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Musician Jailed Over Prank YouTube Video

Posted by Soulskill on from the under-arrest-by-the-humor-police dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Evan Emory, a 21-year-old aspiring musician, edited together video of him singing a G-rated song to a bunch of giggling school kids with video of him singing a song with sexually explicit lyrics, and posted it on YouTube. For this stupid joke, done many times by professional comedians (all NSFW, obviously), and admittedly done without getting permission from the children shown 'hearing' him sing naughty words, he was arrested and could face 20 years in prison as a sex offender. On the pretext of looking for 'souvenirs' of child sexual abuse, his house has been searched by police, and the Muskegon County (Michigan) Prosecutor has insinuated (with no further evidence) that Emory actually wants to have sex with children and claims he 'victimized every single child in that classroom.' Emory insists he had no such intention."

8 of 538 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Constitutional Rights by ScrewMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    His video depicted him saying sexual remarks to children. Whether or not they were actually there doesn't really matter.

    What?

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  2. Sicko by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Pretty sick and twisted thing to do. The guy obviously has issues and needs to get professional help to control these urges. The singer guy too sounds pretty screwed up.

  3. Re:The moral of the story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can say what you want about pedophiles, but at least they drive slowly around schools and playgrounds.

  4. Re:Oh for fuck's sake by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you fucking kidding me?

    Nice pun. See you in jail.

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  5. Re:The moral of the story by Isaac+Remuant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank God it was not a rooster. The wording might've killed you.

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  6. Re:Every sperm is sacred by kkwst2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A lude is a tranquilizer. We're looking for lewd.

  7. Re:The moral of the story by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    I say bull to this. I'm in exactly the same boat - happily married with a toddler girl.

    THAT IS DISGUSTING.

  8. Re:Every sperm is sacred by hitmark · · Score: 2, Funny

    And if one manage, one may well start to wonder about ones own sexuality.

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