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Swatting 19-Year-Old Arrested in Las Vegas
Ars Technica reports that a Las Vegas teenager is in custody for multiple instances of swatting:
Brandon Wilson, who goes by the online handle "Famed God," was arrested Thursday in Nevada and faces an extradition hearing to determine whether he should be sent to face hacking and other charges. Illinois prosecutors said there was evidence on his computers about the July 10 swatting incident, in which he allegedly reported a murder to Naperville's emergency 911 line. The SWAT team responded, but the call was a hoax. The Chicago-Sun Times said that, in addition to the Naperville incident, the suspect's computers held evidence "of similar incidents across the country."
Actually, my reaction was "good, knew someone was going to get caught one of these days"
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Judging by the looks of him, I'll bet anything Brandon Wilson is really concerned about ethics in game journalism.
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You are welcome on my lawn.
Wait for it... I'm sure it's coming:
"Still... that's only like 1800, nowhere near the 25,000 you were talking about."
They can't take the risk the suspects will kill the hostages or, more precisely to the Gibson situation, flush all the evidence down the toilet. And, before you say "there's no way he could have flushed all that wood down a toilet", keep in mind the police have no idea how large someone's toilets are. They could have very powerful, high-speed "assault toilets" capable of flushing hundreds of cubic feet of possibly-illegal wood per second.
So what would happen if someone calls 112 saying a shooting happened at your residence? A Police officer shows up and calmly knocks on the door? I am inclined to agree that the swatting response in the us is way overkill. But no or minimal response likely isn't the answer either.
Well first off, its Germany so not everyone is an armed nutcase. In fact most people will be very ordered and restrained.
Secondly, there will be more than one police officer. They typically work in pairs.
Thirdly, police officers in modern, functioning societies are trained to observe and measure up a situation before acting. So they'll take a look around and see that there's no need to call GSG 9.
Finally, even if there were a gunman, the officers would attempt to contain the situation and seek a non violent solution using force as a last resort only instead of going in half cocked, shooting everything that moves after which, they check to see if there is anything black that didn't get shot in the initial barrage.
Yep, those crazy Germans.
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