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Yeah, that's a good point. But I mean, on the other hand, free pizza. Actually, this is a good example. There have been ~two high profile swatting incidents re

Yeah, that's a good point. But I mean, on the other hand, free pizza. Actually, this is a good example. There have been ~two high profile swatting incidents resulting in death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting#Injuries_or_deaths_due_to_swatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting#Injuries_or_deaths_du... Dying in a car crash is a lot higher probability for most of us, but the question is whether publishing one's address would raise the probability significantly. I'm not sure it would. And it's hard to think of what else people can do, other than, as you say, subscribe you to a bunch of fetish mailing lists that I'd probably get a kick out of anyway.

ggreer 5y ago
The wikipedia article you linked to only has one death, and it was an uninvolved person. In the 2015 Oklahoma swatting incident, the swatting victim shot the police chief, then surrendered. The cop survived and the swatting victim was not charged.[1] My guess is that the police really screwed up and didn't announce themselves before busting down his door. 1. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/no-charges-man-who-shot-police-chief-oklahoma-msna508901 https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/no-charges-man-who-shot-police-c...