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The Hatchet-Wielding Sociopath Scout Friend

from I Love Cons · #27

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2 min

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Ray recalls his childhood best friend in Scouts, a genuine sociopath who carried hatchets and knives, threatened and cornered other kids, and was eventually kicked out — Ray reveals the friend is now a working comic.

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  • 55:11Tim befriended a literal sociopath in Boy Scouts who walked around threatening people with hatchets held to their necks.
  • 55:26The kid carried hatchets and pulled them up to people's throats; nobody kicked him out immediately.
  • 55:39They got Swiss Army knives together and once bought a butterfly knife in Boston that the kid constantly flicked around.
  • 55:55At summer camp, they used flashlights to beat up other kids, though Tim says they got beaten up too.
  • 56:35During regular school meetings, he cornered kids in bathrooms holding knives to their necks, taunting them as "rich fucks" and poking them.
  • 56:47Tim reveals the hatchet-wielding Scout sociopath is now a working comic doing great.
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