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‘Fish Bandit’ Arrested For Taping Fish To ATM Machines
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23-year-old Impulsively
Bought A House On
Amazon For $26K
By Osobe Waberi
A 23-year-old asked the internet to take his card away because he bought himself a house on Amazon.
TikTok user @hit- taa_jeff shared that he purchased the home for a total of $26,280 in a video that has garnered millions of views and more than half a million likes in one day.
“ I bought a f** house on Amazon, a whole house,” he said.
The home, according to his tracker, will arrive on Jan. 29 at the earliest. The house was originally $24,000, along with taxes that went up to $2,280.
Interestingly, shipping was free.
“Amazon is a dangerous place. Really? Houses? I didn’t even think twice about it. I just did it. I don’t even know where I’m going to put the house,” he contin- ued.
And as wild as this story is, it’s not the first. Amazon homes have become all the rage recently where people would rather invest in a tiny “humble home” than spend the rest of their lives paying rent or throwing their life savings to own property.
And as many people contin-
ue to experience the effects of the housing shortage and crisis, this method could be your best bet.
The company also offers
a range of products where a tiny home can set you back anywhere from between $1,000 and $100,000. Some homes are the size of a backyard shed, while oth- ers are two-bedroom units.
The reaction to Amazon homes have gone both ways. Some have poked fun at it, others approve and some just have so many questions.
“Not me going to search the house,” one user wrote.
“I wish I could buy one of them,” someone else said.
“You’ll end up spending like 100k cause there’s so much more you gotta get includ- ing land, papers cost like $5k...and a whole bunch of other things for it to work, water/electric...etc,” another user pointed out.
By David Strege
A teen whose Instagram username is @fish_ban- dit84 has been arrested in Provo, Utah, for taping fish to ATMs and other objects.
The 17-year-old executed these bizarre pranks more than a dozen times from last August through December, ABC4 and FOX 13 in Salt Lake City report- ed, but they weren’t always in the Provo and Orem areas.
He did some of these strange antics international- ly, too, posting videos of them on his Instagram account, where his bio states “Live, laugh, tape fish on ATMs.”
One Instagram
video shows a fish taped to an ATM in Tokyo in what appears to be a subway
station. “We’re going inter- national,” the perpetrator wrote on the post. Other “fishy” videos were purport- ed to have been taken in Frankfurt, Germany; Guatemala City, Guatemala; and Phoenix.
And yet another was taken in a bathroom stall of a Bass Pro Shops store.
He used a variety of fish such as trout, bluegill, bass, catfish, carp and crappie. One fish had a cigarette in its mouth.
In one incident, he taped trout to a Provo police car.
The teen faces two charges of property damage stem- ming from the cost of the cleanup, ABC4 reported. The case was referred to Juvenile Justice and Youth Services.
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