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"Want to be YouTube famous?  Posting video of death defying stunts is a fairly reliable albeit dangerous option, but when those stunts happen to also be illegal, they can get you in serious trouble.  \nSuch is the case for a graffiti artist in California, who made his way onto a freeway overpass to spray paint his tag.  The resulting video has since been viewed more than 500,000 times.  Unfortunately, at least a few of those views came from police, who had been trying to track down the prolific spray painter.According to the LA Times, the artist \u2013 Cyrus Yazdani \u2013 has been sentenced to three years and eight months in jail and ordered to pay $117,196 in damages resulting from 32 acts of felony vandalism.   Ah, the price of Internet fame.  \nYazdani joins an increasingly long list of people that have messed up their lives through social media.  One of the more notable recent examples is the YouTube video that (now former) Dominos Pizza employees posted of themselves doing disgusting things with food and in turn losing their jobs. \nThe bottom line seems to be if a video has the potential to get you arrested, fired, or otherwise in hot water, it\u2019s best not to post it to YouTube - unless you\u2019re one of those fame-at-any-cost sorts that\u2019s willing to pay the price.  Here\u2019s the video that made Yazdani YouTube famous and ultimately a convicted felon:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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