Arkansas man arrested after making threats to carry out mass shooting if hantavirus lockdown was introduced

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/walmart-mass-shooting-threat-hantavirus-lockdown-b2978858.html

On May 13, the FBI’s Fayetteville Field Office contacted the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and turned over the information to investigators. Investigators obtained a search warrant for Bynum’s home and on May 15, searched the house in Oakland, where they seized a computer and related accessories. Bynum was taken into custody without incident, according to Sheriff Gregg Alexander. He was booked into the Marion County Detention Center and his bond was set at $2,500.

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Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 109 pts · 83d (4 replies)

Threatens to do a mass shooting if locked down

Gets locked up for threatening a mass shooting

What a fucking idiot

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk · 46 pts · 83d

He got locked up, not down.

Checkmate

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 83d (2 replies)

So is this cruel & unusual punishment? Punishing him with the thing he wanted to prevent?

WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 83d

No, this is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Manjushri@piefed.social · 4 pts · 82d

This is the USA. Locking someone up may well be a cruel punishment, but it is by no means unusual.

zeppo@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 83d (5 replies)

When or where has anyone gotten near proposing a hantavirus lockdown? I can only imagine this guy’s news sources.

And then, how would shooting a bunch of random innocent people at Walmart address his grievance about that?

rozodru@piefed.world · 58 pts · 83d (1 reply)

I can only imagine this guy’s news sources.

Asmongold.

SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 83d

Hey! He’s a p o I i t i c a l

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 83d (2 replies)

There's a bunch of memes floating around normie social media about hantavirus being covid 2.0. I guess with enough mental illness that can be misconstrued into there being a hantavirus lockdown.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 83d (1 reply)

normies

BilboBargains@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 83d

Internet for idiots

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 83d

We really really need to address the critical thinking skills in this country...

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 83d (4 replies)

Karens are gonna Karen.

I bet this guy spent most of the Covid years just wilding the fuck out, being Antiva/Antima, anti social distancing, anti any measure that might have harmed his or his orange Jesus' fragile ego. I bet he raged out about Fauci and "gain of function" research, too...

Way to go, chuckles!

chromeleon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 83d (2 replies)

If he's 20 now, he was 14-15 when covid started.

Steve@startrek.website · 6 pts · 83d

Stahp

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 82d

Yes.

Montagge@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 83d

He was 14 in 2020

PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 83d (1 reply)

"...they seized a computer and related accessories." - Like the mouse, monitor and keyboard? Maybe also a game the cops wanted?

Did they leave the guns for the next self-spiralling meltdown?

abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 83d

They found 3 copies of The Sims lol

Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 83d (1 reply)

"Arkansas man engages in mass shootings in empty mall."

bss03@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 83d

I'm not sure that's even a crime here, as long as the mall is on county land and not some liberalized city. /s

Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 83d (2 replies)

Ok, quick question, if there’s a lockdown where the hell is he going to do a mass shooting???

frongt@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 83d

You're putting way more thought into this than he did

6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 83d

Maybe wherever those that are defying lockdown orders are gathered? Just a thought.

jwt@programming.dev · 5 pts · 83d

hardcoreufo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 83d (2 replies)

Why would there be a lockdown unless we were drowning in rat shit like "A Plague Tale?" Cruise ships get outbreaks of hantavirus because rats have been hanging out on ships since the first ship.

Viceversa@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 83d

It's spreading between humans too.

Croquette@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 83d

Because the people that were on the cruise ship are fucking retarded and are spreading the disease

GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 83d

The PTSD from Covid is real. I have heard highschool kids asking why they haven't sunk the ships to prevent the virus from spreading

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 83d

Kid got lied to his whole life, now gonna get some hell years for believing it. Sad!!