Source: The TRUTH About Reckless Ben & The Lego Scandal Channel: Scott Shafer Published: June 3, 2026 | Archived: June 8, 2026

Video: The TRUTH About Reckless Ben & The Lego Scandal
Channel: Scott Shafer
Published: June 3, 2026
Duration: 15:45
Views: 187,192
Category: Education
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Reckless Ben’s viral video about a families stolen $200k Lego collection was everyone talking about the horrible company Bricks & Mini Figs as well as the shocking behavior of the American Forks Police Department. However there is a dark secret Reckless Ben is hiding…He lied about winning 10 court cases against a Bricks and MiniFigs location. Turns out the judge dismissed all his cases due to extreme incompetence.

UPDATE: I’ve received several dozen people just sending me links to interviews of Ben just saying he won the cases by default. To actually prove he won by default you need to send documents from the court saying he won. Not one person has done so yet. The first person to prove me wrong gets $1,000

UPDATE: Bricks & MiniFigs offered to make Bryan whole on his Lego collection and allow him to keep all Star Wars lego sets at the now closed Oregon store. see the full post here: https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/06/04/bricks-and-minifigs-salem-store-timeline/

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Transcript — YouTube panel (human-authored)

0:00 YouTuber Reckless Ben’s Lego series has done a great job exposing not only the corruption of a company known as Bricks and Minifig, but also the corruption of an entire city’s police force in American Forks, Utah. Unfortunately, after doing some digging, it seems like Ben got a lot of his information wrong and seems to have straight up lied to his audience about winning a court case against the store that stole the Legos in the first place. On top of all of that, Ben’s very reckless approach to vigilante justice led to him committing a bunch of serious crimes in his first video that will most likely end up with him spending years behind bars and will probably hurt the family’s chance of getting their stolen Legos returned.

0:39 Now, I talked about this briefly on Twitter before I decided to make this video, and most people there had her mentality and didn’t want to hear the full story, so they all just called me a bootlicker or that I was a secret Mormon defending the corrupt cops. So before we get started, I want to make it clear that I am not Mormon. And nowhere in this video will I be defending the evil Bricks and Minifig Corporation that is clearly run by the real life version of Dr. Robotnik. Nor will I be defending the police that clearly harassed Ben in his second video from American Forks, Utah. That whole police force needs to be investigated. Now, Ben’s first video covers the story of a man that took his elderly father’s 200k Lego collection to a bricks and minifig store in Oregon and entered into an agreement with the store owners that they would sell the collection on consignment for the man. A few months later, the store owner sold the business because they were moving out of the country and the new owners of

1:28 the store that the corporation had found for them refused to honor the original owner’s deal with the man and just took the Legos as their own. That was the intro to Ben’s video, and the rest is Ben coming up with different ways to try and get the store owners to give back the Legos to the Son of the Elderly Man. Over the course of the video, Ben commits a bunch of crimes that he tells his audience are legal loopholes, but in reality are not. We’ll talk about that in a bit. But every good movie has a climax at the end. And Ben’s video ends with his team purchasing the man’s Legos, split among the 10 of them, and then filing 10 lawsuits in small claims court against the bricks and minifig store that stole the man’s Legos. That store never responded to the lawsuit, and Ben wins by default. So, he goes to the store to collect his winnings, only to find that the store permanently shut down to avoid having to pay him. Bricks

2:15 and Mini Figs hasn’t responded to a single court case we submitted against them. So, I called the court to see what the next steps were. You can move forward with a motion for default judgement. Yes. Since Bricks and Mini \[music\] Figs didn’t respond, looks like we win by default. Congratulations. You won the court case. Dang it. I couldn’t believe it. Literally one day after we filed motion for default judgement, they \[music\] permanently closed down the store.

2:43 At first, it did feel kind of cool that our plan worked so well it completely shut him down. Now, unfortunately, that’s all untrue, and I’m not really sure if Ben is maliciously lying to his audience to make a better story or if he’s just not smart enough to know he didn’t win the lawsuits. I was able to pull up the cases in the Oregon online record search, and all of Ben’s cases from the video were dismissed by the judge, and Ben did not win any by default, as he claims in the video. Ben does have a new claim he created in March against Bricks and Minifig store owner Joshua Johnson, but that’s not the case he mentioned in the video, and it’s set to go to trial later this month. The cases he claims in the video he won were all dismissed. And digging into the paperwork, it’s clear that Ben had no idea what he was doing.

3:27 In the documents, we can see that Ben tried to sue an LLC known as L2 Bricks LLC. Unfortunately for Ben, this was the former owner of the store’s LLC, and we can see it was dissolved in 2018 after a failure to renew. When the new owners took over the store, they formed a new business known as Salem Barker Bricks Incorporated. Ben wasn’t aware of this apparently and sued the defunct LLC from 2018. Now, to make matters worse, in the video, we see Ben serve the paperwork to the store’s employees. Specifically, one gets her to a young lady named Calendonia, who appeared earlier in the video when Ben tricked her into following him into the woods to, according to him, brainwash her into helping him. Here’s your legal paperwork. You got this. You have been served.

4:15 The first lawsuit has officially been served. Now, aside from suing the wrong company in the lawsuit, it’s also not legal to serve store employees if you were suing a business. This is done because employees are not registered agents of a business, and it just wouldn’t make any sense to serve them. If I wanted to sue Walmart, I can’t just walk into a store and hand the lawsuit papers to the 80-year-old greeter. That just wouldn’t make any sense. Ben didn’t know this, so he never served the registered agents of the new company, but it wouldn’t have mattered anyway since he was suing the wrong company to begin with. Now, this is the reason why the company never responded to Ben’s lawsuit because they simply didn’t need to since he didn’t correctly serve them.

4:53 Ben eventually called the county clerk and she looked up that they hadn’t responded and told him he can go ahead with filing for default judgement. Okay. So, I don’t see that there’s been a response from anybody in the case. Since they didn’t respond, you can move forward with a motion for default judgement. Okay. Now, the county clerk Ben talked to had no idea what the case was. She just saw they hadn’t responded, which is why she told him he could go ahead and do that.

5:18 However, once Ben filed for default judgment, the judge looked at the case and saw the heirs and quickly denied Ben’s default judgment claim. I found the form Ben filled out, and you can see it has a red line through it with red letters at the top stating that denied proof of service to someone called Calandonia without any information as to their authority to accept serve on behalf of Defendant LLC. Now, after that, Ben tried again and the judge left a comment about the improper filing of Ben trying to serve Calendaronia back in February of 2025, which was before the case even existed. At this point, the judge thought this lawsuit was a joke and dismissed the whole thing on April 7th. If Ben had won any money or a default judgment, that final April 7th entry would explicitly read general judgment, default, or money award.

6:08 Instead, the final binding judgment of the court is a dismissal. All of Ben’s cases face the same fate and were all dismissed. Now, I tried to share this on Twitter, but people don’t like to hear the truth. And everyone called me a bunch of horrible names. Now, the real question is if Ben intentionally lied to his audience to make for a better ending to the video, or if he’s just not smart enough to know all his cases were dismissed. I lean on the side of this being an intentional lie. Ben would have undoubtedly gotten the paperwork from the judge telling him the cases were dismissed. And that took place all the way back on April 7th, which was a month and a half before his video went live.

6:44 Even Ben’s own subreddit has discovered all his cases were dismissed. But for some reason, they don’t seem to think that’s a big deal, that the climax of the video was made up. Now, when Ben went to the store to collect his winnings, the store had been closed. And Ben claims this was because they didn’t want to have to pay him his money, the real reason they closed was because of constant harassment. my Ben and his friends. What was the reason behind your store closing this month?

7:08 His harassment and vandalism shut it down. Yeah. Okay. So, on your on your own accord, you guys own accord. Yes. Okay. So, Ben’s whole climatic ending about winning the case and going to the store to make them pay. Seems like it was made up strictly to get a bunch of views. Now, aside from the madeup lawsuit win, I also want to talk about the many times that Ben openly commits crimes in the video and tells his audience that he discovered some sort of loophole that makes what he’s doing legal and a 4D chess move when in reality it’s not. The best example of that takes place around the 1 hour mark of the video. Ben had been told by the store that he was not allowed on premise and would be arrested if he came back.

7:46 But then Ben reveals his secret 4D chess move. He had secretly gotten the store manager, Amanda, to sign a contract that prevents him from being kicked out of the store or being arrested. I made a contract with Amanda that says I, Ben Schneider, should not be trespassed. In all of these legal words, for any circumstance whatsoever and for literally any reason, they cannot trespass me. But this only really works as a get out of jail free card if I can get Amanda to sign it.

8:12 Hi, sorry, I got a delivery. Can I get a signature? For some reason, Amanda just started signing her contract without even reading it. Thank you. Now, this is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen on YouTube. It’s a Looney Tunes level of stupidity. If you had told me there was an episode where the Wild Eyee Coyote tried to trick the Roadrunner this way, I would believe you. But in real life, that’s not how it works at all. Ben claims that in the US, we have a duty to read a contract law. And since she didn’t read it, the contract is valid.

8:43 In America, we have a duty-free read contracts law which states that you have to read a contract before you sign it. And if you forget to read it or you just choose not to read it, it’s your fault and you still have to do everything the contract says. Ben is 100% incorrect and is showing the perfect example of the Dunning Krueger effect, which is a cognitive bias where people with limited knowledge or competence in a specific area greatly overestimate their own skills. Ben Googled a few articles about legally binding contracts and decided he had uncovered some master level 4D chess move no one had found before.

9:18 Unfortunately, it’s he was wrong. If what Ben says is true, then anyone can fake being delivery driver and walk up to someone’s home and have them sign for a package, but in reality, it’s a title deed transfer form and now you own their home. This isn’t legal and would never hold up in court. In fact, Ben committed a civil fraud known as fraud in the fact, which completely voids a contract because you tricked someone into signing a document without them realizing it was a contract at all. But criminally, this falls directly under Oregon’s forgery laws. If a prosecutor decided to charge him, he is caught on camera committing an openingshot offense. If they charged him with forgery in the second degree, a misdemeanor, he’d face up to a year behind bars. But if they pushed for forgery in the first degree, which is a class C felony for fabricating a commercial contract with fake financial penalties, he would be facing up to 5 years in state prison. I really am blown away no one is calling out this blatant

10:14 illegal act he pulled. The only clip I found of someone realizing it was illegal was streamer Pay Moneyw, who immediately called his lawyer, and the lawyer confirmed the streamer’s suspicions. I made a contract that says I, Ben Schneider, should not be trespassed for any circumstance whatsoever. Well, that’s not how that works. So, I got her to sign it without knowing. And then I went and committed crimes. But you already signed it.

10:37 Can I get a signature? This is so illegal. Not illegal. That is literally fraudulent. What do you mean? People in chat are saying that’s not illegal. That is super illegal. Anything you want to share about the video? The initial impression is that these guys are not doing any service by doing this. There are a couple of other small crimes he commits like criminal trespassing. When he entered the store after being told he can’t come back, that was trespassing. Despite his bogus claim that Amanda had signed the contract that allowed him to be there, this particular punishment wouldn’t be excessive, but he could face about 30 days in jail for each trespassing occurrence. Next, there is the criminal mischief that Ben and his team commit. In the video, he covers up the sign of their store with signs saying, “We steal from old people.”

11:23 Because his video directly documents him measuring the sign, printing custom text to mimic their font, and modifying their store signage without permission. A conviction is an openandshut case. A realistic sentence for this kind of high-profile property manipulation would be 10 to 30 days in jail. Now, those are the crimes he commits in his first video, but he also committed a bunch of inappropriate acts against the company that he will 100% be sued for in civil court as well. One of Ben’s plans to piss off a store to give back to Legos was incorporating a business explicitly named We Steal from Old People and slapped the trademark name Bricks and Minig right under it as their official company slogan. After that, he started selling a matching merchandise right outside their store. And Ben again thought he had discovered a 4D chess move that was completely legal.

12:12 We’re setting up a Bricks and Miniigs We Steal from Old People Company booth right outside of their entrance. If anyone wants to walk into the Bricks and Mini Fig store, they have to get through me and my merch. So, got some we steal from people barf bags because honestly, what they’re doing in this store is so gross, it’s probably going to make all the customers throw up. Unfortunately, Ben was again 100% incorrect. You can’t blatantly rip off another company with the intent to deceive customers into thinking they are related or the same brand. If I created an LLC named our burgers are made with human meat and put the tagline McDonald’s underneath like Ben did, do you know what would happen? McDonald’s would sue the Mcshitz right out of me.

12:52 This is blatant trademark infringement as well. Since bricks and minifig is a federally registered trademark under the federal LAM act, it is the highly illegal to use someone else’s registered trademark in commerce if it creates a likelihood of confusion or intentionally tarnishes the brand. It’s also blatant defamation as well. Now, some might claim it was just a parody, but it ceases to be protected as a parody the split second it is used to execute a deceptive commercial trade practice that destroys a business’s revenues through false statements of fact. By setting up a physical retail operation on their property line, intercepting paying customers, handing out barf bags, and broadcasting to the public that this specific physical store directly steals the life savings of the elderly, he crossed from free speech into defamation. Finally, at the end of the video, after Ben’s false claim about winning the case against the store, he puts up a giant banner that makes the claim that the store lost the court

13:48 case. I guess someone driving by happened to take a picture of the sign we put up and posted it on social media. We started going absolutely viral. The entire world has now seen this crime \[music\] that Bricks and Minigs has committed. Again, this would be defamation since the store did not lose any court cases. If Bricks and Miniigs were to sue Ben for defamation for all of this, it’s going to be an open andsh shut case for them after Ben has gotten so much wrong. I’m sure a lot of people will dislike this video since they just want to see Ben as a great guy who is trying to get this old man his life savings back. But it seems clear to me that Ben doesn’t care about the truth and really will do and say anything to get a viral video. His severe lack of understanding the laws will undoubtedly get him some amount of jail time. And all of this could have been avoided if he had just consulted a lawyer before making these unhinged videos. Get a lawyer.

14:40 I’m down. But my my my theory has always been if if I do something so just like weird and like messed up that something like a lawyer would never recommend. The other side will never see it coming. If they never see it coming, they won’t know how to respond. And if they can’t respond, then now I’m on top and I You’re the lawyer. Yeah. Once all the dust settles, I think it’s going to be clear to Ben it wasn’t worth it. If his video had been made with accurate information and no laws broken, he could have helped the family and not ended up facing multiple years behind bars and most likely crippling debt after bricks and mini fig easily ruins him in civil court. If you would like to help the family that lost their savings, I’ll have a link below to the GoFundMe so you can do that. Let me know what you think about this whole story in the comments as well.