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Video Game ‘Swatting’ Hoax Costing Police Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars

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Police around the nation are reportedly spending as much as $100,000 per response to “swatting” incidents, hoaxes where video game players watching a live video feed of their opponent call the police on the person in order to see a SWAT team raid their house. What do you think?


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