I actually live in the area where this has happened. He dropped these same bags in the entire neighborhood at multiple houses, and wasn’t just the motel. Multiple complaints have been filed along with the motel. This man terrorized the entire surrounding area. The cops also worked with the FAA in area and tracked where drone was flying from and to what location and that’s how they found this man.
@xeroishere6424 If u are 12 n if it didn't cost people money n if the person doing it was 12 n if it was a way of getting revenge on people that deserved it otherwise its pretty lame.
@@TheEarmantraut it's a bot. It's been saying the exact same thing on every single other comment here. You can even tell it's a bot by the name and profile picture.
Welp you'd get along with my husband. His favorite insults are meathead, bonehead, and dickhead. It's all about insulting the head. Insult the head, insult the body.
@@danmurphy4287 I agree about it not being a prank. I also agree it might have something to do with the indentity of the kids using the pool.... However, this woman is an islander.... she's calling him an idiot... not a Nazi. Nobody has used the term bonehead to term a Nazi in ages...outside of Heavy Metal I suppose.
That’s like a 60s Joker level scheme. Turning a pool green just for the hell of it has got to be the funniest crime I’ve heard about this month. Also being charged for “criminal mischief” makes this way funnier.
right. When they said there was nobody on surveillance, I instantly thought of drones dropping grenades in Ukraine and was like its someone dropping a dye pack with a drone and sure enough. Drone technology is the next level of our society and just like the cell phone or the computer, it's going to have serious implications to public safety. When explosives start getting dropped on gangs from drones, shit is really gonna pop off.
If he’d only done it once or twice, or if he’d done it to multiple pools in the area, I could believe it was “just a prank,” but not 12 times at the same business.
@@notericforeman really? That doesn’t disprove (or prove lol) the theory that it’s revenge for customers who stiffed him on pay after working on their pool heaters (or their AC or something else) 🤔
@@philipstanley5611I was thinking the same thing. My family's pool is a dark green every time we open it back up in the spring. We never have to drain it. Just shock it and vacuum on the waste setting. Boom, looks like new.(Of course, we'll prepare, test, clean and monitor everything else and get it safe to swim in before we actually get in) Anyways Idk if it would work the same for dye in a pool but I'd be curious to know.
@PequenoPipo yeah, its mainly used to increase the ph levels in your pool, which isn't good for natural stuff. So it would depend on the chemical makeup of the dye
As an HVAC tech, we use dyes like this to find refrigerant leaks. So I imagine dude got bored and had a bunch extra in his shop for whatever reason and decided this was the move
Here's some lore from an article I found on the story. Her pool wasn't the only one he was dropping dye into. A homeowner with a pool was the first one who spotted the drone. "“To the homeowner’s dismay, a substance was dropped from the drone, turning the pool water an alarming shade of green,” the department wrote in a press release. Police said several other incidents were reported at nearby pools, one of which involved a Quality Inn in Galloway Township. That particular incident caused damage to the pool’s concrete base, they said."
This is why I believe it’s petty revenge on former customers, for whom he did work on their heating (or AC) systems and got jerked around about proper payment or something
If they keep hiring the same pool cleaning guys to clean the pool I would have suspected the pool cleaning business. That's kind of a cleverly devious scheme.
That was my assumption as well. I thought maybe the person doing it was being hired to clean the mess, which would give them incentive to keep doing it.
Even though he wasn’t a pool cleaner, I still suspect he had done HVAC work at that hotel & had a bad time, so he said “I’m gonna cause them to have a bad time with my act of silly fun mischief”
As a pool guy, I assume the waters probably over 2 years old and therefore cannot “hold” any chemicals such as chlorine and muriatic acid etc. Only option is to simply drain the pool and refill it.
This is actually kind of terrifying when you think about it.... what happens when someone has a drone and they want to do some shit that is a bit more devious than turning water green?
@@yinggamer7762A British engineering student was just caught building a chemical weapon deploying drone (poorly, like the quality of most British engineering). But yeah America am I right guys?
@@BanHammer-yc4jrah yes, the British won both world wars alone, zero contribution from the Americans, French, Russians, or anyone else, definitely all Britain.
@@BanHammer-yc4jr I think youve entirely lost it bud ngl British engineering didn't win ww2 we came and saved your ass. The engineering that conquered 70% of of the world was not invented by the British 😂 British people didn't invent boats they just had the strongest military and took over places with people who didn't have shit. And tell me then who makes the best weapons in the world?
Drones are actually being used in war capable of targeting large areas of the population under attack and just wiping them all out 🥲 yeah… I don’t like it either
woah the actual method is literally the kind of reveal they’d do in a detective/murder mystery show where you’d be like “c’mon man, that was way too weird and specific… there’s no way I could’ve figured that out on my own”
The most shocking thing about this is the fact that the Quality Inn owners cared more than zero about their pool. Most of the time, they are full of two years worth of leaves and garbage.
Criminal Mischief has got to be hands down the funniest crime you could have on the books. Imagine trying to explain that to someone you are interviewing with.
Its almost admirable how some people can just wake up and decide to dedicate so much time to commiting acts of mischief like this Edit: before any of you mfs reply taking this seriously, I am joking. Charlie jokes throughout the whole video, same deal here. I just thought it was funny to put so much effort into such a petty crime. Obviously it's a messed up thing to do.
except they don't believe it to be sabotage, just him being a "prankster", which is the dumbest sh1t I've ever heard lol. Like of COURSE it was sabotage, jfc
It's surprisingly easy to turn a pool green. Take notes: dechlorinator. Even a small amount will fuck up pool chemistry. If you time it right, you could hit the pool right after the tech leaves, he won't be back for a week. Pool will be green in 2 days. And I really mean a small amount, you could sneak a small bottle in your swim trunks, go for a casual swim, and nobody would suspect you when the pool turns days afterwards.
This kind of mischievous tomfoolery is, dare I say it, diabolical. Thanks for keeping us aware Charlie, we need to be kept up to date on deviant and scallywag behaviour such as this in our communities or else we all might perish.
I can almost promise that the motel owners turned down the HVAC dude for a contract to work on their units. Some of the folks I've met in the business would sabotage a church if they were told no.
Maybe he doesn't like women. Or maybe there's another reason he doesn't like the hotel owner... something about his appearance compared to hers. Maybe. People like that do exist, sadly.
You should do a video on the birds they use to hunt down these drones. They’re like special done hunting eagles that hate technology and will kill it by any means necessary. They also have special talons so the blades don’t hurt their feet.
In the USA, you can't just bring an aircraft down because it's over your head. This is probably done in another country. Also, many predatory birds attack drones, drone pilots know this and it is common knowledge in the hobby to either gain altitude or lose altitude when you see a bird attacking, since birds have a hard time covering vertical distance. Definitely an ineffective practice in my opinion, tracking the drone and finding the pilot is the smart way to bring down drones doing naughty things.
I think it just being a "Prank" makes sense because most people wouldn't think of how expensive it is for the Hotel to have to keep draining the pool or how detrimental it would be for their business. The "haha" moment is just the confusion the employees and owner would feel.
i'm pretty sure anyone with a tub that pays their bills would be aware of how tedious this is, it's not like he was there to see their reactions either. Also he did it 12 times. He's weird
I’m sure they had other cameras from other businesses show this man which they probably watched him go back to his work, and his vehicle. All that connects to one or two individual. Like if his wife was using his same vehicle and worked for the company too, they’d have the security footage to show him vs her.
My dad walked in and saw just the part where the pool was green. He served in the Navy for a while and immediately identified it as water rescue dye, then posed the idea that it was probably from an HVAC business because they use a similar dye to look for refrigerant leaks (especially in older fridges where that stuff is really nasty).
[3:39] What the hell kind of bizarre wizardry is that person doing with their hand? At first, I thought that person may be the culprit and we just witnessed the Bladder Warlock casting another urinary spell on the pool right in front of us... so they had to censor his urethral voodoo gesture so others wouldn't learn from it and result in a bunch of hoodlum neo-sorcerers running around town casting asparagus peepee spells on all of the local pools.
I have to get a little conspiratorial and put it out there. If we are to assume this guy really qualifies as a "crazy super villain", then they definitely didn't catch the real guy through such simple means. The true perpetrator, the real mastermind, is still out there, and he's either going to continue yellowing the pool, or move on to phase two of his villainous machinations.
My theory is it is a military sea dye marker that go with survival itmes and get replaced in huge batches. They are less then $10s and you can stain a pool that color forever with just one or 2. Thats actually something they warn people about because people have taken the expired ones and ruined a friends pool, toilet or a water supply just joking around and not knowing. Its smaller then your fist and is supposed to allow aircraft to see or narrow down a rescue and search of a pilot.
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His dad filled the top of the family toilet green on st patricks day. He went to use the toilet, and after use the water filled up GREEN! He was confused and exited the restroom, only to see his loving father waiting outside. Amused by his son's confusion, the dad gleefully informed him he was just pranked. A home invasion would happen immediately afterwards, his father would die protecting the family. He now dyes water green in the form of prank, his way of memorializing the last memory of his loving father who was lost on the St. Patricks day home invasion.
Honestly if i wanted to prank ppl with a drone id probably make little gift boxes with random, weird but ultimately harmless things in them then just randomly airdrop them to random houses at night. Or heck it could even be something useful and they're just there trying to figure out why a gift fell outta the sky
I think this guy forgot what defines as a prank. This guy just costed this woman 20k in damages and his reasoning is essentially “it’s just a prank, bro”.
I would say this is more than “mischief”. This vandalism with destruction of property. And using the drone to do it should be punished to the same extent as physically going to the pool to drop the dye packets in.
It's fluorescein, relatively safe dye. You can see it from the pack that was dropped on the side, the dye gets red in different concentrations. Also, a drone was honestly my first guess when someone mentioned "no one in the cameras"
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This video made me feel like I was going on a road trip with Charlie and he just had no idea what else to do other than entertain me with a small town's wacky mystery.
5:14 it was literally my first thought when they said that the culprit didn't show up on security cameras haha. 2nd one was that it was the owner doing it for "advertisement"
They could of also tracked him down by tracking down who has bought this dye and going through the process of elimination. I'm sure not MANY places sell the dye or purchase the dye.
It's commonly used by HVAC techs to source refrigerant leaks and is also used by pool repair companies to trace leaks of various kinds so not only would the list be large, a lot of these companies buy this stuff in bulk and sit on a case or two of em for a few years so you'd need to track local and online orders of a wide area going back many years. Happening to spot the drone was indeed the quickest lol.
@@JourneysADRIFT That's not how it works. The list may be large but you easily eliminate the majority of it and narrow it down. Obviously the person doing this wouldn't live 4 states away. They do it all the time....tires, shoes, chemicals etc. It doesn't matter WHEN it was purchased as much as WHO purchases.
@@LittleMissStamper How do you even get the list, though? Like, do you think every seller keeps detailed notes on every single person who comes by to purchase literally anything in their store? The fact that it's commonly used in multiple industries means there is a shit load of it purchased by a ton of people, and the hotel was in fucking New Jersey, aka, population density is high.
i'm 90% sure the dye they used is called fluorescein, it looks red like that bag they pulled out when its a powder but in water it turns that bright fluorescent yellow, its a super concentrated powder
Dude just wanted to sabotage someone’s business 😬 “Ha ha, it’s just a joke” over repeatedly causing someone else money to fix shit to operate at standard?? It’s time to open his wallet!
7:02 literally the exact thing i said in the comment right after the inside edition video cam out lol ty im glad im not the only one who thought this was too far for a prank
I thought it would be pretty simple to figure out it was a drone dropping the dye into the pool. Just review the cameras between the times before and right after it turns green, you will clearly see a splash of something being dropped into the pool from above.
That was the gayest comment I have ever read. Thats another dude you're talking about "fill me up with daily content & makes me bust with excitement" Go do something, weird.
I'm at 2:44, my guess is that someone dumped paint in the pool filter and that's why 1) you can't see anybody going to the pool to make it green, 2) it keeps becoming green every few days. Pools have a whole drainage and pumping and filtration system underneath them, it's not just a giant tub. P.s. shit, I almost.... never got it not even close.
