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Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges

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242 points LinuxBender | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 00:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ToucanLoucan ◴[18 Nov 24 01:04 UTC] No.42168777[source]▶
Okay so like, genuinely not trying to do a "back in my day" fuckin thing here, but also: what the fuck is wrong with kids? Back when I was coming up, pranking at it's absolute worst was like, filling a dudes shoes with yogurt in the locker room, or like, putting plastic bugs in people's desks n shit. Why the fuck are teenagers trying to get each other murdered by cops!?
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blindriver ◴[18 Nov 24 01:57 UTC] No.42169064[source]▶
It’s not all kids, it’s one particularly sociopathic kid and the fact that he suffered no accountability until now.
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1. BLKNSLVR ◴[18 Nov 24 02:16 UTC] No.42169131[source]▶
Regarding "no accountability", it seems 'wrong' that the response to the calls must be immediate, but it seems to have taken at least a little while to identify where the calls were made from / who made the calls. They started some time in 2022.

That level of asynchrony is not how the system should work.

(Admittedly "should" does a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence).