I Don't want to make a video about this I only want to make videos that are happy ha but this just makes me angry
We've got body mods in the news this week, uh, oh
So I wasn't trying to clickbait you with the title tongue splitting is freakin illegal now
I mean it always kind of was but now it really is so this happened in the UK
But it's it's been making headlines all over I'm gonna read you the headline from the CNN article about this. Dr
Evil tattooist pleads guilty for tongue splitting procedure blah blah blah blah blah about okay. Let me bring you up to speed
Let me tell you what happened this guy
Did procedures on people back in like 2012 five years later?
They arrest this guy in 2017
So he gets arrested and you know, we've been going through the legal motions and now just the other day
The case finally comes to a close and he had to plead guilty to grievous bodily harm
Grievous bodily harm. I looked that up too. I did lots of research for this video. It seems to be described as
Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously wound or inflict any grievous bodily harm upon another person
Either with or without a weapon or instrument bla bla bla bla bla
It means you hurt somebody you hurt em bad. And now here's the thing. Here's the part of this that bugs me the most
How is he guilty of this crime?
Of harming a person when there's no frickin victim
There's no one who's saying "this guy hurt me. He he he grievously harmed my body"
There's no one saying that. the people that he worked on as far as I can tell are happy with the work that he did
He seemed to do a fine job. I don't know the guy but I don't see any complaints
The only complaints I see are are from the state essentially. So basically they're charging him with hurting somebody even though there's no
That's hurt
and now I get it
I Get what they were going for I get that they want to stop him and people like him doing these medical procedures without any training
And without you know, I get it I get all of that and here's the thing
I think any of us anyone who has body modifications, you know, I have my tongue split
I got my tongue split in my friends kitchen. Do I wish I could have gone to a
Cosmetic surgeon to do that in a much safer environment where I know nothing's gonna go wrong
Absolutely, that would have been a better choice, but you know what that's not possible
It's not possible because if you're gonna go to a doctor to get a cosmetic procedure done
They're gonna make sure that you are not crazy. And that's that the reason you're getting it is not because you're crazy
But if you go to any doctor and say that you want to get your tongue split they just they assume you're crazy
There's no reason there's no not a sane person on this planet would want to get their tongue split according to you know
Doctors and even if you could find a doctor that doesn't think you're crazy
He still won't do the procedure because as a whole that industry thinks that you're crazy
So if if a doctor does that procedure on you, he's gonna lose his license
So there's no way you're not going to a doctor to get this work done
And what happens when you can't go to a doctor to get this work done and you want it?
You're gonna go find someone else who can do it
And let's be honest
Tongues blitz are not the most complicated thing in the world and that leads me to another point in this whole thing
Where do you draw the line?
between you know a tattoo or piercing and
Surgery like a split tongue who decides what's a piercing and what's not if if I pierced the tongue four times with a four gauge
needle
That's some of a bitch's split but it's okay to do that because technically I just pierced it
But if I pierce it with a scalpel and split it then that's a crime
I'm going to prison because that that's what this guy's doing. This guy's gonna go to prison
we don't know for how long he's gonna be sentenced next month, and I'm repaying attention because you know, like I said this just
This makes me angry II and I don't know if any of this is even making sense right now
I'm just angry guy yelling at camera, but you know what? I just I want to get this off my chest
It's I want to talk about it
I don't want to talk about it, but I need to talk about it now
I guess the all of this story is if you're gonna do this kind of work
Don't snitch on yourself and post pictures of it online, but speaking of snitching. I keep my ear to the streets
I'm in tune with what's going on. I'm I'm hip and happening in the body-mod world
I'm hearing that there may have been someone who snitched on this guy and is
Unfortunate as that is it's not uncommon body-mod artists do tend to try and throw each other under the bus
sometimes because I don't know if you know this about the tattoo industry, but
pretty much every tattoo shop is like
It's like
There have you ever seen the movie Mean Girls? It's like that. There's just so much drama and so much
Gossip and oh my god
Man, I don't like that guy. He does the same thing I do
and then they
Snitch on each other and yeah, that's stupid guys. Don't do that this hurts everybody
We're all screwed now. So I don't know what's gonna happen with this. I would like to think that
What might happen is that?
We're gonna realize that hey maybe tongue splitting is no different than these crazy-looking people you see on botched
People like I spent a hundred thousand dollars to look like a Barbie doll, but they're fine
the society is like hey nice tits, but if you want to split your tongue in half, you're a
Freakin psycho. So maybe that maybe this will help alleviate some of that problem. Maybe maybe people will see that
Hey people actually want to get this done
Maybe we should start learning
Cosmetic surgeons do their job and not make people have to cut their tongues in half in their friends kitchen
That would be cool
Or maybe it's gonna go the other way and maybe now our little underground
Society is gonna get outed and people are gonna realize that their stick doing what lock them all up right you laws
And I don't know I have a feeling this is gonna make everything worse. I have that feeling I don't like it
I don't like this at all. But this is the Philip DeFranco show and I want to know what you think
So let me know down in the comments
Do you think this is stupid or do you think they should we should all just get locked up cuz we're all crazy
Anyway, just throw us all in a Cell together and let let the strongest one survive. There can only be one
Okay, I'm gonna stop talking now before I make this worse
I'll see in a couple days with a better video than this. All right, I promise. Bye
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