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Youtuber "King Of Random" is Charged With Possessing Explosives

posted by mrpg on Thursday January 18 2018, @10:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the random.choice() dept.

tonyPick writes:

Jonathan Grant Thompson, the man behind the popular science-focused YouTube channel King of Random has been charged with two counts of second-degree felony possession of an explosive device.

Thompson, 37, runs the King of Random YouTube channel, boasting about 200 videos and 8.9 million subscribers. His videos are of science experiments and are in the vein of science-based shows on networks such as the Discovery Channel.

Thompson has been making videos and putting them on YouTube since 2010. His videos have garnered more than 1.6 billion combined views.

According to the article the first complaint "resulted from a citizen complaint via Facebook Messenger on June 15 about Thompson exploding a dry ice bomb", and for the second:

Thompson said a friend had left him a bag of powder, which he believed to be from a deconstructed firework.

After lighting a couple of small "control fires" Thompson and Timothy Burgess, 20, of Ontario, Canada, ignited a larger pile which exploded, the police report states. According to the report, firefighters heard the explosion from the nearby fire station.

Google Maps shows there is a South Jordan fire station 0.2 miles from Thompson's home.

The explosion left Burgess with small particles of burned material embedded in his arms, charges say.

Burgess was charged with one count of second-degree felony possession of an explosive device. Court records show prosecutors have asked a judge to issue a $15,000 warrant for his arrest

Originally spotted via AvE's channel.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @01:00AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @01:00AM (#624503)

    Our amendments do not grant rights to the people. Our government does not grant rights to the people. As understood by the framers of our constitution, the rights are granted by God.

    We added the amendments as extra assurance. The amendments place redundant restrictions on government. This is not quite the same as granting rights to the people.

    So a person in Ontario does have these rights. They are however being violated by his government.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @03:13AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @03:13AM (#624541)

    Then your rights are fairy tale. Just like the fairy tale that they think granted them.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @04:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @04:05PM (#624742)

      So I guess that means you don't want yours, right?

  • (Score: 2) by arcz on Friday January 19 2018, @09:12PM

    by arcz (4501) on Friday January 19 2018, @09:12PM (#624905) Journal
    Actually it was only a few revolutionaries that really believed that. Most of the people who actually wrote the fucking constitution were deists, just saying.