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Re:Man behind fatal Call of Duty ‘swatting’ gets 20-year pri... by chillacy on Monday April 08, 2019 @05:14PM (#19609105)
If his idea of a harmless prank involves subjecting someone to that kind of danger then I’m not so sure. Another fun prank: kidnap someone and hang them on a cliff over a lethal fall, with a 80% chance they’ll survive.
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Re:Man behind fatal Call of Duty ‘swatting’ gets 20-year pri... by daniel-cussen on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @01:00PM (#19616689)
Repeatedly threatening someone with death falls under torture.
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Re:Man behind fatal Call of Duty ‘swatting’ gets 20-year pri... by ryanlol on Monday April 08, 2019 @05:30PM (#19609244)
I rather doubt even 0.1% of swattings result in deaths, how can you compare that to a 80% chance of survival?
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Re:Man behind fatal Call of Duty ‘swatting’ gets 20-year pri... by daniel-cussen on Monday April 08, 2019 @06:13PM (#19609584)
Citation needed. Without going any further SWAT--of what I've read, this was back in 2011--shoots all dogs on sight, as soon as it enters the building, as standard operating procedure.
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Re:Man behind fatal Call of Duty ‘swatting’ gets 20-year pri... by chillacy on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:17PM (#19610107)
Number doesn’t matter so much, I just personally don’t want to be swatted. It sounds horrible and traumatizing.
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