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TexasTowelie

(122,242 posts)
Sun Jul 30, 2017, 04:50 AM Jul 2017

Florida Man Learns Hard Way Not to Joke About Bar Tab Being Payment to ISIS [View all]

Sometimes, bros will be bros. Pranks will be played, and shenanigans will take place. Sometimes, though, bros being bros can go horribly wrong, especially when alcohol is involved and those bros joke about ISIS on social media.

Two Delray Beach roommates recently learned this lesson the hard way when they found themselves under investigation by Venmo — the digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends — after writing something very anti-MAGA in the space where users are asked to include a reason for payment.

We could explain, but it's probably better you get the story straight from the horse's mouth via the Twitter thread of one "El Duderino," a 29-year-old construction manager who lives in Delray Beach:







Just how bad? Well, yeah. This doesn't look good.



Read more: http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/florida-mans-venmo-account-suspended-after-joking-about-isis-8777539
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