“I’m Not Going to Stab Tires, Shotgun Totally Different Thing”: ZDT Describes Firearm Tire Destruction While Denying Property Damage Accusations

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During an August 8 livestream, Anthony D’Amato Jr. (ZeroDarkTony) described “walking around” someone’s tires with a shotgun and “blowing them all out.” He prefaced it as a joke and said twice he doesn’t own a shotgun, then closed by calling anyone repeating the tire accusations “fucking dorks.”

He’s referring to his earlier denials that he had anything to do with vandalism on Lara FM’s van and slashing her tires. Prefacing a vivid, specific description of destroying someone’s property with “this is a joke” lets a speaker voice the scenario while keeping deniability, a pattern the deputy City Attorney has already named in court filings. Whether that framing is sincere depends on context his audience already has, namely the underlying tire-damage accusation that prompted this in the first place.

The pattern fits D’Amato’s broader habit of pairing threatening imagery with an escape hatch, letting him claim humor if challenged while still putting the specific act on record: A vivid description of property destruction by shotgun, bracketed by repeated on-stream assertions that he was joking and does not own the weapon described.

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• Date: 2026-08-07
• Stream ID: YOUTUBE · BkxVe4wvP1w