For 17 years, Sean Hodgson was best friends with the man who would commit Maine’s deadliest mass shooting.

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    10 months ago

    What the hell do they say to summon a “swatting” on someone if they can’t even respond to “This trained guy with a gun says he’s on his way to go shoot a bunch of random people”??

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      10 months ago

      Active hostages. They call and pretend to be in the middle of a mental crisis. Basically drop the “I have my girlfriend hostage, I have a gun, and I’m going to kill both of us unless cops get here ASAP” type stuff. So the cops don’t have time to knock on the door and quietly ask to speak with you. They go in guns blazing and shoot anyone who doesn’t look like a potential girlfriend, (or maybe they do shoot someone who looks like a girlfriend, because cops are trigger happy.)

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        10 months ago

        Sounds like the same level of severity, but I guess the call coming from the alleged shooter (in the first person) is a sort of admission that adds significance to the call in their eyes…