This incidence of swatting is literally terrorism.

Because our phone regulations are absolute shit now and thus it’s much easier to hide this shit with everything now.

When I was in school you’d get a bomb threat in the county once a year or so but they always caught them.

I'm actually surprised about that. Maybe you went to school at a different time from me? I graduated in 1995. A couple of times a year, some kid (probably) would call in a bomb threat so they could get out of a test or whatever and they never got caught. We had a pay phone right outside the school, which didn't help.

You'd be surprised. Someone swatted my neighbor, and they actually made an arrest. I don't know if they will have enough evidence to convict, but it was good to see. It was traumatizing for my neighbor. She's an 80 year old woman who lives with her son. I would assume the guy who did it did so from a spoofed number, but they still managed to track someone down.

I have no idea why they were even targeted, and neither did they. My money was on someone trying to swat a different neighbor who I always hear loudly talking shit while gaming. He's always yelling loud enough that I can hear it next door. My thought is they were after him and they just screwed up the address and hit the house next door.

When all you have is an armored vehicle, high-powered rifles, and body armor, every problem looks like a brown-skinned terrorist.

Damn I forgot

Blueboxed it.

Love how esoteric this joke is. The only people who get this are nerds old enough to remember or people who watched that one Tom Scott video about phreaking.

Anyone else used to read 2600 magazine?