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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by avs733 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:58AM (#27905104)
The culture of policing in both places.
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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by merpnderp on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @09:46AM (#27906189)
So if someone calls in to the UK police that there's been a shooting and a murder and the person has a gun, the cops don't show up with weapons and ready to shoot? How does that work?
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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by zepto on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @09:57AM (#27906338)
Sure, police culture is very different, but this is irrelevant.

It’s just false to claim that swatting is a US only phenomenon or a function of police culture.

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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by trasz on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:48AM (#27907044)
It is a US-only phenomenon. So far nobody was able to show an example of this happening in other countries.
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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by zepto on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @03:26PM (#27910901)
Why are you making a false statement when you could easily have checked for yourself?

https://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2015/08/swatting-uk-tr...

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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by trasz on Thursday July 22, 2021 @02:50AM (#27916189)
The article clearly says it was the first such occurrence. Also, it’s not clear this really was swatting, in that nobody was endangered: the police didn’t storm the house.
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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by coldtea on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:17PM (#27946117)
The word phenomenon implies repeated occurence, not some one-off or rare situation.
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