3 dead in high-speed suicide collision caused by CS:GO YouTuber McSkillet

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The CS:GO YouTuber Trevor "McSkillet" Heitmann's McLaren supercar was traveling the wrong way on the freeway when it hit another vehicle...Heitmann was the driver of the McLaren, which according to police, drove southbound at over 100 mph in the northbound HOV lane of the 805 N freeway, north of La Jolla Village Drive...he then collided head-on with a SUV being driven northbound in the HOV lane

before the fatal crash, Heitmann purposely drove his vehicle into the Ashley Falls Elementary School front gate that had a sign on the front that had the word “STEAM” printed on it...Heitmann was one of the biggest names in CSGO skin trading when in late 2017, Valve, developers of CSGO, banned all of Heitmann’s Steam platform accounts, shutting down his entire skin trading and collecting empire with losses in excess of $200,000...the ban by Valve precluded Heitmann from being able to unbox, gamble, or trade skins which directly affected his ability to monetize his YouTube videos which saw viewer counts anywhere between 250,000 to 4.3 million...he hasn’t posted a video since...

https://www.vpesports.com/uncategor...uber-mcskillet-killed-in-wrong-way-car-crash/
 
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Fuck him, he's dead. Damned shamed about the other two innocents involved with this that lost their lives, my condolences to their families and friends. :(

I looked at some of the tweets over that guy doing this and people are acting like he was some nice guy - I guess none of them took the time to understand just what this piece of shit did. I don't give a fuck if he offed himself, I'm completely fine with that, my beef is the same as others: the fact that two other people died because of his dumbass actions.
 
What a piece of shit.

Any and all sympathy I might have had for this guy was completely blown by his idiotic method of suicide and the fact that he took out two innocents...
 
Im sorry, but it takes a real bag of shit to do something like this.

Pick a bridge embankment. ANY bridge embankment. Leave the moms and kids out of it. JC.
 
Thanks for the other half of this story. This took place less than 5 miles from me, and affected getting home that night.
Worthless little shit. You have to work to get on one of those lanes going the wrong way, and that time of day, it is busy as fuck to begin with. Hopefully the family goes after what remains of his estate, because that was murder.
 
Piece of shit for killing a mother and her daughter but it won't matter what we think because he is dead. I guess the prospect of getting a real job was too much for him to bear. Asshole. :mad:
 
I honestly saw this story and was left speechless at the abject horror and waste of it all. Thoughts and prayers for any all affected by this absolutely needless, selfish, and awful tragedy. Obviously I've co-signed a lot of the other sentiments posted so far.
 
at first I thought this was one of those YouTube prankster people who do crazy things for views but it was definitely suicide/murder...he really didn't need to kill innocent people in his vendetta against Valve...RIP innocent mother and child...OT: did he really own a McLaren?...people are making crazy $$ on YouTube
 
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Fuck that piece of shit. Hopefully the victims family sues his estate and wins every penny.
 
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Fuck everyone who involves other people in their measly suicide attempts. And I don't just mean killing others in the process. Don't even jump in front of a train, just hang yourself in your kitchen. Or if you're too cowardly to do that, jump off a cliff.

You're not a martyr but murdering scum. With zero regards to anyone else but you. A narcissist even in suicide.
 
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Never heard of this guy, but apparently he had 1 mil subscribers. Wow yes these youtubers are making bank right now, too much money if you ask me. I mean what do they do all day but sit on the computer and play games and other crap. That's not a job, get a real fucking job you worthless millennial youtube pricks.

I also see a lot of youtube car channels, all based in L.A. and they drive their supercars with the camera in their hand while driving recklessly all over the California freeways. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=supercar+channels

This is what happens when you have more money then sense.
 
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Motley said:
Never heard of this guy, but apparently he had 1 mil subscribers. Wow yes these youtubers are making bank right now, too much money if you ask me. I mean what do they do all day but sit on the computer and play games and other crap. That's not a job, get a real fucking job you worthless millennial youtube pricks.
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I don't advocate for McSkillet as murder-suicide isn't ever okay, but I wanted to address this comment. Getting that many followers and also producing a piece of content, especially a piece of content that anyone even wants to watch, let alone follow you to continue to watch your content is no easy task. Regardless of if you think it's "click-bait-y" or trash content or any other series of adjectives you want to throw on it. Filming content, editing, producing, and then finding the audience is no joke. If you think it's easy to get a million followers and then get paid to "sit on your ass and play video games" then try to do it. Because then you could quit your "real job" and get a "fake one" that pays you more.

Regardless if you think that "Youtube" is a real job or not, it's no different than literally any job in the film industry. The only difference between running a Youtube channel and being a "star" on a TV show is that a Star on a TV show has an intermediary that pays them, however their paycheck literally comes from advertisement dollars that air with their show. A person on Youtube is doing the same thing, it's just that their advertisement dollars are more direct. In a way it's a more pure form of "television" as they only get a paycheck based upon what any given group of people think they're worth (that is to say viewership).

So if you're going to hate on Youtubers, you should also then hate on anyone that is in any form of entertainment, because it's the same mechanisms that fund them and arguably a Youtuber has to do far more work as not only are they the personality (that is to say the "star"), they are the production team, marketing team, videography, and editing team. Knowing far more broadly what most vapid starlets have to know in far more areas. And like I said in the beginning, doing all that, maintaining it is a full time job (or in the case of massive channels like say Linus Tech Tips, is multiple people's full time job, for one channel).
 
I don't think it's that hard .. there's millions of little idiots that will sit around and watch stupidity on YouTube...
 
This guy didn’t make his money off YouTube, he made it off his gambling site. He can rot unremembered in a piss soaked wet grave.
 
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I don't think it's that hard .. there's millions of little idiots that will sit around and watch stupidity on YouTube...
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:rolleyes: Put your money where your mouth is. If it’s easy to make money doing it, then quit your job and do YouTube full time. If it’s so “easy” then clearly you’re working too hard at whatever your present job is.

Talk is cheap. It’s pretty simple to say that someone else has it easy. Go and show us how easy it is.

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This guy didn’t make his money off YouTube, he made it off his gambling site. He can rot unremembered in a piss soaked wet grave.
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That’s fine. My comments aren’t directed at how mcskillet made his money. Only at the misguided belief that making your living on YouTube is easy. (Which it isnt).
 
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Thanks for the other half of this story. This took place less than 5 miles from me, and affected getting home that night.
Worthless little shit. You have to work to get on one of those lanes going the wrong way, and that time of day, it is busy as fuck to begin with. Hopefully the family goes after what remains of his estate, because that was murder.
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Actually, it's pretty easy to get on the HOV lane going in the wrong direction for this particular location (one just has to turn into the lane immediately to the left of the correct lane.) I have personally driven up this particular HOV direct access on/off ramp (on the correct side). At 4:30ish PM, there usually aren't many cars exiting the NB I805 HOV lane at Carroll Canyon Rd. It's usually busy in the morning rush hour and not busy during evening rush hour.

The thing is that the HOV lanes have a direct access on/off ramp exactly one exit NORTH of where the accident/homicides took place on Carroll Canyon Rd. The on ramp directly dumps you onto the southbound HOV lane and if you turn on to the left two lanes of the on/off ramp rather than the rightmost lane, you will be going the wrong way on the Northbound HOV lane. Sure there are "WRONG WAY" signs, but it's just one jersey barrier away from the correct lane. Definitely I can see somebody getting into the incorrect lane on the on/off ramp... HOWEVER, once on the freeway, it's really easy to notice that you're not going in the correct direction and McSkillet had plenty of time to slow his car down to a stop by the time he reached La Jolla Village Drive/Miramar Rd even if he had accelerated full speed up the off ramp if he had wanted to slow down. (See map in the Caltrans PDF here: http://www.keepsandiegomoving.com/L...5N_FACT_DAR_User_Guide_072117_Final.sflb.ashx )

I don't have any good pictures of the on/off ramp, but this is the best I could find:
https://media.nbcsandiego.com/images/1200*675/OmariCarpool6PM0616_1200x675_707268675554.jpg
It's a picture from NBC 7 San Diego showing going the wrong direction up the northbound I805 off ramp on the left side, the right side on the other side of the jersey barrier is where you should be driving up to enter the southbound I805 HOV lane.

Also here's the Caltrans site page detailing the construction of the HOV direct access ramp. https://www.keepsandiegomoving.com/I-805-Corridor/I-805-north-segment.aspx
 
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