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>mudge Preettty sure that was just a misguided welfare check incorrectly described as a "swatting". See context: https://twitter.com/dotMudge/status/121104330
by FDSGSG 7y ago
>mudge
Preettty sure that was just a misguided welfare check incorrectly described as a "swatting".
See context: https://twitter.com/dotMudge/status/1211043309973622784 https://twitter.com/dotMudge/status/1211043309973622784
Odds are someone was worried about him after his tweet, not that someone called the police and pretended to have hostages at his address.
It's certainly never appropriate in the US to call the cops if you think that someone might be suicidal, but I don't think it'd be entirely inappropriate to be concerned by his initial tweet.
- soup10 7y agoI don't know what happened with mudge, but "welfare checks" where the person calling has ulterior motives for involving the cops in a situation are a common thing as well.