Florida does not have a monopoly on weird, but it keeps showing up in the highlight reel. The kind of clips that make you stop mid-scroll and wonder how the idea made it past the “maybe this isn’t a good plan” stage tend to find their way out of places like this with surprising consistency.
A lawnmower and a set of automatic doors is a recipe that was only ever going to end one way, badly. Yet here we are again, watching the same kind of stunt play out. This is the kind of behavior most people outgrow sometime around middle school, but every so often it shows up with adult consequences attached.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. The clip gets views, but so do the mugshots, and the names end up in arrest reports where they tend to stick a lot longer than any viral moment. Whatever comes next for these two just got a little harder, all for a few clicks and the hope it turns into something more.
Because while the idea of turning a viral moment into real influence sounds appealing, it almost never works that way. Building something like that is rare. Far more often, what sticks is the clip itself and the label that comes with it, which is usually not something people are eager to carry around long term.
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@wesh2orlando“The last thing you expect to see inside a Target is a lawn mower coming through the door,” said Vanessa Scarlett, a witness.♬ original sound – WESH 2 News
What Police Say Happened
The Ocala Police Department laid out the incident clearly in a Facebook release, describing how two 18-year-olds were arrested after filming a social media stunt in which one drove a lawnmower through the front doors of a Target on Southwest College Road, damaging the entrance. Janek Szkaradek was identified as the driver, while Luke Charske recorded the incident.
According to police, the Target incident was not where it started. The night before, Szkaradek allegedly used a leaf blower inside a nearby Culver’s restaurant on the same road, which is why this reads less like a one-off bad decision and more like a pattern.
Charges Filed
Szkaradek was charged with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct for the Culver’s incident, along with disorderly conduct for the Target stunt, while Charske was charged as a principal to disorderly conduct for his role in recording the video.
Both were later released from the Marion County Jail on bond, according to WCJB.
The Internet Did Not Hold Back
Once the arrests hit Facebook, the comment section did what it always does, and the reactions split almost immediately. Some leaned into the absurdity, with repeated comparisons to “Beavis and Butthead” and jokes about everything from the lawn equipment to the mugshots. Others cut a little closer to reality, pointing out that what looks like a quick viral clip online can become evidence in court and cause damage that someone has to pay for.
More than a few comments also took a different angle, guessing what kind of vehicles these two drive, which, at least judging by the replies, felt a little too specific to be random.
There were also the predictable suggestions that they should be put to work, mowing lawns and running leaf blowers properly for a few hundred hours, which says a lot about how people process these kinds of stunts once the initial reaction wears off.
Funny in the Feed, Different in Real Life
That split reaction is really the point. On the one hand, it is an easy-to-share clip. On the other hand, it is a boarded-up storefront, real damage, and two 18-year-olds now dealing with criminal charges that are not going anywhere.
Police were direct about it, saying these actions endangered people and caused property damage, and that they are crimes, not harmless videos. That part tends to get lost once the video starts making the rounds, but it is usually the most important.