{"id":22335,"date":"2013-09-29T11:16:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T16:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22335"},"modified":"2013-09-29T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T16:16:16","slug":"swatting-is-not-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/09\/29\/swatting-is-not-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"SWATting is not funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2013\/09\/28\/corey-feldman-swatted-for-real\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patterico<\/a> on the &#8220;funny&#8221; SWAT raid at Corey Feldman&#8217;s home:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My usual admiration for the way <em>TMZ<\/em> gets these stories every time is negated by their sniggering. I don\u2019t even feel like throwing them a link. You can Google it.<\/p>\n<p>The headline of their post? \u201cCOREY FELDMAN SWATTED \u2026 But It\u2019s Kinda Funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><em>TMZ<\/em> calls the footage \u201chilarious.\u201d I find that description not only callous but entirely inaccurate. But maybe it\u2019s different for me, given my own experience. When I watched the clip, I got flashbacks. My heart started racing as I literally felt the adrenalin flow. I don\u2019t see how anyone can watch this, imagine the events that preceded it, and find it \u201chilarious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The updated and noncomprehensive roll call of the SWATted: Corey Feldman; Paris Hilton (again); Miley Cyrus (again); Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom; Anderson Cooper; Magic Johnson; Mike Rogers; Wolf Blitzer; Ted Lieu; Erik Rush; Ryan Seacrest; Russell Brand; Selena Gomez; Justin Timberlake; Rihanna; Sean Combs; Paris Hilton; Brian Krebs; Clint Eastwood; Chris Brown; the Jenners and Kardashians; Tom Cruise; Simon Cowell; Justin Bieber; Ashton Kutcher; Miley Cyrus; Aaron Walker; Erick Erickson; Mike Stack; and me.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever was doing this was quiet for a while, but they seem to have awakened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This kind of &#8220;prank&#8221; is very likely to get someone killed. That&#8217;s something I could never refer to as &#8220;hilarious&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patterico on the &#8220;funny&#8221; SWAT raid at Corey Feldman&#8217;s home: My usual admiration for the way TMZ gets these stories every time is negated by their sniggering. I don\u2019t even feel like throwing them a link. You can Google it. The headline of their post? \u201cCOREY FELDMAN SWATTED \u2026 But It\u2019s Kinda Funny.\u201d [&#8230;] TMZ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,13],"tags":[346,725,98],"class_list":["post-22335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-media","category-usa","tag-hoaxes","tag-militarization","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Of","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22337,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22335\/revisions\/22337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}