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Serial Slingshot Shooter, 81, Arrested in California

#slingshot#princeking#ballbearings#spear#peasant
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0:00 [Music] in a California neighborhood there was somebody who was dubbed the serial slingshot shooter you guys heard of this dude I did yeah all right sound for years for years he's allegedly antagonized residents of his neighborhood by just slinging slingshots and cracking people's windows and cars and that sounds like some fun as a kid really fun 10 years with that that's crazy just firing ball bearings from slingshot dozens of local homes breaking Windows narrowly missing people and all this just for a decade we had a neighborhood bully that would shoot everybody in the ass with a BB gun my dad used to do that really do you shoot you in the ass yeah we'd be shooting in the backyard he'd be like go set up the

0:50 cans and I dude that's fun a that's pretty sick yeah your dad's a trickster yo but those copper ones can ████ go through clothes it hurs cuz back then it wasn't Airsoft it was copper yeah yeah that's bad wait so he he just terrorized the whole neighborhood yeah for years and they couldn't catch him yeah nobody knew who it was did he own a window business oh cuz you make hell of money dude that's a good idea oh your window's broken again well this guy you want bulletproof glass this guy's finally been arrested he's 81 years old that's that's why they can't find him they've been looking for kids they've been doing it since he was 71 yeah apparently there's there has been a lengthy investigation what if he just sold old he was aiming at the birds

1:40 was missing he just like maybe he thought he got his wrist oh ████ he's been doing it his entire life this is in ausa oh name is Prince King what how the ████ you going to have a name called Prince King last name is King his parents named him Prince he's Prince King and he's none of that that's crazy sounds white Prince King sounds white sounds pretty white but I don't know doesn't say that no uh White I don't know about that I have two cousins three cousins they're Prince king and queen they're brothers and sisters oh wow what Prince king queen is the names well there the oldest one is King then the the second boy is Prince and then I have a homie who whose kids are named King and Prince yeah are they Filipinos Filipino Japanese yeah King Boo deante

2:33 kingon oh man I didn't know that King was I would never ████ name my kid King what would you name your kid peasant why cuz I want them to grow up like not thinking that sounds like you don't support Asians not even your own nope peasant I don't support my own child that isn't even born yet peasant takawa yep cuz I want them to grow up with a chip on their shoulder cuz I think that's what makes people fight against something and get something they want you could just hit your your kids with ball bearings as they grow up I'll do that I'll do that you want your kid to have a like artificial chip on his shoulder though cuz it's not even real like a predestined one yeah you're like that's a that's a hard like that's like he goes to class and somebody's just trying to call him by his first name like hey peasant yeah yeah no but then iMed I'm

3:23 going to tell him stories of like dude you know the the unifier of Japan was his he his only job was a ████ stool so the warlord could step on the stool and get on the horse so he was a ████ foot stol servant that was his job and when he grew up he became a ████ unifier of Japan you can do that too you little peasant ████ but not today not today not today today you wash the dishes 18 years of being co peasant and working hard now turn around so I can shoot you in your ass he bully that's dop you gave me a good idea there's no I don't believe this guy only did this for 10 years 70 to 80 he was a terror like he had to do this his whole life search warrant was executed on his home during

4:13 the search ball bearings and a slingshot were recovered from his residence offenses had been happening for 9 to 10 years police said during which time dozens of citizens were being victimized by a Serial slingshot shooter a sou say full of different slingshots he's like today Dam yeah you think this is a case of uh boys will be boys can you pick yourself at is that a verdict is that a real thing you can say do you think at 70 you'd still be a goofy Troublemaker I thought dud yeah there's so many like real and Tik toks of like like what dads do when the moms are away and it's always dads doing the funnest ████ with their kids yeah it's always like the dads just make whatever the kid had an imagination of now come to life cuz he

5:03 has access to Home Depot or whatever ████ dude I always wanted a crafty Dad I just had an abusive one but like the crafty ████ you could have been crafty abusive oh that's true cuz some people get both yeah I didn't even get the other he must he had have been pretty crafty I think he was probably abusive because he couldn't finish his craft no but like some of my friends snipped his piano wires I ████ I was crafty but like the uh I was CED some of my friends had actual tree houses yeah I never knew anybody with a tree house yeah no for real Simpson that's not even an Asian thing like yeah yeah that's a white people thing bro okay one of my friends my brother's friends Japanese dad had the great combination of abusive but also he built half of a treehouse and it was fun that's pretty tight he built like a um

5:54 the bottom half or the lower half cuz if it's raining the bottom half it was it was a it was like a PL platform so what he did was uh it wasn't a treehouse it was like a tower like for the Medieval Times okay so he built a platform on the ████ tree and then the guard Tower thing and we could go up with the ladder and then you can look over and in the back there was a a park so when kids play baseball and ████ like that we could watch with the binoculars so was the house for his dad for the kid or the dad I don't know now right kind of creepy but also he was a massive Troll And while he's watering the GL grass he would like completely ████ drowes in water that's pretty cool awesome that's fun how was he abusive though box in a blanket in ways like that like that okay okay but it wasn't fun we didn't want to

6:45 we didn't want to get W or like yeah damn police said they were able to arrest Mr King when a recent uptaking complaints revealed a pattern and allowed them to narrow it down to a specific residence that leads me to believe that like the guys's like getting on and old he's like I'm going to get all my Mischief out now you know what I mean cuz you got like way less to lose the older you get so you start ████ blasting people way more does he going to jail though I don't know for life for the rest of life it's like 6 months you're sentences rest of Life 3 weeks yeah and he could you could potentially die in jail that was probably his retirement plan he's like I didn't get the proper retirement plan though right it's not like assault yeah he nearly missed people yeah and on top of that too it's like he's going to die if he's got nothing to leave nobody to leave any of his belongings to you just be like all right take my money and my

7:36 slingshot and my slingshot bury me with my slingshot don't take my slingshot here's the here's the code to my safe have you guys seen a uh spear fishing with a slingshot so they uh attach a reel that's on your wrist and then you Spider-Man ████ it's got the slingshot with the like it's like a end of a spear for the spear fishing with kind a crossbow the original spear fishing gun it's not the it's on your hand yeah that's the original one oh on your hand like the like it's a band right and you pull it back and you hold the spear and you let go oh yeah yeah yeah yeah so it's a mini version with the slingshot so it's like so it's like you hold it like a real slingshot right and then you you're above ground and then you shoot it and it flies and it hits the fish and then you reel it in from here oh I think I se that is it a ball or is it like a

8:26 spear too it's a little spear oh ball yeah that sounds scary I feel like I would like I would hit my own hand ball bearing I know in the water ball bearing no ████ line just killing fish for sport I bought one of those Teemu slingshots I thought it would be pretty cool it didn't work oh man yeah it was all like heavy duty and then it went like this and just went what I feel like slingshots are like the entry way for a young like kid when you watch Dennis D Menace or like ████ Bart Simpson and then that's like the thing that that every boy wants yeah before you get a gun you think that's still relevant though because what what are kids watching today where they see a slingshot I think kids go straight to wanting Airsoft yeah cuz for us it was Bart Simpson Dennis the men AR around them more really I think they're just watching Tik toks now Bob world yeah

9:16 they're watching Tik toks Instagram YouTube they're watching Ukraine vers Russia IDF versus they're watching Ukraine versus Russia hell yeah just live stream holy ████ you know what I really want you know those you know those guys that make boomerangs out of any like shape oh that's pretty tight hey boomerangs are really fun to play with yeah but it never came to my hand though it never came back dude when when you get when you get decent enough and it does come to your hand oh it does for sure mine is always like I throw it and it comes back over there I'm like I'm here well if you also mess up the catch it hurts yeah yeah but like the idea that it can come back it's ████ phenomenal to see so you got you got throw it properly yeah there's of course there's a right way mine's always over the fence I'm just like ████ well I won't buy it never comes back that's

10:07 just a bent stick I me what the ████ I got a hanger one time and I taped two together and I was like that's a boomerang ████ stuck in the tree I'm like well ████ you know like ass does a tao want boy ████ like oh dude he loves boy ████ what does he watch like we had Bart Simpson Dennis we had that right that info yeah where does he get the I think he sees it from putting it together not so much the shows so like if he sees a slingshot he knows this thing launches ████ and he's like that's ████ sick or if he sees like a like a mini flamethrower he goes dude this thing shoots fire so it's just like seeing what something can do and then like his imagination starts going wild now that's tight when he saw a drunken master did he want one of those bamboos

10:58 that like flares out oh yeah those like little retractable bows now yeah did you want to be in the a he has a broad sword that he's in the backyard what he's a broadsword like ████ going I told him you could only play with that outside you're going to ████ chop up the ████ inside the house that's so he'll go outside just start flinging that ████ around yeah my dad never let me play with any weapons just hangers to hang up the B I thought you I thought your dad was gone by the time you were like 10 or something no I was still working for him I just remember the time my dad was like I was like he can't buy no BB gun nothing oh yeah yeah he's like here's a hanger go hang up clothes I'm like Dam even though you guys sold BB guns at the Swami no we didn't sell it we were selling T-shirts oh I had to secretly buy the BB gun oh hell how come he didn't want you to do any of that was he Christian or something or no no he just like you need to work and I was all right no time

11:49 should have started slanging the hangers Dam that ████ was wor called it slangers the minute I trust taica enough I'll probably buy him a gun and then we'll go shooting together when would that be do you think maybe maybe when he's eight seven or eight okay yeah I mean long as you have supervision yeah I'm not going to be like see you later we'll go to the range and then we'll go through like T this is a 50 cal that we go step by step what's a good what's a good first gun for an 8-year-old they make them mine was usually they're called water guns they're called what water guns B he even wrap his hand around a 19 no he probably a rifle that was the thing my so my dad was 82nd Airborne so he I I was born on a military base so

12:39 when I was like six or seven I started shooting and Ticking guns apart six or seven Dam yeah he would time me on like taking a part of Glock 19 I had to lay it out and then put it back together your dad's cool and then he never he never um safety the guns he told me exactly where every gun was and then we would run through scenarios of like if somebody knocks on the door you look out the window this way if like he taught me how to be home alone like really early wow so he would run me through scenarios like look out the window here where you're not in sight and then he planted like two of the old cordless phones right by the the deepest uh Corner in the house yeah and he's like you sit here with your back against the corner and you hold the gun in front of the door and you call 911 so he was like damn that's dope when when well like he

13:29 started teaching me how to shoot when I was SI so like maybe I was 9 10 when he started like leaving me home alone and then he'd like come back and knock on the door and then he'd like he would be wearing something else something I didn't recognize wig hello no just like something I couldn't see his face and then I would go like yeah he would you shot him no he wouldn't come in he would he would see me going and then he would he had the old noas that's dope and then he before I could call he would like call he be like hey it's me oh wow that's so cool man creation ████ like teaching me how to clear rooms when I was like seven oh wow CQB at 7 really outdated but but that's survival skills man oh yeah my dad was teaching me how to play

14:23 piano don't forget he's still a jerk he shot me with a BB gun he's still mean no trigger

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