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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.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday January 19 2018, @05:58PM
But that it "worked out" for you and MDC... what is that attributable to? If the prosecutor involved in your case had wanted to bolster his or her public image to appear "tough on bombmakers" do you think it would have worked out so well? If you had been friends with the cop or prosecutor and/or had a parent who was politically connected, might you have not been prosecuted at all? And, if you had stood mute or demanded that you have representation, would that have changed your sentences or could it have not mattered in that sense? Could you have gotten off entirely with the right lawyer?
That said, I sympathize. If I'm breaking a traffic law and a cop pulls me over, I'm very inclined to admit to the cop that I was busted fairly. (Or be genuinely confused if I really didn't know what was up.) At least twice I've walked away unticketed / with a warning, and I'd like to think it was because I was cooperative. (The second circumstance was driving without seatbelt on my way home from the hospital three weeks after surgery in a region the belt was on.) On a third occasion I know that the department's policy was to always let a first offense with no immediate priors go with a warning.
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