Is "Swatting" The Newest Trend In Gaming?

Yet another crazy story has surfaced, but is it a trend?

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This particular story goes like this:


The way it works apparently is like this:

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What they fail to mention is how the person calling the police verifies exactly how many police vehicles, car, etc. actually arrive if they could be from anywhere around the world.

Is this really a new trend? I have never heard of it until this story came out.

It's a BS move developed by the people of 4chan.

It is along the same lines as calling Pizza Hut (or Papa John's just to really piss them off) and ordering 10 pizzas at a person's house that they don't like or somehow offended them online.

It is all a bunch of ***, and I hope they catch the people pulling these pranks before it really takes off as a fad...

Filing a false police report, or something like this is *or should be* an indictable offense.

Not going to lie I thought this was about swatting flies.

I'm not sure about other areas of the world, or even other states, but in Illinois, doing this is a major offense and usually results in criminal charges. Not to mention the party responsible (usually the parents of the kid who called) get to pay a huge bill for the emergency responsce team.

I'm not surprised at all that it was over a CoD game, but good lord, didn't these kids parents ever teach them not to prank call 911?

It is.

It could very easily escalate to be a federal offense, especially if a person from, say, LA is getting back at a kid in NYC. Then the Feds will come down hard on him, practically throwing the book (if they follow the law, that is).

While also removing their internet/gaming privileges, use of telephones, and spend time in a stockade.

Most I ever did was have Flion sign a guy who stole a mob from me up for furry newsletters and beastiality emails.

If you must know, I was levelling in Qufim, killed a Gigas' leech before I killed the Gigas, and some PLD come in and killed the Gigas. After thanking him but telling him I didn't need help he started some 12-year-old "Boohoo, cry moar noob!" BS. I don't think I would've went so far as to track him down IRL to *** with him.

Literally spit my coffee out laughing at this comment from my work desk! Loooool i thought it said Pchan.

How do they get the opponent's address anyways?

"Hey man, where do you live?"

Sounds like a story The Onion would have.

Or apparently how to be a good sport or not a sore loser.

Reminds me of times of the AOL days, back when internet was a Wild West frontier and without Spam Folders. Me and my hommie would do this to to people who crossed us IRL.

I thought that swatting meant this.

Anyone else want to blame it on this new age of "everyone's a winner"?

If you change winner to loser yes.

Also these kids need a hobby try riding a bike.

Out of all these I've seen for some reason it's always Call of Duty.

Exactly what I was thinking of blaming actually.

This and the fact that parents aren't allowed to discipline their children anymore, my generation got spankings (not beatings) and it was an effective method of learning lifes hardknocks without actually being harmed. But now it's illegal to do so and each generation is rapidly degrading from then on and this degradation in quality of people isn't just some trick of the imagination like some would believe. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the difference in how each generation really is getting worse in their lack of understanding simple concepts like good sportsmanship and respect for authority and others. Kids now live without repercussions for their actions unless you count some adult saying words to you as a punishment or something to be feared.

EDIT:
Gotta elaborate on proper spanking methods before people flip out...
1) First of all spankings don't need to hurt to work as long as the kid thinks it will.
2) never do this while angry at the kid.
3) Make them wait for the spanking, tell them they are getting one later that day for what they did but don't tell them when. This will give them time to think about and regret what they did and will also teach them to respect repercussions for their actions.
4) Explain to them in detail what all of this was about and how that the real authorities punishment will be far worse than what they just experienced.

Call of Duty all you really need to know. Not saying COD makes people dumb but it doesn't help.

I see the old farts (read: late 20s-early 30s) folk are on full steam about how this generation is oh so *** up compared to our golden age of prosperity.

How about nope. The big difference in this era are computers, access to a global anonymous pool to *** with and stupid, petulant children. In my day (haha, my day) we threw firecrackers into other peoples yards, broke windows with baseballs, jumped fences onto private property, chased adults with dirty syringes, tossed rocks at passing trains and pelted cop cars with snowballs before running for our lives.

Today's kids do the same dumb ***in another form. They can't process that calling SWAT is i dunno... *** HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE... and think it's funny. Doubly so when you're a 'macho' 17 year old strokin' the first hairs coming off your face in the right places.

Also gonna catch flak but who gives a ***. Fighting games and FPS bring out the worst dumbfucking retards money can buy. These *** couldn't write their name in their own feces if they tried.

I expected this to be about Balltag, honestly.

It's like you literally opened up my head and took the words straight from my brain.

Edit: wrong thread

Edit2: How did a misplaced post get rate ups? Damn. Maybe I should run for office.

Because you admitted your mistake and corrected it, something missing form politicians. Maybe you should run for office.

Subtle, but funny as hell.
This crap actually happened to me and my family.
Not over a HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE FPS or any other game really, but we still got "Swatted".
Allegedly, but confirmed through IRC, my spouses jaded and previously incarcerated ex-husband got a couple of jackass shut-in friends of his that live in Germany to contact our local PD and get us swatted.
We woke up one lovely Saturday, had breakfast, jumped online (FFXI) and heard a loud knock on the door. Looking out of our windows we were greeted by assault rifles. We let the cops in and thankfully there were no immediate problems resulting from trigger-happy cops. Pretty sure that the puzzled look of a mid-30's couple standing in the doorway eased their suspicions. After a quick search through our house, we were informed that they had received a tip from an anonymous source over skype that there was an armed gunman in our house holding 2 children captive and had already shot one. The anonymous source was supposedly the gunman and the police had been sitting out in our neighborhood for over an hour questioning our neighbors, assessing the situation, etc.
Honestly the prank would have pissed me off much more had it been a shitload of pizzas. All that wasted pizza. /cry

Why not freeze the pizzas for later? :O

I couldn't afford to buy out a mass pizza prank.
Would be awesome if the person pulling the prank was stupid enough to pay for the pizzas too though.

Offer to pay them with a free pizza if they give you the pizzas for free.

If only!
Would love to hear the conversation between the delivery driver and the manager following that transaction.