Topic: Twitch Streamer "TheCreatures" swatted
started by: Paul
Posted by Paul on Aug. 28 2014,06:30
< Twitch Streamer "TheCreatures" swatted >Twitch is a live video stream service, and someone thought that calling in a SWAT team on a broadcaster would be funny.
Posted by Leisher on Aug. 28 2014,08:22
< News story on it. >The article implies that such calls are being common. Is it still a prank when you're facing felony charges?
Posted by Paul on Aug. 28 2014,09:01
< I looked up "swatting" and yeah, it's a thing. WTF? >Whoever does that stuff deserves fines and jail time.
Posted by TheCatt on Aug. 28 2014,09:04
I've been hearing about this for a few years, but I do wonder how widespread it actually is.
Posted by Troy on Aug. 28 2014,09:19
lol - an "active shooter" playing Counterstrke.It's at least a little funny, but still very terrible.
Posted by TPRJones on Aug. 28 2014,14:05
It's become a thing that several political bloggers have had happen to them in recent years.As long as cops continue to come in guns blazing based on anonymous calls with no corroboration, this sort of thing will continue to happen.
Posted by Malcolm on Aug. 28 2014,14:31
Cops, overzealous to enforce the law with no common sense? The hell you say.
Posted by Paul on Aug. 28 2014,14:38
A GIF of the swatted guy.
Someone else getting swatted:
< http://youtu.be/1uGH-3nE_Io >
(Not as interesting)
Posted by Malcolm on Aug. 28 2014,15:27
If someone in the police office isn't at least reprimanded for this chain of events, it's bullshit. I recall thinking the same thing when my finals used to get canceled occasionally. Fucking "bomb threats." Funny how they always happened around the same one week timeframe every fucking year.
Posted by GORDON on Aug. 28 2014,15:35
(Malcolm @ Aug. 28 2014,18:27)
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If someone in the police office isn't at least reprimanded for this chain of events, it's bullshit. I recall thinking the same thing when my finals used to get canceled occasionally. Fucking "bomb threats." Funny how they always happened around the same one week timeframe every fucking year.
Big thing in my freshman dorm was 5 fire alarms every night before the beginning of exams.
Posted by Malcolm on Aug. 28 2014,15:41
(GORDON @ Aug. 28 2014,17:35)
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(Malcolm @ Aug. 28 2014,18:27)
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If someone in the police office isn't at least reprimanded for this chain of events, it's bullshit. I recall thinking the same thing when my finals used to get canceled occasionally. Fucking "bomb threats." Funny how they always happened around the same one week timeframe every fucking year.
Big thing in my freshman dorm was 5 fire alarms every night before the beginning of exams.
That was the first college. There was talk of forming a posse to find the fuckers.