in 4chan's nearly 20-year history the
site has seen its fair share of
high-profile criminal activity many of
you might be familiar with some of the
more grisly stories such as the
nightmarish case involving a murderer
posting gruesome images of his victim to
the website it's a dark story among
dozens of other disturbing crimes that
have been shared anonymously to the
board but on 4chan not all crimes are
created equal some of 4chan's most
infamous and compelling criminal stories
aren't actually related to murder at all
and are far less serious in nature the
case is becoming notorious simply due to
the sheer idiocy of the criminals
responsible from a coupon counterfeiter
admitting to defrauding companies for
hundreds of thousands of dollars to a
thrill-seeking con man posting himself
committing a bank robbery to a college
professor getting exposed for assaulting
protesters with a bike lock in today's
video I'd like to take a look at some of
4chan's most mind-bogglingly stupid law
Breakers and also instances where
members of 4chan banded together to bust
dim-witted perps these are 4chan's
dumbest criminals
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there are a few crimes out there more
romanticized in media than bank
robberies from TV shows to movies to
books the crime has been featured as the
main source of conflict in many of
fictional work this of course leads to
morons thinking that the real world
works like a movie and uh you know they
get ballsy enough to feel like they can
pull off a bank robbery themselves
without facing any consequence and some
are even dumb enough to live blog their
robbery attempt on 4chan on August 20th
of 2015 an anonymous 4chan user creates
a thread where they claim they would be
giving updates about a bank robbery that
they were about to commit the thread
begins with the individual describing
what they would be wearing while the
robbery occurred a hat sunglasses and a
sweater to further back up his robbery
claims he stated that he'd be using a
realistic looking BB gun to pull off the
heist and that he would make his Grand
escape on a bicycle that he had
purchased for the sole reason of robbing
the bank okay today is the day I'm going
to walk into the bank at 3 3pm with
sunglasses a hat a sweater a BB gun and
this note I'll get out dump the sweater
in BB gun and ride out on my bike back
to the hotel the robber then adds that
he's getting a bit of a buzz on before
his robbery attempt I'm drinking a
little bit of liquid courage before the
heist [ __ ] me I'll probably be a nervous
wreck when I get there it's bad enough I
have anxiety now of course the man was
initially mocked by his peers you know
thinking him to be nothing more than an
attention-seeking [ __ ] poster board
members were able to discover that this
individual was a resident of
Jacksonville Florida due to him
announcing his plan in a previous pose
days earlier but not much else was known
about this individual at the time this
individual's thread announcing his bank
robbery plans would fall silent in the
op stopped responding and most people
sort of assumed that uh it indeed was a
[ __ ] post and this guy had pussied out
but sure enough later in the day the
poster begins updating the thread
further fleshing out his robbery plans
in this post he he would reveal that the
bicycle that he had planned to use as
his getaway had been stolen so
apparently he was either about to go rob
the bank and the bike was gone or he had
just finished robbing the bank and the
bike was gone I'm not exactly sure here
but one thing is for certain that being
that he actually successfully pulled off
the robbery because check out this next
post the anonymous poster says easy as
[ __ ] and attached were dozens of hundred
dollar bills he adds here's another
picture in a neat little pile for you he
says dude I walked up to the teller with
my sunglasses and hat I gave her the
note she said no problem type some [ __ ]
on the computer gave me the money and I
walked out the door then the exit
wouldn't open so I slammed it then it
opened I got rid of my sweater and
walked to the hotel aside from his
bicycle getting stolen the bank robbery
was a complete success and the man had
profited presumably thousands of dollars
off of this but this man wouldn't be on
a dumbest criminals of 4chan list if if
he didn't get caught because law
enforcement was hot on his heels and a
main reason they were able to track him
down was simply due to the incriminating
evidence that he was posting to 4chan on
his own accord our perpetrator would
start feeling the heat when he noticed
that CCTV footage of himself robbing the
bank was being discussed on local news
this would prompt the individual to
freak out and make an additional Post in
the 4chan thread trying to come up with
potential Solutions as to not get caught
one of these Solutions included buying a
motorcycle off of Craigslist using his
stolen money and making a quick Escape
out of town he would also go on to add
that he had completely lost the bag that
had his cell phone inside meaning that
he was without any form of mobile device
but his plans of Escape wouldn't come
through fruition as eventually this bank
robber would be tracked down in a
neighboring County it turns out that
this dim-witted degenerate was a 26 year
old man named Pedro Francisco Smith
after being identified Smith was
subsequently arrested for the crime time
and was jailed for armed robbery charges
according to Florida State records the
crime carries a minimum sentence
requirement of 10 years in the state so
you gotta ask yourself is being the cool
guy on 4chan for a day worth of
potentially 10 years in prison
I I don't think so dude Pedro Smith was
a real dumbass through and through hell
it's a miracle he was able to pull off
the heist considering his incompetence
with getting his bike stolen and just
like the fact that he's live posting
this to 4chan really not a bright guy
here but regardless easily one of the
most mind-bogglingly stupid perps on the
list that was the 4chan bank robbery
animal cruelty is one of the few things
that the collective internet agrees is
utterly reprehensible and many
individuals have been mobbed and
harassed for perpetrating the ACT over
the years which is exactly what would
happen to a British woman in 2010 named
Mary Bale this story takes place in
August of 2010 in the British city of
Coventry in August of this year a 45
year old British woman by the name of
Mary Bale was walking along the street
near her apartment when she stumbled
across a kitten named Lola perched up
next to a trash bin and CCTV footage
that was later uploaded to YouTube by
the cat's owners Mary Bale can be seen
grabbing the cat by the collar and
throwing the cat into a plastic waste
receptacle nearby trapping the startled
feline inside the cat was reportedly
trapped inside this waste bin for 15
hours fortunately Lola's owners would
eventually discover what had happened
and they would free the cat before a
waste management hauled her off to a
certain Doom Lola would eventually make
a full recovery from the bin tossing but
news of the cat's good health wouldn't
quell the online outrage that was
forming regarding the tosser herself
this seemingly random act of animal
cruelty sparked a massive amount of
outrage in the online community 4chan in
particular took major issue with the
event and made it their goal to identify
this person track them down and you know
make them face Justice cross-referencing
the CCTV footage with Google Map images
of the Coventry area individuals were
eventually able to discover the home
address of the perpetrator soon after
they would discover the woman's name was
Mary Bale and they would keep digging
they found the woman's Facebook account
and the name of her employer they then
discovered not only her phone number but
the phone numbers of her immediate
family members and co-workers 4chan
users would then begin making prank
calls and sending death threats to all
of them in Mass resulting in Mary Bell
going into hiding hoping that the wave
of harassment she was receiving would
eventually go away but Mary Bale
couldn't stay hidden for long because
eventually the more conventional media
Outlets would pick up on the story Bale
began being mobbed by reporters and had
to be escorted by police whenever she
went out in public initially the woman
would deny any wrongdoing whatsoever
telling a local newspaper in an
interview that it was quote just a cat
and that she didn't see what all the
fuss was about statements like this
would only throw more fuel to the fire
and pressure would Mount eventually
getting the woman to admit that she had
made a mistake in the wake of the
outrage Mary Bale would issue a public
apology stating quote I cannot explain
why I did this it is completely out of
character and I certainly did not intend
to cause any distress to Lola or her
owners despite her eventual apologetic
disposition Mary Bell would be facing a
criminal charge as a result of her
action in October of 2010 Bale would
reportedly plead guilty to one count of
animal cruelty she was compelled to pay
over 1400 pounds in compensation to low
owner and the courts collectively and
was forbidden from owning pets for a
period of five years but in all honesty
legal consequence was the least of Mary
Bale's problems the negative online
backlash caused by Lola's tossing had
essentially ruined her life her name was
relentlessly mocked and derided online
there were entire Facebook groups
dedicated to the slander and harassment
of Mary Bale parody Twitter accounts
imitated her likeness and tweeted
various obscenities in her name and
YouTube channels created satirical
Recreations of the incident that went
massively viral the sheer amount of
vitriol made life for Mary Bell a living
hell the whole ordeal reportedly sending
the woman into a deep depression with
over a decade now separating us from the
cat tossing incident it has largely been
forgotten about in the public discourse
but in the Internet history books it
will remain as one of the most
significant 4chan-led vigilante justice
campaigns to ever occur
next up the 4chan coupon scammer there's
some folks out there that take couponing
to an extreme level spending hours upon
hours a day collecting insane amounts of
coupons and racking up big savings in
the process everybody knows at least one
person that's like a coupon freak that
knows how to essentially break the
system and get super cheap deals or even
at some point have the manufacturer send
them money your last
343.61 all right are you ready for my
coupons ready for your coupon all right
we actually owe you money yes
that is awesome we owe you six dollars
and 17 cents today but the 4chan user
we're going to be discussing today took
breaking the system to an entirely new
level back in 2010 an anonymous 4chan
user managed to reverse engineer the
coupon creation process through their
efforts they devised a way to create
fake coupons that not only looked
official but were able to be redeemed in
actual stores these coupons were
relatively innocuous looked extremely
legit and didn't raise a suspicion the
individual's coupons varied from less
severe infractions such as energy drinks
laundry detergents and other common
grocery items but some of his coupons
bordered on absurdity one particularly
Infamous coupon minted by this scammer
promised a free PlayStation 3. While
most retailers would object this
outlandish coupon images do exist of
people showing off successful purchases
meaning there are a few documented cases
of these seemingly ridiculous coupons
working 4chan would serve as a
repository for the anonymous fraudster
to post many of his fake coupons and
members of the community would use it to
get Savings of their own the fake coupon
Trend would go undetected for about a
year as Internet users took full
advantage of these Newfound savings the
would-be ringleader of this coupon fraud
wave would eventually release a highly
detailed guide on how to create them to
4chan the guide would go viral on the
internet I think it goes without saying
that this coupon fraudster was getting a
little bit Brazen and naturally a little
law enforcement heat would follow As
Time progressed many of the businesses
that were being ripped off by the
coupons began to notice something
suspicious was happening Chief among
these was News America marketing a
coupon-centric division of the Rupert
Murdoch owned news Company the company
began to notice unusual coupon
redemption Trends which resulted in
authorities being alerted in an
investigation being launched
after a long and extensive investigation
this unlikely fraudster was eventually
discovered the culprit was eventually
caught in May of 2011. the entire
operation being headed by a 22 year old
student named Lucas Henderson who was
ironically studying computer security at
the Rochester Institute of Technology
Henderson used his technical expertise
learned online and through school to
make these fake coupons and allegedly
used a tour browser to hide his location
while making them however the man would
eventually slip up and reportedly expose
his IP address to the administrators of
a website called zoclet.net the admins
would then forward this information to
authorities during the FBI's
investigation of Henderson he would
admit to being the one responsible for
creating the coupon fraud guide that
ended up on 4chan and when it came to
damages the man had racked up a serious
price tag with these fake coupons The
Biggest Loser was Procter and Gamble who
had reportedly lost over two hundred
thousand dollars in profit it's because
of Henderson's actions charged with wire
fraud in the trafficking of counterfeit
Goods Henderson was eventually sentenced
to three years of supervision by
authorities and was ordered to pay
restitution of nine hundred thousand
dollars to the companies that he
affected despite Henderson's arrest the
trend of fake coupons would continue for
the foreseeable future as far as
Henderson goes it's not publicly known
what became of the man but I think it's
safe to say that the guy is not printing
any more fake coupons
the years leading up to and following
the election of Donald Trump were Rife
with political protest it seemed like a
week couldn't go by without a high
profile clash between the right and the
left making news headlines it's no
surprise that California served as a
frequent Battleground for protesters
with the city of Berkeley in particular
being the location of many
well-documented antifa versus Maga
skirmishes and at a 2017 Berkeley
protester Clash we would see the birth
of one of 4chan's most hated enemies the
bike lock basher
story of the bike lock Basher begins in
a chaotic political rally held in
Berkeley on April 15th of 2017. rich
black who had previously organized a
pro-trump rally in the Berkeley area a
month before it advertised this
particular protest as a fight for free
speech and many conservative and
far-right protesters showed up to voice
their support for the cause naturally
this resulted in a counter protest
popping up with many liberal and
anti-fascist activists being present as
well the two groups would face off
almost immediately and it wasn't long
before skirmishes began to break out
objects such as rocks were thrown and
eventually the fighting between the two
groups escalated to the point where
fireworks were being set off and police
intervention was required by the end of
this Berkeley scuffle 20 people were
arrested with multiple being reported as
injured and the entire event was seen by
many as a complete disaster despite the
large number of fights that took place
on the day there was one violent
protester that stood out amongst
everyone this individual was a man who
was seen bashing people's heads with
with a large bike lock with clips of him
doing so going viral on the internet the
most popular of these clips showed him
violently smashing the head of another
protester who was attempting to break up
a confrontation the sheer brutality of
the bike lock Basher angered many online
and after all I mean it's like why are
you going to hit a guy that's trying to
break up a fight what kind of sense does
that make you're just being an agent of
chaos at that point individuals on both
the right and the left were calling for
the bike lock Basher to be brought to
justice but initially there was little
that anybody could do the anonymous
figure was a masked man whose identity
was completely unknown and nobody had
any real leads as to who he could
possibly be that was until some of the
Cyber sleuths on 4chan's Politically
Incorrect board made it their mission to
bust the bike lock Basher users began
combing through every single recorded
instance of the rally and they
eventually discovered One Clip in which
the man they thought to be the culprit
was unmasked they then began
cross-referencing the maskless man's
attire in general appearance to his mask
depiction superimposing their faces
together to see if they matched after
becoming confident that they had
successfully identified the face of the
bike lock Basher they then took to
social media to see if they could attach
the face to a name and after discovering
facial matches through Twitter LinkedIn
and OkCupid they made the bizarre
discovery that the individual in
question was in fact a professor who
worked at Diablo Valley College
ironically the professor taught ethics
and philosophy at the school his name
was Eric Clanton this information was
subsequently forwarded to authorities
who started their own investigation into
the matter around this time Eric Clanton
had apparently discovered that the
internet had identified him and started
deactivating his social media accounts
despite his efforts the police managed
to track Eric Clanton down in a communal
house in Oakland and the man was soon
arrested upon searching his room police
reportedly found a wide variety of
Contraband including Metal Knuckles and
psilocybin mushrooms after his arrest
and charges clanton's lawyer went on
Tucker Carlson to discuss the
proceedings why would you try to excuse
an assault like that
first of all I'm not excusing anything
you're jumping to conclusions Tucker we
have a presumption of innocence in this
country and I assume that you was a
patriotic American believe in it there's
an accusation that my client did certain
things that are against the law none of
that has been proven it hasn't even been
proven that he was present at that event
much less than he hit anyone much less
that he did so without justification
Eric Clanton was facing some pretty
serious charges but managed to evade
major jail time thanks to a plea deal in
the end Eric Clanton took a three-year
supervised probation plea deal and
managed to have most of his serious
charges dismissed however there were
additional non-legal consequences
sometime after the bike lock bashing
event it's been reported that Eric
Clanton no longer worked at the
University and it goes without saying
that his reputation was permanently
damaged because of his actions since
taking the plea deal the disgrace
Professor has remained out of the public
eye
our next story is a case when 4chan [ __ ]
posting goes too far and someone gets
arrested over it in the early days of
the internet the web was the Wild Wild
West and 4chan was the saloon of
degeneracy one way that people [ __ ]
with each other in the early days of
4chan was through copy pastas I'm sure
most of you watching know what a copy
pasta is but if you don't know it's
essentially a fake made up story
intended to outrage people who stumble
across it they often appear as large
walls of text that purport some
ridiculous circumstance or served to
describe some Disturbed individual in an
effort to rile people up that being said
one 4chan user would eventually make a
copy pasta that was so potent that it
would lead to police showing up at his
door this is at the time 20 year old
grocery store employee Jake Brahm and on
September 18th of 2006 Jake would create
an alarming thread on 4chan claiming
that several dirty bombs would explode
around the United it states and the
resulting chaos would lead to the death
of over one hundred thousand people
on Sunday October 22 2006 there will be
seven dirty explosive devices detonated
in seven different U.S cities the death
toll will approach 100 000 from the
initial blasts and countless other
fatalities will later occur as a result
of the radioactive fallout the bombs
themselves will be delivered via trucks
these trucks will pull up to stadiums
hosting NFL games in each respective
City all stadiums to be targeted are
open-air arenas excluding Atlanta's
Georgia Dome due to the open air the
radiological Fallout will destroy those
not killed in the initial explosion the
explosions will be near simultaneous
with the city specifically chosen in
different time zones to allow for
multiple attacks at the same time the
22nd of October will Mark the final day
of Ramadan as it would fall in Mecca Al
Qaeda will automatically be blamed for
the attacks later through Al Jazeera
Osama Bin Laden will issue a video
message claiming responsibility for what
he dubs as quote America's Hiroshima
in the aftermath Civil Wars will erupt
around the world both in the Middle East
and within the United States Global
economies will Screech to a halt General
chaos will roll
now if you have any sort of familiarity
with internet culture it's pretty clear
that this is like just a [ __ ] up hoax
post right it was a blatant effort to
capitalize on people's fear in the Years
following 9 11. in order to get the most
out of his magnum opus Jake the
individual that posted this thread
continued to copy and paste the message
over 40 times throughout the following
days much of the annoyance of fellow
4chan users but unfortunately for Jake
the post proved to be more successful
than he ever had planned for screenshots
of the post began to reach spaces
outside of 4chan and general internet
users who were unfamiliar with 4chan's
edgy style of shock humor took it
completely at face value becoming
concerned that an actual terrorist
threat was on the horizon the viral
nature of this post resulted in the FBI
getting involved eventually Jake Braum
would be identified as the poster and he
turned himself into authorities in
October of 2006. when questioned by the
FBI Braum would admit to being the one
who crafted the copy pasta stating that
he had been in competition with another
Forum poster to see who could create the
most incendiary message needless to say
the FBI wasn't entertained by his excuse
Jake Braum would eventually be sentenced
to serve six months in federal prison
for the hoax followed by six more months
of house arrest in addition to his
conviction Jake was also ordered to pay
eighteen thousand dollars in restitution
to the Cleveland Browns football team
and eight thousand seven hundred and
fifty dollars to the New Jersey Sports
and Exposition Authority this was due to
the cost that Stadium owners incurred
while preparing for a legitimate bomb
threat including sniffer dogs that had
to be deployed and beefier security
detail the incident made Jake Brahm a
sort of cautionary tale of 4chan and he
was maimed on by the community members
for what happened to him needless to say
a post as short-sighted as this
qualifies you for a four chance dumbest
criminal award
foreign
dumb as criminals list without
mentioning the fappening hackers back in
August of 2014 a collection of nude and
intimate photographs of over 100
celebrities was posted to 4chan
resulting in the photos being widely
disseminated online the poster would go
on to claim that if they got Bitcoin
donations they would continue posting
these images apparently the hacker
managed to obtain many high-profile
celebrity images through iCloud accounts
that were linked to these celebrities
themselves and this was done through an
Apple security exploit and this exploit
led to probably one of the most
memorable events in Internet history the
fappening the sheer volume of photos
that were released was astounding I mean
this was such a big deal the mainstream
media was talking about it it even got
the celebrities that were victims of the
hack even coming out and sort of denying
that they were actually being shown in
the photos but it was actually them some
celebrities even took this a step
further with Jennifer Lawrence in
particular stating that anyone who
viewed the nude photographs was
perpetrating a sexual offense with our
publicist stating that that anyone who
posted lewd photos of her would be
persecuted by authorities but needless
to say these police for decency and
respect fell on deaf ears and everybody
was pretty much celebrating the
fappening hacker or hackers the incident
was so notorious in fact that it
resulted in one of the earliest
appearances of 4chan on CNN the once
relatively unknown website was being
talked about by the national news and
was put in the Forefront of online
discourse surrounding the ethics of
privacy freedom of speech and the
general culture of the internet do we
even know who is this 4chan with all the
attention surrounding the fappening
leaks it wouldn't be long before law
enforcement got involved soon after the
leaks had occurred the FBI stated that
it was pursuing an investigation into
the ordeal and would begin searching for
the identities of the hackers due to
4chan's Anonymous nature the process was
made difficult but was far from being an
impossible task in October of 2014 the
feds tracked the IP addresses of one of
the leakers to a house in Chicago
Illinois this individual would later be
arrested and identity defied as a man
named Emilio Herrera his home was
subsequently raided after a warrant had
been issued herrera's electronic devices
were confiscated and taken into FBI
possession Herrera would eventually
plead guilty in October of 2017 to
obtaining illicit photos using an
unauthorized computer Herrera was
sentenced to serve 16 months in prison
in the process of Prosecuting Emilio
Herrera it was discovered that there
were additional hackers involved with
the fappening leaks another individual
36 year old Ryan Collins was also
arrested after it was discovered that
the man had hacked into the accounts of
multiple celebrities using the Apple
exploit the man allegedly gained access
to these celebrity accounts by sending
phishing emails disguised to appear as
legitimate telling the celebs that their
account security had been threatened and
that they needed to change their
security details Ryan Collins was found
guilty and was also sentenced to serve
18 months in prison another individual
Edward majorzic was also convicted of
the same crime Edward's connection to
the fappening is unique because he
didn't actually work with any other
hackers unlike the previously mentioned
individuals he was just a lone wolf that
had managed to figure out the same
exploit the man was later sentenced to
serve nine months in prison another
individual that was part of this hacking
Circle George garfano was also arrested
despite attempting to throw his fellow
hackers under the bus the man was still
sentenced and got eight months in prison
in testimony George's attorney would
claim that the man had been drawn into
criminal activity after being taken
advantage of by quote more sophisticated
hackers the final individual involved
with the fappening hacks to be arrested
was a man named Christopher Brannon and
interestingly Brannan was formerly a
school teacher out of all the
individuals his actions were the most
severe Brandon not only actively
participated in the fappening hacks but
also went as far as using hacks to gain
access to images of his own family
members it was discovered that Brandon
breached the account of his then
underage sister-in-law as well as
multiple accounts of teachers various
School faculty members and students that
attended the school he had previously
worked at for his crimes Brannan was
sentenced to serve 34 months in prison
while many remember the fappening few
realized that those responsible actually
got locked up and well when it comes to
eight to nine months in prison was it
worth it
no I think that deserves you a spot on a
four chance dumbest criminals list
our final story is an old school
internet content creator involved with
4chan that had some self-incriminating
posts wind up on the site and he got
busted for him this is Thaddeus
McMichael also known as
madthad0890 known for being an outspoken
internet otaku mad Thad gained
popularity in 2010 thanks to his YouTube
videos some have described him as
terminally online and his videos were
popular on YouTube Facebook and 4chan
that's videos usually involved him
reacting to video game or anime related
news and energetically lip syncing to
covers of his favorite anime openers
however what really grabbed the
attention of 4chan users was something
kind of unrelated to the videos
themselves it was thad's obsessive
postings regarding his fictional anime
girlfriend kotanaha katsura the katsura
character originated from an anime known
as school days and was referred to by
Thaddeus as his waifu on many occasions
this Obsession resulted in the creation
of a YouTube video where he sings Happy
Birthday in front of a shrine dedicated
to the fictional anime character happy
birthday to you happy birthday to you
thad's bizarre video would go on to
Garner over 200 000 views as many Marvel
that the unabashedly strange Fascination
that he has had with this anime
character often having conversations
with himself as if she was actually real
and underneath photos of him posing with
a framed photo of her screenshots of
these posts were spread across the
internet with many mocking mad Thad for
his unhealthy fixation but that ignored
the detractors and took his Strange
Obsession to the next level posting a
video where he appears to have sex with
an anime body pillow
this Infamous showcase would only
contribute to his online infamy as he
would become known as the ultimate
archetype for the stereotypical
obsessive nerd that was disconnected
from reality now despite thaddeus's
cringe-worthy activities the man didn't
seem to be harmful in any way he just
kind of liked embarrassing himself
online but over time internet users
would begin to notice some serious red
flags that resulted in widespread
suspicion about the individual sometime
between 2011 and 2012 Thaddeus would
make some bizarre post to Facebook not
only saying that he was okay with CP but
he was actually in possession of it in
one reply he allegedly stated that he
could quote fap to the same CP Video for
weeks because it's so [ __ ] hot and in
another post he appears to say that he
actively fantasizes about adopting a
young girl to have sex with them as well
as claiming to having a 20 gigabyte hard
drive full of CP naturally these
statements along with many other ones
associated with mad Thad were passed on
to authorities and a upon the FBI being
alerted about mad that an investigation
was opened up on the guy upon being
questioned by authorities the anime fan
claimed that the posts were just jokes
and that he wasn't actually responsible
for any illegal activity however his
claims were disproven as the FBI would
search his home and confiscated an eight
gigabyte USB flash drive that was
allegedly full of illicit child porn
facing multiple CP charges mad Thad was
eventually convicted in 2013. the anime
fan took a plea deal that resulted in
him getting five years in prison for his
crimes
but that was my compendium of 4chan's
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