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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPrank Caller Sends SWAT Team to Home of Parkland Survivor David Hogg
In recent years, Americas most sociopathic prank callers have developed an innovative new form of attempted murder: Falsely report a crime involving heavily armed criminals at the home of someone you do not like, then hope that their friendly-neighborhood SWAT team is in a trigger-happy mood that day. This is an increasingly popular way for dangerous idiots to resolve their online disputes, and has resulted in at least one death.
On Tuesday, someone decided to use this maneuver to terrorize the family of Parkland school shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg. Early this morning, the Broward County Sheriffs Office received a call reporting a hostage situation at Hoggs address, the local ABC affiliate reports. A fire rescue team then arrived at the scene and, fortunately, quickly discerned that the call had been a prank.
Hogg was not at home at the time of the swatting attempt, as he and his mother had traveled to Washington, D.C., to accept the RFK Human Rights award. While Hoggs activism has won him accolades in some quarters, it has also earned him a great deal of vitriolic attention from conservative media figures and politicians, several of whom have compared the school shooting survivor to Adolf Hitler. When Hogg tried to organize a boycott of reactionary radio host Laura Ingrahams advertisers in March, conservative commentators (along with Bill Maher) decried his attempt to stifle her speech through bullying.
Baiting heavily armed police officers into storming the home of someone whose opinions you dont like might not be as serious an attack on the ideal of free speech as, say, encouraging liberals to make politically informed consumption decisions but hopefully, right-wing First Amendmentlovers will take time to condemn the former anyway.
On Tuesday, someone decided to use this maneuver to terrorize the family of Parkland school shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg. Early this morning, the Broward County Sheriffs Office received a call reporting a hostage situation at Hoggs address, the local ABC affiliate reports. A fire rescue team then arrived at the scene and, fortunately, quickly discerned that the call had been a prank.
Hogg was not at home at the time of the swatting attempt, as he and his mother had traveled to Washington, D.C., to accept the RFK Human Rights award. While Hoggs activism has won him accolades in some quarters, it has also earned him a great deal of vitriolic attention from conservative media figures and politicians, several of whom have compared the school shooting survivor to Adolf Hitler. When Hogg tried to organize a boycott of reactionary radio host Laura Ingrahams advertisers in March, conservative commentators (along with Bill Maher) decried his attempt to stifle her speech through bullying.
Baiting heavily armed police officers into storming the home of someone whose opinions you dont like might not be as serious an attack on the ideal of free speech as, say, encouraging liberals to make politically informed consumption decisions but hopefully, right-wing First Amendmentlovers will take time to condemn the former anyway.
https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/prank-caller-sends-swat-team-to-david-hoggs-home-swatting.html
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Prank Caller Sends SWAT Team to Home of Parkland Survivor David Hogg (Original Post)
ehrnst
Jun 2018
OP
this happened in my town and the person at the address -which was a mistaken address died
demtenjeep
Jun 2018
#12
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)1. Police should have handled better for obvious reasons
superpatriotman
(6,254 posts)2. Jail for the scumbag who perpetrated this
911 knows who did it, I hope.
DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,927 posts)7. Maybe, maybe not.
Phone calls can be easily spoofed and very hard to trace now.
samnsara
(17,656 posts)3. we used to just order bogus pizzas!
VOX
(22,976 posts)9. Yes! Or call to ask, "Is your refrigerator running?"
All in hopes of delivering the pitiful punch line, Well, youd better go chase it. Its funny if your 10 years old.
wcmagumba
(2,893 posts)4. Probably called...
from a "burner" phone and can't be tracked easily...fascist brown shirts...
ffr
(22,676 posts)5. Republicans and NRA lovers are nothing short of domestic terrorists.
Not to mention complete morans.
samir.g
(835 posts)6. why would fire/rescue be first responder to a hostage situation?
irisblue
(33,047 posts)14. If someone gets shot EMS is there.
More then a few home grown terrorists have set fires.
samir.g
(835 posts)15. but not before the police
Scene has to be safe prior to EMS
malaise
(269,254 posts)8. I hope the FBI is investigating
Thankfully his father was an FBI man.
Iggo
(47,586 posts)10. That's not a prank. That's attempted murder. (n/t)
catrose
(5,076 posts)11. My first thought
Terrorism wouldnt be far off the mark either.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)12. this happened in my town and the person at the address -which was a mistaken address died
it has been a hot topic in our town
the person that made the call was extradited from CA and is on trial right now
Cha
(297,935 posts)13. This is Horrible! Oh and too bad, Bill Maher, you
don't like David Hogg's Activism.