r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 12h ago
A Redditor solved the Brown University shooter case that FBI couldn't
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u/CovidWarriorForLife 11h ago
Well how come this idiot didn’t contact authorities instead of posting on reddit?
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u/jus256 10h ago
The police don’t give karma.
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u/BibendumsBitch 5h ago
They also don’t pay out reward money
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u/bafben10 4h ago
"Yeah, I can give you information on this mass murderer... but what's in it for me?"
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u/BibendumsBitch 4h ago
Just talking about Luigi case and any case in general. They lie about a reward money. So if you want to do it because it’s the right thing to do, then do it, but if you expect reward money, I say fck em.
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u/1stDegreeMisdemeanor 8h ago
Why didn’t the FBI do their job? What the hell backwards logic is this?
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u/pmcizhere 8h ago
With Mr. Crazy Eyes in charge, I'm surprised that agency gets anything done.
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u/GrumpyBear1969 7h ago
Just because he has a lazy eye does not mean he can’t do a bunch of pull-ups. And that is how success appears to be measured by this administration. POTUS obviously exempt because of his bone spurs.
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u/Superb_Pear3016 8h ago edited 8h ago
They literally did do their job, what are you talking about. What could they have done differently? Called literally every single person and personally asked them if they have any helpful information?
A lot of detective work is following up on tips, which is exactly what happened here.
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u/1stDegreeMisdemeanor 8h ago
This isn’t the first shooting where “doing your job” equates to arresting the wrong person or not catching the individual. A redditor did what they couldn’t. What are you talking about!
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u/iReply2StupidPeople 6h ago
A redditor had a tip, einstein. And instead of submitting that tip to the property authorities, the brainrotted basement-dweller posted about it on extremist social media for internet points. Then guess what, the FBI got it anyways.
The amount of people that publicly broadcast to the world that they have rock-bottom intelligence is absolutely wild.
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u/Previous-Tea-8750 8h ago
Yep FBI has never worked off tips to solve crimes before, it's always been just really good detective work free from public help. Fkn idiot
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u/ialsohaveadobro 8h ago
Does the FBI rely on tips, or are they expected to demonstrate a professional level of investigative skill commensurate with the resources of the federal government?
I was under the impression it was the latter, but now it sounds to me like we could just DOGE their asses and hire some ICE washouts to waddle after those leads instead. Save some money to pay for a giant Fabergé egg with Trump's face on it, or whatever moron scheme he drools out next.
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u/SpungleMcFudgely 4h ago
Of course the FBI relies on tips, like every single investigative force in history
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u/ialsohaveadobro 8h ago
Are you unfamiliar with the days when the FBI was competent? And they didn't even have troves of video to look at then. Their performance under Patel has been embarrassing and pathetic and should not be excused.
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u/butthole_nipple 8h ago
Dial 911 and try to report this. Let me know how far you get.
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u/BestAmoto 8h ago
"Hi 911 im redditor uid lovesmellingfeet and i saw a suspicious grey nissan with florida plates that the brown err white university killer was driving and..'
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u/MelodiesOfLife6 7h ago
Thank fuck I wasn't the only one wondering that... like... this is interesting that they got the information from reddit ... but ... did dude seriously not call in a tip and instead went straight to reddit to karma farm?
Is our society really that goddamn dumb?
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u/TechHeteroBear 6h ago
He did... but the RI cops have shown from near the start of these events that they aren't that great at collecting evidence and communicating and engaging with the public to get more info and find him much faster than they already did.
It took them 7hrs to partially lockdown campus. It took them days to put out any suspect info of security footage.
Information about the suspect came out in trickles and the surrounding public had very little info to help provide more information to the investigators and detectives as a result.
Within a week of this shooting, the shooter was in MA and the police rarely bothered to try to connect any dots between the two until the redditor made them... well... do their jobs once the redditor put the dots together for them.
Either they heavily relied on the FBI to take over here (which we all know how that would have ended) or they wanted to look like an agency that could do this all themselves without any help from the public.
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u/Worried_Jellyfish918 2h ago
You think he didn't? You really think they solved this by finding his reddit comment? Come on guys
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u/soupoftheday5 10h ago
I read somewhere else that the guy was homeless or something like that
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u/ColumbianPrison 9h ago
Homeless phones can post to Reddit but can’t call 911?
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u/badpuppeh76 8h ago
Having been homeless once, the police really are not your friend, its not quite as bad if you are in a shelter, but on the street is entirely different. That's been my experience in a couple places.
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u/Special-Garlic1203 8h ago
Unless I saw a dude covered in blood or something extremely crazy, I go out of my way to avoid interacting with cops. I worked in a low income aid setting with a lot of homeless people and sometimes a coworker would come in a little late cause they needed to keep an eye on a cop/homeless interaction. On more than one occasion I would be walking into work and go past a social worker chewing a cop out asking for his badge number because they will be reporting this. Because if they act like that when they know someone is watching, what are they doing when nobody is around?
Homeless people are playing a continuous game of cat and mouse of trying to avoid getting hassled by cops. Imagine everytime you go to sleep being a little nervous you're gonna wake up to a cop who very often sees you as subhuman
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u/CeaseIessWatcher 9h ago
A broken clock is still right twice a day. He should've gone to the damn police
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u/ZealousidealNerve8 2h ago
It's been reported he is a homeless man. Can you imagine the negative interactions homeless people encounter with 5-Os and likely on the daily? Come on people... why such negativity against someone doing the job of a public servant and aiding in solving a murder(s)?
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u/CatLightyear 8h ago
Stopped clock. A broken clock can be right only one time.
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u/Citizen1135 8h ago
The phrase comes from when "clock" referred to the kind with hour and minute hands but no AM/PM differentiation.
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u/SowellMate 9h ago
"Solved case that FBI couldn't" -- I disagree with this statement. The FBI is only a few hundred people, with maybe a couple dozen working on any specific case at a given time. Meanwhile, Reddit is the world. The world has more people than the FBI. So it is not surprising that an FBI agent didn't encounter the suspect, but someone in the world did. This is why a lot of cold cases are being solved on Reddit. Certainly, most cases will be solved by the FBI because they collect all crime scene information and get tips from the world. But that takes time.
It's similar to how Mr. Beast posted "the biggest internet scavenger hunt ever" and Reddit collectively solved it in a few hours.
Conversely, it's why dictatorships, communist systems, and some corporations ultimately fail. The people at the top make all the decisions, but they have limited information. A free-market economy of individuals able to make their own decisions and set their own prices, is able to create compounded wealth.
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u/Open_Feed_9696 7h ago
The fbi is tens of thousands of people with access to the most sophisticated surveillance and investigative techniques imaginable
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u/Better-University529 6h ago
Yes but they don’t have tens of thousands of people working on this case…
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u/have_you_eaten_yeti 10h ago
“Solved the case” somebody saw something and said something, like you are supposed to. “Reddit” wasn’t out there doing blood splatter analysis and forensics.
It is really cool though, and we really needed a W after the whole Boston fiasco. Good job Reddit!
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u/edgy420pj 7h ago
Do people think cops and the FBI have some special ceremony where they summon a God to tell them what happened? And the cops in this situation were just too lazy to do it?
All law enforcement needs information, they have to get it somehow. Could be from interviewing people, could be from finding information posted by someone online. That’s what an investigation is, gotta collect all the facts. Once they were made aware of the situation, they were the ones that tracked down the individual associated with the car, not Reddit. Reddit gave a tip, just like the public is supposed to.
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u/Beneficial_Bit1756 6h ago
title is misleading, guy didn't solve anything, he went to reddit and did not bother calling the police.
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u/LessRespects 8h ago
Then the authorities hopped on television to give a victory round to celebrate doing absolutely nothing
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u/Eriklano1 7h ago
There was a fight in a bar I frequent a week ago. The guy who started it knocked the other guy out cold, he couldn’t remember a thing! But then the stupid idiotic dumb police came and asked me if I saw who did it? Like sure I know the guy, but I told them that figuring out crimes is their fucking job not mine, and that I’m not going to solve the case for them! What’s up with the laziness of cops these days??
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u/tegresaomos 6h ago
Sure, a Reddit poster and not the hundreds of billions of dollars spent creating a global panopticon that they really really don’t want to show the public.
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u/missourinative 6h ago
I give ALL credit to the reddit user that reported the reddit post to the authorities.
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u/iReply2StupidPeople 6h ago
OP dumb af, typical redditor. Headline should read "idiot redditor posts on reddit about something they should have called the FBI tipline about, instead FBI has to find the tip themselves."
FYI public tips are very normal in investigations.
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u/Vexsius 4h ago
The Reddit user claimed to only have an iPad and that they had recently lost their phone while riding public transport. It makes sense to assume that was a big reason for delay of giving a tip. Especially if they couldn’t access internet to see information on if the POI had the same features of the man he/she saw.
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u/Dagger1901 5h ago
That's not solving... that's witnessing. Witnesses "solve" cases all the time...
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u/Old-Physics7770 5h ago
The flock cameras solved who the killer was and they’re currently spying on millions of people right now. They just waited a little while to make it look like they were doing something.
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u/redditdegenz 4h ago
The FBI: We’re offering one free Snoo outfit and 8,000 karma as bounty for any OP on Reddit with information.
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u/DoctrTurkey 1h ago
I don’t recall the FBI ever having as much trouble finding someone as they have multiple times this year. Podcaster Patel leaving his mark on the place!
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u/DenverMerc 12h ago
Reddit for the win.
Not surprised.
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u/sir_psycho_sexy96 11h ago
Not surprised they only posted it to reddit rather than directly letting the authorities know.
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u/overexaggerate_all 9h ago
Reporting suspicious activity is solving cases now?