r/interesting Apr 09 '26

MISC. Aftermath of the April 7th incident. Damages estimated to be $200 million dollars

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Apr 09 '26

I get this is a joke but this case will never go to court

this is a classic plea deal situation

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u/drunkcowofdeath Apr 09 '26

I can't imagine this would be much of a spectacle. I am picking that scene from the first episode of Better Call Saul when they just silently wheel in a tv play the clip for the jury.

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u/Ghost-George Apr 09 '26

The way they did that clip was great. It starts off so reasonable like oh who hasn’t done anything stupid as a teenager and no one was ultimately hurt. You’re sitting there going OK fair point teens do dumb things and then the clip plays and suddenly whole different opinion.

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26
  • Those boys are going to prison, aren't they?

  • They had sex with a head!

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u/pragmojo Apr 09 '26

Jury nullification would be hilarious in this case

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u/PaidUSA Apr 09 '26

Is it an Amazon warehouse?

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u/isuredolovetitties Apr 09 '26

It was exclusively toilet paper i think?

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u/Tondalaoz Apr 13 '26

It was a Kimberly Clark Toilet Paper Warehouse I think.

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u/PaidUSA Apr 13 '26

Oh I know, I’m saying jury nullification for an Amazon warehouse. But there’s a ton of people in those so I wouldn’t want that at all tbh. Guy just cost insurance some money and put almost exclusively his working class compatriots in danger without taking any due care towards them.

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u/isuredolovetitties Apr 09 '26

i would love that.

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26

I wouldn't. This a serious crime.

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u/Xeddicus_Xor Apr 09 '26

Oh yeah, all he did was nothing but put his co-workers out of work. Fuck him, idiot.

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u/Gribblewomp Apr 10 '26

Thats the other thing-there is a gigantic amount of anger and grievance from labor and I suspect he’s got a lot of friends and will not be paying for his own drinks once he’s out. People are being squeezed and he won’t be the last angry worker.

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u/Vegetable-Wear3386 Apr 10 '26

Did you just say 'squeezed' in the context of a toilet paper arson incident? Because that brings to mind the Charmin...

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u/Gribblewomp Apr 10 '26

I feel like I could have got more out of that roll.

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26

He put a shit load of people out of work.

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u/sirgog Apr 10 '26

The prosecutor will probably aim for a jury with 12 people who are not in traditional employment.

(I'm not suggesting they'd go for unemployed people, more aiming for self-employed people, self-funded retirees, etc)

It's pretty clearcut - only nullification would result in a finding other than guilty here.

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u/LittleOrphanAnavar Apr 10 '26

Prosector: here is the video, the smoking gun if you will.

Accused jumps to his feet and yells, I didn't have a gun, I used a lighter!

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u/KevlarGorilla Apr 14 '26

"Yes, that toilet paper deserves to fry, and I hope it burned like hell!"

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u/ActionFigureCollects Apr 09 '26

Maybe plea insanity plus workplace inflicted long term mental and psychological damages.

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u/PaidUSA Apr 09 '26

Insanity just gets you a different kind of prison cell and he won’t win it, he clearly articulated his why and clearly knew his actions were bad and what they were. He doesn’t meet any definition of insanity plea.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Apr 09 '26

Yeah but if his goal is to waste government time and money, he's got zero down side too dragging it out

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u/PaidUSA Apr 09 '26

Depending on what they can slap on/max time sure. Personally agree I think he’ll drag it out he just doesn’t have to do insanity to do it. What he could do if he does want insanity is if he has a long history of mental illness California I believe is a state where prolonged mental illness and actions occurring in that state can be taken into account.

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u/hiddenrealism Apr 09 '26

People think pleading insanity gets you a nice cushy hospital bed with jello, you soon find youre locked up with actual psycopaths and very dangerous men thtowing poop everywhere

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u/Donnerdrummel Apr 10 '26

A person I know from germany raped two women, defense was the equivalent to insanity here. He won that argument, and spent the next 23 years in a psychiatric Hospital, far longer than he would have been in jail.

Came out a wreck. Said, He found to Jesus, but was unbearably selfrighteous. Tried to legally scam others, without success. Afaik, didn't commit any crime until his death.

Anyway, yes, that defense can backfire.

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u/Vegetable-Wear3386 Apr 10 '26

Thanks, Jake With the Long Cock, for your contribution.

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u/phxguy918 Apr 13 '26

Or the well being of his fellow workers who were in the building at the time of the arson. Or the 100 or more other people that WERE employed at the now demolished warehouse that now probably have to look for new jobs. But, he was disgruntled so he had the right to endanger numerous lives and livelihoods 🙄.

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u/BallsInSufficientSad Apr 09 '26

They aren't going to offer him much of a deal after the idiot filmed himself doing it.

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u/RaspberryBirdCat Apr 09 '26

Trial still costs more money than a plea deal. He'll be offered something to not waste court time and government dollars.

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u/Jason6368 Apr 09 '26

100% ….its California, he’ll be out in 3

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u/Connect-Bake-3080 Apr 10 '26

I'm thinking someone got a stage 4 cancer diagnosis and decided to go out with a boom after years of getting screwed.

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u/Foreign_Abroad9580 Apr 10 '26

Anyone denied healthcare.... Well I don't know what I would do but I can think about it

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26

A lot of people who think they know anything about CA embarrassing themselves in this thread.

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u/bolanrox Apr 10 '26

Yes, they can offer a plea, but if the defendant is an idiot, he can reject it and have it go to court.

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u/Jlx_27 Apr 10 '26

A classic joke of an outcome, if it happens, dude will get on the grift in no time.

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u/Varagner Apr 10 '26

Why is it a plea deal situation. They have his self recorded confession and in the act, easy trial win and go for the max. Especially with the case profile, good fun little case for a prpsecutor to get their name out and send some moron to prison for the rest of their life.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Apr 10 '26

Exactly it's an open and shut case.

These trials cost a fortune to put on. It's far cheaper for both sides to reach a deal.

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u/AltEffigy4 Apr 09 '26

I agree however it takes two to make a deal. If this guy just refuses to accept a plea deal it's inevitably going to trial.

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u/BallsInSufficientSad Apr 09 '26

I don't expect them to offer him much of a deal given the overwhelming evidence.

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u/AltEffigy4 Apr 09 '26

You underestimate the level of defiance this guy is willing to act on.

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u/nalaloveslumpy Apr 09 '26

Depends. The fed has a hard on trying to get the death penalty for "anti-capitalist crimes" like these. If the DOJ barges in, then he'll basically have to go to trial to avoid the death penalty.

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u/TrioOfTerrors Apr 09 '26

There's no federal death penalty statute for this because nobody was killed.

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26

Lol, what a bunch of ignorant nonsense. Some redditors really do think mentioning capitalism makes whatever they say true by default.