The Canadians are hot to shut down Yoga classes for imaginary crimes like "cultural appropriation" (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl ... 910798.cms), but when it comes to actual criminals they just yawn.
A cop in Georgia and the FBI had to hand them this guy on a silver platter....guess they were too busy enforcing multiculturalism. No doubt our "progressives" would be happy if the police would leave the criminals alone here and go after those who aren't sufficiently PC instead.‘‘Dox’’ is a scary word. It’s a document of your private information posted online for anyone to see and exploit. Doxing makes you vulnerable to all sorts of mischief, from phone harassment to credit-card fraud or worse. Obnoxious was able to obtain this sort of information for dozens of women. He mainly did it by cold-calling Internet companies and duping customer-service representatives over the phone. He would use one small piece of public information, a birthday or a favorite pet, to get yet another from one company, and then he would use the new piece to get more information from a different company. He had a con man’s gift for deception. Sometimes he was even able to take over a woman’s account. ‘‘He loved to tell me how he did it,’’ Janet says. ‘‘He told me that he would call customer service at Amazon, say that he forgot my password but he knows my birthday, and the Amazon people, they just give it. And if they wouldn’t, he would just call again.’’ (Amazon did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)
When the women stopped responding to him, he escalated his attacks. He told a transgender streamer named Alexa Walk that he had her medical records and knew her birth name. Then he posted her birth name on Twitter. He posted nude pictures of some women on Twitter as well. He once posted a nude shot of a 14-year-old girl and later bragged that he was a pedophile. Women reported the abuse to Twitter, but whenever Twitter banned him, he would just make a new account and continue as before.
Online abuse began to cross over into the physical world. He sent pizzas to their homes. A string of deliverymen climbed the stairs to K.’s apartment in Florida, carrying unappetizing pies: deep-dish pizza with no cheese, pizza with anchovies and jalapeños, double bacon and double pepperoni. He called their cellphones repeatedly and sent ‘‘text bombs’’ of hundreds of messages at a time. If all else failed and Obnoxious couldn’t get a hold of a woman, he would start threatening to dispatch a SWAT team to her house, or her parents’ house, or her college — a kind of intrusion that couldn’t be ignored.
Shorter summary version here: http://weaponsman.com/?p=27480#commentsB.A. Finley, a detective sergeant with the Johns Creek Police Department outside Atlanta, had heard about swatting but never really understood it until Jan. 16, 2014. That afternoon, a man called a police line in Alpharetta, Ga., and said he had killed three people in a home in nearby Johns Creek and was holding a girl hostage. ‘‘If you send any cops here, I swear to God I’ll shoot their ass.’’ The dispatcher tried to get information as the man stammered and cursed at her. ‘‘I got the little girl right here.’’ He said he needed $30,000 or he would kill the girl, too.
Officers — including Finley — raced to the address with rifles and shotguns, unholstering loaded pistols at the scene, only to find that there was no hostage-taker, no dead family, no emergency. There was only chaos: close to 40 responders and their vehicles, gawking neighbors, traumatized victims, everyone trying to figure out what had happened.
The hoax made the news, and the Johns Creek mayor expressed his anger publicly. Then, nine days later, the police got a second call of an emergency at the same address, this time from a different-sounding man. ‘‘Hey, yo,’’ he said. ‘‘I’m at one of my old buddies’ house. He stole, like, ten grand from me.’’ And then: ‘‘I planted four bombs in his house.’’ It was another swatting hoax.
The police chief asked Finley to make the case his top priority, to take whatever time he needed to catch the perpetrator — a mandate that detectives, especially those looking into swatting cases, don’t often enjoy.
