A prankster has been arrested in connection with a social media post involving the spraying of pesticide on food items at a Mesa Walmart.

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.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
    57·
    2 days ago

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

    • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      13 hours ago

      Now that’s a leap of logic if I’ve ever seen one.

      If the manifesto is believed to be real and Luigi is the shooter, he did it because UHC is the biggest and denies the most claims by a long shot, a third or so, and then one of their medicare disadvantage plans uses AI to deny 90% of claims.

      The fact that he’s a class traitor and this wasn’t a personal vendetta makes it even more respectable in my book.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        The “manifesto” I saw claimed his family were covered by UHC, which it seems is false. That’s the only manifesto I’ve seen that claims to be his.

        • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

          To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      The manifesto they found on him was completely innocuous. What people are talking about that you consider might be fake is his online post history of the years on several platforms. no way they backfilled several services for that.