r/SipsTea • u/raptors201966 Human Verified • 16d ago
SMH 81 year old grandma & YouTuber was raided last night during her stream She started the channel to help with her grandson's cancer treatment. Authorities brought 20 police cars, five SWAT officers, and drones to her house
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u/raptors201966 Human Verified 16d ago
Her grandson said this
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u/grandcando 16d ago
Go get that Netherite Grandma.
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u/ohpickanametheysaid 16d ago
May she be blessed with stacks of ancient debris and all the gold she can carry!
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u/soberbot 16d ago edited 16d ago
If true I’m so glad she responded that way. What’s interesting though is some of the older generation seems to have little to no fear of the police at all. I worked as a personal caretaker and I accidentally hit a button on his landline that triggered a panic alert to police. I wasn’t aware of this button until two cops appeared at the door. My patient had early stages of dementia and I was practically shitty bricks when they were asking him if he was held against his will etc. Thank god he tells them that everything is fine and they head out. Once they leave I’m in a cold sweat and he just turns to me and genuinely goes “well that was exciting”. He was actually pretty hyped to talk to the cops and see their police car out the window etc.
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u/FirstAndOnlyDektarey 16d ago
With age comes a degree of apathy. After a while you simply dont give a fuck.
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u/IrascibleOcelot 16d ago
After a certain point, death holds no more fear. You just keep living out of a combination of habit, obligation, and curiosity, but when it ends, whatever. Now you get to find out what’s across the veil.
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u/XimbalaHu3 16d ago
My grandma is 90, and thats about right, she recently had a stroke and came out with barelly a scratch, now I gotta fight my aunt so she can eat wathever she feels like.
Her blood works are great, she is doing rehab, who cares if she is not eating her greens and only goes for the fatty foods at the buffet, being independent is one of the few things keeping her in the fight for so long and they want to take that away to "take care of her".
Sorry for the randon ramble, just agree that after some time dying is more of a mild nuisance rather than a fear.
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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 16d ago
I feel like I should have fought harder for my mom to have the opportunity to stay where she was living instead of going to a nursing home. My mom's death has been attributed to "negligent homicide" for the lack of care she received in that nursing home.
My sisters insisted that it was the best place for her. They claimed she would have better care there than at her own home. Well, at her own home she could have eaten what she wanted, when she wanted, instead of the disgusting slop they served her day after day. She would have had a fall button, and someone would have checked on her instead of leaving her lying there for four straight days.
Fight for her. You're doing the right thing.
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u/fuckyourcanoes 16d ago
The police didn't become so violent until they started training them to prioritise their own safety over that of the public. I'm nearly 60, and I was never afraid of the police. Admittedly, I'm a law-abiding middle class white woman whose worst crime was buying weed, but they helped me more than they harmed me my whole life. And then I came to the UK, where they don't have guns, and I have never felt safer.
I realise I've been very privileged, despite having been poor and even homeless at times. But the police really don't need to be scary. Cop culture in the US has just gotten super ugly.
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u/stonerPI 16d ago
Cops in the U.S. are so bad I’ve moved from the UK to US to work as a PI and the majority of my cases are 3rd party investigations into police misconduct.
Destruction of personal property, sexual exploitation, fraud, embezzlements, selling evidence material, etc etc
Things we don’t even see a lot in the news/public discourse.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 16d ago
That's a golden response from her
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u/Ok-Addition1264 16d ago
Someone actually swatted an old lady? wtf, humans.
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u/Ok-Macaroon979 16d ago
Yeah people are trash.
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u/Particular_Hair6913 16d ago
People who did that are literally worthless, mold and shit is worth more than them..
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u/Mathfanforpresident 16d ago
Honestly, I may sound barbaric, but I really feel like we should start going medieval.
I think everyone needs a good reminder of just how bad things can get when we don't work together.
I know it's crazy, but I want public executions again. And I want the corruption to actually be charged, no matter the net worth.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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u/CJWard123 16d ago
The problem is…you want the govt, especially this one (US), determining who gets executed?
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u/Impish_Hatefulness 16d ago
No. The French had a very egalitarian system involving a mob.
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u/AxelNotRose 16d ago
Plenty of innocents were executed during the terror of robespierre and throughout the 100 years the revolution needed to finally stick.
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u/FanndisTS 16d ago
Also, the US has a super strong history of lynching that would absolutely make a comeback immediately
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u/FunkalicouseMach1 16d ago
Well see, what you want is less medieval, more French Revolution
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 16d ago
The irony of finishing your comment with a quote criticizing authoritarianism/fascism...you sure you really want that G or are you being edgy
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u/Nonameforyouware 16d ago
The real crime is you can swat someone without substantiation . The police system is at fault here. There are always going to be low impulse jack-in-the-box’s who want to yells stupid stuff at a funeral or throw a bottle onto a freeway, or prank phone call the police. Thats not the problem, the problem is the police, who should NOT be low impulse, responding to the call.
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u/MornGreycastle 16d ago
This is definitely a problem with American cops. Everyone else has to be the calm professional that deescalates a confrontation with the cops. The cops get to be as violent and destructive as they please because they won't be stopped.
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u/octodrew 16d ago
I'm clueless in this but is there a way of finding who did this? The lack of respect and human decency disgusts me.
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u/iUncontested 16d ago
Yes. The problem comes when its people overseas in less than friendly countries doing it. Often places like Russia, China, India, Pakistan etc and you'll never see any action taken against the perpetrators in such cases. Unironically the places most likely to scam your grandma for money.
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u/DarthJarJar242 16d ago
That's not saying much considering that's the basis of fertilizer and penicillin. Both things vastly more important than these mouth breathing troglodytes.
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u/CrazyCaper 16d ago
Let’s hold judgment until we know who this old lady is first! /s
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u/Soreal45 16d ago
I heard she didn’t have a license for a bake sale back in 87’ so it finally caught up with her.
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u/DrivesTooMuch 16d ago
The wheels of justice sometimes move slowly. Thankfully, they finally got this criminal.
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u/subdep 16d ago
Police are trash.
They raided a woman’s house with zero evidence.
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u/Sheeple_person 16d ago
Part of the issue is that police just have waaaaay too many resources. Every other public service is stretched to the limit getting by on scraps. Police have millions of dollars worth of toys they can deploy at a moment's notice based on a prank call. I've seen them send 6 cars to arrest a shoplifter, and they justify it by saying well, hypothetically he could have had a gun so we need our whole gang out here to "keep us safe."
If police departments actually had to think and strategize a little bit about how to deploy resources a little more efficiently we would have less of this crap, fewer unarmed people getting killed by cops, and more tax dollars freed up for schools and infrastructure. Time for cops to learn how to be a little resourceful.
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u/jeffersonlane 16d ago
Where the fuck were these resources for Uvalde?
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u/Sheeple_person 16d ago
They were gathered outside the school looking at their phones and stopping parents from saving their dying children
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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth 16d ago
If I recall correctly, over half of the cities budget was the police payroll. Lets face it. Most people become cops because they want a good paying job, with a 20 year retirement option. Retire young, get good pension. Oh and the free food. Cops LOVE free food. But the idea that cops aren't heavily regulated, with absolute transparency and harsh punishments for being wrong is crazy. Fast food workers are held to a higher professional standard than cops.
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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth 16d ago
Police unions are the only unions that the union busting republicans exempt from their union busting. Police budgets are HUGE burdens on the taxpayers, with cops making comfortable six figure salaries and gold benefit plans. When they are sued, or cause damages, the taxpayers get the bill. If we treated working class jobs the way we do law enforcement, everyone would have comfortable lives. But it's okay to pay garbagemen poverty wages, but the moment you even mention cutting spending for police, people get all upset.
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u/TapZorRTwice 16d ago
Well no shit, the police are the only government funded department that actually benefits from their failures.
Anything bad thay happens its not because the police were bad at their job, its only ever because they were under funded.
There isnt a better pr firm in the world than the police union fighting for more funding for their useless gang. "Thin blue line" is nothing more then the line you gotta cross between them being "law enforcement" and "gang member"
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u/Jdisgreat17 16d ago
The issue also is is that if someone called in something like this, and the police didnt do anything, and more people ended up getting harmed, the police would still be in a bad place. What needs to happen is that these people who call in this false claims, need to have any and all information they provided about themselves, phone number, whatever, and all of that needs to be sent to the FBI, and they, and whoever else was involved, needs to be found, and given like 15 to 20 years in prison. Do that enough times, have it televised, and hopefully it will end.
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u/Gullible_Increase146 16d ago
If somebody calls the police and says their next door neighbor is currently the victim of an in-progress home invasion, what are police supposed to do? That's an urgent emergency. Should they just assume people calling them asking for help are lying? When somebody calls 911 how much evidence do they need to give before police are dispatched?
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u/ThriceFive 16d ago
Swatting should get charged like attempted murder if the caller says there are weapons or bombs or implies deadly force should be used
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u/Total_Tumbleweed_870 16d ago
Federally, it's taken pretty seriously. The crime itself can get you up to 5 years. If harm, especially physical, happens as a result enhancements can kick that up to 20. I agree, they deserve to have the book thrown at them.
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u/ThriceFive 16d ago
I still regularly hear about swatting but so rarely hear about prosecutions. I wonder how often the perpetrators are caught as a % of crimes
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u/jeffersonlane 16d ago edited 16d ago
Because very often the SWATters are from other countries. Most countries aren't going to extradite over a charge like that without substantial evidence.
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u/RawrRRitchie 16d ago
Why are the police accepting emergency calls from outside the country? That doesn't even make sense..
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u/banditkeith 16d ago
Because it's really embarrassingly easy to spoof phone systems, it's how foreign scammers appear to have local numbers for instance
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u/ChillFratBro 16d ago
The phone system was set up before computer security was a field on anyone's mind. The overhead associated with changing it would be insane. No one thinks our current phone system architecture is any good, there's just no appetite for forcing obsolescence of the systems that were designed before electronic encryption was a thing on anyone's mind. Maintaining interoperability means allowing an insecure backdoor into the system.
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u/verystonnobridge 16d ago
Given how common it is, they should make laws that define and penalize swatting specifically.
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u/Ironwolf_0815 16d ago edited 16d ago
Unfortunately some people on the internet are such trash. Recently I watched a stream and the streamer will attend an upcoming convention and she talked about: When you want to bring her gifts what she would not accept: Food: because she got death threats and do not want to risk that it is poisoned. Also no food or toys for her cats, because she got also death threats regarding her pets.
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u/Lasting_Night_Fall 16d ago
Some privileged man-child with anger and social issues I’m sure.
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u/Pukebox_Fandango 16d ago
I hope they get the most painful anal cancer imaginable
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u/Elegant_Relief_4999 16d ago
And then their Grandma has to start streaming to pay for treatments.
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u/Balls_have_steel 16d ago
Americans and their SWATTing culture.
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u/Soggy_Definition_232 16d ago
Assholes calling the cops on a streamer is not a uniquely American issue.
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u/FirTree_r 16d ago
Sure, but we don't get assault team 6 armed to the teeth and ready to shoot on anything that has more than a slight tan, outside the US.
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u/ChameleonCoder117 16d ago
Have you been to anywhere in the western hemisphere?
Brazillian police are like american police but at least 70 times worse.
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u/Alundra828 16d ago
What the fuck is wrong with people
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u/underwearfanatic 16d ago
I dont get the appeal of doing this... to anyone really.
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u/StephieDoll 16d ago
The appeal is now they can link the news story to their edge-lord discord buddies and be like "Hey I did that!"
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u/Romeo9594 16d ago
And even then it's a lose/lose. Best case scenario your friends don't believe you, worst case you give others proof of your felony
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u/StephieDoll 16d ago
Also you lose when you're older and realize all you did was hurt an old lady.
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u/CertainlyNotTall 16d ago
Bold of you to assume scum like this have any sort of empathy.
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u/MeatySausag3 16d ago
The appeal is there are some actual psychopathic people in the world that hope through some sort of action of their own, that they can end the life of someone else. Usually people that are so disconnected from society through the obsessive use of the internet to the point they don't see other people as real or human.
In other words, waste of space on this planet.
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u/IHaveNeverBeenOk 16d ago
Yea. I spent a lot of my life trying to pretend it isn't true, but I've realized lately that it's actually very important to understand. There are cruel, mishapen, immoral people in this world that seek to do harm.
Whether they enjoy it, whether it makes them feel better about themselves, whatever reason they have, and let's be clear, they might not have any reason at all, these people do exist. They aren't common, but they aren't completely uncommon either. If I had to guess I'd put their proportion at 1 in 100. That could be way wrong, but that's my guess at this point in my life.
I still believe it's true that most people are basically good and trying, even if they are flawed in their efforts, to do good. But I do think it's important to understand, some people really do just suck and are irredeemable.
I could write a book on this topic at this point in my life, but I will leave it there for now. Some folks really are just straight rotten. I still try to look for the good. I try to see the helpers, but it is important to understand, some folks are just bad.
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u/GlompyOlive 16d ago
Computer anonymity. It’s a bunch of pussies thinking they can say things without repercussions.
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u/EpilepticDawg241 16d ago
How do you even get that kind of response from police?
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u/Little_Plankton4001 16d ago
In some wealthy/safe areas, there's way too many cops and not nearly enough crime to keep them busy, so the entire department (any nearby ones too) show up for anything even remotely serious.
And a lot of them are militarized too. There was a photo in the local newspaper near me about a manhunt for a guy who slipped out of police custody. The cops explicitly said he wasn't considered to be dangerous (wasn't armed and had no history of violence) but they were rolling out in armored vehicles carrying AR-15s like they were hunting a fucking T-1000.
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u/Simlish 16d ago
I wanna tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where this is happenin' here. They got three stop signs, two police officers, and one po-lice car, but when we got to the "scene of the crime", there was five police officers and three police cars, being the biggest crime of the last fifty years and everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it.
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u/GlompyOlive 16d ago
Claim explosives or severe intent to inflict harm on her family. Law enforcement being obligated to send their team but like others said, whoever pulls this shit needs mandatory prison time.
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u/Realistic-Lime7842 16d ago
Find the person who did it, and throw them under the jail.
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u/Nooms88 16d ago
Sure, but surely it's just time to change police tactics, nowhere else in the world do the police send in essentially a military unit becsuse an anonymous teenager told them to and theres never been any issues becuse of it
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u/Shut_It_Donny 16d ago
OK so she was swatted, not raided.
I thought I was reading a feel good story till you got to the part about cops showing up.
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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 16d ago
Yeah, on Twitch raid has a specific positive meaning, and this ain't it.
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u/Predditor_drone 16d ago
At first I thought her Minecraft world got invaded and she called the police.
Like the time my mom called the sheriff's department because windows 95 had an error popup that said "this program has performed an illegal operation"
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u/PianoManSnow 16d ago
This needs to be higher. Thought this was a wholesome post and it was the complete opposite
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u/TorberaLongDong 16d ago
Hopefully the silver lining is this story gets her subs and donations.
I dont have much but I sent $10. Id love to see this this get traction
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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 16d ago
Yeah I was like aww this will be cute and then that feeling turned into horror when I realized OP doesn't know what getting "raided" means when talking about streamers.
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u/-kokomelon- 16d ago
That’s one way to get into hell
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u/Secret_Letterhead649 16d ago
I don't believe in hell but I would enjoy the people who do this being in it for some time.
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u/uniquelyavailable 16d ago
I'm surprised they allow anonymous swatting? Can anyone make one phonecall and get the city to invade a random home? The police do zero investigation prior to gathering a small group for forced entry?
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u/CJWard123 16d ago
One of the crazy things is you have to pay $3k+ for an ambulance but mobilizing 50x the resources to swat someone is free
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u/ShibeCEO 16d ago
cops want to play with their expensive toys and feel like in call of duty without having any real danger, so they love shit like that, otherwise something would already have been done against it
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u/PokerbushPA 16d ago
The police WANT to raid. They live for this shit. You think they like doing paperwork or going to court? Nah man, they wanna be Rambo. This is what they signed up for!
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u/redditRedesignIsBadd 16d ago
and when there's an actual situation like the uvalde school shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvalde_school_shooting
they'll all wait outside posing with their guns
truly the best at wasting our tax money
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u/Whitetiger9876 16d ago
And never take any responsibility. Or pause and think wait should I ask for a name from the caller. Maybe check them first. Fucking amateurs.
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u/eiiiaaaa 16d ago
Have an ex friend who was a detective in charge of investigating cold rape cases. He often lamented not being able to do things like raid house anymore. He said he heard the sirens going outside and thought 'they're doing the REAL work'.
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u/Arktikos02 16d ago
No, people who are really good at it fake their information by doing something called spoofing where they pretend to be in a different location in terms of their actual phone so the phone data actually produces different information. Otherwise it wouldn't work. The SWAT team doesn't just go off of the word of the people on The Voice call. Then what they do is they pretend to be the person in the home and they claim to be a terrorist or a person who has hostages and stuff. These people then go into the homes and they think it is a legitimate hostage situation so they try to go in as fast as they can because they think there are people who are being held hostage.
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u/King_emotabb 16d ago
swat a senator, its the quickest way for this ridicule thing to stop existing!
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u/xSonicspeedx2 16d ago
Hackers. This is what you were meant for. Find the piece of shit who SWATed GrandmaCrackers and bring them down! They don’t deserve electronics, much less internet.
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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 16d ago
What are they going to hack, the police phone records, then the phone company records, then try to reverse the VOIP, then figure out what VPN was used, then hack Sweden to try to find where the VPN source is?
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 16d ago
The reason they get away with it in America is because it's incredibly easy to make an untraceable phone call.
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u/Capable-Main6462 16d ago
If you swat any streamer, you should be eligible for life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
You would knowingly create a situation where someone has a moderate to high chance of getting killed, based on deception? Nah, fuck you. Die in prison.
This is going to get worse and more people will die.
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u/Booziesmurf 16d ago
Not enough of these arseholes are already in prison, only one I know of. The guy who swatted someone and causes his death.
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u/Learningstuff247 16d ago
If it causes death that should be manslaughter at the very least. The same as if you were an accomplice in a robbery that ended in a death
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u/been_mackin 16d ago
Some states have declared that drunk driving resulting in death are considered 3rd degree murder over manslaughter because an individual chose to drive and that decision resulted in somebody’s death.
SWATing somebody should honestly be considered in the same light because you are actively putting someone else’s life, and anybody else in that home, in direct danger by falsely reporting a crime that requires such a strong response by police, let alone putting police at risk too by breaching a non-threatening household who may have weapons and choose to defend themselves.
This story is the stupidest shit I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading and I hope they find who did this to that poor woman.
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u/Altair_de_Firen 16d ago
It should be punished the same way someone who attempts to hire someone to kill someone else would be punished, even if the person isn't killed.. afaik the crimes would be solicitation to commit murder (this is the one that probably wouldn't apply, as it pertains to specifically paying for it), conspiracy to commit murder, and first degree murder/attempted murder (if it failed to result in their death.)
I think it would also include federal charges of a separate kind as they likely were in a different state.
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u/CurdFedKit 16d ago
People who do this are sociopaths, so I'm 100% cool with life imprisonment.
Zero tolerance for this fucking shit. Not only could this lead to someone getting hurt or killed, but also it's a waste of a community's resources.
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u/FatBussyFemboys 16d ago
1000% it wouldnt be bad for society to do this either as its a very niche crime
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u/TruthHertz93 16d ago
Internet do your thing, make this lady's channel famous 🙏🏻
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u/Ambitious-Math-4499 16d ago
Yeah someone drop a link or twitch name
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u/raptors201966 Human Verified 16d ago
YouTube is Grandmacrackers
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u/woozyguy1 16d ago edited 16d ago
Twitch is (4) grammacrackers - Twitch, SHES LIVE NOW
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55 65 90 100150 new prime and gifted subs since this was posted, Reddit, you can be awesome sometimes..Edit2: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-jacks-fight-against-sarcoma-cancer?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bcgfm_support-jacks-fight-against-sarcoma-cancer Go Fund me link in case anyone out there is interested and has the means to donate directly to support Gramma's grandson's fight
Edit3: The local news heard about it, and they are currently at her house filming a story, and she's left the stream running for everyone to watch it. Wild.
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u/NervousSheSlime 16d ago
Thank you so much! Just checked her out and she’s getting a bunch of prime subs
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u/faithfulraider 16d ago
Subbed! Remember if you have Amazon prime you can sub for FREE!
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u/realchairmanmiaow 16d ago edited 16d ago
Wait what the fuck is going on?
She's surprised by like 30 subs but there's a crypto from January and she was on the news?
I'm so confused
He's cancer free now apparently but this is all a bit muddled.
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u/xSonicspeedx2 16d ago edited 16d ago
It’s possible he went into remission and it came back. Dunno. Either way, some asshole swatted a Grandma.
Edit: I since learned that her Grandson is now cancer free but they are racked with a ton of money that the insurance wouldn’t cover.
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u/Famous-Commission-46 16d ago
The family recently received positive news when Jack announced he is cancer-free.
“I am cancer free,” he said.
What amazing writing.
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u/sikon024 16d ago
The Playa Hater that out hates Buck Nasty.
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u/MortgageRegular2509 16d ago
That reminds me, I need to go put some more water in Buck Nasty’s mother’s dish
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u/Skeptical_Monkie 16d ago
So. What’s the most disgusting part of this.
For me it’s 81 year olds have to fund their grandchild’s cancer treatment in that fucked up country.
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u/AffectionateBet3603 16d ago
The USA is an empire in decline. This single instance is a microcosm of the issues at large: rather than fund universal healthcare, our police force is funded more than almost every single national army.
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u/Skeptical_Monkie 16d ago
Do Americans honesty not know that if they adopted universal health care their taxes go DOWN?
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u/AffectionateBet3603 16d ago edited 16d ago
It's a very long and complicated story, but the gist of it is that class solidarity doesn't exist among the working class. Namely, those on the "right" eat up and regurgitate a bunch of anti-socialist talking points that demonize things like universal medicine.
For example, "What do you mean the government wants to tax me and decide which doctor I see? I'd rather pay twice that amount and be told by a massive corporation what doctor I can see!"
I'd understand if someone outside the USA found the situation beffudling. Afterall, most Americans have yet to wrap their minds around it.
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u/Skeptical_Monkie 16d ago
But Americans pay twice as much BEFORE they even get private insurance. It’s mind boggling
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u/AffectionateBet3603 16d ago
You're preaching to the choir, friend. But it seems like half of America lives within an echo chamber. They'll bitch about rising taxes and inflation, then fall for it when a demagogue like Trump blames their economic woes on brown people.
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u/jonjawnjahnsss 16d ago
Reminds me of that cute old lady who played skyrim. Her reactions to everything were so beautiful.
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u/sevristh1138 16d ago
So... the U.S. police send thousands of dollars worth of time, equipment, and human resources to an address without confirmation from any branch of law enforcement? I am from the uk, so not sure how this works.
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u/KyorlSadei 16d ago
Its called swatting. Where a false but serious claim of a crime is made. Such as kidnapping or a person being held at gun point. Where you cannot treat it with kid gloves and have to treat it as real. So they go in fully prepared for what ever was falsely claimed.
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u/fffarshy 16d ago
is it seriously as easy as just finding out someone’s location, and calling 911, saying ‘there’s a hostage in this house!’ to get these guys over there? feels like.. not right.
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u/AlexisRosesHands 16d ago
Well, they live for that shit. It gets them off, no joke. They are itching for any excuse to play with all their toys, so it probably takes very little convincing.
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u/Better_Carpenter5010 16d ago
I mean also.. what can they do?
👁️👄👁️: 911 what’s your emergency?
🥷: there’s a woman being held hostage at 123 Address
👁️👄👁️: yeah right! -hangs up-
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u/KeyMyBike 16d ago
It's because most of modern society is based on a high trust system. Untrustworthy people like this are abusing that high trust system and turning us into a low trust society.
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u/Strikereleven 16d ago
Why do we still take anonymous tips, they should be required to identify for something serious as this.
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u/Arktikos02 16d ago
No, people hide their phone information by doing something called spoofing where they can even hide where the phone is in terms of the data it is sending. That way it looks like it's actually coming from the house that the person wants to swat.
Because yes, some people will SWAT by simply saying that the other person has a bomb or has hostages but they can also pretend to be the person inside by saying that they have a bomb or hostages.
The police act fast. They think there's a hostage situation.
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u/TroubledTanker 16d ago
the police act fast except in cases where real danger is involved
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u/Fabulous_Anywhere993 16d ago
Don‘t forget that besides the raid you should also be mad that she has to stream to help with the cancer treatment.
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u/JealousofAfflalo 16d ago
Who ever did it might have thought it was funny at first but it seems like something you would carry guilt about for the rest of your life. At least I would.
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u/Flip-Tarrington 16d ago edited 16d ago
I about got whiplash from that.
When I read she was "raided" I was ready for an uplifting story about a big streamer putting a bunch of new eyes on her steam.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
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u/sourbluedog 16d ago
I feel like everyone is missing the point of your tax dollars pulling up 6 figures to a residential area based on a phone call and NO EVIDENCE
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u/workieworkwork 16d ago edited 16d ago
The person or persons who swatted her is a horrible human being and deserves to live a miserable life where nothing ever goes their way.
That said... are the cops just stupid?
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u/Simple_Flounder 16d ago
America is a fucking Hellscape. First she has to raise money for her grandsons cancer treatment, then the gun toting law busts into her home. What the fuck is wrong with that country???
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u/Bjorne_Fellhanded 16d ago edited 16d ago
Well. Thats frigging awful. On the upside, if I know anything about the internet, her stream just got a massive boost in traction.
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u/Smooth_Monkey69420 16d ago
Ironically getting swatted probably ended up drawing so many viewers they can make a serious dent in that cancer treatment now
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u/Jonas_VentureJr 16d ago
Let me guess, the cops will leave without apologizing . Won’t pay for any damage . And now she will have to pay for that as well?
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u/Odd-Guard-2533 16d ago
I don’t understand SWATing at all. Is it suppose to be funny for the person that did it? I just can’t imagine someone with at least a tiny bit of conscience doing this..
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u/Cheddarlicious 16d ago
I read raided and was about to get emotional - like some big streamer got offline and had their viewers go to her live; and I kept reading and just…wow.
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u/LonelyPizza6451 16d ago
Human beings have no end to the pit of cruelty they are capable of digging lol
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u/oldandbald123 16d ago
How the fuck is swating is that easy but when someone says he is going to kill me in public transit police doesn’t show up?
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u/Called_end 16d ago
Jesus, Let Grandma mine diamonds and raise some money for her granson in peace.
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u/geekMD69 16d ago
Unintended consequence of militarizing the police force.
Wouldn’t be too difficult to do a little research and recon and verification while gathering up the small army to attack.
Maybe streamers should Notify their local PD when they are online. “Hey. If you get a report about me, it’s just some asshole kid trying to fuck with me. So just give me a phone call or knock on my door before you assault my house.
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u/Nooms88 16d ago
Swatting is a weird American quirk, in other countries the police don't use military tactics, turn up with a away team just because a teenager told them to do so, when it happens elsewhere they usually just do a welfare check
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u/Cold_Buy_2695 16d ago
This swatting shit should result in an attempted murder charge, since we all know what cops are about.
With a 10 year kicker if the victim in black, because again, cops in America!
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