A YouTuber has been ordered to pay $53,000 after pulling a stunt along with his shiny new 2021 Ram 1500 TRX in a viral video.

Tremendous Road 717 posted the movies earlier this yr, displaying him leaping his TRX throughout a creek. Footage additionally confirmed him driving down the small creek in rural Pennsylvania. Shortly after the movies have been shared on-line, a tipster despatched a grievance to the state Recreation Fee’s Operation Recreation Thief tip line which forwarded the grievance to the Fish and Boat Fee.

Whereas the movies of the TRX have been filmed on a farm owned by a good friend of Tremendous Road 717, actual title Michael Hyssong, streams and rivers which are deemed to be “legally navigable” are public property in Pennsylvania. Hyssong was shortly charged with 18 prison counts that included two counts of Disturbance of Waterways and Watersheds, six counts of Air pollution of Waters, six counts of Littering, and 4 counts of Misuse of Property and Waters.

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At a session in York County Courtroom earlier this week, Hyssong was ordered to pay a $53,000 restitution to restore the harm to the creek. He has additionally been accepted into Pennsylvania’s Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition Program (ARD) that focuses on neighborhood service and if Hyssong completes this system inside a yr, his document might be cleaned, the York Every day File experiences.

“I had no thought it was unlawful to drive by way of a creek,” Hyssong stated after the ruling. “I’m an outdoor man. I hike and I’ve by no means even littered in my life. I’m not the sort to destroy pure sources.”

Hyssong has since eliminated the movies from YouTube.