Via Insty, I saw this little story, was enraged, and then started a Happy Dance:
The saga began at a Michigan grocery store, where Walt was simply trying to finish his job stocking frozen pizzas when two social media pranksters decided he would make a convenient target for their next viral video.
One of the young men approached Walt and politely asked him for the time. Walt, apparently unaware he was about to become somebody else’s entertainment, pulled out his phone to check.
That’s when the prankster held his own phone near Walt’s device, played a fake Apple Pay transaction sound, and pretended to steal money from him.
“I just took $10,” the prankster announced. “I just took your money,” he continued, laughing.
Walt wasn’t amused. “My life is hard enough as it is, okay? I don’t need this crap,” he told the prankster.
Naturally, the hooligan retreated to a common defense. “Bro, bro, it’s just a joke! It’s just a prank.”
But Walt wasn’t having it. “I got kids at home that went to bed without me right now! I was supposed to be off an hour ago! I gotta wake up at 5 in the morning and do 10 more stores!” he exclaimed.
The prankster attempted another apology. “I’m sorry, bro, chill. We’re just filming a video, it was just a joke—”
And that’s when Walt really let him have it. “No, you don’t! You’re probably making money off of this! I can’t even pay my god***n mortgage! And I got four kids at home! So not funny!”
That was my RCOB moment.
But then the story got better — much, much better. Read it all to get the full naches.
My main point is this: Walt should be lauded for his patience. Had those two little cocksuckers pulled that prank on me, I’d have fucked them up (with extreme violence).
Here’s thing about pranks. They aren’t funny, and they are most certainly not a joke. Their purpose is to publicly humiliate people who, by and large, don’t deserve it. With the explosion of online “content creators” [spit], this bullshit is getting way out of hand because unlike with most pranks, the audience is not just people in the immediate vicinity of the prank, but (potentially) the whole fucking world.
I need to stop now, before I get really angry and say something I might regret.
The article didn’t provide a link to Walt’s GoFundMe page, but here it is. Feel free to show your support.