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{{Ibhead|<big>'''Benjamin Jeffrey Smith'''</big>}}
{{Ibrow|'''Born'''|November 28, 1979 ({{age|1979|11|28}} years old)}}
{{Ibrow|'''Nationality:'''|[[Americunt]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[File:MiniflagUSA.png]]}}
{{Ibrow|'''[[high score|Highscore]]'''|Killed 2, injured 3}}
{{Ibrow|'''Top 50?'''|Nein}}
{{Ibrow|'''Style'''|FPS, Single player}}
{{Ibrow|'''[[An Hero]]?'''|No, incapacitated}}
{{Ibrow|'''Motive'''|America Furst; Anti-[[Antifa]]; [[Truth|Black Lives (Don't) Matter]]; [[:wikipedia:White Rose (disinformation group)|White Rose conspiracy theories]]; Lionization of [[Kyle Rittenhouse]]}}
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[[File:Polybun.jpg|thumb|Ben Smith's [[fursona]] dabbling with a HAM radio, one of his obscure and antiquitous hobbies.]]

'''Polybun''' ([[Powerword]]: '''Benjamin Jeffrey Smith''') is a [[babyfur]] turned [[Kyle Rittenhouse]] wannabe from [[Portland]], [[Oregon]], known for his particularly violent and unhinged tantrums. His [[Inkbunny]] accounts were banned and IP blocked in 2012 by moderators for abusive comments and he was banned from many of Oregon’s [[furry convention]]s and events for his behavior, including a time when he was kicked out of a house party for brandishing a knife and threatening to kill somebody because they took a picture of him. Literally nobody within the furry community who were aware of him were surprised to hear that he would go on to become the perpetrator of a [[mass shooting]]. Aside from being the [[William Atchison]] of the furry fandom, he is also noted for making his mark in furry history as one of the original founders of the first #babyfur [[IRC]] channel on [[Furnet]]. His [[fursona]] is a juvenile yellow rabbit and he was personally described as an [[edgelord]] and an [[epic]] [[troll]] by many, but no amount of [[infantilism|infantilistic]] escapism could subdue the bestial spirit of hatred that was festering in his soul. Come the period of [[COVID]]-induced madness, Benjamin Smith reportedly joined the [[:wikipedia:White Rose (disinformation group)|White Rose]] [[Telegram]] channel, a [[trolling organization]] known for spreading COVID [[misinformation]] and cliché [[Qanon]]-style conspiracy theories. According to his roommate, he got angrier and more rightwing over the years preluding the '''Normandale Park shooting''' and was slipping “further and further down this alt right [[I See What You Did There|rabbit hole]]”.

==Selected Quotes==
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|Communists aren't human beings, it's okay to kill them|Polybun, not seeing the [[irony]] in being a [[furry]].
|[...] Violence is the answer. If you think for a single moment the government isn't willing to commit acts of violence against you to enforce this insane shit, you're dead wrong. That's not ego, that's fact. Stop being stupid.|Polybun
|Did someone say cremate? Are we burning Jews today?|Polybun
|christianity [sic] is a jewish invention designed to control gentiles.|Polybun
|women usually have the mind of a child...This the reason [sic] most women vote for communists.|Polybun
|If proud boys [sic] shot up somebodies [sic] car they probably deserved it thus far they sadly haven't shot up someones [sic] car, because good christ that needs to happen.|Polybun
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==The Shootout==
[[File:Thomas_Elk_Fountain_destruction.jpg|thumb|250px|Somehow, this just didn't settle well with Banjamin.]]
On February 19, 2022, Ben Smith entered Normandale Park, [[Portland]], equipped with a .45 caliber handgun and the intent to kill some commie bastards. During this time, there was an ongoing riot over the death of some nigger who wasn't [[George Floyd]]. Upon arrival, Benjamin began shouting death threats just as he had done so a thousand times on the internet before. He soon amassed a crowd trying to deescalate the situation before firing 8 shots into the crowd, hitting five. He only managed to get one kill and unlike his idol, Kyle Rittenhouse, he wasn't even acting in self-defense; and what's more? He wasn't even shooting at protestors, just traffic safety volunteers. Benjamin's shooting spree was swiftly concluded when an actual protester thereafter shot him in the hip with a model which evidence suggests was a rifle of some kind, leaving him wheelchair bound. Now he gets to shit his diapers all day long while staff change him. Furries just keep winning.

One victim later died in 2024 due to injuries sustained from the attack, thus raising Ben's kill count to two.

Benjamin will now be rotting behind a prison cell for at least 55 years to life. Imagine his shock when he wasn't let scotch free like his idol, Kyle Rittenhouse.

===Gameplay Footage===
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===Graded Score===
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|2|(3 injured) - lol. imagine dying to a babyfur. This is pathetic even for antifa.
|15|Fired 8 rounds, hit 5 people.
|0|Lame. Got incapacitated almost immediately by a counter-shooter.
|5|Who even remembers this guy except furry lolcow historians?
|10|Being a weirdo.
|32|F|{{ytlink|AtTnKTV78F0|Animals Instinctually Attack.}}}}
{{Wanted|2}}

==Reactions==
The [[pigs|Portland Police Bureau]] tried to cover up the incident by publishing misinformation about the attack. They falsely claimed that Benjamin Smith was a homeowner and that he shot at armed protesters. It was only until three years after the fact that the police chief issued a formal apology because he was too ashamed to admit that he was covering up for a babyfur degenerate and not the based property defender he initially thought he was.

Following the attack, a few furries stepped up to voice their opinions on the matter and recollect their experiences with the individual. Rolling Stone even published an article collecting the responses of a few furry big-shots concerning the incident.

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|A decade ago I had to throw Ben Smith / Polybun out of my house during a party for trying to brandish a knife and threatening to stab someone just because they took his picture. He was that sort of unhinged, and it only got WAY WORSE since then.|{{Twitter|TrissWinters|Triss Winters}}
|For about a half-decade, I’ve infiltrated these alt-right furry chat groups to identify these people before they enact violence. Obviously, in the case of Polybun, he slipped my radar, and I’m fucked up about it.|[[DeoTasDevil]], who thought she really had any sway in this.
|Fears have been percolating for years about a shooting happening at a furry convention, there’s a fairly dedicated little fringe of malcontents who want to hurt people because they’re damaged inside. You can’t be a furry and a Nazi at the same time, they still try, but there’s no place they should belong.|[[Dogpatch Press]], who is a gigantic faggot btw.
|It’s partly a tech platform issue; sites like Twitter and Facebook have allowed this dangerous discourse to spread. We need to identify the people benefiting from preying on lost souls like Ben Smith, examine their networks, and explore how to shut them down.”|Dogpatch Press wants to [[SHUT IT DOWN]]!
|My overall impression is of someone on the periphery who regularly lashed out in anger, he seems to have used a furry art site I now lead, Inkbunny, a decade ago for a period of roughly a year.|[[GreenReaper]]
|used to join the IRC [instant messaging system] channel for my community, and describe in substantial detail, how he was going to go on a cross-country road trip, visiting and murdering all of us in ways that we would suffer. To say that we got in touch with law enforcement would be an understatement. They didn’t care.|Ariadne Conill
|In 2004, in my younger and more purposely wreckless days, I created an IRC channel on Furnet with a few edgy babyfurs. One of these was a yellow rabbit calling himself Polybun. We bonded over punk rock and metal. He became more unhinged over time, threatening my life a few times. I regret ever having socialized with him.|{{yt|@|Aquariusfiar}}
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He also had a 16-year long friendship with FUCKING [[Pamperchu]], as proclaimed by Pamperchu himself. They most likely met on one of those babyfur IRC channels. 

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{{Quote3|TRANSCRIPT:<br>
Now, to conclude this video I wanted to say I am a friend of Benjamin Jer- Je- uh Jeffrey Je- Jeffrey Smith, uh, the guy who just shot a bunch of people in Portland. Now we've been friends for 16 years. You know what, this makes three murderers that I've known; one as a long-term friend, one was a friend in high school, and one I just forgot about. But anyway, check out the news. Uh, Portland, Oregon has a shooter, he's a furry, and you might like that. Sorry to mix the two videos together into one, but I, uh, can't do one without the other. And let's just top it off. I can walk around the house *pause* just to show you I care. Yeah, I know he k-, I know he killed somebody, I *pause* he's my friend, I know him and I know that's who he is. *awkward laugh* Just glad it wasn't me. I know it's kinda *muffled nonsense* mean to say; that's mean to say, *muffled: cause that wasn't me*. But you know, *pauses, then picks up an opened diaper off the bathroom floor* I'm gonna pick up the diapers. You know, you gotta pick them up every once in a while. *walks into the kitchen and hurls the diaper at the broken backyard door; glass shards break off into the patio* Alright, *chuckles* glass went everywhere again. What am I thinking? Oh my God, what am I thinking? I'm being a retard. *barefoot Pamperchu picks up the shards and the diaper and deposits them into a Home Depot bucket by the door* I was trying to be cool, but...|Pamperchu}}

==Gallery==
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==See Also==
*[[Daniel Perry]] - His predecessor.
*[[Brandon Scott Hole]] - [[Brony]] workplace shooter.
*[[Fullerton Triple Homicide]] - Murder case perpetrated by a furry duo.
*[[LockJaw Arts]] - A couple of fursuit tailors turned furry murder duo.
*[[Rox-Yin & Kira]] - Attempted murder case perpetrated by furry duo.
*[[Payton Gendron]] - Alleged furry neo-Nazi marketplace shooter.
*[[William Atchison]] - Pretty much the same person.
*[[Audrey Hale]] - Pooner furfag school shooter.
*[[Kyle Rittenhouse]] - His inspiration.
*[[Robert Benjamin Smith]] - Unrelated mass shooter from 1966.

==External Links==
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*{{wikilink|Normandale_Park_shooting|TOW coverage}}
*[https://www.adl.org/resources/article/portland-shooter-had-online-history-antisemitism-racism-misogyny-advocated ADL article]
*{{wf|Polybun|Wikifur coverage}}
*[https://www.flayrah.com/8580/alt-right-furry-benjamin-polybun-smith-charged-murder-60-year-old-portland-woman Flayrah coverage]; squabbles in the comment section ahoy!
*[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/furry-community-portland-shooter-1311620/ '''He Slipped My Radar, and I'm F–ked Up About It': Furries Speak Out About Alleged Portland Shooter''] - Rolling Stone
*[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/27/portland-shooting-extremism-america-predictable '''Completely predictable': the Portland shooting and fears of escalating extremism in America''] - The Gaurdian
===Personal Accounts===
*{{wayback|http://polyhead.net/Polyhead.html|20030802160405|title=Polyhead.net}}; his ancient personal website.
*{{telegram|polyhead|@polyhead}} - his [[Telegram]] account.
*{{ljuser|polyhead|Polyhead}} - his [[LJ]] account.
*{{reddituser|Polybun|u/Polybun}} - his [[Reddit]] account.

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