Another SWAT troll call to kids house

[CaseAgainstFaith]

I’d advise the Washington state legislature to get a little tougher a little sooner because this sort of thing appears to be a real problem there. This time, it happened to Jacob Neumann, a 16-year-old administering a Minecraft group (incorrectly identified as “Mindcraft” by KING-TV). Some troll showed up, said a bunch of filth flarn in chat, and Jacob kicked him. Then it was go time.

Neumann said the troll specifically threatened to send SWAT to his house. “‘Yo dude. You kicked me off line. I’m going to swat your house,’” Jacob said he was told.

A couple hours later, public safety personnel from four different agencies were on the scene, told that a father inside had shot his 14-year-old daughter because she told him she was pregnant. The alert came via text.

Jacob’s father, Dave, was ordered to the ground face first, handcuffed and read his rights. Jacob and his brother also were ordered from their home. While the Neumanns and the deputies were able to calm the situation before anyone got hurt, the family was, as you can well imagine, frightened and a little pissed off.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/minecraft-ban-leads-to-swat-team-assault/

Gawd this is so retarded.   I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

[ThunderWulf]

What the actual fuck?  I hope the find out who the other player was so he can get in all the trouble he deserves.

I mean:
-Wrongly sending SWAT to someone's house because you don't like them.
-Wasting police resources
-Possibly disturbing the peace?

There's probably more that I can't think of off the top of my head too.

[Witchyjoshy]

ANOTHER one?

This has happened before?

[CaseAgainstFaith]

ANOTHER one?

This has happened before?

This has happened like 2 other times, one that I remember off the top of my head was the kid that was playing CoD  http://consumerist.com/2011/06/xbox-gamer-allegedly-tricks-swat-team-into-investigating-rivals-home.html  Just noticed the date of the article...ironically enough it happened almost exactly 1 year ago today >.>

[Witchyjoshy]

ANOTHER one?

This has happened before?

This has happened like 2 other times, one that I remember off the top of my head was the kid that was playing CoD  http://consumerist.com/2011/06/xbox-gamer-allegedly-tricks-swat-team-into-investigating-rivals-home.html  Just noticed the date of the article...ironically enough it happened almost exactly 1 year ago today >.>

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Is it the same guy!?  Seriously, that's kind creepy.

[Askold]

First I thought that this is a ridiculous reason to send SWAT after someone (not that there is a good reason to send police on a fake call) but then I realised that this is actually the best motive for SWAT "trolling."

After all if you do it to your neighbour or ex or someone you know in real life they might be able to trace you. Doing it to someone you just met on net (and bothering to hunt down their actual ID and apartment.) makes it harder to trace the culprit.



Anyway, this is horrible, those cops could be needed on a real emergency call.