Swatting: Seriously, this is a thing??
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People do it to live streamers when they are streaming. Yeah, it is a thing...
How does one SWAT response cost 10k? Much less 10k+? That seems absurd.
How does one SWAT response cost 10k? Much less 10k+? That seems absurd.
I've seen a handful of these and it seems like the targets are in on it. They're all way too calm when the cops come barging in.
khalid
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Sounds like bullshit. You would have to be a special kind of stupid to be cool with a SWAT team hitting your house. That "calm" you find so abnormal is probably shock.
Borzak
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I can believe it, considering last week I saw where they called out the SWAT team for a guy walking on campus in CA I believe who had an umbrellas. The pics were unreal, 1/2 the team was using no trigger discipline at all. Suprised someone didn't get shot.
Grimmlokk
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Yeah was just reading how it's only getting more coverage now because streaming is so much more ubiquitous.
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Just think about it. The guy who called that in said he killed 2 coworkers and would kill any cops that showed up. If that guy was playing Counter-Strike without headphones on and a little loud that shit would have gone from "unfunny fucktardary" to "Streamer killed on live stream"
IIRC from the reddit thread about this he is a fairly well known streamer and recently moved into an office complex to do his streaming. He was trying to keep the address secret but somehow (forget how) it got leaked and shortly after he got swatted. I don't know how you can call the cops retards. What would happen if someone wasn't crying wolf and someone actually was killing people in the office complex? If anyone is a retard it is the worthless mouth breathers who get off on doing this kind of shit.
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Yeah, that reads as "we spent millions to build a mini army in our police department to "FIGHT THE TERRURISTS" and now they have nothing to do and it's expensive as shit."
It's pretty much the Toxic version of ordering a shitload of pizzas, and sending it to someones address.
Which is how this started out on Twitch, and later got to this level.
I think the most famous one happened to Sodapoppin 2 years ago. Some people found his dorm room number, and sent a shitload of cops to his complex.
Which forced the college to move him into a private room by himself.
After that it got steadily worse, and worse. They just did this recently to him again at his house in California.
It's pretty dangerous for these streamers cause they are all young kids, and cops are just dicks. I'm sure more then one of them has been roughed up abit.
Which is how this started out on Twitch, and later got to this level.
I think the most famous one happened to Sodapoppin 2 years ago. Some people found his dorm room number, and sent a shitload of cops to his complex.
Which forced the college to move him into a private room by himself.
After that it got steadily worse, and worse. They just did this recently to him again at his house in California.
It's pretty dangerous for these streamers cause they are all young kids, and cops are just dicks. I'm sure more then one of them has been roughed up abit.
j00t
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No it wasn't. It was purposeful statement directly related to your belief that cops are to blame. Its not like you added a random, unrelated general statement.
EDIT 1: Also, the 10k cost would come in when your talking about things like insurance for the weapons, vehicles, officers, etc. Fuel for vehicles, which isn't much but it bulls up especially for any helicopters that may be called as well. Also the salary for everyone involved. Some of them may already be on the job but anyone who is on called would have to be paid. Some of it is clearly advertised to justify its own existence, but honestly, 10k is lowballing it
EDIT2: cops get a bad rap from the retard minority of cops. That being said, if I were a cop I'd be pretty pissed if some moron called the swat team on someone as a joke.
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Why are you trying to justify why it would cost "$10,000 or more"? You weirdos without health insurance have to spend an arm and a leg on medical, you're surprised by 10k on a specialized police force which looks like it can be 20+ people? lol
Either way, fuck those kids doing that kind of stuff. I hope their parents get laid with a fine on top of any bill they eventually get caught by~
Either way, fuck those kids doing that kind of stuff. I hope their parents get laid with a fine on top of any bill they eventually get caught by~
The idiots that are doing this need to go to jail, fuck fines. The next logical step to me for the police to combat this is like they mentioned in the video. A lot of these police departments have this mini swat army but not a cyber crime division. They need to start investing in a cyber crime division so they can potentially differentiate these attacks. I bet you there is a pattern in the fake ones that can be spotted if you have someone adept enough working on it.