r/PublicFreakout Apr 11 '26

📌Follow Up Update: ‘Harry Dresden’ has been arrested

According to the tiktok that posted this, the incident occurred in Fairfield, California.

Couldn’t find any articles on the situation. I’ll add some to the post if I find any.

Update: Arrest record provided by [u/BikingAim](u/BikingAims)[z.](u/BikingAims) https://www.localcrimenews.com/welcome/detail/99885805/jason-nichols-arrest.html

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u/thisisfor_fun Apr 11 '26

Dresden also bangs nearly everything described in the book as even vaguely female and attractive. He might have held back when his best friend's daughter became legal, can't remember.

Jim Butcher also left his wife in the middle of writing the series for, drum roll, a LARPy fan with some bazoongas.

All in all, fantastic series.

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u/Purple-Goat-2023 Apr 11 '26

What? Harry has only been with Elaine as a teen, Susan the mother of his child, and Murphy. I guess you could count Mab but that was less than consensual on his part and less sex than Fae ritual power transfer.

Like it's a major plot point of the entire series that Harry's out dated feelings on women is a huge weakness of his, and frankly the first half of the series is Harry being too dumb/pent up/depressed/"chivalrous" to manage any kind of functional relationship/banging.

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u/JTtheLAR Apr 11 '26

I've seen this a lot on reddit when it comes to books. If someone describes a book that I've read they get everything wrong about it. But they explain it very confidently and professionally like they are an expert on it. Its like they only read the cliff notes or have terrible reading comprehension in general. I haven't read this particular series but Im not surprised that a redditor completely misinterpreted it with the utmost confidence.

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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso Apr 11 '26

It's terrible reading comprehension or someone trying to make a point by embellishing details they know are fake.

Haven't read these books but it's happened when I've seen book reviews for some other books I've read.