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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by 40four on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @09:34PM (#27901314)
So we’re talking about ’The boy who cried wolf’ here. There’s a reason it’s a timeless fable, dating back thousands of years.

It’s a common dilemma that we might not ever solve. It seems to me ‘swatting’ is one of the most modern iterations of it.

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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by thera2 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @09:14AM (#27918428)
It's not boy cry wolf because the victim made no claim. Someone committed fraud making a false claim and attributed it to him.
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