“YouTube video prank”
1 Sorry, that pegs my BS meter.
2 If true, the deadhead wins a Darwin Award, 1st Class.
One killed in Hermitage shooting; suspect claiming self defense
HERMITAGE, Tenn. (WTVF) — One person was killed in a shooting in Hermitage Friday night. Metro police are investigating a claim of self defense in the shooting.
Metro Nashville Police officials say it happened at 4331 Old Hickory Boulevard around 9:20 p.m. in the parking lot of Urban Air.
When officers arrived at the scene, David Starnes Jr., 23, was there. He admitted to shooting the victim, 20-year-old Timothy Wilks.
Detectives were told Wilks and a friend were taking part in a prank robbery as part of a YouTube video and approached a group of people – including Starnes – with butcher knives.
Starnes told detectives he was unaware of the prank and shot Wilks in defense of himself and the others in the group.
No charges have been placed at this time. The investigation is ongoing.
We live in a society so far removed from reality and common sense that I find it very easy to believe the ‘tube video claim. Not everyone understands that threatening random people with violence may lead to someone “not getting the joke”, thereby taking them seriously – with serious consequences. I’ve seen other videos where some idiot shoots blanks at another person who is pleading for their life and then they fall down “dead” in front of innocent witnesses – who proceed to “get out of Dodge” post haste. Another example of setting one’s self up for elimination should they do that in front of someone who then jumps in to defend the “dead” or “dying” prankster – and eliminates the blank firing idiot.