With reference to my last post, I have changed my mind. I think, on balance, this was a swatting:
I don't think it's a Swatting. My reasoning:
- The call appears to have originated from Shotspotter, an automated system.
This was based on someone misinterpreting the police logs, there's no indication this was a Shotspotter callout.
- It's not either OnA or KF's style and there wouldn't really be any other suspects.
On reflection, there are other suspects (there's 500,000 people in Milwaukee and I bet at least half of them hate Pat), and others have said that OnA are going off the rails a bit.
- Swatting results in Cops breaking down the door with guns drawn, in the audio Pat says they were knocking on his door.
Apparently this is not the case under WI law.
- The Cops seem to have gone to the address Pat was renting out not his actual address. Why would Swatters send the Cops there rather than Pat's house?
This is still strange, but does not rule out a swatting on its own. Swatters tend not to be smart, and if they didn't get their info from KF/OnA (i.e. it's some third party that Pat has pissed off) they could fuck up.
- Pat would be raging about it on Twitter for sympathy points.
After a delay, he has started doing so. The delay was probably him giving statements to the cops.
Reasons I don't think Pat would call the Cops on himself in the middle of the night and lose his shit at them when they arrive:
- That's fucking retarded.
This is still my reasoning and anyone who thinks Pat would do this to himself and then freak out so badly at the cops he could have got himself shot/beaten is a moron.
So yeah, bummer, this now looks like a swatting. Swatters are the fucking worst, and I think charging them with attempted murder is the right thing to do. If the swatter is reading this (though if they read here they would have got the right address, so I suspect not), you
tried to kill a lolcow you absolute dipshit. What's funny about that? Le ebin trololol? You're not a troll, a rascal, a pest, or even an A-Log. You're just a violent criminal and I hope you get your colon shredded in federal prison. You've handed Pat a massive W and poisoned the well for people who just wanted to laugh at a pompous buffoon. This thread will never be as funny or as compelling again. That and you
literally tried to get him killed. For as porcine and ridiculous as Pat is, he doesn't deserve to die, and you have no right to make that decision and try to kill someone you absolute fuckstick. Next time Swat yourself, retard.