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I watch this guy on YT quite a bit and am not at all surprised he got swatted.
Many others have also been and it's so ridiculous how easy it is for some punk to lie and get freakin' SWAT teams sent to someone they don't like house.
I watch this guy on YT quite a bit and am not at all surprised he got swatted.
Many others have also been and it's so ridiculous how easy it is for some punk to lie and get freakin' SWAT teams sent to someone they don't like house.
What pesses me off most is that they can't track these punks.
I'm more curious as to what would happen if one of these prank SWAT calls turns deadly...on either side.
I know if someone in my family got killed from one of these that I would sue the crap out of the local law enforcement - law enforcement needs to do some kind of double check that these calls are real before they go busting down someone's door. Maybe a good lawsuit would force LE policies and practices to change.
I would also take every dime I have if need be to hire a private detective to find the prankster and once found I would do everything in my power to make their life a living hell. I would get them arrested and imprisoned if possible, and sue them for every dime they have. If they have no money and/or can't be imprisoned, or they're in another country, there are plenty of things that can be done from a distance to make someone's life unpleasant.
I would also take every dime I have if need be to hire a private detective to find the prankster and once found I would do everything in my power to make their life a living hell. I would get them arrested and imprisoned if possible, and sue them for every dime they have. If they're in another country, there are plenty of things that can be done from a distance to make someone's life unpleasant.
If the people doing this are even halfway competent, it would be almost impossible to find them.
They put on a hat, sunglasses, and a generic looking shirt/jacket. They buy a burner phone and minutes at WalMart or Target. They pay for it with cash. They make the call from someplace with lots of people and lots of cell traffic. They then turn off the phone (removing the battery) and throw it in a river, along with the hat.
No one is going to track them down. And a PI is going to make less headway than law enforcement, because the store isn't coughing up sales information or serveillance tapes without a valid warrant, and the mobile provider isn't going to trace the call to a cell point without one, either. And even if they did, if the caller has done everything right then that evidence isn't going to identify them.
That's what's so unfortunate about these situations - it's very easy to do one at very low risk to oneself.
If the people doing this are even halfway competent, it would be almost impossible to find them.
They put on a hat, sunglasses, and a generic looking shirt/jacket. They buy a burner phone and minutes at WalMart or Target. They pay for it with cash. They make the call from someplace with lots of people and lots of cell traffic. They then turn off the phone (removing the battery) and throw it in a river, along with the hat.
No one is going to track them down. And a PI is going to make less headway than law enforcement, because the store isn't coughing up sales information or serveillance tapes without a valid warrant, and the mobile provider isn't going to trace the call to a cell point without one, either. And even if they did, if the caller has done everything right then that evidence isn't going to identify them.
That's what's so unfortunate about these situations - it's very easy to do one at very low risk to oneself.
If the people doing this are even halfway competent, it would be almost impossible to find them.
They put on a hat, sunglasses, and a generic looking shirt/jacket. They buy a burner phone and minutes at WalMart or Target. They pay for it with cash. They make the call from someplace with lots of people and lots of cell traffic. They then turn off the phone (removing the battery) and throw it in a river, along with the hat.
No one is going to track them down. And a PI is going to make less headway than law enforcement, because the store isn't coughing up sales information or serveillance tapes without a valid warrant, and the mobile provider isn't going to trace the call to a cell point without one, either. And even if they did, if the caller has done everything right then that evidence isn't going to identify them.
That's what's so unfortunate about these situations - it's very easy to do one at very low risk to oneself.
People doing pranks like this are amateurs that most likely won't know how to completely cover their tracks. Russian mobsters and scammers in Nigeria that would be impossible to track aren't the types of people doing things like this - there's no benefit in it for them. Pranks like this are personal, which means the victim almost certainly knows and/or has had contact with the perpetrator, making it much easier for them to be identified. It even said in the article that the guy is pretty certain that this prank stems from one particular very recent incident online so the prankster can most likely be identified, if there's enough money and/or motivation in it for someone to do so.
I know if someone in my family got killed from one of these that I would sue the crap out of the local law enforcement - law enforcement needs to do some kind of double check that these calls are real before they go busting down someone's door. Maybe a good lawsuit would force LE policies and practices to change.
I would also take every dime I have if need be to hire a private detective to find the prankster and once found I would do everything in my power to make their life a living hell. I would get them arrested and imprisoned if possible, and sue them for every dime they have. If they have no money and/or can't be imprisoned, or they're in another country, there are plenty of things that can be done from a distance to make someone's life unpleasant.
Yeah, but how do you really feel about it?
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