A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year

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I’d rather get shot than work at McDonald’s. Have you worked a low wage customer facing job? Literally anything is better. I’d rather have children kick me in the balls all day.

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I’d rather get shot if it was a mild wound and I didn’t have to pay the medical bills afterwards*.

America, the land of opportunity!™

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Well if you get shot at McDonald’s, you’ll get workers’ comp. for a while. They’ll cut you off eventually, pay you pennies on the dollar of what wages you lost. They will cover your medical bills though.

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It’s interesting, the YouTuber clearly doesn’t have medical insurance through his job because… well he makes YouTube videos for a living. He was shot, so that was presumably a huge medical expense. I wonder who’s paying his bills? His parents?

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So long as you pay something on a bill, you generally don’t have too much of an issue. I can’t tell you the number of people I know that are making $5 a month payments on $$$ medical bills. One of my coworkers and his wife had separate major health emergencies that put them in the hospital within 3 days of each other. She was in for months, he was in for weeks. Their combined bills after insurance is just over $500,000. $5 a month.

I have a feeling I’m going to be having surgery sometime in the near future, and I’ll be joining that $5 crowd, because I’m still getting bills from a host of tests run at the beginning of the year that I’m paying on. I’m pretty much tapped out at this point.

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If I could guarantee I’d live, I think I legit agree.

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Guaranteed to live but you have to shit in a bag for the rest of your life.

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Pull the trigger

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But you would also have to be a total asshole and go around harassing strangers who are just trying to get on with their lives.

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So a mcdonalds customer too, got it ;)

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Harassing people seems like less work

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True, my point was more about using McDonald’s as a measuring stick is a bad call. Like I’d seriously have to think about it if I have to do one or the other for an extended period.

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Should make a YouTube channel and call it Ow My Balls

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Having worked in fast food and factories, I’d much rather the fast food work than any kind of repetitive factory work.

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