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early one weekend morning in January 2014, Janet was sleeping fitfully in her parents’ home in Toronto. A junior studying elementary education at a nearby college, she had gone home for the weekend in a state of nervous collapse. For months, someone going by the name ‘‘Obnoxious’’ had been harassing her online. He had called her cellphone repeatedly and sent her threatening texts. Worst of all, he had threatened to ‘‘swat’’ her at school — to make a false emergency call to the police and lure a SWAT team to her door. Janet was afraid to go to sleep; she kept thinking that he was going to swat her in the middle of the night. He said he was going to swat her family, too. Her father owned a bar, and her mother worked at a hotel. They were from China, and their English wasn’t great. They didn’t know much about her life online, and they would never understand why someone would stalk their daughter on the Internet. Around 6:30 a.m., her father jostled her awake and said she needed to come downstairs. When she got to the top of the steps, she saw her family’s living room ‘‘covered in cops.’’ There were at least five officers in riot gear, guns drawn. They had bulletproof vests and pads and helmets with visors. She remembers the eerie silence of the officers — they said nothing at all. She had no idea what to do with her hands. ‘‘I was scared to move,’’ she says. ‘‘I wanted to go downstairs with my hands up. I was afraid they would shoot me. I was so scared. I feel like they just didn’t really let their guard down until I told them what happened.’’ Hoax, she said finally, this is a hoax. It’s not real. I’m being stalked. It started with DDoSing. As soon as she said ‘‘DDoSing,’’ she could tell that the officers weren’t following. Then she checked her phone and saw a stream of texts from Obnoxious. They were still arriving, crawling down the screen, when she held up her phone to show the officers and ask for help.
originally posted by: starwarsisreal
Reminds me of this incident:
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
Death penalty. some people are just evil.
I was somewhat passive to the idea of "swatters", or people who think it's amusing to call SWAT teams to innocent citizens houses by reporting a "serious crime", taking advantage of the near-anonymity of the internet and using it to mess with other people. "Jerks will be jerks" I thought. Of course there'll be people who exploit the system, as many often do. But I didn't think there were enough of them, or they were powerful enough, to do this kind of damage.
originally posted by: Passerby1996
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
Death penalty. some people are just evil.
No. What they need is significant mental counseling and support from people who actually want them to get better.
I'm not saying we should ever let the worst of these offenders out of this counseling program. But, are we really better than the people we're executing if we believe, just as much as they do, that what we're doing is right?
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
Death penalty. some people are just evil.
originally posted by: Danowski
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
Death penalty. some people are just evil.
Like you? Shameful post.
All life is precious.
originally posted by: hutch622
a reply to: Passerby1996
Is not swatting a form of terrorism . I mean if i was to say there was a bomb at A B or C it would be considered terrorism . Lock a few of these people away for ten years . Word would soon get around that it is not such a good idea .
Then he demanded nude pictures. He had a foot fetish. He asked them to talk about sex.
He posted nude pictures of some women on Twitter as well. He once posted a nude shot of a 14-year-old girl and later bragged that he was a pedophile. Women reported the abuse to Twitter, but whenever Twitter banned him, he would just make a new account and continue as before.
originally posted by: hutch622
a reply to: OccamsRazor04
My comment still stands . But after reading the whole article , if his details became public , and it was my daughter , the police would be the last of his problems . But . I would make sure that not only him , but his mates in the background got theirs . There would be no mercy , just broken bones .
I would make sure that not only him , but his mates in the background got theirs .
originally posted by: Kandinsky
'Obnoxious' has little or no chance of recovering from these incidents. Beyond redeemable and likely to be a blight in the lives of many people in the future. I don't believe people can demean others for so long without becoming broken themselves.