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Offline gryphon

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SWATing comes to Lansing
« on: July 17, 2015, 10:50:55 PM »
Read in the LSJ tonight that there have been two SWATing calls here in the last week, one to Lansing PD and one in Ionia County.  One said shots fired in the home, and the other supposedly by the "shooter" who said that he had already killed three people and was going after a fourth.  Both calls were hoaxes and one was related to an online gaming forum.
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Offline CitizensHaveRights

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Re: SWATing comes to Lansing
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2015, 11:40:52 PM »
Maybe, just maybe, PDs will start treating phone calls like the 'boy who cried wolf' and stop deploying paramilitary forces into people's homes on the basis of unsubstantiated phone calls?
"A well balanced breakfast being necessary to the start of a healthy day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed "  - Who has a right to keep and eat food, The People or A Well Balanced Breakfast?