A Barcelona-based YouTuber faces up to two years in prison over a video in which he fed Oreos filled with toothpaste to a homeless man and joked that it would help him with a long-overdue clean.
Kanghua Ren - known as ReSet to his more than a million subscribers - filmed himself filling the biscuits with toothpaste and replacing them in their packaging before feeding five of them to the homeless man in January last year.
As the 52-year-old man - named by authorities as Gheorge L. - ate the cookies, ReSet jibed: “Maybe I’ve gone a bit far, but look at the positive side: this will help him clean his teeth. I think he hasn’t cleaned them since he became poor."
ReSet, a 20-year-old originally from China, earned more than €2000 from YouTube for advertising linked to the video, which was viewed thousands of times, according to court documents reported by the Spanish daily El Pais.
He now faces a charge of a crime against moral integrity, with Spanish prosecutors seeking a sentence of two years in prison and an order to pay €30,000 in compensation to the homeless man.
Gheorge L., originally from Romania, said he was ill after eating the toothpaste-filled biscuits. “I got sick after five minutes and threw up,” he related, explaining that he had not known who ReSet was and came to fear for his life.
wezli333 on April 19th, 2018 at 15:14 UTC »
YouTube is great, because now sociopaths can willingly upload evidence of their crimes and be found more easily.
Futuramawe on April 19th, 2018 at 10:31 UTC »
He fed people cat shit but it was the toothpaste that was deemed as going too far?
Felinomancy on April 19th, 2018 at 09:40 UTC »
What a complete and utter scum. A pox on this bastard and his fans.