BONUS - He Was Just Scrolling… Then the Federal Building Locked Down

How does a normal lunch break turn into a federal lockdown and a $60,000 nightmare? One innocent scroll through TikTok sets off a chain reaction no one saw coming. What started as casual phone time outside a courthouse suddenly involved law enforcement, evacuations, and a whole lot of confusion.

In this wild segment, the crew breaks down the unbelievable story making headlines, plus dives into just how much Americans are actually scrolling every day—and which states can’t seem to put their phones down. The numbers might shock you, and the situation that started it all is even harder to believe.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
How does scrolling on your phone turn into a sixty
thousand dollars fine and a federal lockdown? I'm about to
tell you because one man is making international headlines today
because of a crazy situation that happened when he was
innocently scrolling on his phone. It's out of cedar rapids, Iowa,
here's a story, innocent. What started as a casual afternoon
of scrolling through TikTok turned into a sixty thousand dollars

(00:22):
disaster and a temporary federal lockdown for one unlucky man now.
Thirty four year old Tyler Benchley was reportedly seated in
his car on his lunch break outside of a federal
courthouse when he became engrossed in a TikTok rabbit hole,
allegedly unaware that his phone's front facing camera was reflecting
light directly into the window of a nearby judge's office.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh oh, okay oh.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
A federal employee noticed the glint of light coming through
the window and claimed to see what looked like a
long cylindrical object in Tyler's hand. Within minutes, a code
gray was called, evacuating the entire building.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Wait, what did they think it was? A gun.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh no, there was light reflecting off of his phone
into the judge's window. Got it, and then somebody saw
him in the car and thought he was holding a weapon. Oh,
Tyler said, I was literally just watching a guy teaching
a goose how to skateboard. Police arrived to find him

(01:20):
fully reclined in his driver's seat, watching a twelve minute
conspiracy theory video about how government secretly control the weather.
What made the situation worse was he also had an
unopened package and his passenger seat labeled Doomsday Spice Sampler,
a novelty hot sauce kit from Etsy that you could buy.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
This guy is not helping himself.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
When it has to exit the vehicle, Tyler emerged holding
a half eaten brito and very confused. He was detained
for seven hours and the federal building was locked down.
No charges were filed, but now he's banned from parking
within five hundred feet of any government building while using.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
TikTok on supervised.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Okay, the fault because they thought it was something that
it wasn't. I am really so embarrassed. Now they're like, well,
we'll ban him anyway. It's just because inconvenienced defts.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
I've had TikTok on supervised, so you can park within
five hundred feet offs somebody supervised him.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Will he use this TikTok It's so wild.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Also, they've released a new study on the states that
scroll the most on their phones, measured in miles.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh yike, so how much you scroll?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
But then they converted it to the distance that you
would move through while you're scrolling.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Okay, I think Victoria would go the farthest.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
What is the number one place? Will tell you in
just a second. But Washington was second with one hundred
and eight point two miles scrolled on their phone. Why,
followed by Kentucky, which scrolls about one hundred and five miles.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's beautiful. Don't you want to look at the mountain
on your phone?

Speaker 3 (02:48):
You do?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Missouri one hundred and two miles per day. New Mexico
puts about ninety six miles on their phone per day.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Oh well, also all the red rocks and like, I mean,
all these places have beautiful things to look at if
you just opened your eyes.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, not all of them.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Overall, the average Americans spend six hours and thirty five
minutes per.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Day on their phone.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Holy cow, which adds up to two thousand, four hundred
and three hours annually.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I know when I've been scrolling too long when I
start to feel nauseous. I don't know if this.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Ever happens to you, but yeah, if I'm looking at
my screen for too long, I start to get really nauseous,
and that happens, and I'm like, oh, I better put
my phone down. My finger's hurt and I'm gonna throw up.
I think I went too hardcrolling where you're feeling nauseous,
I think not that long. My body just has a
like whatever you call it, doesn't like it.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
It says the average person that checks their device fifty
eight times per day.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I believe that. Yeah, I would too, because you're checking, Like,
if you get.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Any kind of ping, especially with notifications on, you're gonna
check your phone.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
But does that count what's scrolling? Yeah, it's part of
checking your phone.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
According to their data, the state that scrolls the farthest
is Arizona. People on Arizona scroll one hundred and fifteen
point four miles.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Wow, what are they looking half? This is gonna sound
really messed up, But I found this new hole that
I like to go on.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
So I wonder if they look at it too.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
But it's like rush talk or something like that, where
all the sororities, like do these really advanced, like.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Almost like cheers?

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Like yeah, Like when I was in college, we did
door Chance, we didn't have TikTok, So now watching this
on TikTok, I'll watch it all day long.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
And a lot of the.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Colleges are in Arizona, really, so I'm wondering if they're
all watching the them do flips and like woo.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
I don't scroll very often on my phone. I actually
rarely scroll. I never scroll, actually, but I did find
one video the other day that got me for a
little book. It was this one dude doing voiceovers of
a monkey, and it was hilarious.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Bro, I didn't stop watching it. It was so funny.
So I'm like, all right, I get I get how
people get locked into this