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TikTokers in Trouble for Starting Forest Fires as Backdrops for Videos

#fire#fires#jiggle#powder#mountains
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0:00 [Music] so tick-tockers in pakistan are facing charges for starting forest fires as backdrops for their videos whoa doing dances or something ████ nick how do you feel about it i know you love kickstarter i think that's uh dedication to the craft of tick tock that's high production epic as ████ yeah when you're doing the ████ the jiggle jiggle song and ████ and the forces the jiggle jiggle so that's much more current than the macbook you still do it and away we go i wonder what they were thinking about like how they gonna turn those fires off there's a green screen option on all these platforms like it doesn't look as good you don't you don't want you know it's a green screen you want practical effects you want visual effects honestly worth it i am mad at it what makes it

0:51 kind of epic well it's in slow-mo too it's practical this is my favorite content i think it's really rude that they don't put the fire out when they're done it's like literally well you just did can't you call someone put it out the wind will take it out dude it's fine i think that makes it worse nah the wind like gets rid of it i think if the fire was bigger or looked better so you think it's too small yeah because they only just little just like one little string you need it to look like a michael bailey yeah yeah like bad boys three she obviously is an amateur right if she did this full time it would probably be a bigger fire you know she's probably like i'm putting time but not too much time because i have a normal job do you think she gets good brand deals from this she has 11.5 million tick tock followers the fight she's sponsored by the fire department they're in on it dude they put out the fires afterwards you start it we put it out looks like a shrub fire though did it destroy the whole area or something um i

1:43 i don't think this they don't know if this particular one did but it's the thing that's happening a lot i'm sure she scanned the area to see if there was people there and then since it was empty you know she deemed see it's she's not the problem it's probably the copycats the people that want to do they always want to top each other like the ice bucket challenge so then like now someone's doing a whole forest and ████ imagine city challenge let's let the whole city on fire yeah here's another one of two guys uh starting a fire whoa yeah i hate to say it looks freaking cool oh it doesn't look like it's just bts yeah i love behind the scenes stuff yeah and then they just look at that isn't that crazy are they just laughing city lights and that's not even choreography that's just them so like what what some of the people in pakistan are trying to um make happen is that there's places like australia that suffer from like fire season like really vicious fires that got so much land that can get scorched

2:33 so they made it like a you're like a i think when you you're caught with arson it's like a lifetime prison system so they're trying to get the same thing so that before this gets out of control they're like we need stricter punishment for this they need to make an example nah they gave me they gave me good ideas i think next time i go to barbell i'm going to set a bench on fire and then i'll squat put the plates on fire yeah yeah yeah that'd be funny yeah your knee sleeps on fire oh your new ones can withstand it yeah [Laughter] yeah so they um they filed the complaint the police fought the complaint against that um girl and then she denied starting it and said there's no harm in making videos the fire was there i just capitalized on

3:23 it yeah that's what she said it's a nice dress remember those ████ that did that destroyed our southern california forest for having like a baby gender role yeah that's more annoying dude that's way ████ crazy i still don't know if it was a boy or girl or when the getty almost got burned down because some homeless guy was cooking was that what happened didn't uh just i think last week like in laguna hills or something a bunch of mansions got burned yeah this yeah this was this week yeah i think it just happened there's a big fire yeah a bunch of houses got was it another homeless dude making a hot dog was it a homeless guy doing a gender reveal i remember when like the 210 mountains all caught on fire yeah i'm i was driving back from simi valley and um once i got into the middle of those mountains the fire had just started and i remember seeing like there was one fire truck there and they were on that

4:13 fire and i was like damn i was like hopefully it doesn't spread and like an hour later just the whole ████ place was on like caught i know i was like damn it doesn't spit imagine if that's what the firefighters do when they go to the fire like damn hope it doesn't spread see ya yeah i was in the azusa mountains because i would see uh the firefighter plane like they would go and i think they go to what's that lake over there i forgot in like san dimas or whatever and they'll pick up water and they come and the bottom opens out and you just see like water yeah it looks dope whenever they do that though when the fires are so big that ████ looks like nothing yeah like they dump the water you're like comma bro how disheartening is it to like set that all up fly it's probably like 20 grand for everything you dump it in nothing happens like you get steam it does look so funny it's like when you're like got a whole pizza and the guy grinds a tiny bit of pepper and you're like hello

5:04 say say win tell me when shots are crazy because just like a month ago now when i was driving back from semi there was another fire on the side and i had my windows rolling rolled down and it was like cold cold and right when i got to the fire like super hot like i had to roll up my window and then right when i passed it it was cold again starting to sense a theme with you dude every time you see me there's fires around yeah that's just crazy though but then even like the san gabriel mountains like remember like five six years ago those are all on fire because i used to live in temple city and i remember waking up and my car was just full of ash yeah that's right oh yeah oh you turn on the ac and it smells like a ████ chimney in there did you guys just play with fire when you were kids play with fire yeah every day every day dude i would go my dad's shed and i'd be like okay what's flammable in here and i would just grab all kind of

5:55 spray paint and i would just like make a make a little fire pit and i would just shoot everything in there and just see what would be flammable and i would like matches i would do everything i would try to make i would but you're just so dumb you don't know anything right so i'm like oh like gun powder so oh baby powder same thing so you like powder and then you know like the caps from a cap gun i'm like oh those make loud noises so i'd get like four of those put it in there and get like a shoelace and i tape it and then i would like light it and like throw it and like go to the side powder cloud smells so good remember once you guys did you guys ever figure out how to um modify like piccolo piece yeah pickles yeah you smash one end you ever did that and it becomes a ████ rocket

6:46 yeah all the big kids on our street would do that like it would just be like you just see these big kids tie them all up on like a little like car isn't that crazy that without internet that became like a word of mouth thing to do yeah we should bring that back that should be the new tick tock challenge nobody nobody lights up a regular piccolo peep nobody it has to be modified yeah you gotta like mess with it you know what's the coolest thing you guys remember those uh that little firework that if you light it and you throw it it just starts spinning yeah and then when you throw that into the pool it keeps going yeah yeah yeah on the surface of the water no like it could be in the water it'll just keep going until it goes out you're like whoa so we just keep throwing them in yeah we keep throwing them in and the parents come home why does it smell like gunpowder and you see burn marks on the side of the pool no idea mommy let's go to a local pool and just test it out we almost set our backyard on

7:37 fire when we were kids uh because we forgot we all forgot our keys to like get into the house and we used to take the school bus so we got home and it was me and my brother michael were just chilling in the backyard and he really had to go bathroom number two so he eventually he just ████ in the grass and then he was all worried like oh like mom's gonna get mad and at the time we had a like a little thing for a turtle his name was angus but it was like all this water and for some reason we had our barbecue there we thought like oh we can just light the poo on fire so then we go and did that but then the flame started but then immediately started spreading onto the grass and we were like oh ████ so we were like using our hands trying to throw water from the turtle on the fire and could save us put it out and then we ran to got the hose and we sprayed it out so like it was just ████ and burnt but it was like a lot of the grass was burnt did it smell worse after the ████

8:28 burned i don't even remember but i just remember we were just like ████ like we probably shouldn't have done that now they're definitely going to know you know there's just this huge burn mark and we got crap and we're getting so much do you really have gotten in trouble for ████ in the yard i don't know why he was tripping out he's like oh we got to do something with it what did you guys do when he was shooting did you block him or did you just like not because it was just us too so he was just went over there and he just looked the other way like are you done yet let me know when you're done so it's not gay yeah i still remember that because we were like nervous when it started happening oh ████ and we were right next to the pond so we were just like this trying to throw water on it what did you use to wipe i don't even remember honestly yeah have you guys ever had to go in nature and then like you didn't have anything to watch oh yes i did that happened i used a leaf use a leaf would you use lift god i used my underwear that i had on i remember it

9:18 was it lift god i thought it was life god oh i've used this lifeguard [Laughter] but i was going hiking in arizona and we had just like a bunch of pizza and wings the night before and so like after we were hiking yeah as we were going i told my homie i was like yo actually let's turn around real quick we're not that far in i was like i got a ████ he's like nah just hold it it'll be cool but it's like for me when i'm with your body it makes it like worse right yeah dude yeah that ████ massages the poop outside like we were getting a little further in i was like hey no i gotta i got a ████ and then they were like no let's just go let's just go trust me so now we get in and we're about like it's only two hour hike you can practice you can hold it in it takes practice you could hold it in for quite a while we were like two miles in and then i was like yo i got a ████ so i just ran into

10:10 the like behind some stuff and i pooed and i didn't have anything so i had to take off my underwear and use that did you guys just i just left it there and then because we were going to water holes anyways like in arizona so then i just kind of got in and like washed myself off yeah as your friend is swimming next to your ass that's what he gets that ████ jerk splashable with your feet as he's following you you're so silly you're so silly life of god [Music] you

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