Josh Johnson verified BAM’s complaint that Chrystal Law “was escorted out of the store,” and his texts say he gave her bird to a vet’s office as “abandoned.”
Tattle was in Chrystal Law’s Salem store the night BAM took it, November 14, 2024. BAM’s own complaint says BAM “assumed possession of the premises and all assets located within the store” and that Law “was escorted out.” On October 9 Matty AppleSeed published texts in which Josh Johnson, who verified that complaint, says of the bird: “I gave it to a girl that worked at a veterinary office.” Of what he told her: “I think all I said it was abandoned.” A clinic in Salem confirmed on a recorded call that a bird was dropped off, and says one of its vets took her home. BAM’s chief executive, who verified the complaint with Johnson, told a live stream within three days that the bird was “taken to a no-kill shelter.” Law says no one from BAM ever called her. Whether the clinic’s bird is Tattle has not been verified.
PRIMARY SOURCEMatty AppleSeed’s video of October 9, 2026: his text thread with a contact shown as “Josh Johnson,” his recorded calls to a veterinary clinic in Salem, Oregon, and his texts with the clinic, all as shown on screen. BAM’s verified complaint of May 27, 2026, paragraphs 27, 39, 40, 48 and 49, and its two verifications.
CONFIRMEDOn this site’s record: what BAM’s chief executive and its head of marketing each said about the bird (September 4); Johnson’s own account to police of where he works and who sent him to the Salem store (September 26).
UNRESOLVEDwhether the bird at the clinic is Tattle (the clinic says she has no band; Law says Tattle was banded); when in November 2024 the bird was handed over; what was said in the store on November 14
“Abandoned”
BAM’s complaint against Reckless Ben gives BAM’s own account of November 14, 2024. BAM “issued its 11/14/24 Notice of Immediate Termination and assumed possession of the premises and all assets located within the store.” Law “ultimately was escorted out of the store” (paragraph 40).
Two men verified that complaint on May 27, 2026: Ammon McNeff, BAM’s chief executive, and Josh Johnson (October 1).
The bird was in the store. On October 9 Matty AppleSeed published what Johnson says became of it.
In the same thread Johnson writes: “I cant believe she just left her bird.” And: “Why have pets if your just going to abandon it.” He is one of the two men who verified that she “was escorted out of the store.”
The complaint uses the word too. It says that within 24 to 48 hours of the termination Brandon Best told the store’s consignor that Law “had abandoned the store” (paragraph 48). Best took the store over with Johnson.
Who knew
By the complaint Johnson was in the store within two days of the termination, and the store was “BAM’s corporate owned store at that time” (paragraphs 48 and 49). His own account of how he came to be there, to an American Fork police officer in March 2026: “I work at the corporate headquarters as well. So, Ammon, the CEO, was like, hey, go rescue the Salem store” (September 26).
In late May 2026 McNeff said on a live stream that the bird was “taken to a no-kill shelter” and that “hopefully it’s been now rehomed” (the stream, at 23:45). He said it within three days of verifying the complaint alongside the man who, by his own texts, took the bird to a vet.
On September 4 Katelyn Fagan, BAM’s head of marketing, wrote that it “was taken in by a vet to be rehomed, kinda like Ammon said months ago” (reported here that day). Neither she nor McNeff said where. People who were looking called shelters; AppleSeed credits two viewers who “called up every single no-kill shelter in 50 miles.”
Nobody at BAM had to search for the bird. AppleSeed needed one text to get “a veterinary office” and seven days to get the clinic on the phone.
What the clinic says
AppleSeed sent Johnson street views of clinics until Johnson picked one, phoned it, and told its staff he was recording. The video bleeps its name.
He asked: “the bird was dropped off with you guys, right?” The employee who answered said: “Correct, yes.”
She then gave her memory of what the man said when he brought it in: “He said that it was dropped off on their front porch, but it was just there on the parking lot. And so he wanted to come bring it into the vet clinic and surrender it because he didn’t know who it was.”
She knew about the store. She had not known the bird came from it: “I heard the story, but nothing ever about the bird. Otherwise, I would have connected the dots.”
A second employee said of the vet who took the bird home: “He’s a vet here. So he’s the one that took her.” DFJ called the clinic herself. By her account it was told “a bird was abandoned,” checked the lost-and-found listings, found nothing, and one of its vets adopted the bird.
The clinic looked for an owner in the listings. Johnson’s texts call it “her bird.”
What Law says
The same day AppleSeed posted a 44-minute interview with Chrystal Law and Benjamin Gorman for his patrons. The times below are in that recording.
They say they were told that night that nothing could leave: “They told us we couldn’t take anything that belonged to the store or they were going to call the cops” (0:47). Law: “the only thing I was allowed to take were my own personal things” (5:34).
She says no one called her afterward. If anyone had said the store would not keep the bird, “We would have gotten in the car and got him” (8:02).
She says she bought the bird through her own account at a pet store, and that the account “is still connected to the phone number that I currently have” (29:22).
Johnson’s texts also carry an accusation against her, at third hand: “When Brandon asked her what she was going to do with it. She said it’s your fing problem now.” McNeff told a version on his stream, in which someone says “hey, don’t forget your bird, and she says, your problem now.” Law’s answer: “Brandon asked me about the bird, about Tattle, but there was no like not my problem anymore” (2:16). The only remark of that kind she recalls making was about the store’s earlier break-ins, late that night, after BAM’s termination letter (3:26).
Is it Tattle?
AppleSeed and DFJ both end the video on “most likely.” What supports it: Johnson’s pick from the street views, a clinic that took in a bird around November 2024, and a video the clinic sent of a yellow bird in a cage.
What does not match yet: the clinic texted AppleSeed “There’s no band on her,” and, asked whether one had been removed, “We didn’t remove it.” Law says Tattle was banded. The clinic, by DFJ’s account, remembers “a giant black cage.” Law says the store had one cage and that it was white (12:40). No intake record has been shown.
The fair reading, and its limit. BAM’s complaint also says Law had told BAM she meant to close the store, that she “thereafter abandoned the store,” and that BAM took the store’s assets under its rights in a security agreement. BAM’s head of marketing said a vet, and a vet is what Johnson’s texts and the clinic support. A bird left in a store that changes hands has to go somewhere, Johnson says he called every vet in town until one would take it, and a vet who has kept it for two years is a good end for the bird. The remark attributed to Law reaches the public at third hand, and she denies it. The clinic employee is recalling a conversation from two years ago, the texts are shown by AppleSeed and were not produced by Johnson, and the bird has not been verified as Tattle. What none of that explains is how a bird can be abandoned by a woman BAM says was escorted out, why BAM’s chief executive said a shelter, and why no one told her. The right of reply is open to BAM, to Ammon McNeff, Katelyn Fagan, Josh Johnson and Brandon Best.
The record
Matty AppleSeed’s video of October 9. His interview with Chrystal Law and Benjamin Gorman, for patrons. Ammon McNeff on the bird, late May 2026. BAM’s verified complaint. Its caption and verification pages. September 4: BAM’s two accounts of the bird. September 26: Johnson on who sent him to Salem. October 1: the two men who verified the complaint. August 7: the Keizer police file.
Sources. Matty AppleSeed, “Who Is Really Hiding the Truth About Tattle?”, YouTube, October 9, 2026: the text threads and the recorded calls as shown and heard in the video, quoted verbatim. Matty AppleSeed’s interview with Chrystal Law and Benjamin Gorman, Patreon, October 9, 2026, quoted with times. Ammon McNeff on ACOB’s live stream “Bricks & Minifigs CEO Answers YOUR Questions~!”, late May 2026. BAM Franchising, Inc. v. Schneider, verified complaint of May 27, 2026, paragraphs 27, 39, 40, 48 and 49 and the verifications of Ammon McNeff and Josh Johnson. This site’s reporting of August 7, September 4, September 26 and October 1, linked above. The clinic and its staff are not named in the video and are not named here. Everyone named here is presumed to have acted lawfully.