Originally Posted by
Pitboss1
I highly doubt life decisions would be based upon an anonymous member internet forum where the members spar and act like drunken Friday night protesters for the most part.
You'd be surprised what a lie on the internet can do in real life. Two people got into an argument online about a video game. They ended up wanting to kick each other's asses in real life over some argument on the damn internet. One of the guys claimed he lived at a REAL address. So, the other guy called SWAT and claimed that an armed Terrorist lived there. SWAT took it SERIOUSLY, and went to the REAL address and banged on the door hard. The owner of the house merely opened the door to see what the noise was about and got shot to death. The Owner of the house was INNOCENT in this whole mess and didn't even know about the arguments between the two guys. The guy that picked a random house to claim he lived did an Off Camera Interview at a Starbucks and claimed he didn't know the guy he lied to would send SWAT to the address.
He claimed that the guy who sent SWAT to the address was at fault for the innocent man's death. The Interviewer asked something like"Don't you think YOU are also at fault for giving a random address to someone you were arguing with? The guy admitted he was also at fault for giving a random address but felt that since he was doing an AUDIO interview and not an ON Camera interview, there would be no way he could be held legally responsible for the innocent man's death. He was arrested like the very next day.
Listeners of the Interview thought it was weird that the guy would do an interview like this in a Starbucks and not lay low after the Innocent Man's death. The listeners also thought SWAT was also at fault for shooting the first person to open up the door and mentioned that the person who opened the door could have been an innocent Hostage/Victim who opened the door because they saw SWAT and were trying to be helped. They felt SWAT was highly irresponsible in this tragedy.
Here is at least one Youtube Video on the false Swatting lie thing... For some reason, the actual Interview seems to have been deleted.
Deep edit. I had done this post by Memory. After watching the video I posted, it turns out one of the arguers claimed HE himself was the Armed Terrorist who had shot/terrorized his Family Members and was planning to set the house on fire and already had gasoline. He sent a random address and that's when Andrew Finch, innocent owner of house was shot by SWAT after he merely opened the door to see what was going on.
The Hoax Caller who claimed he was an armed Terrorist is the one who did the Interview that soon led to his arrest.