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Re:Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, O... by rrix2 on Saturday January 13, 2018 @04:59PM (#16141657)
> The prankster meant no harm either,

Are you kidding? The people who were involved in this didn’t do it to introduce the swattee to new friends. They did it to terrorize someone who made them mad.

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Re:Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, O... by dzhiurgis on Saturday January 13, 2018 @05:34PM (#16141779)
He didn’t mean the outcome (murder), terrorize is probably better word than a prank tho.

What I meant is that “oh I didn’t mean it” going to be interpretted differently.

Edit: if you downvote me thinking that I somehow support prank swatters - you are wrong. Otherwise you fail to see the paradox of intended vs unintended outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea (as I understand it's interpreted very different in the US).

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Re:Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, O... by newfoundglory on Sunday January 14, 2018 @01:14AM (#16143048)
I expect that the downvotes are because you are arguing that “he didn’t mean murder” is equivalent to “he didn’t mean harm”.
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