Finally went down the "lego heist" youtube drama hole last night..

2026-06-04 17:56 UTC

I’m sure plenty of other lemmings have seen it, but I’ve been avoiding it till it bubbled up into my feeds in a way I could no longer avoid. I genuinely detest drama focused on the terminally online influencer-verse, but I caved and ended up watching multiple hour long videos on this one… What fantastic drama! I haven’t been this engaged I pirated season 5 of game of thrones. I was mostly expecting it to be a youtuber-face manufactured drama considering the source is a guy going by “Reckless Ben” and framing of whole thing. Honestly it would be ignorable if not for spoiler the fact that they might have one of the most clear cut and massive civil rights lawsuits against a city and police department in the history of Utah. Its such clear corruption and abuse of power and its basically entirely documented. I could imagine them bringing a suit on the order of millions to tens of millions or even more in damages against the city and police department. Its better than any tv show or series I’ve started in years (outside of onepiece, which I recently got into).

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@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2026-06-05 06:51

bricksandminifigs.com/blog/ Too little, too late; corporate is finally in damage control mode. They still refuse to admit fault and are trying to pin the whole thing on the previous franchisee though. The Gormans (the previous franchisees) aledge corporate forced them into default by freezing the stores bank account so automated rent and royalty payments would bounce and acrew debt.

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@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2026-06-05 07:16

till 'til

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@Reygle@lemmy.world 2026-06-04 19:56

A friend shared this stuff with me last night. I "noped out" when I heard "had their life savings in Lego" and kind of tuned the rest out. I have this weird aversion to people doing stupid things having stupid things done to them.

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@Cherry@piefed.social 2026-06-05 21:13

Been watching the last few weeks. I can’t believe how much corruption is evident here between the corp, the police and the mormand. I hate YouTube usually but following this drama.

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@nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-05 00:10

it's so crazy, I've been following it closely since it started. did you see the new one today with the unredacted bodycam footage

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@cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 2026-06-06 17:27

i have been a member of Ben's patreon for like 2 years. i was obsessed with McKamey Manor and found him when he did a series on infiltrating and legally obtaining ownership of it in order to force the guy to stop torturing people. i highly recommend watching that playlist (cw violence) or the one where he infiltrates the 12 Tribes cult and obtains legal ownership of the Yellow Deli. he is crazy and i love him lol

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@Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2026-06-06 17:38

I live right around the corner from this store.

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