Man shot after threatening people with knives as a ‘prank’

[Cybermat47]

A 20-year-old has been shot dead allegedly taking part in a "prank" robbery being filmed for YouTube.

Witnesses told police Timothy Wilks and a friend had approached a group of people outside a family trampoline park in Nashville, holding large knives.

Mr Wilks was then shot by a 23-year-old, who told police he had had no idea it had been a "prank" and had been acting in self-defence.

Mr Wilks's friend told officers the "prank" had been for a YouTube video.

No-one has been arrested over the death.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55982131

Now that poor man has to live with the fact that he killed someone, and a life has been ended for the stupidest of reasons

Here’s a good video putting forward that this was a result of impressionable kids watching fake ‘prank’ videos on YouTube:

[MaDef]

As Forrest Gump said, stupid is as stupid does.

[d@rk51d3]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Skybird]

While tehcnically the shooter has the causal resonisbility of having fired the shot, morally he is not to be held accountable, and I hope he is sober and rational enogh to relaise that and prioritize this fact. This fact should sooth his mind tremendously, since it was no accident or mishap where he could accuse himseolf over somehting like "I should have takne better care, then itn would not have happened." This does not apply. He must have thiught to be under attack, he diod what at best knowedge he st assume to be what he had to do, and he is not responisble for triggerin g this prank.

I in his place would have no feeling of guilt.

Maybe that prank was a stupid and tasteless idea in the first, and the author paid a price for his stupidity? Not that I say he deserved death, but he pushed the trigger button of the events, and for a stupid motive. Tragic, yes, but then: also stupid.

Its like some fool running around and making a joke of telling people that there is a fire or a bomb. If he one day really needs help due to a fire or a bomb warning, nobody will believe him. Some things you simply just do not do.

[Jimbuna]

Absolutely tragic

[3catcircus]

Originally Posted by Skybird

While tehcnically the shooter has the causal resonisbility of having fired the shot, morally he is not to be held accountable, and I hope he is sober and rational enogh to relaise that and prioritize this fact. This fact should sooth his mind tremendously, since it was no accident or mishap where he could accuse himseolf over somehting like "I should have takne better care, then itn would not have happened." This does not apply. He must have thiught to be under attack, he diod what at best knowedge he st assume to be what he had to do, and he is not responisble for triggerin g this prank.

I in his place would have no feeling of guilt.

Maybe that prank was a stupid and tasteless idea in the first, and the author paid a price for his stupidity? Not that I say he deserved death, but he pushed the trigger button of the events, and for a stupid motive. Tragic, yes, but then: also stupid.

Its like some fool running around and making a joke of telling people that there is a fire or a bomb. If he one day really needs help due to a fire or a bomb warning, nobody will believe him. Some things you simply just do not do.

Plenty of people deserve death for their own stupidity, in a purely Darwin Award sense. Unfortunately for the rest of us, they don't collect their prize often enough.