The YouTuber Boogie2988 has a warrant out for his arrest, following an incident where he fired a gun in the air last year.
This is one of those stories where everyone involved seems like an asshole. Hassle sounds like a completely awful person, but confronting him with a gun and then shooting into the air to scare him off? Come on, dude. Just go inside and lock your door.
I feel like weāre this close to YouTubersā own videos being used in evidence against them at trial. As misguided as that would be, making a video saying āYeah I shot at the guy, donāt come to my houseā was maybe the dumbest thing you could have done next.
I feel like I keep finding out that youtubers are strapped. This is not the first time Iāve discovered a youtuber had a gun.
Yikes! Yikes on bikes! In general I wouldnāt trust the average gaming YouTuber with anything more dangerous than a slightly large spoon
Wasnāt it just last year some twitch streamer got drunk and shot his computer/monitor on stream because he thought it was emptyā¦
This is in no way intended to justify Boogieās actions or advocate for the ownership or use of firearms, howeverā¦
ā¦ have you ever been stalked? You ever had someone harass you by coming to your home? āJust go inside and lock your doorā is such tone-deaf advice that, as someone who HAS been in situations like these, just feels offensive. I absolutely understand the impulse to defend yourself against someone who has decided to bring their harassment to your doorstep.
Firing a gun into the air in a populated area is always a stupid and reckless thing to do. He clearly judged that Hassle wasnāt enough of a threat to justify shooting at him, so instead he fires off in a random direction where he doesnāt know who or what is going to end up taking the bullet? Thatās not an instinctive reaction, thatās a conscious decision to do something that endangers bystanders.
I understand that and agree with you.
As I specified, I took issue with your phrase āJust go inside and lock your doorā.
Please try to understand how dismissive that phrase came across.
Can we please have a moment to appreciate Boogieās dumb ass hand cannon? Is that a. 357 held one-handed by a youtuber? The man is lucky he didnāt break his wrist.
Two things.
Iāve one handed a .44 magnum. A revolver has less kickback than youād think because it has no action on it so there isnāt a big ass hunk of metal flying back to chamber the next round. All of this was done years ago at a range and the 2A should be buried at sea so no one knows where to mourn it.
Second, Iāve never had anyone stalk me directly, but I have had to help people personally and professionally who were and that shit is both terrifying and completely possible to understand as an outsider. I have had to literally help people I know and care about make arrangements from half a country away to leave and find a new place, and I will still personally never understand it because Iām just a fringe player to the whole thing. I donāt understand what itās like to be a victim other than the abstract and I definitely donāt understand what itās like to be the perpetrator. I have never been obsessive or possessive in that sense, Iāve always been the one to just let things go because itās not worth my time and energy. Itās scary the amount of their own life that a stalker is willing to give to someone else.
Thatās interesting to hear. Iāve seen a lot of videos of absolute geniuses firing large calibre revolvers one-handed and almost splitting their lips as the barrel does a 180. Iāve never fired one myself and thereās a reason those videos make the rounds. That picture of Boogie brandishing it in that Tomb Raider is inexplicably hilarious to me nonetheless.
I am many things, but a man with large hands or impressive grip strength are not among them. The revolver I shot was comically huge, so Iām sure having a metric ton of stationary metal helps with keeping the thing in place, but I also got a D in high school physics so what do I know? I expected the thing to fly back and hit me in the face and knock a few teeth out and it was surprisingly manageable, I certainly didnāt start out using only one hand.
This is true! Iām simplifying it but itās Newtonāa third law ā basically when you have a system propel something forward, it needs to also have an equal reaction in the opposite direction. This means the momentum of the bullet and the momentum of the gun need to equal each other in opposite directions. Momentum is mass times velocity, so the more massive the gun the lower velocity (recoil) itās going to have coming back at you. Big-ass guns will tend to have less recoil than smaller ones, which is why pistols always surprise people with how much recoil they have.
The Noisy Cricket from Men in Black is an accurate example of this.
(Sorry I know this is a serious thread but I donāt get a chance to drop physics knowledge very often.)
I was no fan of Boogie2988 as a Youtuber, he seemed to say a whole lot about nothing at all. It seemed like he has a lot of issues and probably shouldnāt have a youtube platform, as it was only exacerbating his problems further. Iād agree weāre not far away from Youtubers gunning each other down live on Youtube.
