche bags in the world.
Posted on 6/4/19 at 7:52 am to trom83
They should throw all YouTube "pranksters" in jail
This post was edited on 6/4/19 at 7:53 am
Posted on 6/4/19 at 7:58 am to Brobocop
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The YouTube prank scene is getting old.
I just assume they're all fake now.
Posted on 6/4/19 at 8:16 am to trom83
I bet the homeless man puked from all the liquor he had drank. Scumbag
Posted on 6/4/19 at 8:36 am to trom83
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YouTube prankster filmed himself offering a homeless man in Barcelona an Oreo cookie filled with toothpaste rather than cream.
Good. frick that guy. Judge should have ordered an arse beating as well.
Posted on 6/4/19 at 8:38 am to trom83
Wait, if the man wasn’t homeless but some bro walking down the street he wouldn’t be in jail? frick that.
Is the guy a dick? Yes. Does he deserve and arse kicking? Yes. Does he deserve jail time? No
Is the guy a dick? Yes. Does he deserve and arse kicking? Yes. Does he deserve jail time? No
This post was edited on 6/4/19 at 8:41 am
Posted on 6/4/19 at 8:41 am to trom83
Should force feed him toothpaste oreos during his entire prison stay.
Posted on 6/4/19 at 8:44 am to trom83
Looks like he got about the same sentence as the murder attempting mall kid tosser.
Posted on 6/4/19 at 9:24 am to trom83
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He is unlikely to serve any time behind bars,
Then why is this news?
Posted on 6/4/19 at 9:26 am to trom83
good. Trying to collect likes and shares isn't a reason to be a dick to people.
Posted on 6/4/19 at 9:28 am to Brobocop
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YouTube prank scene is getting old.
Signed, 3 years ago.
Posted on 6/4/19 at 9:43 am to trom83
This is why we have civil court, what he did was a dick move but not to the point of being criminal
Posted on 6/4/19 at 9:52 am to trom83
People are dicks. It could maybe be funny if you do this to your buddy, and yall like to play that way. But doing it to random people minding their business who don't even know you is pretty despicable.
Posted on 6/4/19 at 9:54 am to QJenk
“Despicable”
Hyperbole has made the meaning of words worthless. Either that or we are too sensitive now. Is what he did stupid? Yes. Juvenile? Yes. Despicable?
He didn’t beat up a child, rape a person, or even permanently harm anyone. He gave him toothpaste when the guy thought it was a cookie
Hyperbole has made the meaning of words worthless. Either that or we are too sensitive now. Is what he did stupid? Yes. Juvenile? Yes. Despicable?
He didn’t beat up a child, rape a person, or even permanently harm anyone. He gave him toothpaste when the guy thought it was a cookie
Posted on 6/4/19 at 9:57 am to DustyDinkleman
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He is unlikely to serve any time behind bars,
Then why is this news?
If he does something similar again he will go to prison.
And why is anything news?
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