Invisible Children co-founder detained for vandalizing cars, public masturbation

Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell, who was involved in the making of the Kony 2012 video, was detained in San Diego yesterday morning after being found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars, running through traffic and screaming in his underwear. NBC San Diego reports:

Several people attempted to calm him down and when officers arrived they said he was cooperative.

"He was no problem for the police department however, during the evaluation we learned that we probably needed to take care of him," said [Lt. Andra] Brown at a press conference. "So officers detained him and transferred him to a local medical facility for further evaluation and treatment."

The SDPD suspects Mr. Russell was under the influence of something.

Invisible Children Co-Founder Detained: SDPD

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Ralidius

Well, there you go.
- Cowicide
  
  Nothing can tame the raw power of all this Christian, homophobic, self-loathing, closeted-homosexual angst.
  
  Nothing.
  - jetfx
    
    The pavement appears to have been doing a pretty good job.
    - Cowicide
      
      The pavement may have won this battle, but not the war.
  - thisisdavid
    
    exactly what I was saying just this morning! I don’t think Mr. “Most Serious case of Gay Face ever” Russell is going to be in the closet much longer though eh? ;)
    - waetherman
      
      Masturbating in public, vandalizing cars, and running through traffic in your underwear isn’t really a “gay” thing.
      - Cowicide
        
        isn’t really a “gay” thing
        
        Agreed. It’s really a Christian, homophobic, self-loathing, closeted-homosexual angst thing.
snakedart

what is this i don’t even
http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

Just when you thought the story couldn’t get any weirder…..
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I, for one, have learned to stop thinking that.
http://www.mrericsir.com MrEricSir

Sounds like he’s putting those “donations” to good use.
- C W
  
  Seems par for the course. I wonder if he was involved with any “pray the gay away” camps before backing Ugandan murderers of gays.
  
  I’m sure it’d take some hard drugs to get over the cognitive dissonance.
  - Dv Revolutionary
    
    TMZ said he was wearing a thong. Then not wearing it. Then wearing it again.
    
    I guess he’s put together about as well as the pray away the gay places can put someone together. That is to say even the police think he’s high and don’t want anything to do with him.
    - http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch
      
      You’re sure that wasn’t just the thong disappearing in his oh god I can’t unsee that image in my mind make it stop
      - http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
        
        Sorry mate. Don’t want it. You’re stuck with that one.
        
        ….
        
        Oh god.
    - Cowicide
      
      Thong. Not Thong. Thong. Not Thong.
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oai1V7kaFBk
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        Wow. I haven’t thought of him in years.
      - Cowicide
        
        It was God’s plan.
- http://twitter.com/pentomino Nick Bensema
  
  “donations” to good use? You can get drunk for under $20, and all that other stuff he did doesn’t cost a lot to do. He didn’t even trash a hotel room or hire a prostitute.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    That you know of.
Brainspore

It was my understanding that the whole “KONY 2012″ campaign was basically one long act of public masturbation.
- trefecta
  
  Already a new breed of media-based-activist-portmanteau-ism: “faptivism”.
  - Timothy Krause
    
    (Doffs hat. Bows.)
  - Roger Strong
    
    Cue FEMEN.
    - http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
      
      Are we ftaggering back to eighteenth century effes then?
      - http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy
        
        data-datum, data data datum,
    - Preston Sturges
      
      Is FEMEN for real or is it state sponsored performance art? Clearly they have their own photographer, and some of their shots extremely professional, like high-fashion compositions. I wonder if some of those shoots aren’t totally staged.
  - http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch
    
    Well done, sir.
    http://gifs.gifbin.com/1233928590_citizen%20kane%20clapping.gif
  - voiceinthedistance
    
    Kum uppance.
- Guysmiley
  
  Thread OVER. Last one out please hit the lights.
irksome

“Under the influence of something”?

Nah.
- TestSalad
  
  And this is why Libertarians are idiots for wanting to legalize drugs.
  - Ashen Victor
    
    Yeah, because this doesn’t happens with alcohol!
    :|
    - TestSalad
      
      Alcohol is culturally accepted as a food product in America, not a drug.
      - Amsterdaam
        
        Just… no.
      - TestSalad
        
        Not sure how you can disagree.
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        Recommend recalibration.
      - Brainspore
        
        If you don’t think a drunk driver can be just as dangerous as a speed freak, meth head or pot smoker because of “cultural acceptance” then you’re just being silly. SILLY.
      - TestSalad
        
        I didn’t say it was culturally accepted to be used as a drug, read my comment again.
      - itinko
        
        of course, its a vegetable that goes well with pizza, the other vegetable!
      - blueelm
        
        Alcohol is responsible for an awful lot of violence and death for a food.
      - http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy
        
        Ah yes, but in olden times alcohol prevented an awful lot of violence and death because of food :)
        
        One of the blessings of ever learning moderation is the ability to ignore laws, as long as you have a secure supply chain.
        
        But yeah, it’d be better if they just stayed out of my business, I can’t drink alcohol but I can smoke pot in small amounts. Fuck their laws.
      - TestSalad
        
        It was used as a drug in that case; a socially unacceptable use.
      - Brainspore
        
        Alcohol is culturally accepted as a food product in America, not a drug.
        
        Pop quiz!
        
        PART A: Which is more “socially acceptable”*:
        
        1. Non-alcoholic beer, or
        2. Beer that actually functions as an intoxicant?
        
        PART B: Why do you think that is?
        
        *Outside of Utah
      - TestSalad
        
        There’s no such thing about non-alcoholic beer, by the definition of the process making beer, it’s not a non-alcoholic product.
      - http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/42THFKXIPMJHQBIH6OPI4RVIDY Thebes
        
        And Cannabis is culturally accepted as an herb.
      - TestSalad
        
        Exactly.
      - http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
        
        Oh, you’re being serious? …wow.
        
        Alcohol is a far stronger and more damaging drug than most, however it’s classified.
      - TestSalad
        
        Not when used as a food.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    I’m actually completely okay with drugged-out, hypersexual, naked closet cases with great asses wandering the streets.
    - Bottle Imp
      
      Isn’t that the theme of one of The Frogs’ albums?
    - SolrWind
      
      Amen!
    - KBert
      
      Appears to be a greasy peccadillo to me… just sayin’
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        I’ve never been able to make the jump to water-based peccadilloes.
    - Ipo
      
      Proie facile.
  - http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/42THFKXIPMJHQBIH6OPI4RVIDY Thebes
    
    You are an example of why those who wage war on plants are idiots.
    - TestSalad
      
      I didn’t say plants, I said drugs.
      - http://twitter.com/thanat_o_maton PXL
        
        Now who’s splitting hairs?
  - Ipo
    
    Drugs? While Libertarians may or may not be idiots, this is not why.
    Imaginary drugs are in your head.
    
    This guys issue is that he wants to be a ultra-straight ultra-Christian really, really badly.
    Fta: Russell is also described as a Christian and father to two children who wants to have nine more children with his wife he calls his “best friend for over 23 years.
    Imagine the pressure he lives under, created by the discordance of what he feels and what he believes.
    He really is fighting his personal devils.
    
    What a tragic hopeless character.
IronyElemental

“The SDPD suspects Mr. Russell was under the influence of something.”

Probably hubris.
- retepslluerb
  
  Or gods. I hear they are a great source of madness in humans.
  - http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
    
    They’re a bit preoccupied with twilight at the moment though.
Datavist

Obviously a part of the slacktivist manifesto. Once the viral vid has been forgotten about by the 99%, it is time to hit the streets to really rev things up and what better way than spanking the monkey in public. Clearly his act of self-flagellation is representative of Kony’s treatment of children and the car vandalism symbolises the Western world’s obsession with the material over the moral. This guy really is a next level agitator.
- Roger Strong
  
  Yup. Too proactive to light a single candle.
http://twitter.com/lhtorres Lars Hasselblad Torr

Certainly under the influence of public hatin’
llazy8

wait, I was just hating that organization. Now, however . . .
i_prefer_yeti

Maybe Hippie Gap’s got a San Diego franchise?
C W

I’m SO surprised that a pious fraud of an evangelist was caught doing crystal meth and committing sex acts in public.

What I’m actually surprised about:

1) There were no mirrors in sight
2) There’s no quip from the sex worker who had to listen to him drone on about himself for hours as foreplay.

As always in these cases, I still feel bad for the partner who gets stuck with this douchenozzle of a narcissist and the constant humiliation they put them through at every part of the “forgiveness- seeking” process.

Those are just as insincere as their original act.
- http://profiles.google.com/marc.k.mielke Marc Mielke
  
  I wouldn’t feel too bad. I’m a great listener, and when I was still on drugs would score a lot of free drugs listening to self-loathing addicts about how this was their last big hurrah before they quit. If you have a Kindle or something it isn’t that bad.
chellberty

Cocaine is a helluva drug.
- C W
  
  Cocaine seemed his usual braggadocio.
  
  Running around in his tighty whities and smashing windshields? Man, that’s pure megachurch-pastor grade meth.
YamaraTheGod

He’s only invisible when people aren’t looking at him.

He’s known about this power since he was a child.
- C W
  
  Spraying invisible children all over the asphalt?
  - HahTse
    
    Uh….that one was below the beltline…
    - Callum Critch
      
      it was probably poking out above the waistband
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

This is so strange that I’m struck snarkless.
http://flickr.com/almostinfamous/ almostinfamous

Cocaine’s a Hell of a Drug!
Teller

Sad. You go worldwide and the first thing you do is show your ass.
- http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
  
  His crack appeared under pressure.
taraine1970

Running in traffic is pathognomonic for crack to meth use, at least in my ED. Plus, we LOVE when the police bring us intoxicated, out of control ‘celebrities’.
- http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy
  
  meh, LSD had me doing that at 15. Running really fucking fast I might add.
  
  Ah the 80′s, I wonder when they were now.
- Charlie B
  
  What’s erectile dysfunction got to do with this?
  
  Wait, I’m not sure I want to know…
Rob Gehrke

Clearly he was overcome by the Spirit. You all are so jaded.
Hallelujah!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=665579695 Mauricio Borgen

“Kony made me do it!!”
Marco Antonio Morales

“Under the influence of something” “because of statements he was saying” … Am I the only one who feels the whole article was put through Google translator?
- pjk
  
  Copspeak. They’re not the most literate individuals around.
  - thezarray
    
    They have to be legalese precise, otherwise the lawyers will tear them apart.
Graysmith

You reap what you sow, and boy did he sow.
voiceinthedistance

I think we all need to take a deep breath and let Kirk Cameron sort it all out.

Keep the faith.
http://rhinocrisy.org/ saurabh

This is probably the shortest arc for any public figure I’ve ever seen, from darling to doubtful to down in flames took – what, ten days? Can anyone think of a briefer crescendo and subsequent conflagration?
- C W
  
  Live by the viral, die by the viral.
- http://deansli.st/ Dean Putney
  
  Does Rebecca Black count?
  - http://rhinocrisy.org/ saurabh
    
    No, she started out in flames.
    - http://deansli.st/ Dean Putney
      
      Sounds like a record to me!
- Brainspore
  
  Reminds me of that episode of Futurama where time gets thrown out of whack.
  
  Anchorwoman: Time continues to skip forward randomly. Details at 11.
  [*skip*]
  Anchorwoman: This is the news at 11. The mysterious and unexplained–
  [*skip*]
  Anchorwoman: Turning to entertainment news, teen singer Wendy might just be the latest–
  [*skip*]
  Anchorwoman: –won three Grammys last night–
  [*skip*]
  Anchorwoman: –found dead in her bathtub.
  - Mantissa128
    
    That’s exactly it. This story has gone sideways so many times in the past few days it is now pointing in a direction we can no longer perceive with three-dimensional eyes.
    
    I wonder if Russell is imploding psychologically after having to face news online of his musicals. Maybe there wasn’t much holding him together in the first place… it would explain a few things.
- Stahlbrand
  
  I love this. The time between blow-up and blow-out is elapsing faster and faster. All the schadenfreude, less time spent waiting for the fall from grace.
  - HahTse
    
    Singularity is near!
- http://profiles.google.com/wordtrey Trey Muhlhauser
  
  What about that homeless guy with the “golden” radio voice? I feel like he had about 4 days.
  - http://www.facebook.com/theadamnix Adam Nix
    
    Oh no, he’s still around.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8spsLM42f4A
- Nathan Siemers
  
  I think the Numa Numa guy flamed out earlier, barely
- LemonadeLunch
  
  Yes, Ted Williams, the homeless man with the great voice, from last year.
luther_blissett5

My latest viral campaign is simply meant to raise public awareness about vandalism, public masturbation and drug use. It’s not the answer, but if it kickstarts a conversation and encourages others to spread the word, then it’s a success and I’m proud of it.
I expect all of you to follow my example for Cover the Night on 4/20!
- C W
  
  Keeping the faith, brother!
  - luther_blissett5
    
    That’s great, but remember to buy the Action Pack which has all the tools you’ll need to spread the campaign. It has a poster, stickers, pamphlets, solidarity bracelet and thong underwear.
    
    STOP AT NOTHING!
http://twitter.com/GideonTJones Gideon Jones

Aaaand there’s video: http://gawker.com/5894093

I shouldn’t be laughing this hard. Especially if it turns out to be a mental health issue. But still…
- TestSalad
  
  Nope, still funny even with the possible mental issue.
- KBert
  
  Interesting monkey-spanking action / technique… whatever gets you off?
- thezarray
  
  I’m always filled with shame when gawker provides me with something that makes me happy.
- HahTse
  
  …better than the ending of Mass Effect 3.
- http://scavenger-ethic.blogspot.com/ scav
  
  Cool. Now that video will end up on youtube next to the Kony 2012 one, and all the shitty musical numbers. Maybe someone can do a mash-up?
http://whimsicalacious.tumblr.com/ Patrick McGorrill

Must be the Illuminati got to him. Can’t have any upstart international cults interfering with the master plan. Some big potential donor takes him out for a congratulatory dinner, some amphetamines and rohypnol slip into his virgin margarita, better luck next time theocrats!
- TestSalad
  
  Or he was just a drug-abusing propagandist who blew all Invisible Children’s profits on coke and decided to do what came natural to him.
TestSalad

Bad people usually get what they deserve; seen here with this propagandist.
- C W
  
  Only the lesser, sloppy badpeople.
  
  The architects and the rest go on to live long, fulfilling lives.
http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair

d…
diogenes?
Garrett Eaton

The internet giveth.. .
Susan Carley Oliver

“[the police] determined that medical treatment was a better course of action than arrest.” Wow. Privilege has its privileges.
- rattypilgrim
  
  That’s the truth.
- http://plankhead.com Zacqary Adam Green
  
  That’s probably because it is a better course of action to medically treat a mentally ill person than to incarcerate them.
  - http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy
    
    Also hella less paperwork.
  - Julie Mango
    
    Except that California prisons are full of mentally ill people who don’t belong there. None of them rich, white guys, though.
    - http://plankhead.com Zacqary Adam Green
      
      Oh, okay. So I guess we should wrongfully throw all the rich white guys in jail too. Because why solve problems when you can just get revenge on those who don’t have them?
      - spejic
        
        People ignore problems that don’t effect the rich white guys. If the wrong was done to him, maybe people would hear about it and do something about it. This way it’s guaranteed nothing changes.
      - Julie Mango
        
        Throwing all the rich white guys in jail would solve a lot of problems.
      - NI MEN HAO-DY TRAMPOLINA
        
        …says the mansplaining privileged white dude.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Aron-Briggs/1386087012 Aron Briggs
      
      its called 5150 and you will find mostly homeless people with schizophrenia being taken in under it. as for the racial remark it is true that when people from other cultures come to california they are far less likely to report their relative as mentally ill because it would be frowned upon where they come from. it isnt until a violent crime is committed that they are forced to turn in the relative who could have easily been picked up as 5150 any time before the criminal act.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=625035329 Chris Hennebery

Malnutrition, exhaustion and dehydration? How long was this guy masturbating for?
- http://profiles.google.com/wordtrey Trey Muhlhauser
  
  He’s been masturbating to his own popularity for over a week. It can wear you down. Ask Leif Garret.
- miasm
  
  he’d better be careful not to trigger the dreaded Gush!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-bVYtmSzCY
- NI MEN HAO-DY TRAMPOLINA
  
  XD
hankchapot

Well, if your video went viral with umpteen millions of hits and everybody was talking about you on all the talk shows, wouldn’t you go out a celebrate?
http://twitter.com/PsychicWhoosh Michael W.

I just watched the video of this and have learned I’ve been masturbating the wrong way my whole life.

Evidently you put your butt in the air and slam your hands down on the concrete sidewalk like an irate highland gorilla’s first trip to the big city.
Amsterdaam

Hey, he did say that this was all about exposure.
Touch Sensitive

Kony, Bony.. Sony?
- thezarray
  
  Bronies
- http://repeaterband.com skeletoncityrepeater
  
  sony. bony? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGeYt8ONxxA
http://twitter.com/WillieIJ willie imara johnson

Wow! this can’t be good for the organization. However, it may actually bring some publicity and maybe get more donations. But I don’t think anyone will be taking them seriously anymore.
- HahTse
  
  …wait.
  
  They have been taken seriously at some time?
VaughnMarlowe

Somebody dosed him.
- HahTse
  
  One of the 30 hookers perhaps.
- Paul D
  
  That only happens to middle class girls.
vinegartom23

Couldn’t wait for Hitler’s birthday I guess.
- Ipo
  
  Obscure.
Snig

I wonder who should play him in the inevitable movie. I could see Owen Wilson enjoying the role.
slagmacg

You’re all overreacting. The Invisible Children guy was clearly wearing invisible pants.
Snig

I wonder if his actions can be explained a deep love for this country. Which he was trying to hump in its entirety, intersection by intersection, and possibly stopping to mate with American made cars.
- http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy
  
  more like he finally snapped, for ever since he can remember, or at least puberty, far back in the niggling of his aural pendula, rang a siren song almost unheard, but impossible to ignore for any amount of praying.
  
  *cue club music BUFF BUFF BUFF BUFF BUFF
  
  Repression’s a bitch
  - zombiebob
    
    No one can deny the siren call of high BPM ,not for long anyways…
BarBarSeven

So does this mean Web 2.0 is officially over?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=669858483 Denis Remute Karimani

he was listening to this, well, ‘kony inspired’, acid house music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHq8eaNIzW4
Jason Matte

Can we try for a little empathy? He seems like a good soul. I hope through the support of his friends and family he can overcome whatever demons he is fighting. His heart is in the right place. We need more people who care like he does.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  He seems like a good soul.
  
  He seems to me like a narcissist who tried to make his fame and fortune off other people’s misery.
  - http://profiles.google.com/wordtrey Trey Muhlhauser
    
    Yeah, he created a version of “goodness” that served his own needs and aspirations and then he drew attention to himself while he flogged it relentlessly on camera. Just one big ego stroke. Jerk. Masturbation.
    - http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_9J4jnTlb8
      
      (skip to 2:00)
anywayanyhowanywhere

I am not saying that masturbating and running around naked in public is WRONG….but if you are looking for moral guidance on international issues….
blueelm

To be fair, I would *not* be surprised if the guy is bipolar or something though, just given the rest of the story. Not saying he is, just that actual mental illness wouldn’t seem too far fetched. All that said, I still think he’s an ass.
BarBarSeven

So is there a BB thread on another narcissistic liar? Also known as, Mike Daisey? Seriously, is “white man’s burden” the hot new trend for Spring 2012?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-this-american-life-cancels-live-presentation,0,5114583.story
- NI MEN HAO-DY TRAMPOLINA
  
  It’s been the trend as long as I can remember.
http://marrickvillian.blogspot.com/ Al Corrupt

Hope he feels like sh#t for putting his own child in the middle of this.
:|
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  He wants to have nine more.
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1428470021 Jonathan Hendry
    
    A veritable child platoon.
  - http://twitter.com/nonofyrpenguins NoneofYourPenguins
    
    So you’re saying it ain’t over yet?
  - NI MEN HAO-DY TRAMPOLINA
    
    That’ll be pretty hard, since I doubt he has a uterus…
Antinous / Moderator

Is it just me?
- Jonathan Roberts
  
  Well, I haven’t seen you together with either of them in public, but I’m not getting the likeness.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1428470021 Jonathan Hendry
  
  He looks more like Evan Bayh.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    Maybe that’s it. It’s just ‘politician face’.
- http://www.facebook.com/ilja.vanbemmel Ilja van Bemmel
  
  They are very different. The left face just has a fake smile you wouldn’t get of with TNT, the other one (Russel) actually looks very hurt and sad
Jonathan Roberts

This definitely wasn’t just a publicity stunt, but I have no idea what it actually was. Sounds like someone was raising way too much awareness (or whatever his name for it is).
BarBarSeven

STOP JUDGING HIM! This video explains even less of this. http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/16/jason-russell-video-naked-meltdown-kony/#.T2QVTFGeB0h
thisisdavid

it just keeps getting better doesn’t it Kids? I for one can’t wait for this hypocritical and dangerously junior demagogue wanna be closet case nut job to crack, and if today’s events are anything to go by, that shouldn’t be much longer…

*tents my little gay hands like Chancellor Palpatine in wicked glee* ;)
http://twitter.com/nonofyrpenguins NoneofYourPenguins

I’m surprised no one connected the dots on this one yet: Fapping + Vandalizing cars = Auto-Eroticism.

So was that worthy of a Ruby Yacht Award?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054524/quotes?qt=qt0176752
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP1RR3egEX4
Palomino

AMBIEN!
bo1n6bo1n6

Bath Salts.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/42THFKXIPMJHQBIH6OPI4RVIDY Thebes

CIA tool breaks.
Story at 11.
http://creamneuron.tumblr.com/ creamneuron

Maybe he was on ROFLCOPTER?
eltiki

You might as well enjoy your 15 minutes while you can!
andre paris

sounds to me as if he either had a psychotic episode brought on by stress or he was forcibly drugged because he pissed off alot of powerful people who wanted to discredit him, and you all took the bait, if however he had a psychotic episode then you should want to help someone when they are sick, that none of you can see that is a really sad statement
- travtastic
  
  cant you all see the reptilians in his brain ?
- http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
  
  Sure, he either had a mental breakdown or somebody drugged him. There’s no alternative, nope.
http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

“He was no problem for the police department however, during the evaluation we learned that we probably needed to take care of him.” What do you know, the cops use the same terminology as the gals at the massage parlor. “Take care of him, finish him off, give him what he paid for.” That was mighty sympathetic of them to help him with that.
snagglepuss

So it turns out that Russell and Limbaugh have yet another thing in common.
Rephlex

How this story takes me back to a simpler time, when masturbating in public, jumping on cars and being a prick was something to laugh at. (Mildly NSFW)
Palomino

Um…… “Masturbating in Public” is subjective.

http://youtu.be/niQJtZGTD8A?t=2m

And I don’t think his penis has to be exposed to get charged for masturbating. I know of a man who’d cut holes in his pant pockets so he could masturbate on the city buses (He would pretend to tie his shoes and look up women’s skirts/dresses). He was arrested by undercover cops for masturbating in public.
starfish and coffee

Maybe he wanted to test if he really was invisible?
Rudy Belova

He wasn’t so invisible now was he? lol
BBNinja

Bony 2012?
http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

Brilliant.

From Super hero, to suspicious evangelist, to meth induced public fapping all in a week.

Maybe this is all a huge and perfectly executed smear campaign by Kony. If so, then well played sir, well played.
BBNinja

Better keep this guy away your children, regardless of their current state of visibility.
http://twitter.com/fereshteh_toosi Fereshteh Toosi

Sounds more like a psychotic episode, usually triggered by stress. I think the guy’s a jerk, but that doesn’t mean I take pleasure in his health problems. Most of you are just as ignorant and close-minded as the person you are criticizing.
- BBNinja
  
  I can honestly say that I’ve never been so stressed out that I violently masturbated in public.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    Is that a challenge?
- NI MEN HAO-DY TRAMPOLINA
  
  The mental acrobatics astound…
- Paul D
  
  I am just a bad member of society, I called bullshit on kony from day one, I dont watch glee and I dont own an Ipad. I have a feeling that I may get sent to a FEMA camp for reprogramming any day now.
jkg

PCP, I think…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v15_FyFbM_A
http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Walker/100002172621135 Edward Walker

I’ve found a rather interesting thread that seems to point to the use of bots to inflate youtube views (particularly the 30 million mobile views in 48 hours, for a half hour video which would usually be primarily by PC views)

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/youtube/419391-kony-video-used-spk-bot-lol-seems-corporations-using-bh-tricks-just-like-us.html

I wonder if this is true? If it is, I hope they get caught.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Walker/100002172621135 Edward Walker

Another article about the mobile views hack

http://clevercrunch.com/2012/03/internet/youtube-bot-patches-spk-bot-magicviews-and-more

It seems that Kony 2012 may have hacked some 30 million of their views
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Walker/100002172621135 Edward Walker
  
  Just finally, the distribution of views they have is rather interesting; that Mongolia and the DRC were providing as many views as countries like the US, Australia and the UK. Not suspicious at all