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?Swatting?
Warbirds
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There is a thing called ?swatting? where people make false reports to 9-1-1.
The swat team then responds to a false threat at a location given by the 9-1-1 caller.
It seems popular among the video game crowd.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gedVHbgIt7c[/media]
And of course, occasionally the caller gets the wrong address and the cops shoot and kill a totally random person:
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qJFHPgxYpAQ[/media]
The swat team then responds to a false threat at a location given by the 9-1-1 caller.
It seems popular among the video game crowd.
[media]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gedVHbgIt7c[/media]And of course, occasionally the caller gets the wrong address and the cops shoot and kill a totally random person:
[media]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qJFHPgxYpAQ[/media]
Comments
Just how out of touch with reality are these gamers??
:twisted:
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
If you hired this person, trained this person, signed off on his annual reviews you need to, as a minimum to be sued into bankruptcy. In my opinion there is no way somebody that incompetent would not have been on somebodies radar screen.
We were at his house sampling some moonshine. He had to work the next day, so he told me to take the jug and go home. He called me later and said to bring the jug back. I refused. (We were pretty heavy drinkers at the time). He started calling ever couple of minutes so I took the phone off the hook.
Later I was awakened by red lights and sirens outside my house. He had called the fire department and gave my address.
I went out and told the guys it was a false alarm.
I knew it was him but he denied it to the day he died.
In my state of residence, open carrying is legal and not uncommon. Because of these lefty turds, who are going to call 911 every time they see a open carrier. It can be a very dangerous situation, for the legitimate open carrier. The badge boys get their spinkters knotted. Every time they get, a "man with a gun" call. And rightly so. Because of this, really bad things can happen very quickly. Between the open carrier, and the responding cops.
Open carrying in a urban area, has always been questionable to me. The above is just another reason, to reconsider open carrying, IMHO.
if they actually wanted to murder you from the start, forget it. you're toast.
if they are going to send out a S.W.A.T. team because of one phone call, they should refuse to do so unless they can verify the identity of the caller to hold them responsible for false information like this.
I agree with several of the saner comments here: open carry is just plain nuts in an urban environment, and the person making a swatting "joke" ought to be prosecuted for every felony charge that can be dreamed up.
Yes it's a rough job and everyone wants to go home at the end of their shift. But they applied for the job and received training to do it. The police are supposed to be the professionals. The 13 year old kid isn't supposed to be trained not to turn toward a person that yells at them. A drunk isn't supposed to be trained to play a lethal game of Simon says. A man doing nothing wrong isn't supposed to be trained to be a robot when his home is under siege. The police are supposed to be the professionals keeping these people from getting killed.
I have been in a situation where I couldn't comply with an officer's commands, because I was getting two conflicting commands from 2 different officers. I was in control enough to do nothing, not even twitch. I wasn't in the wrong and I wan't charged with anything. But I could have ended up dead anyway.
There is the little old widow that lives on the corner.
Dope dealers hang out at the intersection and ply their trade.
The widow has called 911 a number of times but nothing happens.
Out of desperation, today, she called the cops and reported the main dealer (dreadlocks, pants down to his knees, gold chain, etc.) for dealing drugs and threatening a guy with a handgun.
Lights and sirens! 3 cop cars!
YOU BEEN SWATTED!