Life is Tough. It’s Tougher if You’re Stupid

It’s really hard to justify stupidity. It’s even harder when that stupidity victimizes someone who really didn’t deserve it, because after all, they were not the one being stupid. Such is the case with David Leavitt, who really should have left it. Mr. Leavitt is an “award winning multimedia journalist,” whose resume includes CBS, AXS, and the Washington Examiner, to name a few. When it finally dawns on him the magnitude of the stupidity he has set in motion, I’m sure the effect will be stunning.

According to Mr. Leavitt, he was shopping at a Target and found an Oral B electric toothbrush for one cent (!!). He proceeds to take one to the register with the rest of his purchases, only to have it ring up it’s normal price. He did what any consumer would do and got a manager over, who tries to tell him it was an error on the floor staff’s part.

There’s Always a Good Explanation When You Want One

That wasn’t really the case though, as when you look at Leavitt’s pictures, the price tag said “DISPLAY” on it. The way it was explained, every unit needs to be electronically logged to keep count, and the machine won’t let people print out a tag without some monetary value on it. So, they print one with $0.01 on it and clearly label it “DISPLAY.” Considering their displays are not functional, that’s about all a display is worth anyway.

You can see the pictures in this thread Mr. Leavitt posted after he harassed the manager and called the cops on her. That’s right, he called the police on the Target manager for not selling him a fully functional Oral B electric toothbrush for the price of the display. The police then tell him he can sue Target for not selling him the functional toothbrush at the price they valued the display at. Now I am usually all “back the blue,” but this was a stupid thing to do on their part.

I’m All For Back The Blue, But…

What should have happened was what cops are supposed to be able to do well. A little bit of investigation would have told them everything, including why the tag was marked at one cent and said “DISPLAY” on it. Instead, they told Leavitt he should sue Target, and that they would supply him with a “verified report” and even testify for him. Leavitt then took to social media to broadcast his bout of stupidity on Twitter in a shameless attempt to defame Target and Tori, the manager.

At one point in Leavitt’s jaw droppingly stupid display, he claims he had not been able to afford a dentist for over three years. An industrious twitter user checking over his account found this to be an outright lie.

But if you think I am going to end this story here, on such a sour note, I have a surprise for you.

I Found Where All The Good Men Went

I watched this entire thing play out on twitter, and there emerges a hero. You know this hero very well, as he is the president’s favorite meme maker. Carpe Donktum, who recently was awarded the 2020 outrage of the year award by Greg Gutfeld (LOL), started a GoFundMe account to raise money for the beleaguered Target manager to take a vacation. The post, and the GFM, went viral.

I have started a GoFundMe to send Tori on a vacation.



Anyone that has to deal with this twerp definitely deserves it. I'll start with a $50 donation.https://t.co/1ntqpiQngY https://t.co/X0bD1vZt5E — Carpe Donktum🔹 (@CarpeDonktum) January 17, 2020

To date, the account has been transferred to Target Tori, and totals over $21,000 dollars. The incredible outpouring of support for Tori was awe inspiring to watch, and was given proper recognition by the Target manager herself in a photo.

Not long after the incident on Twitter took place, a “journalist” for insider.com, who writes breaking news, mind you, wrote about the story. However, she didn’t really write about the story as much as about what she imagined in her head to be the story behind the story. Kat Tenbarge tweeted her story with this caption:

This viral moment and the resulting $16k GoFundMe start to seem suspicious once you peel back the layers.https://t.co/thaJp9aT1a — Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge) January 18, 2020

And she did it with a straight face. Her problem, though, is that she seems to suffer the same issues David Leavitt does. She tells lies. Somewhere in her convoluted transmissions, she claims to have gotten in touch with Carpe Donktum himself.

The memesmith adamantly denies she reached out to him, and states emphatically he is in contact with Tori and has turned over control of the account to her. Tori now has the means to purchase a modest trip somewhere and drive a brand new car to her destination! Stay tuned, as I am watching this story progress and will most likely post follow-up stories.