YouTube Pranksters Charged With Felony for a Fake Robbery - walkerason1940

YouTube has become one of the virtually popular video platforms in the market with all sorts of videos. We have seen YouTubers act up crazy things along videos like making a "Cyberbike" and open 6000 Chrome tabs. However, one of the unsafe genres of YouTube videos includes pranking random mass. So instantly, for a YouTube-buffoonery-gone-wrong video, two YouTube star brothers are facing felony charges for a fake banking company robbery.

YouTuber twins, Alan and Alex Stokes run the common YouTube Channel, "Stokes Gemini the Twins". Most of their videos take pranks on their friends and random people on the streets. So for a video which they shared connected YouTube live October, the twins have been charged with two counts of felony and misdemeanor each.

The Prank That Can Send Them to Prison

So now, coming to the actual prank. The Stokes brothers first identified themselves as criminals to an Uber number one wood and some other random populate on the street. They took it to a high notch when they started to inspire the general public to give them rides, clothes, and else forms of assistance in a rude way of life.

Chase these events, reportedly many police officers came to the spot after acquiring a robbery on the alert. At this target, the brothers were explaining the prank to the officers.

Subsequently the case filings, the brothers removed the video from their YouTube channel which has almost 4.9 million subscribers.

Now, for the above prank, the Orange River County District Attorney has charged each brother with one felony count of "false imprisonment effected past vehemence, jeopardise, fraud, operating room deceit" and another misdemeanor count of falsely reporting an emergency. According to the authorities, if convicted for both charges, the Stokes brothers would attend slammer for quadruplet whole years.

"These were not pranks. These are crimes that could have resulted in someone getting seriously injured or even killed. Law enforcement officers are pledged to protect the public and when someone calls 911 to describe an active bank robbery they are going to respond to protect lives. Alternatively, what they found was some kind of twisted attempt to gain more popularity on the internet by unnecessarily putting members of the public and police officers in peril." , said the Orange County District attorney, Todd Spitzer.