Gaming pranker and his family fall victim to extreme revenge prank

[soundoflights]

Its unfortunate that a swat teams time was wasted on this dude. Hes not even a clever griefer. If your gonna grief at least be creative.

 

[Alexnader]

I'm amazed that actually worked. I mean what, the police get a call saying there's a hostage situation and the first thing they do is send in a SWAT team to bust in there? I mean I guess if the prankster had made it sound like the guy was right on the verge of killing everyone they might have been forced to go but jeez... It just seems ridiculously easy.

 

[KiKiweaky]

*snip*XBL is no different. Just because it's become the accepted norm to behave like a cockroach doesn't justify it, and that's what you are implying. I'm well aware how appling people behave online, i'm not naive. That doesn't mean i have to tolerate it, and evidently someone didn't. What i want to know is what MS are doing about this? They have terms and conditions and charge us to play online and yet don't seem to want to do anything to combat people like this?

Oh of course it doesnt justify it, but people have to be reported before microsoft can do anything about it. I didnt listen to the whole thing, mainly ecause its just gona be a repeat of stuff we've all heard before.... 'Moron hear female?' 'Moron must talk to female D:'

The only thing about XBox live is it has alot of morons using it, I remember when I played it (when the first modern warfare came out) hearing a 30(ish) year old calling an 11 year 'a little fag' and then that started a flame war.... I mean what was the point?

You can either laugh at stuff like that, or be offended by it. I'm pretty sure your one was just laughing it off, I mean whats the point rising to it? It's exactly what the turd wants, a reaction to his 'Ohhh I'm being naughty'

 

[Reynaerdinjo]

What the fuck people. Never heard of "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Why would you equate online harassment to physical damage and terror? It's just not comparable and the guy DID NOT DESERVE THIS.

 

[kidcrash]

You need to blame the girl too for sitting through that. There are ways to remove yourself from the situation; if you choose not to, it's your fault.

 

[InsaneAlbino]

If she cares that much about the loss, then it's back to "she deserved the trolling". And I doubt Bungie'll ban you for a leave to avoid harassment

The ban is implemented as a process in the game, it doesn't ask why you quit.

Anyone that even entertains the possibility that she deserved it needs to talk to a psychiatrist urgently. I'm not even joking. This is the 21st century ffs.

They don't ban you for a single leave. Anyone that entertains the possibility that she could have done nothing to avoid such harassment needs to talk to a psychiatrist urgently. Yes, this is the 21st century, so it's not like trolls are surprising to find on the internet any more, so why did she feed the troll?

 

[InsaneAlbino]

If she cares that much about the loss, then it's back to "she deserved the trolling". And I doubt Bungie'll ban you for a leave to avoid harassment

The ban is implemented as a process in the game, it doesn't ask why you quit.

Anyone that even entertains the possibility that she deserved it needs to talk to a psychiatrist urgently. I'm not even joking. This is the 21st century ffs.

Please stop making excuses for the shit behaviour of an internet pervert.

They don't ban you for a single leave. Anyone that entertains the possibility that she could have done nothing to avoid such harassment needs to talk to a psychiatrist urgently. Yes, this is the 21st century, so it's not like trolls are surprising to find on the internet any more, so why did she feed the troll?

Please stop making excuses for the stupidity of one person who doesn't know how to deal with a troll.

 

[Twaddlefish]

Guy's an asshole who'd have been arrested and sentenced for that had it not been on the internet. SWAT perhaps a bit of an abuse of police resources, but it should've shook him up and his wife'll want to know why a SWAT team broke her front door.

 

[Sephychu]

Not how I'd respond, but rule of funny/cool means that I accept it.

I mean, I strongly disagree with sexual harassment, and maybe the SWAT team was overboard, but he did deserve some kind of comeuppance, and this was funny.

 

[DataSnake]

What the fuck people. Never heard of "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Why would you equate online harassment to physical damage and terror? It's just not comparable and the guy DID NOT DESERVE THIS.

Damn skippy. "I disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --commonly attributed to Voltaire.

In short, freedom of speech covers even things some people would prefer nobody say. That's not an unfortunate side effect; that's WHY IT EXISTS. Sure, you may have to put up with other people's idiocy, but the flip side is, THEY HAVE TO PUT UP WITH YOU TOO! Generally speaking, ask yourself the following question: "have I ever said anything online that someone might find offensive?" If your answer is yes, then unless you think people offended by YOUR comments would be justified in sending a SWAT team to your house, you should extend this idiot the same consideration. If your answer was no, then you are going to hell for lying.

Also, a bit of advice for anybody who wants to be sure there won't be any dickheads in their next game: stick to single player, because that is the ONLY way you can be sure there won't be anyone present whose sense of humor and/or appropriateness differ from your own.

 

[InsaneAlbino]

If she cares that much about the loss, then it's back to "she deserved the trolling". And I doubt Bungie'll ban you for a leave to avoid harassment

The ban is implemented as a process in the game, it doesn't ask why you quit.

Anyone that even entertains the possibility that she deserved it needs to talk to a psychiatrist urgently. I'm not even joking. This is the 21st century ffs.

Please stop making excuses for the shit behaviour of an internet pervert.

They don't ban you for a single leave. Anyone that entertains the possibility that she could have done nothing to avoid such harassment needs to talk to a psychiatrist urgently. Yes, this is the 21st century, so it's not like trolls are surprising to find on the internet any more, so why did she feed the troll?

Please stop making excuses for the stupidity of one person who doesn't know how to deal with a troll.

You're really not getting this are you.

Your loss. I can't be bothered to explain it over and over. Let's just hope you never find yourself in such a situation.

No, I'm getting it. You think he's so terrible and that it was right for him to have a swat team called in on his house, and I think that he was pretty funny and definitely did not deserve that.
I have found myself in a situation in which someone was attempting to troll me. It's not too difficult to shut them down, so we don't have to hope for anything since it seems like I'm the only one with any internet common sense.

 

[Tron-tonian]

Serious douche, and one who still doesn't get that actions have consequences. It's not his fault, see, poor Keem was just pulling "innocent pranks". I'm sure that's what Frosty would say, too.

My sympathy gauge reads precisely zero.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Yup he deserved the prank. That was just awful what he did to her