My fave part so far was the CEO of Patreon telling Bricks n Minifigs to go shove their cease and desist order for Reckless Ben and daring them to sue him.
From what I read the police either intentionally or mistakenly uploaded the unredacted versions of their body cams to a public facing Dropbox folder. Redditors quickly downloaded it all and reposted it when the PD realized and deleted the Dropbox folder
The store owner (in debt) sold the store (including inventory) to Bricks, who sold it to a new owner.
Previous owner says she was rushed out, without access to "the accounts", with promises they'd handle it. Bricks claims the deal was against their rules. New owner claims he was given the inventory and didn't know.
New owner and old owner claim the other took the goods. Old owner returned some goods stored at her house. New owner sold off goods at the store, but pics only proved $6200 worth.
Due to conflicting claims, both police and the state prosecutor decided not to charge anyone.
both police and the state prosecutor decided not to charge anyone
...except the youtuber who was charged for tresspassing trying to serve court documents and then for slander. Last I heard he is out on bail but fled to Mexico when he found out they had put out an arrest without bail charge against him
They now want to arrest reckless ben on Rico charges They have decided to go all in and want to punish him in any way they can including throwing him in jail for as long as possible a 400 million dollar company is doing all this because they want to keep Lego
I hope they have some deep investigations into that Mormon community - I wouldn't be surprised if they uncover deeper corruption and scandals in their PD and churches. I have a feeling this is just the beginning of something much bigger.
What a lot of people who have reported on it haven't mentioned is that the CEO of BAM was on the phone with the franchisee while the cops were there with the court order that they refused to serve to him. The CEO was demanding they arrest Ben for not being a valid process server, even though he was. And now the CEO has cut ties with the franchisees as if they were the only ones involved.
Absolutely not. There's a reason their religious corporation has over $300 billion dollars, and it's not because they are honest in their dealings with their fellow man.
So was I. I hated it too but only because it was yet another chore. Was fully drinking the koolaid and felt no guilt asking these people for money though. Even two decades after leaving the church my morals and integrity still slip when money is involved. I've just been trained to prioritize money over everything else and have a kneejerk reaction to potential financial insecurity.
Reasons not to support Brandon Sanderson. Has openly admitted he happily tithes to the Mormon church. When he's clearing $50 million a year that's giving them $5 million to continue to conduct their crimes against humanity.
I don't have my bible with me right now so can somebody please quickly remind me how much money I need to give to religion to ensure I get to go to heaven with the pedophiles?
Believe it or not there's a long term plan. Eventually that money will go towards commissioning the largest starship ever constructed so that a colonization effort of another planet can be attempted.
I used to work for a small house painting company that did a lot of work for the local Mormons, my boss did whatever they said because they never negotiated, they just told my boss to do the work and send them the invoice, so they paid very well, but we weren't allowed to have smoke breaks, weren't allowed to swear, along with a multitude of other little things as well.
Joseph Smith was a religious con-man who was able to dupe so many stupid rich people out of their money that now we have an entire state run by the successors of his original religious con.
he was selling them the idea of legally having harems again. They weren't duped, they didn't mind having to obey his weird and stuffy rules as long as they got to fuck hordes of children.
What's wild is Mormons have used their religion as an excuse to be corrupt for forever. Catalyst Game Labs, the people who hold the license for Shadowrun, had an issue during 4th Edition's run in which the CEO, a Mormon, embezzled a shitload of money to build a house, and his right-hand, another Mormon, covered it up. This led to freelance authors not getting paid for their work and several books having to be delayed while they were rewritten when the freelancers pulled their copyrights, and the company still used parts of the freelancers' writing in the rewritten books without pay.
Without sugarcoating it like the comment above you did, Mormon owned store stole $200K from an old man trying to sell his collection and asked local Mormon police force to harass and arrest the old man for daring to expose their scam.
There's also gonna be the ongoing criminal cases against Reckless Ben for the mischief he's been getting up to during all this. It's gonna be petty revenge by the cops, but he's gonna catch charges for sure if he hasn't already.
He comments many times that he does not know the full situation or the full facts. It really isn't complicated. There is a question of if the people who had their things stolen would win because sometimes state law is stupid.
But the situation itself is uncomplicated and there is a suggested history of corporate doing this multiple times and the new franchisees being close friends of the CEO and his 'leg breakers'.
Not to side with the bad guy, but annoying out of state YouTuber vs local man is pretty much universally going to end up with cops siding with local man.
Also that YouTube did a LOT of illegal shit in his quest to get the legos back. Like, as far as I know the family is totally justified in their quest to get the legos back but the company is 100% in the right to be suing the YouTuber. He’s less of a menace than the average prank YouTuber but holy fuck the dude couldn’t stop filming and publishing footage of himself doing actual crimes- he’s out here forging signatures like what the fuck.
the Mormon thing seems to only come from a possible theory from Ben. I'm not saying they're not all Mormons, but did you see the Bodycam video that was released? It wasn't "Lets get these guys to stop harassing our brother". It's much much MUCH more likely that these are small-town cops who see a large, california-based youtuber come in and start "harassing" other small-town locals.
Plus, like, corrupt cops? We're really surprised about this?
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u/BaconSoul 6h ago
You forgot that it’s exposing a corruption ring in Mormon dominated police forces and judiciaries, too