24 Hour Overnight Challenge in Target!

[MUSIC PLAYING] Hey, I'm Tara Sarabhan, and you're listening to World's Dumbest Criminals. If you're keen to hear about the most ridiculous, bizarre, and downright stupid criminals and crime stories in the world ever, you've come to the right place. In today's episode, you'll be hearing about a pair of YouTubers who uploaded a video of themselves apparently completing an overnight challenge in Target, a woman with an impressively weird weapon collection that she claimed was for protection against Giawis and more. Alrighty, let's get cracking. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] OK, you guys, sorry we're rushing through this intro, but it's 9.37. And-- oh. OK, you guys, sorry we're rushing through this intro. It's 9.37. It's 9.37 at night. OK, and Target is about to close you guys. We are about to spend the night in Target. We're going to spend overnight in Target. Target close at 10, opens at 8, and we're going to spend the whole night in Target. You guys do not attempt what we attempt at home. We are entertainers. OK, you guys, we are risking trespassing. I don't know what else can happen after that. I don't know if it's just a fine, again, a bracelet. I don't really know. I don't really care. We're doing this for US and H.O. Empire. We love you. And so we're going to go inside, and we're going to make a fort inside, and we're going to see you guys inside if this is successful. So we got to go, because we're running late. We're running late. Right, we're running late like Sophie and Honeydew makes you like, comment, and subscribe, and we'll see you soon. Those were the dulcet tones of two YouTubers. 25-year-old Johnson LaRose and 24-year-old Charlotte Fischer, who go by the name Sorcy and Honey. In February 2022, they filmed themselves supposedly completing a 24-hour overnight challenge in Target. I like how they say at the start of the video not to try this at home. Like, who has a Target store at home? The X-Tin Pennsylvania Target store they chose for the challenge wasn't in their home either. It closes overnight from 10pm to 8am, which those bright sparks in the audience will realize is 10 hours, not 24. But 24 sounds more important, and it's possible that their Target audience are kids who can't maths. The couple filmed themselves on their phones, hiding out in a fort they made of boxes, gallivanting around the empty store aisles, dancing, pretending to be mannequins, and acting all worried that someone would catch them. They don't ever get over the fact that the lights are turned off after the store is closed. And they make a lot of wacky. Can you believe we're doing something so zany faces? The video they posted on YouTube to thrill their 17,700 followers is almost 26 minutes long, and they often show the time on their phones as the night progresses and talk about being tired and how they deserve 50,000 likes for this stunt. It is 544. I don't know you guys. This is stressful. I think we deserve 50,000 likes for this video. One of this videos is 50,000 likes, you guys. Make sure you like, comment, and subscribe to the Empire. The big plot twist is that they did not in fact complete the 24 hour overnight challenge that was only 10 hours long. At around 3am, they left through an emergency exit and accidentally set off an alarm. Police were then dispatched to the store to investigate. Responding officers searched the building but didn't find anyone trespassing as by then they were both long gone. Authorities said that saucy and honey returned to the store at around 8am after it opened the next morning and resumed filming to pretend that they'd stayed there all night. They were caught out when the store workers reviewed the surveillance video the next day showing them wandering around the store filming each other on their phones and leaving through the emergency exit at 3am. This footage was later used to identify the couple. The police noted that the pair did not steal or damage anything while they were inside the close store. West Whiteland Township Police Officer Detective Scott Pessig pointed out the dangers of doing a stunt like this. He said, "When you go to a burglary call, you have a heightened sense of awareness. Suddenly you see somebody in there or or maybe they get spooked and run. Our officers are well trained but there's not a great situation for anybody." Which is a lot of words to say that they're lucky they didn't get shot. Now saucy and honey's brand is that they're real. They don't fake anything. They're super legit, far too legit to quit. I know I walk into our channel video, definitely said, "If only we keep everything real." "If only we're not fake." So. No thickness over here. I was not. It was never like that. I can't even. be like that. This makes the conclusion to their 24 hour target challenge video all the more hilarious because they faked the shit out of it. They only spent five hours of their 10 hour 24 hour overnight challenge in the target and then they celebrated their victory. Let's take a listen. You guys we did it! We successfully completed our overnight challenge in Tangerine! We did it. I can't believe we did it man. You want to give your testimony like. I thought we'd be able to get caught up. It's just mind-batheling to me that nobody came. What's next? What's next you guys? Comment down below where we should try next. If you enjoyed this video run it up to 50,000 likes you guys. I just like. I think we deserve. Where does our 50,000 likes for that? I think we should try Walmart next through something, but comment down below. Let us know what you guys think. To quote honey, it's mind-batheling to me that they pretended to do this. Authorities told the media that saucy and honey were arrested and charged with third degree criminal trespassing. It was reported that they were released on $25,000 bail and had been banned from all target stores across Pennsylvania. They were expected to front court again on March 24th and could have been facing seven years in jail. Honey told Fox News a particularly on-brand YOLO statement. I mean, no regrets. Just living life and having fun. It's kind of sad that all this came out of it. We're expecting a fine. Nothing crazy. And although the video has 322,000 views, most of which would be due to the controversy, it only got 6,600 likes. The comment section of their YouTube video was where most of the entertainment came from. One commenter said, "I honestly think it's great that criminals like these exist. They're filming themselves committing the crime, so the prosecutors taking up their case have the evidence they need to convict them." Another said, "Little did they know the security cameras don't turn off when the store closes." And this person hilariously commented, "Do not attempt this at home. Sadly puts target back in my closet." Another wrote, "It's the fact that you all got arrested and lied about staying there overnight. At least get arrested and win the challenge." Well yet another proclaimed, "I'm so excited for the 61,360-hour prison challenge." I tried to find out what happened with the charges, but Google gave me nothing. I did eventually locate a video of saucy and honey where they addressed the issue and it was actually pretty entertaining. Mostly because they acted like they were offended that they received so much media attention for this stunt. Because you know, if there's one thing YouTubers hate more than anything on Earth, it's attention. It's like sunlight to a vampire. "Gah, don't look at me!" They even spend the first minute and a half of the video showing all the media headlines and clips of news stories about them that they claim not to be happy about. No fakeness indeed. So saucy and honey said that the media got it all wrong. They claim in the video that they were called by the police, went to court and were fingerprinted but were never arrested or charged. However, the West Whiteland Police Department website says that saucy was arrested on March 9th, 2022 for criminal trespass at the Extern Target. But there's no record of honey being arrested. It's all very odd, but they do seem to have made the charges go away, assuming there were charges in the first place. My favourite thing that I stumbled across while researching this episode is a question on the website Korra. It says, "I watched a 24 hour overnight challenge video on YouTube. Is it possible I could be arrested for doing so?" "Nobody, it's not." In October 2020, a 46 year old woman named Helen fronted Gimpy Magistrate's Court in Queensland. She pleaded guilty to eight charges, including possessing several illegal weapons and producing marijuana. "Predeusing marijuana is an odd way of saying 'crowing pot' and it could lead to some confusion. 'What do you do?' "I'm a producer. Film more television." Marijuana Helen here had produced 33 marijuana seedlings when the authorities conducted a search on her house. They also found a bunch of weird weapons, including two taisers, a butterfly knife, knuckle dusters, and a legal laser pointer and a credit card knife. I didn't know about this before, but a credit card knife has a small blade made from thin surgical steel that stays flat in its casing. They're the same size as a credit card and can fit in your wallet for secret, stabby purposes. Helen's weapons were hidden in different places throughout her house, as though she might feel the need to be stabby or taisery at any moment. But Helen claimed that was not the purpose of the weapons. Oh no! She had a much more rational fear she was trying to protect herself from. A fear of yowies. A yowies pretty much the Australian equivalent of bigfoot. Like bigfoot, it's purported by people who believe in such things to be a very tall, mussely, hairy thing whose existence is yet to be proven. But it's an Aussie, so it goes around drinking beer and calling people mate. Helen's lawyer managed to keep a straight face when he told the court that she gathered up all her weapons from their hidey holes and took them with her when she went camping because she had a fear of yowies. This prompted magistrate Chris Callahan to ask, "But, they're mythical aren't they? They dreamt exist. We're talking about a mythical character." Helen's lawyer responded by saying that she was a firm believer in yowies. He said, "She instructs me she has seen them on two occasions, one many years ago and one recently in Tincan Bay. But magistrate Callahan was not buying the sheet he was spinning, he said it was rubbish. And if Helen wanted to continue using the fear of yowies' defence, she would need to provide evidence that yowies existed." Helen's lawyer said that she'd been battling with anxiety, depression and a methodician but had stopped using meth months earlier and now just used weed to help her sleep. He also said that Helen didn't socialise to any degree and keeps to herself, much like a yowie. The magistrate accepted that Helen's marijuana production was for personal use and said it was to her credit that she was off the meth. But he noted that he hadn't been given any reliable explanations as to why Helen had a polythera of weird weapons, but he was glad that she kept them at home and none of them were found on her in public. He issued Helen with an $800 fine. The funniest part of this story is that although the magistrate was very vocal about not going along with the yowie defence, he had obviously considered it because he said at one point, "What would a credit card knife do against a yowie?" So in his head he's picturing this big hairy yowie and someone trying to fight it off with a little credit card knife and he's just thinking about how inefficient such a weapon would be in this situation. To finish up, I have a few punchline crimes for you. These are short cases that sound more like jokes than something that actually happened. In March 2016, a North Carolina man was arrested for one of the most ridiculous reasons ever. Single dad James Myers Jr. said that he was driving his 10-year-old daughter to school at around 7.30am on a Tuesday when the police pulled him over to tell him that he had a broken brake light. When they ran his details through the system, they came back and told him that there was a warrant out for his arrest. James was extremely shocked as he was quite the law-abiding citizen. He thought perhaps there'd been some mistake and asked what the arrest warrant was due to. It was then that the cops told him it was because he'd failed to return a rented VHS copy of Freddie Got fingered way back in February 2002. At first Chris thought that they were joking. He didn't have the video and he had no idea what happened to it. In fact, the store that he rented it from, J&J's video, had closed down 10 years earlier, so it's not like he could have returned it even if he did still have it. Chris recounted how the cops were chitchatting with him and laughing about how ridiculous it all was. Then they arrested him. But they were pretty cool about it. Chris said because I had my daughter in the car and we were on the way to school, they said that I could take my daughter to school and go to work and then find a babysitter and then come into the police and turn myself in. He did so and was charged with failure to return hired property and scheduled to appear in court the next month. Chris had never been arrested before and was surprised to be put in handcuffs for this offense. He said, "They took my belt. I was trying to hold my pants up while trying to sign papers. It was very embarrassing." The incident also scared his 10-year-old daughter who was worried that it'd have to go to jail. But there was an upside. Tom Green, the writer, director and star of the critically acclaimed Freddy Gotfinger, heard about Chris as a rest on Twitter and contacted him. Chris said, "It was so cool. I was a class act. It made me feel a lot better because of all the stress that's going on." Tom Green sang to him, told him not to worry and offered to help in any way he could. He said if Chris received a fine, he would happily pay it for him. But fortunately, the charge ended up being dismissed. Since 2008, Indonesia has had some very strict anti-pornography laws, which makes the fact that this guy leaked revenge porn of himself and his ex-girlfriend even more monumentally stupid than the vindictive losers who do it elsewhere. Indonesian media doesn't publish the full names of people and situations like this, so we just know them by their initials. When a 25-year-old, or excuse for a man named as ABU or ABU in the press, was broken up with by his girlfriend of five years, he had himself an epic pity party. In the butt-hurt butt-head, the retina-share explicit videos of her online. Ooh, I'm sure that made a regret jumping a man of this caliber. He was clearly a keeper. She said she didn't want to make the explicit videos in the first place and refuse to, but he pressured her into it, which is such a dick move. No wonder she broke up with him. The sex tape he released of them caused a lot of controversy, in part because she was wearing a Trit-Dartu bracelet, which is a sacred symbol of Hinduism in Bali. During their investigation, the cops first identified the woman in the video and bought her in for questioning. She said that although her toxic wasteland of an ex had threatened to post the video, she didn't know that he'd actually done it. So she filed a police report. When the cops arrested ABU, he confessed to spreading the video without his ex's consent, but you know, it was her own fault for breaking up with him. Under Indonesian law, ABU may face a maximum of 12 years behind bars and be fined US $68,000 if he's found guilty of making and distributing the pornography that he made and distributed. I've said it before, if everyone who put revenge porn out there was somehow banned from having sex ever again, the issue would be gone. But hey, 12 years in the pokey and a $68,000 fine also sounds like a pretty good deterrent. In January this year, a passenger in a car stopped by the police in Wachit England acted like a complete moron, and that's according to his defence team, so you know it was pretty bad. While officers were trying to speak to the driver, the passenger named Jamie went out of his way to stop them doing so. He blocked the cops' path to the driver and answered their questions for him. He was abusive to the police, calling them "Nonsense, pedophiles and virgins" and threatened to take a dump on the bonnet of their car. He also jumped in the front seat of a police car and honked the horn before getting out, dropping his pants and wriggling his penis around at them. an exposure and carrying a kitchen knife in his backpack that he said he'd forgotten was there. In court the prosecutor stated, "The defendant untid his trousers, dropped his trousers and underpants and began vondaling himself in the direction of the officers." "But of course the defense saw things differently." They said, "He wasn't vondaling, he took hold of his penis and just sort of waved it at them." "Okay sure, not vondaling, just waving at them with his dick. It's an important distinction to make." Jamie was fined 800 pounds and given a 12 month community order. This brings me to the end of the episode. Thanks for listening. Make sure you subscribe if you want to stay up to date with all future episodes and if you dug what you heard, please leave a review. If you'd like to support this independent podcast, head on over to patreon.com/worldsdumascriminals. All levels get access to monthly bonus episodes and add free episodes and higher levels also receive a target of their very own to keep at home and not attempt overnight challenges in. 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