The notorious daredevil known as “ 8Booth ” might not be leap from outrageously tall buildings and border death for a pretty farseeing sentence .
Los Angeles TV stationKTLA reportsthe thrill - essay pleasure seeker is actually a 28 - year - old male advert Anthony Booth Armer , and he was nail on Wednesday after allegedly trespassing a hotel and residence in Orange County , California . He was on the face of it detained while attempting to do something stupidly reckless and broadcast it to the world via his thrivingYouTube duct , which maintains 51,925 ratifier and over 16 million full views .
While Booth ’s mission are obviously born of concern for his safety – and perhapsinnocent bystandershe could hypothetically collide with afterjumping off a cliff– he ’s been charged with two misdemeanor counts of unauthorized accounting entry of a dwelling and one misdemeanor count of trespassing with intent to intervene with business , allot to the Orange County District Attorney ’s berth .
Booth ’s most democratic video shows him leap from the top of the Newport Towers Condo building andjust barely clearing the edge of a the wooden pier . It ’s some seriously torturing clobber , and it ’s advisable that you be warned before checking out the video ’s sweat - induce madness .
Booth knows incisively how to rein the most out of his video , as he slows them down to emphasize the saturated stupidity of his effort . Unluckily for him though , the reason he was pick up pertains to his videos becoming viral smashes across the vane .
Booth ’s arraignment date has n’t been established yet , authority take down . He ’s already station bail though , and it may be that the self - profess “ adrenaline addict ” is out there somewhere , jumping from a rooftop for one final video .
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