The Josh Innes Show - Senseless Deaths

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

A teenager in Virginia was shot and killed while playing "Ding, Dong, Ditch" . On one hand, I think kids are morons who follow the online trends and end up in bad spots. On the other hand, I was a dumb kid at one point. I've played "Ding, Dong, Ditch". Should someone die over this dumb game? Plus, dumb things we did as kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alright, let's see here. Headline reads, Homeowner in Virginia accused of killing teen filming ding-dong-ditch TikTok prank. A teenager who's a senior at Massaponics High School in Fredericksburg died hours before his high school's prom. Let's read this story. Now before we get into anything on that, when I was a kid we would occasionally do that. Like you'd go, you'd knock on someone's door and you'd run, right? You'd do some sort of pranks, like that's kind of part of it. This is going to sound very lame, but when I was a kid I would go to my grandpa's house and his daughter, my

aunt, Aunt Sarah, her and her friends who were all older than me by a couple of years, right? Like two, three, four years. So like if they were like 13, I'd be 10 type of deal, I think. And they would play games like Girl Talk. Do you remember Girl Talk, the board game Girl Talk? Basically, it was one of these things where all the little girls would get together at like a sleepover or whatever and have to spin a wheel or some such shit and and then like you'd have to do the shit that The board said to do let me see let me look this up girl talk does it still exist?

I want the og girl talk so you can buy like the og girl talk a 1995 truth or dare 1995 edition for a119 on Amazon. I'm sure this game is a lot different than it was, but I want the OG Girl Talk. I'm sure it's changed. It's similar to the parlor game Truth or Dare. The features and themes such as boys talking on the phone, dancing, having parties and sleepovers, and other girl-ish concerns for the time. Now of course they would have to change that because then it'd be like you have to add like lesbians and stuff like that to make it fit the times of course but back then it was

talking about boas. George Glass gameplay. The game comes with an opaque spinner with a hole in it then multiple exchangeable cardboard circles which can be placed into the spinner. Okay, gotcha. If a player does not perform a truth or dare action, they must wear a zit sticker for the rest of the game. Players may use their points to buy one or four kinds of fortune cards. The first to collect one or all four types is the winner. So yeah, so they've had different girl talk games. They had a Hannah Montana version of girl talk and a Jenga version of girl talk and a One Direction version

of girl talk and a That's So Raven version of girl talk. But like I like what I don't know if this was part of that game or they just made me do it because my aunt and her friends were giant assholes to me when I was a young boy. But But I had to go to the next door neighbor's house and ask for toilet paper, that kind of shit, and they'd sit back and watch me do it. So you read a story like this and you're like, does someone really deserve to get plugged or because they're knocking on someone's door and running? Because we've all done it, we've all done dumb shit, we've all pulled pranks. One of my favorite pranks was I got a universal remote control and would walk over to the neighbor's house

and just start turning the channel. Like that's fun. That's good old clean fun, right? You would just change the channel. We did that to our next door neighbor. Me and my friend Tans did that to our neighbor, Mr. Jeff, who lived next door to Tans. So we would just go get the remote

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going to ring your doorbell and start fucking with you at three in the morning, I can see where someone's kind of concerned. Like this is so weird. The world sucks, bro. People are out here, I mean like people are violent, people are killing people, people are breaking into homes, and there's lawlessness everywhere because the fucking politicians don't seem to give a shit about the lawlessness. They live in the world of, oh, let them do bad shit. Let them

steal. You realize, just to kind of make my point, Target is going to basically eliminate self-checkout. Why? Because people are just stealing shit, not paying for it. Like people are pieces of shit. So if you're in your house and it's 3 a.m., you don't know if you've got like a stranger's type situation where wackos are like ringing the doorbell and standing there. You don't know if it's just a bunch of dumb kids ringing the doorbell and running off. It's three in the morning, you're half asleep, you get up, you scratch your fucking balls, you're woke, you're awakened by the sound of someone ringing your fucking doorbell and

whatever. Like, and you don't know if someone's trying to break into your house. So I get that you're concerned. Tyler Chase Butler, 27, a resident of McKenzie Lane, is accused of shooting and killing 18-year-old Michael Bosworth, Jr. Look, it sucks that an 18-year-old kid who hasn't even graduated high school is now dead. That sucks. And it's all because of a stupid prank. Fine. But if like you're going to ring someone's doorbell and run whatever, do it at 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock at night. Three, first of all, maybe just don't do it. Come up with some new prank. It's kind of a tired old prank anyway. But like you got to know these things, man.

Like I feel bad for his parents. I feel bad for these people because these, the dudes are all inspired by the shit they see on the internet and TikTok and they all want to be TikTok famous. They all want to kind of do this shit. Like this is not the era to fuck with people. This is not the fucking era dude. This is a different time.

The teenagers friends told deputies they were filming TikTok videos of them doing a ding-dong ditch prank when they were shot at according to the warrant. Butler was arrested on May 6th and charged with several crimes including saying, I'm torn on this because like if they're running away like what are we like what are you doing bro like now your life is now ruined. And your life, you've ruined the life of a kid who's now dead. You've ruined his family's life. And now you're over here, ruining your own life because some kids now were they just running away?

What exactly were they doing? Like, I'm not all like, I'm not trying to be some lame-o that says, Oh, don't go out and do pranks on people. The kids got to be some lame-o that says, oh, don't go out and do pranks on people. The kids got to be smarter. And on the other hand, this dude, like, what the fuck are you doing? Teams were filming TikTok prank when they were shot at. Bosworth was taken to a local hospital where he died of injuries. A second individual, who police said is a juvenile, was also shot and treated for minor

injuries. A third person was not injured, police say. According to the search warrant, Bosworth's friends told police they were knocking on doors in the area as part of a ding-dong ditch prank they planned to upload to TikTok. Why? Everybody wants to be famous. Everybody wants to be a celebrity. Everybody wants to do the TikTok shit. Now you're dead. So like, don't do it. Maybe that'll teach these dipshits. The long running game involves knocking on a person's door and running away before they can answer. Solid. Yes. Thank you for breaking that down. The teen said they were shot while running to hide after knocking on a door. They also said they weren't familiar with the neighborhood. to hide after knocking on a door. They also said they weren't familiar with the neighborhood. Well there's another thing. I don't know what this neighborhood was, but if ol' buddy here,

27 year old thought about grabbing his gun and just shooting. Like that, honestly god, that wouldn't have been my first instinct. First of all I don't have a gun. But if I did have a gun and someone knocks on my door and there's no one there when I open the door, my first instinct is not going to be to shoot at the fucking people. Like what are you doing? Like that but on the other hand it's fucking three in the morning and you're trying to do some shit you saw on fucking TikTok. It's like these same dipshits that like we're eating cinnamon and like choking and dying or people that drink too much fucking milk and a TikTok thing and die like what are you guys doing? Like are you that desperate for that sort of notoriety on TikTok that you're willing to do this dumb shit?

Now again, you're not expecting to die. You might expect some guy to call the cops. Like there's those expectations. You don't go into this expecting to die and you're an 18 year old dude that's in high school. So you're a fucking moron. But what the fuck people? Like, like you're dead, your parents' lives are ruined, this guy who shot you's life is ruined, all because you wanted to do TikTok shit. The teen said they were shot while knocking on doors, they weren't familiar with the neighborhood. Butler was charged with second degree murder, malicious wounding, and two counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, police said. He was arraigned on May 7th and is set to have a preliminary hearing on June 18th. Our thoughts are with the family, says Bosworth. Bosworth was a senior at Massaponics High School in Fredericksburg, which held its prom hours after his death. In a message to the

district shared with USA Today, Principal William Lancaster said the school is offering counseling, staff, and other support to students. Our thoughts are with the family during this difficult time, Lancaster said. Look, we've all done dumb shit, and not all of us got shot and killed doing it. Two things can be wrong here. Now, the obvious is, if you don't want to get shot, don't put yourself in a position where you could get shot. You want to

avoid getting shot. Don't go to a neighborhood you do not know and go knock on someone's door at three in the morning. Dude, people are on edge. I'll say one thing for my dad. My dad and my grandpa even were like this. They were like, don't go fucking with people. Like my grandpa once told me, I'm sitting in a red light. He goes, now Josh, if you're ever at a red light and you're listening to a song and you're kind of singing and dancing in the car, don't do that because somebody

next to you might think that you're doing some kind of gang shit and they might shoot you. Like, well, that seems a bit much but maybe he's not that wrong because people are beyond fucked up at this point. So people are on edge. You fuck with the wrong person. I do think some people are just kind of bloodthirsty and just want to shoot like I don't know that that was the case for this dude because mind you this guy would not have shot anyone like it all starts with don't knock on the dude's

door and run at three in the morning. If you don't do that, no one dies, no one goes to jail. This guy wasn't asleep at three in the morning going, yep, I plan on killing someone today. But I do think that people have a blood thirst, especially in this era. I think there's a lust for blood that some people possess. And it's almost like they want to have the opportunity to shoot someone with cause if that makes sense. But not like TikTok's fucked man and again it's not one of those things that you say well you should ruin it for everyone because some

people are stupid. You know I'm not a believer in that. I don't believe that you ban alcohol because some people drive drunk and I don't believe you ban gambling because some people get addicted. I don't believe you ban cigarettes because people get lung cancer. You know, although there really is no positive. I will say this. There is not a positive about smoking cigarettes, but if you want to do it, hey, you're on your own there. Some things you can find at least a positive. There ain't a positive in that, but I digress. So, none of this happens if

these dumb kids don't knock on the door, but then you also have to understand that 17, 18-year-old people are going to be dumb kids. And you say, well, Josh, you call the 18-year-old football players men in college, but you call these dudes kids. Dudes hadn't even gone to their fucking prom yet, man. And they're not getting paid a million dollars to go play at Florida. There's some dumb kids. Don't knock on the fucking doors. But they're kids

kids do dumb shit. They see they see shit on TikTok. As I explained to you, we've all I'm trying to think of some of the dumber shit that I've done and gotten trouble for like I've stopped when I was a young kid, I stole one time, stole a pocket knife. I don't know where I got the pocket knife. I forgot what store it was. But I stole a pocket knife. I don't know where I got the pocket knife. I forgot what store it was. But I stole a pocket knife. And I remember like, I think it was a setup because I think my dad or somebody sent my friend into my

bedroom, knowing that I'd show him this pocket knife like, Hey, I got a pocket knife. And he's like, Where did you get it? I'm like, I found it, whatever. And like that my dad finds out that I got this knife. And they're like, Where did you get this? I'm like, I found it outside. But no, I had stolen. It's one of those memories that like is kind of spotty because it was a long time ago. And I know it happened. And maybe I'll ask my mom about that when I call her for Mother's Day. Maybe she'll know but I know it

happened. At least in my mind, it's happened. But I've never stolen anything since then. I've done regrettable things. In youth you're going to do stupid shit. You're young, you're allowed to make mistakes, your life shouldn't end because of them. But knocking on someone's door three in the morning, in your mind you're not thinking, oh, I could die tonight doing this. In my mind when I was 18 that would across my mind

But I was neurotic about this shit because my dad would implant that kind of shit in me Like my dad would always like take something bad that could happen to me or something bad I can do and reverse it into him because that's how my dad operates Like it would embarrass me if you did blank blank and blank so I was always under the thing of don't go don't embarrass your fucking Dad so that's why I was a fucking square when I was always under the thing of don't go don't embarrass your fucking dad. So that's why I was a fucking square when I was a kid. So square. In fact, I wasn't going to go on a senior trip got a lot of money for my for when I graduated, some people gave me some money. And you know,

because I had a party and you know, hey, congrats graduated cool. And I wasn't gonna go. And then like the day of one of my good friends who just got married the other day, Walt, he, and we still talk, it's wild that you still talk to people you went to middle school with. Like yesterday I'm talking with my friend Martin, I've known him since 1998, Jesus Christ, I'm old. But anyway, I was texting with my other friend Tance,

who I've known since 1998, and Walt who I've known since 1998, that's fucking crazy. But anyway, so that's just getting old. But he was like, Do you want to come on senior trip? Like, I was like, not really, they were going to Panama. And basically, they just needed to use me to be like their mule because they needed someone to bring all their alcohol. But I was such a fucking square, like I thought they'd want to bring like a couple of a couple of 12

packs. When I get out there, he's lying the entire bed of my truck with 12, like it had to have been hundreds of beers and I'm like I'm not doing this, like this is a bad idea, like I'm 18 years old, I'm not gonna just take you know 30 you know cases of fucking beer, I'm not smoky in the bandit here, I'm not bootlegging this shit to Panama City, no and he got so fucking pissed, like you're a fucking pussy. I'm like Iy in the bandit here. I'm not bootlegging this shit to Panama City. No, and he got so fucking pissed. You're a fucking pussy. I'm like, I guess I am but I don't want to embarrass my dad. I was so embarrassed the first time I got drunk. I got drunk on that trip. And it's senior trip

Panama. And I don't even know what all we drank but it had to been a bad combo of shit because I threw up yellow all day. Horrible gas too. And I'm feeling like shit the next morning and like one of the people walks in, some girl, good looking girl from our class walks in and she's like, what the fuck is that smell? And like I poke my head up from the blank and I'm like, I'm sorry, I think that's me. Like I vomits and then you know farts. My dad

calls to check. He's like, hey, what's going on? But I'm like, well, dad, I got really hammered. I don't know. I feel horrible. He's like, god damn it Josh. That's embarrassing. That's goddamn embarrassing. Your grandpa would be ashamed. I'm like, I don't even talk to grandpa that often. What does grandpa have to do with anything? I'm so sorry. I'm sorry dad. And then come, you know, two, three years later, I'm of drinking age, dad's got a pool in the backyard. It was not uncommon for me to get tanked in my dad's pool and just pass out naked in the pool.

I had a stretch where I got naked a lot drinking, at least twice that I can recall. Like once I got naked in my dad's pool and just passed out on a floaty, and that involved my grandpa because grandpa ended up showing up at the house. And I said, what the hell are you doing? And I was passed out drunk, naked, on a floaty and that involved my grandpa because grandpa ended up showing up at the house and I said What the hell are you doing? And I was passed out drunk naked and a floaty and one time for my birthday It was me and my dad and a couple of my buddies went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner and then went back to my place

For a little bit to hang out say my place went apartment. I didn't have any money for it, but I lived there This is what Bat Rouge and I got so hammered that I just got naked and rolled around on the floor and passed out. Look I did some dumb shit in my day. That's all to say we've all done dumb shit. Not all of us have gotten shot for the dumb shit we've done. I guess if you look for the origin of this the origin is don't go knock on someone's door at 3 in the morning and run to do a TikTok video and you'd still be alive. Does it make shooting the people right?

And it's like, what do you think? They weren't in your house. That's the other thing is, if they were in your house, it's one thing. They weren't even in your house, dude. They were running away. I don't know, man. Multiple people can be wrong

but the difference is you being wrong cost that dude his life and now you're gonna go to jail so there you go all right more to come