YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail

Re:YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail by pandemicsoul on Friday May 12, 2023 @11:28AM (#35917588)

This is an utterly bizarre take. Just because he didn't hurt anyone doesn't mean he couldn't have. He could have started a wildfire, his plane could have crashed into hikers, he could have hurt himself and required a publicly funded rescue effort. It's like you're trying to argue that we shouldn't have rule of law??? This kind of prosecution is in place to create a disincentive to doing things that could threaten life, public property, etc.

And anyway, fines only penalize poor people. Someone who can afford to AIRLIFT A PLANE and disassemble it would not be disincentivized by a fine.

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Re:YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail by ChoGGi on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:34PM (#35921989)

> First off he crashed the plane deliberately into empty forest. There's no hikers in the place he crashed it, he knows that.

How?

He's in trouble for covering up, not so much what he did.

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Re:YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail by byyyy on Friday May 12, 2023 @09:05PM (#35924405)

Agreed he should be in trouble for that. But probably not jailtime.

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Re:YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail by pvaldes on Saturday May 13, 2023 @02:07PM (#35930983)

> Should someone who runs a car into an empty wall be charged with jail time?

Could be. This depends a lot on the owner of the wall

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Re:YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail by byyyy on Saturday May 13, 2023 @07:09PM (#35933700)

Wall is undamaged. Car is damaged. In that case nothing happens. (In CA, where this took place)

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