According to court documents [PDF] filed in Greene County, Missouri circuit court, Missouri State University sophomore Ryan Schaefer is suspected of vandalizing 17 vehicles parked in the university's freshman parking lot in late August. Schaefer allegedly shattered windshields, ripped off wiper blades, dented hoods, and broke off side mirrors during his rampage.

Schaefer probably wouldn't have gotten away with it, as multiple witnesses identified him as the likely culprit from surveillance footage, and the police had already collected other evidence from his apartment suggesting his involvement. The icing on the cake, however, was evidence the police gathered from his smartphone.

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About ten minutes after Schaefer's phone's location data shows him leaving the parking lot, he allegedly asked ChatGPT, "how fucked am i bro," while explaining he broke a bunch of "windzhaileds or random cars" before inquiring, "qilll i go to jail?"

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Schaefer is currently being held at the Greene County jail and has been barred from alcohol-serving establishments as well as possessing any drugs or alcohol. It's not clear if substance use was involved in his alleged crimes, but anyone who's ever woken up to drunk texts from the night before is likely familiar with the sloppy spelling of Schaefer's messages to ChatGPT.