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Man Swatted 47 Times for Making a Joke About Norm Macdonald

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0:00 bro how do you get swatted multiple times in one day now I'm really curious about that I know like what I think it might be different you're calling different uh oh I say cuz the same guys aren't going to keep coming they don't get to the door and it's already busted off the hinges [Music] yeah there's a 17-year-old his name is Alan Winston filon right he was apparently operating already apparently operating a swatting service you know what swatting is are calling cops on people wait he has a service yeah out of his father's California home where criminals could call in a hoax bomb threat or mass shooting almost as easily as ordering a burger on Uber Eats what the ████ well he's a businessman he suspected of targeting hundreds of high schools mosques historically black churches US

0:50 senators and even the US Supreme Court with swatting attacks that plac thousands of people in the crosshairs of heavily armed police response teams but is it his fault or is it the people that are paying for the service well he's definitely providing the service yeah but if it wasn't a market for it I think it's two to tango I don't think he's like completely exonerated of any guil kind of like um Tiger King you know yeah that's true if there was no audience be his service under the pseudonym tour swats uh on the encrypted messaging app telegram which I didn't even know the telegram was that deep where you could like sell ████ swatting Services he would charge uh roughly or as little as $40 to get someone's Gas shut off $50 for a major police response and $75 for a bomb threat or mass shooting threat yeah shut

1:40 off it should like that's not that bad wait wait it's he made it that cheap yeah see did he even make real money from this like if he's going to do this big of a crime he's charging 40 bucks like my whole it's volume for sure it is hard to catch those dudes though yeah what what if you're the criminal that's calling it up you're like 40 bucks F you're like I should I just call them yeah 40 bucks I think that is kind of dumb what the ████ it is a little bit stupid to go through a liaison cuz that's that's just one more way to get caught yeah yeah yeah there's a paper trail it's not that hard to do it sadly Ryan you're a wild guy cuz they never catch the people that do it it's just you just have to beep he's like yeah I would pay the ████ 40 bucks no way poetically how would you do it I would be this guy and then when people when

2:30 people don't want to pay it I'll go all right I'm just going to say you wanted to swat somebody and then just release their info and then be like pay me to not say that you were going to do this or you could probably walk into a fat burger and like hey can I borrow your phone called the 911 number from B oh that's a good that's a good move so he would post the audio of the 911 calls on telegram as a proof of purchase according to court documents wow uh among the hundreds of swats that tour swats allegedly claimed credit credit for were multiple hoax call outs at the home of this guy named Patrick S Tomlinson he is a Milwaukee based science fiction author who says he has been swatted dozens of times in the past four years as part of a targeted harassment Camp Why by a group of sociopath try get his his books done he has like two reviews why did

3:22 they mess with him dude it might be like one of those for for for jokes it's gone so far to the point where uh multiple times he's been awoken in the middle of the night to find officers banging on his door he's been handcuffed he's had guns shoved in his face during this four year long they hate this F ████ author dude what do they have to tell him to get this response he's even been swatted is there a key word to swatting where you have to say like this guy did this and then they'll do that you have to say that there's a weapon involved and that there's a a hostage situation oh ████ he's even been swatted four times in one day oh wait they don't change their policies like hey this guy clearly it's fine they don't put a pin on a property of like hey we've been there twice today the ultimate SWAT would be if you could SWAT a different SWAT unit that's crazy like a headquarters Juris or they switch like

4:12 this damn that's ████ cuz they have to kind of check right like if they get a call as that that's the reason why that's even if it's like such a hoax sounding thing it's like they still have to go they still have to yeah that's what sucks man oh is this the guy uh this is the I wonder what books he's WR runs be stain Bears hey guys guys this guys this is the guy it's like the the author the SWAT oh of course it is ████ looks like Cartman in real life what what is he is he a he or a she or a Asian what is he what i is he ████ kazak what is that kazak I don't even know what that is brilliant he's a go-getter that's what he is he's trying to be anonymous like in real life too yeah nonidentifiable guy bro how do you get

5:03 swatted multiple times in one day now I'm really curious about that I know like what I think it might be different you're calling different uh oh I cuz the same guys aren't going to keep coming they don't get to the door and it's already busted off the hinges yeah ████ what do we do bro he's still laying on the ground and his face is busted off everything there he's taking he's getting the pepper spray out of his eyes he's like oh ████ I just not again finally stop burning another group comes in and pepper he spraying him it's like renewing the spray over four times in one day this guy built an immunity get the what if one SWAT team is there already and another one comes and they start battling it out yeah like in gags in New York with the

5:53 firefighters want to fight to put the fire out I feel like these SWAT Team guys must be really proud of themselves after like they got him I know we got that ████ yeah they file it as a win like you guys had a busy year dude that's rough man swatting sucks dude the White House was swatted last month apparently um the White House yeah they kick the doors out they don't have an internal guy that can just say no everything's fine the SWAT team didn't pull up and go this is the president's house I know this address I've seen this before uh apparently cost law enforcement around $10,000 for call out ████ well the taxpayer oh they would love to mark that number up they're getting paid that much $440,000 worth of law enforcement units what are we going to do we got swatted what are you going to do maybe that's why they don't mind going there four

6:43 times a day exactly yeah it's a scam between this ████ kid but what if this guy works at the 911 dispatch 911 dispatch 911 dispatch yeah this is like a big old scam like he knows all the terms you know oh what if the swap members are going to lose their jobs unless if there's this kid calling in there's quot there's a quota they got to hit they're going to start cutting the SWAT guys it's like a traffic cop he's like I got to get some tickets man they're painful they don't care what it is they just want to ████ get suited and in the SWAT office it's like Glenn Gary Glenn Ross are like come on guys you got to get your numbers up not enough raids this month always be closing guys so yeah this most swatted man in America Mr Tomlinson the author the science fiction author he also dabbles in standup comedy apparently apparently the reason

7:35 why he's been the the most swatted man in America is because he made a hot take one time as a comedian he said I've never found nor McDonald funny that's a hot take SWAT him SWAT him SWAT him SWAT him and apparently since then like people have made it their ████ life's mission to make this guy's life difficult that's pretty funny that's pretty funny all the way to the point where like their group like they're they have like an objective or a mission statement to the group that like is like bring this guy to Suicide type sh oh my God that's extreme that's extreme that's ████ crazy yeah it's intense but I mean He did apparently say nor McDonald wasn't F yeah but those guys are they're that's stupid because people not finding nor McDonald funny is the joke yeah yeah the group State goal was to quote destroy his career his marriage and drive him to Suicide damn

8:28 they should do something else they should they should try other things yeah they're very good at what they do clearly they should they should put their efforts into something else I think or when you're really good at something you stick to it that's true yeah you double only win in life substantial win I wanted this guy to be like some normal like fantasy novel writer and then somehow the internet got a hold of trolling this dude and they wanted to ████ with him hard that sound more like that's even worse that that was funnier to the the interesting part is is you need a specific address how do they freaking find his address they dox his ass yeah that sucks does he not move like he's just like accepted the situation he's like bring it on this is why you should be a digital Nomad damn that's crazy imagine his

9:18 riter's block now oh yeah yeah living airs there you go can't do him yeah or imagine this is uh the premise for his next novel dud you imagine you get some good you get some good material from getting swatted eight times bro yeah and you get some good material from wanting to kill yourself what if he's just funnier now yeah cuz he's on his last leg he's like you know what he's just depressed you know yeah that's a good standup bit though being the most swatted man in America there's probably a lot of stories if you can't have what if he's just been swatting himself so he could get this title you know yeah maybe maybe three of those are him I he was tied after a certain amount of time he's like hey I think I should he already got three in one day and that was the most in America so he's like let me ████ get a full like I'm going for the record man I'm not taking this

10:08 pepper spray off that's not the worst tactic for attention and in a success SWAT yourself I mean there's the juicy smelly a version oh yeah that's true call the cops on yourself and put a noose in your locker mhm what do you call that what's we don't believe he was lying around here Anthony what are you saying Arvid what see you just got to throw the guest in the [Music] ████

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