House calls are super dangerous across every industry. People shoot, dogs get loose, dogs are loosed on purpose, everything you can imagine. People will call you, say "be here at three" and then when you show up right at 3, in uniform and a work truck, they greet you with a gun like "what are you doing here, you're here to rob me" "no I'm the person you called" "oh my bad" It's so stupid.
@@leethax100 Yeah dude I used to struggle with dangerous dogs even as a paper carrier as a teen it was bad. I'm in Canada so at least nobody tried to blast me. Jeez.
Well now there’s a new fear for home owners too because of the 2 men pretending to be electricians for their local companies. I guess it’s scary on both sides. World is changing and evil .
@@frizzisle "wHaT RaCe" typical white conservative who's only logical response to societal decadence is "hes black checks out" how about you grow a backbone and realize that when you raise children incorrectly you get this kind of behavior.
Exactly. This new generation are obsessed with labels, they slap labels on absolutely everyone and everything for any and every reason. When I was younger, we despised labels and being labelled by government and authority figures. Gen z have learned that you can glean sympathy points for certain labels, especially supposed mental health problems, which they love self-diagnosing. People with real and serious mental health issues aren't so quick to spray it around and use it as an excuse for being an absolute loser and a crappy human being. It also takes the already stretched services provided to help real sufferers to the edge of breaking point and so the people who genuinely need the help cant get it, thanks to a pack of narcissistic, lazy losers using it as an umbrella to shield them from taking any kind of responsibility for their wretched, self-indulgent, unfulfilled, sad little lives.
@@stevefromchicago8277lol I smoke that marijuana I haven't shot at anybody. Imo smoking pot doesn't turn you into something bad but if you're already a PoS then it might heighten that. In theory it should calm him the fuck down though.
Based on the initial story from the Witness, it sounds like an "accidental discharge" aka "negligent discharge": Kid probably just didn't know how to "carry" properly & safely, as just logically, if the Kid wanted to do actual harm, he could have emptied on him, and probably actually hit the AT&T worker. But with only ONE shot going off, it may have just been accidental.
I worked for AT&T as a tech for 20 years. The reason that dude was so quick to call his manager is because the company is way more evil than the shooter. They will probably try to fire the tech for this.
@@ssdtrain1 you know everyones poor right now, right? Most younger people are living with parents now, because rent prices are insane. The average age to afford a house now is 56. 80% of people 18-26 are living with parents now, because they have no choice. Wages have stayed the same for 40 years, while living costs have tripled.
I had a guy climb a tree next to the telephone pole I was working on. He thought I was tapping his phone, tried to jump and grab me. He almost succeeded, but gravity won :-]
I'm a home security technician and often worry about situations like this. I never know who's home I'm stepping into. People get security systems for a number of reasons, and sometimes it's to protect themselves from a very dangerous person who has access to their home. On multiple occasions I've come close to just booking it out of there because the homeowner was giving me really bad vibes. I just try to be as non-threatening as possible while constantly being aware of my surroundings. I always do my best to get a count of the number of people in the house Just a tip for everyone: if someone is coming to your house to service some equipment, don't quietly follow them everywhere. Make some small talk or ask questions, but don't just stand there watching us. It's very unsettling. And please, let everyone else in the house know that a tech is coming to do work, for their sake and for mine.
@@nameismetatoo4591 No, that's fair. Earlier this year my wife scheduled a home security tech to visit without telling me. Lady showed up at like 9 or 10 at night and knocked loud as hell, so I showed up to the door with a gun ready because I thought it was sketchy. She was legit, but at the moment I thought my night was about to get creative in a bad way. Super awkward.
I've had telephone and power people think they can just trespass on my property and open my main gate... I've got large dogs and they have no right to just let themselves into my property
As a service plumber years ago, it didnt happen often but sometimes you would come to a job or neighborhood that just felt off or had people going out of their way to seem sketchy. On those calls we just drove on buy, and found some sort of reason to reschedule in perpetuity.
As a plumber, one day I had a call to a lets call it value priced apartments for a water leak. It was some damage that started 20 years before when the excavation for the pool snagged a 2-1/2 inch copper water line. I had to shut the water off to repair it and drain the water down. After about 45 minutes of the water being shut off 1 had 3 gang members from 3 different gangs come to tell me I had to turn the water back on. As I was thinking to myself I really have a knack for bringing people together, I mean they at least agreed on this one thing, I told them that I would not be turning the water back on until it was repaired as it takes a couple hours to drain it down.
@robertkubrick3738 as a plumber I learned over the years about shutting the water down, that telling people was a mistake. I would just grab my tools and material and then shut the water off and start working. When people would come to bitch about the water being off and ask if I knew something about it I would say "Yeah I JUST got called out here to get the water going again. I'm trying to figure out what's happening. I'll let you know when it's back on" The JEDI MIND trick of Plumbers was way more effective. When I tried to be nice and let everyone know the water was gonna be off soon for a couple hours, all I'd get was STATIC. ONE thing to remember is ya have to lock the shutoff valve or have someone stand guard so the one person who knew about the shutoff valve. Sometimes just taking the handle OFF worked. I have been blasted and flooded out by forgetting this one part.
@@AutoHoax I notified the manager, the others found out by it being off. It just sucked that I had nowhere with a valve to shut off the majority of the complex. The pipe was 2-1/2 inch and I didn't have a Jet Sweat in that size and neither did the plumbing supply, It was going to take hours to drain down after I cut it.
@robertkubrick3738 Yeah, that's a difficult one. I remember the day I bought my first jet sweat kit it was like a miracle. Then when pro press came out it was like the second miracle. We had a bunch of apartments with copper slab leaks. We knew the copper was bad because the leaks weren't from kinks or rocks. The copper was deteriorating from bad manufacture process. So we told the customer we would pro press and no warranty. We couldn't silver solder braze w/o just creating more leaks. So we pro pressed and got down the road. Never had one of the repairs come undone or leak. I've been retired now since 2013 . I miss the trade. If I wasn't handicapped I be right back out there.
In the late 80's I was a cable TV sub contractor in Cleveland. One of my co-workers literally had a friend riding shotgun. You wouldn't believe the sh*t I saw.
The most I've done is raise my voice on their support hotline because I knew that particular support agent was lying to me, and casually tell the field technicians how much their support team sucks. The response from the field guys is usually something like "I know, they have no idea what they're talking about most the time". The field techs have been great for me so far, but jeez those support guys on the phone are either very untrained, very dumb, or told to lie (or some combination of those).
She said she thought he was having a mental breakdown. Looks like maybe drug induced psychosis. Or maybe psychotic and self medicating? At any rate there is definitely a mental health issue at play. Lots of that going around these days. 😢 Edit: She meaning grandma.
I see this a lot in certain families, especially in certain cultures, tend to infantilize their men, treating them like they’re just misunderstood children way past any age that excuse has any relevance. You see mothers, grandmothers, older sisters etc. enabling and supporting deadbeat men no matter what they do.
Let me get this straight. This guy can shoot at an AT&T worker, high on meth, in possession of 3g of meth, AND can assault on officer hitting him in the head several times. Just to serve maybe 5, 6 years tops. But Dexter Taylor can get 10 years for building and possessing firearms without a license (not selling). Our justice system is a joke
I had a homeowner come at me with a gun when I did utility locating, all I had to do was verify overhead utilities and close the ticket....Dude is the one that called 811 too and got all upset I was in his backyard. These people are deranged.
Yeah I use to run Verizon fios underground and had customers upset that we ran fiber through the front lawn. They would call the township and the cops only to find out they couldn't stop us.
@@calebsimmons4987 Bro when these fools put in a ticket, are aware that they have utilities in their backyard that need to be worked on, then don't answer the phone or door and the gate is unlocked, of course we're gonna try to walk in and out as quick as we can to just close the damn ticket
Meth *causes* rapid mental decline. You know how many meth heads could've been completely normal people? The choice of doing that drug alone can lead someone down the path to crazy. It's the lack of sleep. That's a fast lane to psychosis.
I did this job for years. You would think the most dangerous part of the job is climbing poles and ladders - it's actually the people you deal with. I dealt with threats, attempted robberies and was shot at once while on a pole (Luckily it was only a pellet gun.) Some crazy old man thought I was disconnecting his service.
Well a gun is literally everyone’s right drugs or not. Having a gun doesn’t make you a lowlife. Using your logic the cops are lowlifes. Using your gun against unarmed people or people who aren’t trying to do serious physical harm makes you a lowlife. Huge difference
My line of thinking while watching: 1.) Unprovoked shooting, mhm 2.) Attempted murder, mhm 3.) Cowardly ambush-style shooting, mhm 4.) Defenseless victim, mhm 5.) Victim is public servant, mhm 6.) Suspect ran, jogging *Gee, I˘m 99% sure I know..." 7.) He is my grandson Yup, 100% sure
An ambush would mean he was waiting for the worker. Attempted murder requires the intent to kill be proven, otherwise, it's aggravated assault. I highly recommend knowing what words mean before using them, little buddy.
@@tomfuchary where did I write "ambush" explicitly? I wrote "ambush-style". Semantics are important, true. Do people say they feel "ambushed" when something happens unexpectedly in otherwise safe and unsuspectable situation? Or when someone waits for someone to turn their back before attacking, do we not say he "ambushed" the other guy? I didn't mean he parallel-ambushed him, L-shape ambushed him, or X-shape ambushed him. If you know what that means.. P.S. Direct personal/ad-hominem insults are the weapon of ignorant and otherwise unsecure people. Don't be that guy
Unemployed, Living at grandmas. Meth and guns. What the dude needs is kicked out of grandmas house and a job of some sort to be a productive member of society. A lot of this crap is bored adults who have nothing to do with their time but get in trouble.
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Came here to say this. He was walking around watching him, possible mental issues, or high on something, and paranoid. Guy probably got close to where he had his stash and thought the guy was gonna take it.
@@_Grumpy_Panda_ " possible mental issues, or high on something, and paranoid." if you get to the end of the video...he addmited to cops he has some blue methanphetemine or w.e...and he even swallowed some before being arrested and then went crazy in the holding cell/jail...total opposite of how he got arrested peacefully
The officer who fought with him and got him back in his cell by himself must be pretty strong because that Thomas dude looked pretty fit and strong himself, not to mention that it seemed like he was on some kinda drugs too.
@@outkast187 dude she’s an elderly old lady, wtf is she supposed to do against him? She clearly didn’t know what was going on until cops showed up. Dude had a mental break, wtf was she supposed to do to stop him?She’s an enabler…wow.
@@LexlutherVII don't talk rubbish. He would have been charged with illegal gun ownership and attempted murder. The system would land on him like a hammer
Wasted 6 years of my life working in people's homes for cable. There is nothing I haven't seen in someone's home, there are demons everywhere, might look and act human but are far from it.
there's nothing to ask, the evidence from witness statements and victims is more then enough lmao, the detective will handle the rest the cop is not an interrogator he has more then enough evidence
@@regularrandy1612 Bad argument- they didn't try to murder anyone and many of them got more prison time than this guy assuming he even does anywhere near the 4 years
@@Syn410 hmm storming the Capitol injuring dozens of Capitol police terrorizing innocent capitol workers. Tell us more how uneducated you truthfully are son.
Instead of being worried about being in a similar situation or immediately concerned for his well-being, as an AT&T employee myself the first thing that came to mind was "Oh his management is gonna try to write him up for having his reflective vest unzipped"
Officer who cuffed the suspect was one of the most calm and respectful officers I’ve seen. Very professional with no negative emotions involved, as police work should be. A lot of officers would be screaming at him to put hands up and get down even though he complied almost immediately. I was glad to see the arrest go so smoothly even though it went sideways when he got to the jail. Hats off to all the officers involved.
Yah ur right yelling might hurt the grown man's feelings who earlier in the day tried killing a man and son meth and who is stashing drugs guns money in a kiss area 😂😂😂😂yah yelling would be completely unreasonable 😂😂😂dude are you Canadian or something
Since I've started watching true crime, it makes me look at the people around me differenty. I do live in a safe city, though. Mind you crime has escalated due to connections from another city.
Due to the ACLU lawsuits, many mental institutions were closed in the 80’s as patients were released. Now they expect mentally ill to be free & take their anti-psychotic medications. They don’t take them properly & often self medicate with street drugs. Until they harm themselves or others they are free, often ending with horrific outcomes & victims!
@4:48, ,,,"the weather is 22 degrees F." .....That is 10 degrees BELOW freezing, yet everyone is dressed like a chilly autumn day. And the grass is still nice and green.
I had a friend who worked for AT&T who witnessed a murder while he was on a work call. He admitted that he could positively identify the perpetrator but lied under oath that he could not. He had been visited by two guys at his front door who looked like gang bangers prior to his testimony. They claimed to be looking for s person who did not reside at his house. He figured it was their way of letting him know, they knew where he lived.
@@RudyG-b6l ok and 30 years for what? Shooting in the guys direction? Even for attempted murder, that's steep and based solely on your weird emotional response.
I used to work as a timber marker going on private land and marking trees to be used for poles. Very often on leased hunting clubs people would approach me aggressively and armed like they owned the place but they usually cooled down once they knew I had anything to do with the timber. Sometimes I'd even interrupt someone's hunt but thankfully people were usually understanding once I told them who I was and what I was doing.
Ok let me say that I wish all cops were this respectful and responsible. These guys behaved like true officers. No yelling, no cursing no harsh ordering. Professionals. (And I don’t like cops)
That is exactly the way most arrests are handled. The ones we see sensationalized are when the suspect decides to fight or run and then fight. People are not afraid of the police or what the police may do. People are afraid of going to jail for a long time.
Wow.... Just wow. 4.5 years on a "plea agreement." I'll never understand why people get any sort of plea agreement when you openly said you committed the crime...
Some prosecutors are either overloaded with cases, some are anti-carceral/believe in equity in the justice system and they'll only seek prison time when the law makes it mandatory. In my country (Austria), our prosecutors rarely offer plea deals, but then again we don't have nearly the level of criminality as the U.S. I prefer prosecutors do their jobs and not act on behalf of the defendant. Maybe if U.S. prosecutors did their job properly the first time, they wouldn't have so many cases because if the offender is in prison, they can't reoffend, and most cases are people who reoffend. It's a terrible cycle made worst by the philosophies of progressive prosecutors.
As a cable man this is not unheard of. Yea this guy was probably mentally unwell but it’s rare issue you sometimes come across. Shotguns pointed at you while on the pole, etc
As soon as I started watching the video and the AT&T guy said the shooter had a weird look on his face, the first thing that came to mind is how prevalent mental illness is in the community. Now being mentally unstable while using drugs and in the possession of a gun is a seriously dangerous combination.
It's crazy that most of these people think they can shoot someone and not expect to be shot back by someone who isn't gonna stick around and let you shoot at someone. 🤣
@@bradisbell Thays what I'm saying 🤣 But nooo they don't wanna hear it they're so delusional that they think they are the almighty Jesus Christ walking amongst us. They think nothing bads gonna happen to them. But then you get the good officers that aren't gonna stand for it and put an end to it VERY quickly.
I worked for AT&T for almost 40 years and the company continously placed us in known bad neighborhoods with little regard for our saftey.I would not hang around waiting for some dufas supervisor or cops.didy moaw!
@@jimmac1185 the one that said it had been twenty minutes since they got there, scoped out the scene, talked to the victim and the grandma, and then gotten a lead on the suspect. It's okay man i know paying attention is hard.
@@user-ll2je4kc4f Muscle shirt and tank top are interchangeable and not gender specific where I am. What the guy was wearing would be called a singlet here. A muscle shirt or tank top has broader fabric covering the tops of the shoulders and is more like a T-shirt with the sleeves cut off whilst a singlet has thinner fabric that doesn't cover the top of the shoulders and is often lower cut in the chest and back of neck area. also a "wife beater" would refer to a singlet rather than a tank top or muscle shirt here. If they are navy blue they are often called a "truckies singlet". This is in Australia.
Back when I worked at a telco a couple decades ago, we had more than one customer’s account noted as they would intentionally damaged their lines, call for repair, then threaten or assault the tech. As a landline is considered an essential service we could not decline to provide service for any reason other than non-payment. Depending on the severity and history the police would be notified and would sometimes attend proactively. The tech was free to leave if they didn’t feel safe, but we’d have to dispatch another. I didn’t do any onsite work but from what I recall we had certain techs that were willing to take these calls, and I think they would arrange to go out in pairs. Luckily we don’t live in gunlandia, so it was rare to encounter anyone in the field that had a gun.
@@moonlightenergy3123Too fukin bad….he should not have a gun, right? He did, he used it, he can rot in prison! He knew what he did was WRONG, tried to hide it, therefore he had a culpable mental state!
meth, man. people on meth dont sleep. that is enough to make people completely crazy. Then add the substance, and the additional stress from both combined often onset various types of mental illness/issues. Same even goes for "lighter" substances like weed or alcohol. My hands aren't clean, but is what it is.
Nah people. I do this same kind of work all day long in a city with a very high crime rate since the 90s and have never had a gun pulled on me. I’ve been bitten by dogs but I’ve learned how to mitigate that. I’m not about to say that everything is perfect and going in the right direction necessarily, but, we see more of this simply because of the availability of cameras and the algorithms that show people what is determined said people want to see. Granted there are more people than ever more cameras than ever more social media than ever but I still believe in humanity and I believe that if we stay positive and treat each other as individuals that these so called “troubled times” will pass. ☮️
Could have shot an innocent worker, assaulted a police officer, drug use.... 4-6 years eh? A person could take a dump in public and face the same prison term.
4-6 years is a long time to not have anything else come up. if he really want to straighten his life he will go to church for those 6+ years. If he so much as steals a pack of bubblegum hes going to get the maximum punishment. judges like to roll the dice on good people. sometimes if you are able to convert 1 life you convert 20 from going down that previous path
its not all about locking people up and forgetting about them and sometimes its our own fault as a society for being sheltered in our lives and not giving hope to people who need a reason to get back up
Imagine being shot at while working for AT&T. New fear unlocked for that man for sure.
House calls are super dangerous across every industry. People shoot, dogs get loose, dogs are loosed on purpose, everything you can imagine. People will call you, say "be here at three" and then when you show up right at 3, in uniform and a work truck, they greet you with a gun like
"what are you doing here, you're here to rob me"
"no I'm the person you called"
"oh my bad"
It's so stupid.
@@leethax100 Yeah dude I used to struggle with dangerous dogs even as a paper carrier as a teen it was bad. I'm in Canada so at least nobody tried to blast me. Jeez.
I'm shocked he lives with his Granny and not his father
@@leethax100 Workers who do house calls are going to start having to wear body armor and guns
Well now there’s a new fear for home owners too because of the 2 men pretending to be electricians for their local companies. I guess it’s scary on both sides. World is changing and evil .
A friend was shot and robbed while he was checking water meters. He's lucky he's alive - I have no compassion for these people - nuts or not.
I'm a retired paramedic... dealt with many MH type people... I get it.
lmao blacks will be blacks. cant stop em
@@tessatessa9710 what race
@@frizzislethere is only one…the human race.
@@frizzisle "wHaT RaCe" typical white conservative who's only logical response to societal decadence is "hes black checks out" how about you grow a backbone and realize that when you raise children incorrectly you get this kind of behavior.
I wish people would stop blaming mental issues for people who abuse drugs. It is degrading to the people who truly have mental challenges.
Exactly. This new generation are obsessed with labels, they slap labels on absolutely everyone and everything for any and every reason. When I was younger, we despised labels and being labelled by government and authority figures. Gen z have learned that you can glean sympathy points for certain labels, especially supposed mental health problems, which they love self-diagnosing. People with real and serious mental health issues aren't so quick to spray it around and use it as an excuse for being an absolute loser and a crappy human being. It also takes the already stretched services provided to help real sufferers to the edge of breaking point and so the people who genuinely need the help cant get it, thanks to a pack of narcissistic, lazy losers using it as an umbrella to shield them from taking any kind of responsibility for their wretched, self-indulgent, unfulfilled, sad little lives.
why does that bother you so much? Both can and do exist commonly, deal with it
@@sutrey9012get lost
Drugs often create or make mental health issues worse sooooooo
You are so correct , this fool by the mere fact dumped his jacket in the woods to conceal his identity proves your point…
Granny so confused Lawd!😂 keep that fool out her house!!!!!
She's honestly precious, hilarious
Granny got two phones trying to solve the crime 😂
Well he’s smoking that Marijuana so who knows what he might do 😂
She is totally shocked and discovering how bad things are lol
@@stevefromchicago8277lol I smoke that marijuana I haven't shot at anybody. Imo smoking pot doesn't turn you into something bad but if you're already a PoS then it might heighten that. In theory it should calm him the fuck down though.
The bodycam has glaucoma.
😂😂😂😂
These Motorola body cams always look bad compared to the axon ones. They seem to have a wider field of view tho
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bro, unexpected belly laugh re: your glaucoma line. Rough day/needed it.
😂
Oh, I thought it was cataracts. 😂😂😂😂
"Mental health issues" DOES NOT excuse idiotic criminal behavior.
it actually does
It doesn't excuse it, but it explains it.
@@myseville1976 Only in a Democratic run state.
Based on the initial story from the Witness, it sounds like an "accidental discharge" aka "negligent discharge": Kid probably just didn't know how to "carry" properly & safely, as just logically, if the Kid wanted to do actual harm, he could have emptied on him, and probably actually hit the AT&T worker. But with only ONE shot going off, it may have just been accidental.
@nikolaikalashnikov4253 kid??? Whose a "kid"? That dude is like 30+ years old.
I worked for AT&T as a tech for 20 years. The reason that dude was so quick to call his manager is because the company is way more evil than the shooter. They will probably try to fire the tech for this.
Why would he be fired for being shot at??
Wow I don’t doubt that at all Jesus PLOT TWiST god bless ya
i thought the same thing
@achach228 They tried to fire people for not reporting bee stings. Basically they were Assholes Tyrants & Twats.
@achach228 they tried to fire people for getting bee stings and not reporting it. They are Assholes Tyrants & Twats.
Shoutout to all the AT&T technicians out there! Stay safe!
30+ years old, and staying at your grandmas house??
yeah, he's going places.
@@ssdtrain1 prison 😂😂😂😂
Stay strapped up
@@ssdtrain1 you know everyones poor right now, right? Most younger people are living with parents now, because rent prices are insane. The average age to afford a house now is 56. 80% of people 18-26 are living with parents now, because they have no choice. Wages have stayed the same for 40 years, while living costs have tripled.
Don't you mean Shootout?
This grandma is hilarious. Such a sweet lady you can tell
I wouldn't take her word for it that he was gone. Family members will often lie to cover the ass of their relative.
@@Rocketjay12 very true, but she does seem very open and honest.
"oh my gawd, he shot thru the duct !!!" lmao
She was smiling in the beginning she evil 😂😂😂
She does seem kind but a lot of old people pretend to be dopey and clueless
Ngl you all sound dumb asf 🤦🏽♂️
As a former AT&T cable technician. I’ve had guns pulled on me and it’s not fun. It’s a very dangerous job and I pray the safety over all technicians
I had a guy climb a tree next to the telephone pole I was working on. He thought I was tapping his phone, tried to jump and grab me. He almost succeeded, but gravity won :-]
FFS, it's not "a very dangerous" job. It CAN be a dangerous job...but usually not.
I'm a home security technician and often worry about situations like this. I never know who's home I'm stepping into. People get security systems for a number of reasons, and sometimes it's to protect themselves from a very dangerous person who has access to their home.
On multiple occasions I've come close to just booking it out of there because the homeowner was giving me really bad vibes. I just try to be as non-threatening as possible while constantly being aware of my surroundings. I always do my best to get a count of the number of people in the house
Just a tip for everyone: if someone is coming to your house to service some equipment, don't quietly follow them everywhere. Make some small talk or ask questions, but don't just stand there watching us. It's very unsettling. And please, let everyone else in the house know that a tech is coming to do work, for their sake and for mine.
@@nameismetatoo4591 No, that's fair. Earlier this year my wife scheduled a home security tech to visit without telling me. Lady showed up at like 9 or 10 at night and knocked loud as hell, so I showed up to the door with a gun ready because I thought it was sketchy. She was legit, but at the moment I thought my night was about to get creative in a bad way. Super awkward.
I've had telephone and power people think they can just trespass on my property and open my main gate... I've got large dogs and they have no right to just let themselves into my property
He clearly had no business having a gun. 20 bucks it was stolen.
Yeah, if it only cost 20 bucks then it probably was stolen.😂
@scottmichaels12 I think he was placing a bet
Stole a bike too
@@scottmichaels12 smh
If he had to forfeit it after the arrest it was most likely “legal” before the incident
As a service plumber years ago, it didnt happen often but sometimes you would come to a job or neighborhood that just felt off or had people going out of their way to seem sketchy. On those calls we just drove on buy, and found some sort of reason to reschedule in perpetuity.
As a plumber, one day I had a call to a lets call it value priced apartments for a water leak. It was some damage that started 20 years before when the excavation for the pool snagged a 2-1/2 inch copper water line. I had to shut the water off to repair it and drain the water down. After about 45 minutes of the water being shut off 1 had 3 gang members from 3 different gangs come to tell me I had to turn the water back on. As I was thinking to myself I really have a knack for bringing people together, I mean they at least agreed on this one thing, I told them that I would not be turning the water back on until it was repaired as it takes a couple hours to drain it down.
@robertkubrick3738 as a plumber I learned over the years about shutting the water down, that telling people was a mistake. I would just grab my tools and material and then shut the water off and start working. When people would come to bitch about the water being off and ask if I knew something about it I would say "Yeah I JUST got called out here to get the water going again. I'm trying to figure out what's happening. I'll let you know when it's back on" The JEDI MIND trick of Plumbers was way more effective. When I tried to be nice and let everyone know the water was gonna be off soon for a couple hours, all I'd get was STATIC. ONE thing to remember is ya have to lock the shutoff valve or have someone stand guard so the one person who knew about the shutoff valve. Sometimes just taking the handle OFF worked. I have been blasted and flooded out by forgetting this one part.
@@AutoHoax I notified the manager, the others found out by it being off. It just sucked that I had nowhere with a valve to shut off the majority of the complex. The pipe was 2-1/2 inch and I didn't have a Jet Sweat in that size and neither did the plumbing supply, It was going to take hours to drain down after I cut it.
@robertkubrick3738 Yeah, that's a difficult one. I remember the day I bought my first jet sweat kit it was like a miracle. Then when pro press came out it was like the second miracle. We had a bunch of apartments with copper slab leaks. We knew the copper was bad because the leaks weren't from kinks or rocks. The copper was deteriorating from bad manufacture process. So we told the customer we would pro press and no warranty. We couldn't silver solder braze w/o just creating more leaks. So we pro pressed and got down the road. Never had one of the repairs come undone or leak. I've been retired now since 2013 . I miss the trade. If I wasn't handicapped I be right back out there.
@@robertkubrick3738 Value priced apartments?
It's okay to say it's a black neighborhood, everyone knows what you mean.
I’m an AT&T worker in a high crime area and it’s insane the way people act over the course of my last 24 years
It's insane the way AT&T has conducted itself over the past 124 years.
@@V3racious3 that’s why the workers unionized
In the late 80's I was a cable TV sub contractor in Cleveland. One of my co-workers literally had a friend riding shotgun. You wouldn't believe the sh*t I saw.
@@jacka55six60 I would believe it as I work a year in Cleveland
@@V3racious3that's not the cable guy's fault lmao
I may have been unhappy with AT&T, but never took that approach to a resolution 😳
Same but it was a Comcast guy who didn't know his ass from his elbow. I called Comcast and they were like "Was that Dwayne?" Yeah." "Sigh..."
@@Bonn1770 I sympathize with your frustration but I gotta say it’s hilarious they guessed who it was 😂😂😂😂
Me too! But I just canceled the service and went somewhere else!!
I only have AT&T in my neighborhood. Trust me, they're frustrating.
The most I've done is raise my voice on their support hotline because I knew that particular support agent was lying to me, and casually tell the field technicians how much their support team sucks. The response from the field guys is usually something like "I know, they have no idea what they're talking about most the time". The field techs have been great for me so far, but jeez those support guys on the phone are either very untrained, very dumb, or told to lie (or some combination of those).
AT&T : that dispatch efficiency better not be below 86%, it'll only hurt the team 😤
If only we all worked in the nice area with Internet only in nice pre wired apartments...
bruh that must work for them cause thats exactly what they will say
I thought it was going to be a teenager or kid, that's a Grown Man, people are crazy, FR
She said she thought he was having a mental breakdown. Looks like maybe drug induced psychosis. Or maybe psychotic and self medicating? At any rate there is definitely a mental health issue at play. Lots of that going around these days. 😢
Edit: She meaning grandma.
Grandson more like grandman
@@voodoochile4147 Always excuses for the brown clowns.
@@sharongoodsell9341- Grandthug.
I see this a lot in certain families, especially in certain cultures, tend to infantilize their men, treating them like they’re just misunderstood children way past any age that excuse has any relevance.
You see mothers, grandmothers, older sisters etc. enabling and supporting deadbeat men no matter what they do.
Not even the calmest job is safe from being shot at
gotta keep your head on a swivel and be careful who you trust
Literally no one is safe from being shot at. You can be shot just walking down the street.
Only in the ghetto.
Welcome to America baby
Around blacks never relax.
Let me get this straight. This guy can shoot at an AT&T worker, high on meth, in possession of 3g of meth, AND can assault on officer hitting him in the head several times. Just to serve maybe 5, 6 years tops. But Dexter Taylor can get 10 years for building and possessing firearms without a license (not selling). Our justice system is a joke
I had a homeowner come at me with a gun when I did utility locating, all I had to do was verify overhead utilities and close the ticket....Dude is the one that called 811 too and got all upset I was in his backyard. These people are deranged.
Yeah I use to run Verizon fios underground and had customers upset that we ran fiber through the front lawn.
They would call the township and the cops only to find out they couldn't stop us.
you dont notify people before hopping getting into there backyard ? Pretty fair for them to get upset
@@calebsimmons4987 Really? You're that insecure that someone walking around your property sets you off?
@@calebsimmons4987utility workers have legal right to access their property (utility infrastructure)
@@calebsimmons4987 Bro when these fools put in a ticket, are aware that they have utilities in their backyard that need to be worked on, then don't answer the phone or door and the gate is unlocked, of course we're gonna try to walk in and out as quick as we can to just close the damn ticket
Meth and mental illness, such a bad combo. Paranoia on top of more paranoia.
They blame mental issues for everything. Cutting it close to being not able to breathe
Meth *causes* rapid mental decline. You know how many meth heads could've been completely normal people? The choice of doing that drug alone can lead someone down the path to crazy. It's the lack of sleep. That's a fast lane to psychosis.
Who said that? I know you're there.
@@davidbrayshaw3529 The call is coming from inside your head...
@@Alex_MitchellI get along with the voices inside of my head.
I did this job for years. You would think the most dangerous part of the job is climbing poles and ladders - it's actually the people you deal with. I dealt with threats, attempted robberies and was shot at once while on a pole (Luckily it was only a pellet gun.) Some crazy old man thought I was disconnecting his service.
He was having mental problems, but no one said it was a bad idea for him to stay with grandma?
Gramma’s tend to support their loved ones even when it gets bad.
Gmomma ain't all there either 😂😂😂👏👏
at some point a whole people have mental problems. So maybe that is an excuse for separation?
@@idzbbyboy 🤣😭💀at all
What if they can't afford to get him help - very common in America
Living with grandma at mid-30's or more, smoking dope, using meth, having a gun. What a shameful low-life!
He doesn’t even live with her though, she said he had just stayed over the night before.
@@ShannonT78she could be section 8, and isn’t supposed to have any company “living” there.
Well a gun is literally everyone’s right drugs or not. Having a gun doesn’t make you a lowlife. Using your logic the cops are lowlifes. Using your gun against unarmed people or people who aren’t trying to do serious physical harm makes you a lowlife. Huge difference
Also, spending his momma's money on tattoos...instead of Advanced physics and chemistry books...🤓
Staying with grandma, that's high-life. Where he just was before he got released was low-life. 🙂
My line of thinking while watching:
1.) Unprovoked shooting, mhm
2.) Attempted murder, mhm
3.) Cowardly ambush-style shooting, mhm
4.) Defenseless victim, mhm
5.) Victim is public servant, mhm
6.) Suspect ran, jogging
*Gee, I˘m 99% sure I know..."
7.) He is my grandson
Yup, 100% sure
An ambush would mean he was waiting for the worker. Attempted murder requires the intent to kill be proven, otherwise, it's aggravated assault. I highly recommend knowing what words mean before using them, little buddy.
@@tomfuchary where did I write "ambush" explicitly? I wrote "ambush-style".
Semantics are important, true. Do people say they feel "ambushed" when something happens unexpectedly in otherwise safe and unsuspectable situation? Or when someone waits for someone to turn their back before attacking, do we not say he "ambushed" the other guy?
I didn't mean he parallel-ambushed him, L-shape ambushed him, or X-shape ambushed him. If you know what that means..
P.S. Direct personal/ad-hominem insults are the weapon of ignorant and otherwise unsecure people. Don't be that guy
@@CROpatriot925 wait, at&t are public servants? here i thought at&t was a privately owned telecommunications business.
@@CROpatriot925don’t feel the need to explain to this guy, what you meant initially went clear over his head.
@@BalongaSandwich nothing he stated was clear, it was a nonsense rant.
Unemployed, Living at grandmas. Meth and guns. What the dude needs is kicked out of grandmas house and a job of some sort to be a productive member of society. A lot of this crap is bored adults who have nothing to do with their time but get in trouble.
Maybe we shouldn't have sent all those manufacturing jobs overseas ay?!
@@chaimileagewe also shouldn’t have replaced Americans with illegal invaders in the workforce
actually no it's a much deeper problem than that it's not a simple as "Just go get 9 to 5" reeeee look at me I'm a good person. society is broken
@@chaimileage Like this? AP traces the printing of Trump’s ‘God Bless America’ Bibles to the country he accuses of stealing American jobs: China - 18 Oct 2024
And they didn't have to id cause he was known suspect
Theory: Basement is where the guy kept his stuff.
Came here to say this. He was walking around watching him, possible mental issues, or high on something, and paranoid. Guy probably got close to where he had his stash and thought the guy was gonna take it.
@@_Grumpy_Panda_ Yeah see that is absolutely the most plausible scenario.
@@_Grumpy_Panda_ " possible mental issues, or high on something, and paranoid."
if you get to the end of the video...he addmited to cops he has some blue methanphetemine or w.e...and he even swallowed some before being arrested and then went crazy in the holding cell/jail...total opposite of how he got arrested peacefully
The officer who fought with him and got him back in his cell by himself must be pretty strong because that Thomas dude looked pretty fit and strong himself, not to mention that it seemed like he was on some kinda drugs too.
The worker should demand hazard pay from AT&T.
🤣🤣
He'd be lucky to get the rest of the day off paid let alone anything else 😂
Yea that ain't gonna happen. They don't treat us that well. Lol
most likely would get fired or get some performance review that ommits the fact he was shot at 😭😭they do NOT gaf about you.
no such thing as hazzard pay with att. they call it incentive pay
The grandma is the victim here, poor lady.
Well...her and the guy that had someone shoot a gun at him.
She is A victim but I'd say the guy who got shot at is the primary victim here
Grandma and Momma cant raise M£N.
Typically its the one getting shot at. The granny enabled him.
@@outkast187 dude she’s an elderly old lady, wtf is she supposed to do against him? She clearly didn’t know what was going on until cops showed up. Dude had a mental break, wtf was she supposed to do to stop him?She’s an enabler…wow.
I had to look up the "wife beater" reference. In the UK, "wife beater" is 4x cans of Stella Artois Lager
LOL
I had a coworker whose physically abusive husband drank that lager.
“He said he got glaucoma” 😂😂 bless her soul
yeah, he thought he was holding a flashlight instead of the gun.
No but he’s got some Glockamole
So... he shot a gun at someone and only got 4 years? Gotta love america, we sure love our criminals.
I mean, yeah, 4 years is reasonable considering nobody was injured as that would have been a higher charge.
In Uk he would have been released next day,
In Lacrosse Wisconsin.. he'd be released on a $250 signature bond...and a free meal at KFC.
@@LexlutherVII unless he said mean things on twitter, then he'd be locked up for 4 years
@@LexlutherVII don't talk rubbish. He would have been charged with illegal gun ownership and attempted murder. The system would land on him like a hammer
Wasted 6 years of my life working in people's homes for cable. There is nothing I haven't seen in someone's home, there are demons everywhere, might look and act human but are far from it.
That cop really respected his civil rights. “I’m not going to ask you any questions so you don’t incriminate yourself”.
there's nothing to ask, the evidence from witness statements and victims is more then enough lmao, the detective will handle the rest the cop is not an interrogator he has more then enough evidence
4 years (probably out in one for "good behavior) for a drug fueled attempted murder attempt... Tell us again who the privileged ones are...
@@AndToTheRepublic4WhichItStands the Capitol storming civilians that are getting probation for treason...stay safe and have a great Navy day ✌🏾
@@regularrandy1612 Bad argument- they didn't try to murder anyone and many of them got more prison time than this guy assuming he even does anywhere near the 4 years
@@Syn410 hmm storming the Capitol injuring dozens of Capitol police terrorizing innocent capitol workers. Tell us more how uneducated you truthfully are son.
People who work in customer service jobs do not get paid enough.
Our fast food workers need protective barriers from the public!
Sure we do. We can refuse an assignment if we feel our life is at jeopardy.
@@troycarothers8254AT&T paid shill
Those will be AI jobs soon enough.
@troycarothers8254 this guy sadly didn't see this coming, or else he would've dipped
What was the suspect's father thinking sending him to stay with grandma?
I can't squeeze between those darn bars?
he was thinkin "not my problem!"
That sir is a trick question.
Grandma was on borrowed time with a demon in the house😮
@@RonaSpreader "thinking" Yeah, you're right
Instead of being worried about being in a similar situation or immediately concerned for his well-being, as an AT&T employee myself the first thing that came to mind was "Oh his management is gonna try to write him up for having his reflective vest unzipped"
And did he have his glasses on?
And I didn’t see his 3 cones around his truck 😂 that’s our company’s safety concerns
🫢😂
Don't forget the FVD. Gotta be safe.
And don't forget the ground tags lol
You know that granny has some good stories to tell. She's so cute❤❤❤
Officer who cuffed the suspect was one of the most calm and respectful officers I’ve seen. Very professional with no negative emotions involved, as police work should be. A lot of officers would be screaming at him to put hands up and get down even though he complied almost immediately. I was glad to see the arrest go so smoothly even though it went sideways when he got to the jail. Hats off to all the officers involved.
You forgot the "Stop resisting!" which always accompanies every arrest.
@@TheRealPureBlood same can be said with "I can't breathe".
You are correct. Yelling and profanity accompany my impression of American LEO's.
Yah ur right yelling might hurt the grown man's feelings who earlier in the day tried killing a man and son meth and who is stashing drugs guns money in a kiss area 😂😂😂😂yah yelling would be completely unreasonable 😂😂😂dude are you Canadian or something
@@Mark-gg6iyand escalation tactics and beat downs.
Monsters live among us.
AMONGUS
@@BillGates_Alex AMONKUS.
Since I've started watching true crime, it makes me look at the people around me differenty.
I do live in a safe city, though. Mind you crime has escalated due to connections from another city.
THEY LIVE
AMOGUS
Telecom work is some of the most dangerous out there. Shoutout to all my telecom brothers stay safe out there. The ticket ain’t worth your life
I laughed when the cop said he was wearing a green wife beater 🤣😂 I mean, that’s what I call them too but it’s so funny how universal that term is.
The cleaner your Wife-Beater is, the higher your Social-Status is in 'Da Hood'
Is the term really white beater? Why beater?
Gotta start calling them "living at meemaws" after this lol
You would think they would call it a domestic violence top being in law enforcement
My husband had never heard the term before! He hates it 😅
We really need to reinstate the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980.
Give me a break. This comment is such BS. He's a punk
Due to the ACLU lawsuits, many mental institutions were closed in the 80’s as patients were released. Now they expect mentally ill to be free & take their anti-psychotic medications. They don’t take them properly & often self medicate with street drugs. Until they harm themselves or others they are free, often ending with horrific outcomes & victims!
@@zukosmom3780 you're dumb
Yeah...blame it on mental health while your education system is totally f.cked
Some people are just evil
@4:48, ,,,"the weather is 22 degrees F." .....That is 10 degrees BELOW freezing, yet everyone is dressed like a chilly autumn day. And the grass is still nice and green.
@@casualobserver620 exactly
4 to 6 years??? WOW!! Should have gotten at least 10 years
He wasn't charged with felon in possession of a firearm, so i'm guessing he didn't have much of a record.
Why?
@@mikeb5664why what?
The DA and judge probably took his initial compliance during the arrest into account and gave him a better deal because of it.
But but but he's black😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 re re re razizm remember 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
BANG BANG* Can you hear me now??? (Oh, wait thats Verizon)
😂
Why on Earth would you fire at the poor AT&T guy? He's trying to fix the phone and or Internet... Sheesh.
“Wearing a green wife beater”
30 years in law enforcement and I don’t recall anyone ever referring to one as being green 😆
@@brettviestenz6240 Wtf is a "wife beater"? Like he is wearing another man😂
@kapilsethia9284
Watch the video. It’s a sleeveless tank
@@ShinmegamiPersona I mean the use of words come from where?
Grow up@@kapilsethia9284
I almost spit my coffee out when the cop said that 😅
He's probably been dealing with AT&T customer service.
😂😂😂
The AT&T worker was three days late and he's been three days without his online gamming.
So your saying they do it without drugs
She should be arrested for having that wallpaper in the foyer!
He was looking at him funny because it’s the first time he’s seen someone with a job, lord knows he didn’t have one!
Can't be Racist if it's accurate. 😂
I had a friend who worked for AT&T who witnessed a murder while he was on a work call. He admitted that he could positively identify the perpetrator but lied under oath that he could not. He had been visited by two guys at his front door who looked like gang bangers prior to his testimony. They claimed to be looking for s person who did not reside at his house. He figured it was their way of letting him know, they knew where he lived.
Someone followed him from the shooting to his home or a police officer shared his details with gang members.
That's so sad.
Your friend is a coward.
@@minecraftfox4384 And still alive.
@@minecraftfox4384 You are no better than anyone. You are a keyboard warrior.
I have no love for AT&T but I don’t want their technicians to get shot
Vile person with no regard for human life, should be behind bars for 30 years before even considering parole...
@@RudyG-b6l ok and 30 years for what? Shooting in the guys direction? Even for attempted murder, that's steep and based solely on your weird emotional response.
I worked in cable tv for over 30 years in rural areas. I've been threatened with a gun and a chainsaw mostly by older people. People are nuts!!
I used to work as a timber marker going on private land and marking trees to be used for poles. Very often on leased hunting clubs people would approach me aggressively and armed like they owned the place but they usually cooled down once they knew I had anything to do with the timber. Sometimes I'd even interrupt someone's hunt but thankfully people were usually understanding once I told them who I was and what I was doing.
Okay, people. While I can personally. attest that AT&T's customer service sucks, that absolutely does not justify shooting at their techs.
Ok let me say that I wish all cops were this respectful and responsible. These guys behaved like true officers. No yelling, no cursing no harsh ordering. Professionals. (And I don’t like cops)
That is exactly the way most arrests are handled. The ones we see sensationalized are when the suspect decides to fight or run and then fight. People are not afraid of the police or what the police may do. People are afraid of going to jail for a long time.
Wow.... Just wow. 4.5 years on a "plea agreement." I'll never understand why people get any sort of plea agreement when you openly said you committed the crime...
Some prosecutors are either overloaded with cases, some are anti-carceral/believe in equity in the justice system and they'll only seek prison time when the law makes it mandatory. In my country (Austria), our prosecutors rarely offer plea deals, but then again we don't have nearly the level of criminality as the U.S. I prefer prosecutors do their jobs and not act on behalf of the defendant. Maybe if U.S. prosecutors did their job properly the first time, they wouldn't have so many cases because if the offender is in prison, they can't reoffend, and most cases are people who reoffend. It's a terrible cycle made worst by the philosophies of progressive prosecutors.
@@DG-ej5nz Because a plea saves time and money and our justice system is about making money and ensuring jobs and isn't about public safety anymore.
You’re more likely to get a good plea agreement if you admit to the crime. It’s considered a significant step in rehabilitation.
In America you can be a felon, have zero jail time and run for president. No justice.
@@debroofgreen It is a big problem. But people like Mark have no fear of consequences regardless of punishment.
As a cable man this is not unheard of. Yea this guy was probably mentally unwell but it’s rare issue you sometimes come across. Shotguns pointed at you while on the pole, etc
I’d conceal carry if I were you guys, I do, F company policy id rather be alive and jobless than dead and employed.
I bet it happens everyday if most homes have a firearm. There is a reason LEO don't like domestic calls.
@@The.Nasty. You're not very nimble when on a pole. Your best hope is to talk REAL fast.
4 years for shooting at a random dude and meth? Why does it feel like the courts never give enough time
They not
"Democrat" "justice".
@@cattinkerbell4946 Why don't you copypaste the same crap 50 more times on this comment section why don't you?
Biden/Harris is why
Because the prisons are full and taxpayers don't want to pay for more.
Black? Never wouldve guessed that one.
As soon as I started watching the video and the AT&T guy said the shooter had a weird look on his face, the first thing that came to mind is how prevalent mental illness is in the community. Now being mentally unstable while using drugs and in the possession of a gun is a seriously dangerous combination.
It's crazy that most of these people think they can shoot someone and not expect to be shot back by someone who isn't gonna stick around and let you shoot at someone. 🤣
I imagine the meth might mess up your common sense and reasoning a bit...
@@bradisbell Thays what I'm saying 🤣 But nooo they don't wanna hear it they're so delusional that they think they are the almighty Jesus Christ walking amongst us. They think nothing bads gonna happen to them. But then you get the good officers that aren't gonna stand for it and put an end to it VERY quickly.
The grandson was a big dude!
Yeah, I don't know that officer who fought with him managed to throw him back in the cell all by himself, that Thomas dude looked pretty big and fit.
Granny is so loveable
It took them 20 minutes to get to a shots fired call?
They are too busy on other calls coddling people and asking them nicely 20x to get out of the car, for a start.
Bear in mind this was the middle of nowhere ohio, with a population of 43,470.
This is why you got to protect yourself
@@Anonymous4045 43,000 people isn't "middle of nowhere. That's a city, not a town.
@@STAYWOKE000indeed
I worked for AT&T for almost 40 years and the company continously placed us in known bad neighborhoods with little regard for our saftey.I would not hang around waiting for some dufas supervisor or cops.didy moaw!
Messed up situation and sentencing aside, how cute was that granny?!
20 min ago! response time was around 20 min for shots fired, cops have a lot to do and prioritize, don't ever count on rescue being moments away,
When seconds count, police are minutes away. A gun can be an arm's reach.
I doubt it was "20" minutes. She old asf
Na you saw the video wrong watch it again
@@milky-ng9mk the grandma said 20 mins ago. What video were you watching? 1:00
@@jimmac1185 the one that said it had been twenty minutes since they got there, scoped out the scene, talked to the victim and the grandma, and then gotten a lead on the suspect. It's okay man i know paying attention is hard.
Why does granny have two phones?
She's texting on TWO cell phones. WTF.
Why does that concern u
One was her regular phone, the other was the phone she uses for buying/ selling drugs and talking to her gangsta homies.
Ones a free government phone because they can’t afford a regular phone, right
but her vcr is still flashing 12 :)
"He's wearing a green wife beater" 🤣
I'm shocked he lives with his granny and nor his father
What they used to call muscle T-shirts or is that the new name for muscle T-shirts?
@@imceltic52 Yeah..Tight Tank tops like that one that usually come in packs of three are called Wife Beaters.
@@imceltic52 not new, it’s been a thing since I can remember. It’s kind of crazy but yeah it’s slang for those tight tank tops
@@user-ll2je4kc4f Muscle shirt and tank top are interchangeable and not gender specific where I am. What the guy was wearing would be called a singlet here. A muscle shirt or tank top has broader fabric covering the tops of the shoulders and is more like a T-shirt with the sleeves cut off whilst a singlet has thinner fabric that doesn't cover the top of the shoulders and is often lower cut in the chest and back of neck area.
also a "wife beater" would refer to a singlet rather than a tank top or muscle shirt here. If they are navy blue they are often called a "truckies singlet". This is in Australia.
As a former ATT worker I am no shocked by this. I've been in some crazy situations and places. Glad he's okay.
This grandma is not even phased or really concerned about her convict crazy grandson!
Just shows the mentality of these people ,clueless
Man secretly working for T-Mobile or what
They will do anything for business
😂😂😂😂😂
T Mob bringing the smoke
@@RC-pz7tg 10-4 Cat Daddy !
3:05 LEO: He's wearing a green wife beater, orange pants.
They call them WBs, too. 😅😂🤣
Wonder if he also drinks Stella?
Is this the British comment section? 😊
Gotta love that culture.
I love the description of the suspects attire lmao
Every time someone is arrested and actually "held accountable" for their disastrous actions they claim to have a "mental breakdown." My a$$!!!
Can y’all just get along, salt and pepper?
It's the latest defense tactic nowadays.
That’s everyone’s favorite excuse nowadays.
"I can't breathe because of my mental illness! Also, I didn't do it. I wasn't even there."
Mental breakdown aka past trauma
The suspect has a gun but no car. Surprising 😮
Back when I worked at a telco a couple decades ago, we had more than one customer’s account noted as they would intentionally damaged their lines, call for repair, then threaten or assault the tech. As a landline is considered an essential service we could not decline to provide service for any reason other than non-payment. Depending on the severity and history the police would be notified and would sometimes attend proactively. The tech was free to leave if they didn’t feel safe, but we’d have to dispatch another.
I didn’t do any onsite work but from what I recall we had certain techs that were willing to take these calls, and I think they would arrange to go out in pairs.
Luckily we don’t live in gunlandia, so it was rare to encounter anyone in the field that had a gun.
Politicians want to imprison people protesting for 4 years without charges, yet you get a guy for attempted murder and he gets off at the same time.
Maybe if you understood what murder/attempted murder is you would be less cynical.
What does that tell you about our wonderful justice system?? 😂
@@JohnSmith-cf4gnAnd someone wants to MAGA. Everyone within the borders is perfect. It’s just the people coming that are not.
Surely makes you think
What kind of “protesting” are you talking about? Four years has got to be something more serious than simply “protesting”, eh?
Get mum out of the way as she isn't helping.
Grandmum. 😊
His grandmother is acting like it's no big deal and way too calm. I haven't heard someone use the excuse for glaucoma for marijuana in a long time.
That can be shock
Glaucoma has reached epidemic status in some towns....
@@cactusblob1688 I am just saying a lot of people used that excuse a lot years ago. A lot of them were teenagers and younger adults.
@@ashleysmith5001 Did they find a cure for glaucoma? No they didn't. Just because you got older, and haven't heard it, really does not mean much.
@@mikeb5664 I didn't say anything about a cure. I just know a lot of people would lie to get a Marijuana card.
I got glaucoma! Ain’t nobody got time for that! 😂😂
He was barbie cuein
Glock-oma
@@dumoneyyylmao!
@dumoneyyy
Glock coma: a medical condition suffered by an individual who failed to observe dangerous movements of a perpetrator armed with a glock.
I wouldn't smoke weed if I didn't have guacamole 🥑
Ask any fiber installer or lineman. Those dudes have had guns pulled multiple times, no doubt.
"and a fanta soda" lmfao was it orange or grape?
Pineapple or Watermelon
Strawberry
Chicken flavored soda pop..
Purple, not grape
LOL
Why the plea deal? They had this dude all wrapped up in a bow on all charges.
"What could the technician have done not to get shot at?" If you work for ATT, you know what this means. 😆🤣
He had that blue Walter white meth
I'm disappointed how far I had to scroll to find this comment!
He's got schizophrenia for sure. to him, opps was right there in the crib.
I was thinking he had mental health issues too. He sounded paranoid. and the grandmother said he has mental health issues.
Definitely some schizoid disorder.
@@moonlightenergy3123Too fukin bad….he should not have a gun, right? He did, he used it, he can rot in prison! He knew what he did was WRONG, tried to hide it, therefore he had a culpable mental state!
@@moonlightenergy3123 yea for sure that's just my non expert unprofessional yet educated diagnosis, schizophrenia lol
meth, man. people on meth dont sleep. that is enough to make people completely crazy. Then add the substance, and the additional stress from both combined often onset various types of mental illness/issues. Same even goes for "lighter" substances like weed or alcohol. My hands aren't clean, but is what it is.
Most law breaking race in America by far.
Bro just really wanted those free lines of unlimited talk and text.
society is doomed.
mental health issues , yet he knows enough to dump the gun ??
In certain states it is.
It’s Moore like society is at the very end.
Nah people. I do this same kind of work all day long in a city with a very high crime rate since the 90s and have never had a gun pulled on me. I’ve been bitten by dogs but I’ve learned how to mitigate that. I’m not about to say that everything is perfect and going in the right direction necessarily, but, we see more of this simply because of the availability of cameras and the algorithms that show people what is determined said people want to see. Granted there are more people than ever more cameras than ever more social media than ever but I still believe in humanity and I believe that if we stay positive and treat each other as individuals that these so called “troubled times” will pass. ☮️
Could have shot an innocent worker, assaulted a police officer, drug use....
4-6 years eh? A person could take a dump in public and face the same prison term.
This hits close to home being an AT&T tech… I never know what I’m going to see everyday 😂
So attempted murder, battery on a police officer and possession of meth only gets you 4 1/2 to 6 years... Wow.
Activist leftist judges.
"Democrat" "justice".
4-6 years is a long time to not have anything else come up. if he really want to straighten his life he will go to church for those 6+ years. If he so much as steals a pack of bubblegum hes going to get the maximum punishment. judges like to roll the dice on good people. sometimes if you are able to convert 1 life you convert 20 from going down that previous path
@@DonKeecock rat DA it happens way to much
its not all about locking people up and forgetting about them and sometimes its our own fault as a society for being sheltered in our lives and not giving hope to people who need a reason to get back up
Imagine being THAT BAD of a criminal
Worried about this idiot's grandma. 4 years is a joke and an insult to that working man.
Wearing a green wife-beater. Must be a LEO.