Oh it's very true. Had a pair of punks the next town over from me drop a concrete block off an overpass about 25 years ago into the front of a pickup truck going underneath. Killed the guy sitting in the middle of the seat— the driver was also injured and the third had multiple lacerations from glass. The trio was…

And I haven't disagreed with that, at all. SWAT teams are deployed expecting resistance, it can and likely will happen eventually on a false alarm. More importantly, they shouldn't make any distinction between a hoax and a real situation until they go in. SWAT teams are built around preparing for the worst possible…

So the same game that helped get soldiers home, was probably also responsible for ruining the few meaningful relationships they had left to come home to. If I've gained one grain of insight in my uneventful life, it's that when it comes to Monopoly, couples that play together, don't stay together.

Didn't he say he dropped out of high school? Yeah, hes probably not too worried about that.

Yet. We haven't seen any casualties yet (not "causalities", which is more amusing, but I get you).

yes people actually, well little assbag kids to be more accurate actually do that. I moved to Manhattan in the the upscale neighborhood of Gramercy Park back in 2003. On Lexington Ave which actually runs right into Gramercy Park proper theres a public highschool about 3 blocks south of the park. One afternoon 2…

You are looking at this when you have all the information before you and after the facts. Of course it's not the same, but look at it from the SWAT perspective. The police raid on drug suspect or a bomb threat could be getting wrong information but they know they have to act on it, and the police who swatted a…

When my brother was 2, a person smashed my mom's car window in with a large rock. It landed in his car seat, which he had been sleeping in half an hour prior while we brought in groceries.

It scared the shit out of me. Had he been sitting there, he would have been dead.

Little did we know, this is the person swatting everyone. The real question is, how do you kill that which has no life?

Not for nothing, but the toddler didn't die and the county is trying to find every possible loophole to avoid compensating his family for medical expenses. Not trying to defend swatting, but no-knocks are a completely different thing.

Ugh, don't worry dude, You're making perfect sense.

Now that could be considered attempted murder. At the very least assault.

Hell yes. I've always hated the idiocy of the general population, but now that I have a child I'm actively intolerant of it.

So, does that mean if someone really *is* trying to keep someone hostage in their basement, they can just call the police and preemptively inform them that any calls or tips concerning their household are just pranks and that everything's fine and not to come looking or knocking or kicking in the door because…

True but swatting isn't exactly an impulsive action. These people want to ruin someones day so they go on twitch looking for someone they can screw with. Then they have to do some research to find the individuals information. Then they have to plan what they're going to say to the police and act it out. After that…

That makes me think about a local incident where some ass crack tossed a bowling ball off of an overpass. It went right through the windshield of a newlywed killing her.

As I said in my other reply - the adult penal system requires much of the same treatment.
The fact that this is lacking is a clear failure of the correctional facilities in the US and a pretty good start on explaining why the US houses 25% of the worlds prisoners when the US represents only 5% of the global population.

There are key differences however. Most notably the fact that with juvenile cases the records tend to get sealed and that they often get a LOT of leniency in exchange for therapy and other nonsense.

This guy gets it. A lot of people like to look at teenagers as full-grown adults. They'll say things like, "They should have known better!" and cheer when a minor gets tried as an adult. It's all such bullshit. Not all teens have the maturity level of an adult. It's expected, yes, but one shouldn't be vilified for not…

Fuck the maturity angle and the emotional angle. Swatters cost the state and local taxpayers thousands of dollars every time they do this. Gearing up cops to go on a single SWAT raid isn't free. Then you have the destruction of property that will inevitably result, which adds up to even more. They're costing the…