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- Apr 22, 2019
If Rick self-swatted (and I'm not going to be convinced about the identity of the perpetrator until we have some real evidence), then I would think it's very likely that he called in the apartment that he wasn't currently inhabiting, thinking that he could get the social benefits of being a swatting victim without having to go through the actual process. He gets to yell on twitter about how the evil stalkers tried to get him killed, but were so stupid they couldn't even get his address right.The pests tend to have a problem thinking emotionally rather than logically - when mysteries like this pop up, people choose the best/funniest outcome and circlejerk each other's biases. I'm really starting to believe this was a false flag.
1. Missing Niki. She was "away"? Where? By herself, she doesn't have a job that requires her to travel, maybe she was visiting family that hate Patrick? Whatever the case, if this was a false flag, Niki may have heard the plan and been like "yeah I'm fucking outta here, I ain't going to prison for this shit" and let Patrick deal with the consequences of his plan. There's also the theory Niki or a family member called in the swat, but that's far-fetched.
2. His twitter silence before the swatting. To the point where many (including yours truly) speculated he had to have been on vacation because his tweeting took a noticeable dip. Home Alone Patrick was doing what exactly besides tweeting, his primary addiction?
3. His twitter silence after the swatting. Anthony Cumia (someone asked if he was a pedophile a few pages back, the answer is YES) got fired from O&A after being assaulted by a black lady in Times Square, he went on a drunken tweet rampage against her littered with all sorts of racist shit. Yet Patrick didn't log onto his account and rage-tweet while in a heightened emotional state, he stayed silent as the pests put the puzzle together.
So let's try to construct a narrative that makes logical sense here?
The contact form trolling is getting worse and nobody seems to care. Patrick comes up with a self-SWAT plan, Niki's away, he'll be wearing only a bathrobe so the cops know he doesn't have a concealed weapon. Niki leaves, he paces around the hovel rehearsing the conversation in his head. Charming the police to get them on your side, making them finally realize they need to step in and do something about this. Barely has time to make smug comments about Republicans with all the anxiety. But hey, he's gotten away with several false flags against the cyberstalkers (YouWillNeverFindMe1488, the erasable marker vandalism, the guy on his CCTV that isn't him) so this would should be fine too?
If he did that, it would explain his freakout at the cops. His writing clearly shows that he has no ability to get inside someone else's head and think through the various possible responses they might have. He has a plan, an outcome that he expects, and is wholly incapable of understanding that people might do something different. He could have been totally shocked and outraged that the cops came and knocked on his door instead of just giving up after getting no response downstairs, going back to the station, and filing the report that he needed to validate his victim status.