Did
you think Amazon wasn’t big enough? Well, think again; turns out Amazon has
bought the most popular streaming service on the internet, Twitch. Speaking of
Twitch, Overlook way… what would you think would happen if while your favorite
youtuber was streaming on Twitch, he gets swatted????
First of all: what is Swatting?
Swatting is an internet term that refers to the act of prank calling at a
higher level; it’s the same thing as prank calling police and making them
dispatch units like swat, bomb squad, etc… this often happens to Youtubers
while live streaming.
This is a real issue as it’s a
waste of tax payers’ money, and public services; while they could be out doing
something useful like stop REAL crime, they are stuck following a fake call.
This has happened to Kootra, a
youtuber who works with The Creature. While he was streaming, he heard sounds
outside his door, and, immediately, the Swat team entered the room and ordered
Kootra to the ground, searched him and conversed. They didn’t shut down the
stream, but they did cover the camera at 20 minutes into the stream.
Kootra is now released and
well, a school got shut down as well, and the whole office got evacuated. This all
happened in a 10 hours span (Don’t quote me on it) and everyone didn’t take it
too bad fortunately.
That’s
All!! What did you think about what happened? Have you been a Swatting victim?
Did I miss anything? As always, tell me in the comments.
© Copyrighted Work of Stefano Peralma 2014 Blog Post.
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