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let's try to get this video to 100,000

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likes because we're literally risking

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Our Lives doing this video so all right

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let's do this hey excuse me do you know

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where the nearest bank is at Alan and

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Alex Stokes are twin brothers who became

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famous on YouTube for their prank videos

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however their success also led to them

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getting criminal records this was not a

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prank this was criminal activity in 2021

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they pleaded guilty to staging a fake

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bank robbery that resulted in an

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innocent Uber driver being held at

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gunpoint by police the two now deleted

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videos were filmed in 2019 and showed

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the brothers wearing black clothes face

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masks and carrying duffel bags full of

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cash while interacting with strangers I

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could literally like buy you guys like

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anything I just I could literally buy

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you guys anything I'm going to go rob

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another bank and I just need like two

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attractive females to like distract the

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security guards some of these strangers

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were visibly upset believing the

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brothers were real criminals do you know

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where the nearest bank is at or you

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don't okay shoot okay I'm kind of in a

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pickle right now in one troubling part

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of the prank the brothers called an Uber

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and demanded to be driven to an unknown

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location Uber Uber

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BR

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yes what is it uh our our getaway driver

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just bailed on us the driver refused to

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play along step on it like step on a

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gas F they created the impression to

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this Uber driver that he had no options

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he had to drive bank robbers responding

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to calls from scared bystanders police

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mistakenly thought the driver was

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involved in a carjacking and approached

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him with guns drawn you guys just get

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out of an Uber a minute ago you got your

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Uber driver pulled over too and he's

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freaking out the police questioned and

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released the brothers earlier that day

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but they still went ahead and filmed a

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second video at the University of

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California what do you think people are

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going to

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do right and you're lucky you didn't get

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any gun at you you're absolutely lucky

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you didn't getting against you think

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about it man you got to be smart on that

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man you know better the brothers faced

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up to 5 years in prison if found guilty

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on charges this robbery prank was

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definitely Reckless and somebody could

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have gotten hurt to avoid this they

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accepted a plea deal for reduced

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sentences I think YouTubers getting

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charged in this instance will definitely

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send a message to the YouTube prank

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Community out large and now they have to

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think before they do if you're engaging

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in criminal activity in order to

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increase your ratings or increase your

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sensationalism on YouTube and you cross

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the line and violate the law you're

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going to be prosecuted despite the

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controversy The Stokes twins's YouTube

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channel is still active with over 100

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million subscribers it's the 10th

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largest channel on the platform