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Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges

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242 points LinuxBender | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 00:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.594s | source
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throwaway81523 ◴[18 Nov 24 00:53 UTC] No.42168722[source]▶
I'd be interested to know if any actual SWAT operations happened from these calls. I know that it does happen sometimes.
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bloopernova ◴[18 Nov 24 01:06 UTC] No.42168791[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting?wprov=sf...
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throwaway81523 ◴[18 Nov 24 09:24 UTC] No.42170962[source]▶
I should have been more clear about the question. I am wondering how many of the calls made by THIS GUY resulted in actual swat deployments, how many got someone shot or killed, etc. That gives a scale of the severity of the crime. Like if you fatally shoot someone, that is murder. If you shoot them and they survive, or if you shoot and miss, that's attempted murder and you tend to get a lighter sentence than if you kill the person. It's not an extraneous detail.

The guy in the article obviously belongs in jail. The question is how far up the scale he went in terms of actual damage and injury caused. It's just like if I read an article about Joe pleading guilty to shooting Fred, and facing 20 years in jail, but the article doesn't say whether Fred survived the shooting. I'm not out to make a big moral judgment either way, and I have no stake in it, but it's a natural question for a reader to ask.

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1. xboxnolifes ◴[18 Nov 24 17:20 UTC] No.42174561[source]▶
Even if nobody died, it depends how you want to classify intentionally swatting someone. 50 counts of attempted murder? 50 counts of inciting violence? 50 counts of assault?
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2. throwaway81523 ◴[19 Nov 24 01:45 UTC] No.42179348[source]▶
Well, the prosecutors would decide that, and preferably announce what they decided along with the underlying facts. Then people reading the news article would weigh the info for themselves. That's at least part of why we have news articles in the first place.