Man arrested after threats to poison baby food
Posted August 4th, 2008 by minortopics | via www.techtree.comOh, YouTube, you double-edged sword — on the one hand you bring us delightful videos of people getting hit in the nuts. On the other, you’re a conduit for whackjobs to get attention.
Anton Dunn is currently under arrest after he posted a series of videos detailing plans to poison Gerber products — a range of baby food. In one video — Dunn, filming himself from inside a shower stall, claims that his “plan is in motion” and that four babies had already died. The U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed charges against him which could result in up to 10 years in prison or heavy fines.
“Critics will likely say it’s a case of authorities overreacting to a case of over-the-top, look-at-me comedy. But the Trashman videos, in which Dunn wears masks to disguise his identity and rants in a humorless tone, don’t look like they were made to make people laugh”, [CNet’s Caroline McCarthy] says through her blog entry.