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    An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted

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    1. AvailableReporter484 on

      I can’t be the only one thinking that we need more checks and balances here. Like, it cannot be this fucking easy to potentially murder someone via a 911 call. It just can’t be.

    2. Nihilist_Hermit on

      Once again, I feel the need to say that anyone “swatting” should be charged with a felony,  and more effort should be put in to find the perpetrator 

    3. Biggu5Dicku5 on

      Infuriating… I hope the bastards that did this get found and arrested…

    6. nerdyplayer on

      Why do people wake up and say to themselves especially im going to be an asshole today

    7. hitanthrope on

      I don’t really understand this thing.

      I’m from the UK where where the police don’t really come for any reason.

      In the US then, you can just kind of call them up and say, “Hey, this person is a terrorist, here’s their address…”, and the police just kind of go, “Great, thanks for the tip, we will shoot them imminently and without further question!”?

    10. zenigatamondatta on

      This might be the most uniquely American headline of all time. Good thing she was white or they would have shot her and the grandson.

      Glad Israel gets healthcare with my taxes so people have to continue to beg for help for entertainment. I hate this country so fucking much.

    13. dmfuller on

      Things like this will only keep happening in this era of zero accountability. Anyone can seemingly do anything right now and nothing ever happens, truly discouraging

    15. MathW on

      This whole story is so dystopian.

      -An 81 year grandma live-streaming a video game to pay for life saving medical treatment.

      -Someone abusing our highly militarized police force to invade her home.

    16. EMAW2008 on

      The swelling, bullshit aside….A grandma live streaming to pay for cancer treatments for her grandchild??? this is peak capitalism folks.

    18. AnnaMolly66 on

      That’s fucking vile. Swatting should be punished *harshly.* It could potentially get people killed.

    19. Shopworn_Soul on

      > “I was asleep, I did not want to get up, and these policemen came in the door,” the 81-year-old said in a follow-up video. “They locked me out. I didn’t know what was going on, but it was kinda fun. My kid and my grandkid were hugging me; I don’t get that kind of attention normally. Then I got to ride in a police car. I’ve never ridden in a police car before. Then it was all over, so I thought ‘Well, I’ve gotta go to bed’, so I took an ibuprofen and went to bed.”

      Real talk, she sounds like a lovely human.

    20. exitiumaeternus on

      Alright people we gave it our best shot but the internet was obviously a mistake. Let’s just pack it up and go back to newspapers, rotary phones and fax machines. We can’t hurt eachother as much that way. We need to let the world heal.

    21. ducksekoy123 on

      Every single part of this headline is depressing

      Child cancer, American health care, and online harassment

    22. 04Aiden2020 on

      Considering there is a serious chance you can die from a swatting, I would have no issue with the swatter serving 10 years

    23. hudsoncress on

      Nothing says “America” quite like “An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer”

    24. Gothiccheese95 on

      Swatting needs a harsher punishment, swatters are dregs of society.

      From the article this is what she had to say:
      “They locked me out. I didn’t know what was going on, but it was kinda fun. My kid and my grandkid were hugging me; I don’t get that kind of attention normally. Then I got to ride in a police car. I’ve never ridden in a police car before. Then it was all over, so I thought ‘Well, I’ve gotta go to bed’, so I took an ibuprofen and went to bed.”

      This lady is incredible and if anything at all can come from this i hope its more viewers for her.

      FYI her channel name is Gramma Crackers and shes streaming rn, go support her!

    25. RogersMrB on

      This wouldn’t happen if the USA wasn’t the 3rd world of 1st world problems.

      Everywhere else has:
      – universal healthcare
      – high public order
      – reasonable and sane emergency services

    26. Freud-Network on

      Not only is a grandma having to whore her personality to make money for a grandchild’s cancer treatment, but horrible people want to treat her like shit for it.

      Black Mirror is so horrifyingly on the nose.

    27. Haunting-Data-6515 on

      In a few years swatters are gonna be in for some surprises in terms of the law I think.

      Won’t be under trump because he has the iq of a chicken wing but it’ll come.