That "I'm coming out and I'm going to shoot" part, that takes swatting to another level. That person actually wanted for them to be shot, it was not just a stupid prank.
Anybody that swats a person wants them to be shot on some level, it's never just a prank. This particular swatter was just wanted as much chance of that happening as possible.
@@Springflowers221in the video, she's saying that the person on the phone was trying to frame ludwig as dangerous, and get him shot when he came outside by saying he was going to come out armed/shooting. the person on the phone had been watching ludwig's stream and had tried to set ludwig up (and anyone in the same house as him) to be shot at by police, w the police thinking that they were actually in danger.
The caller adding the _"im coming out now, im going to shoot"_ bit is where it stops being an unbelievably obnoxious and dangerous "prank" and becomes actual attempted murder imo
I’m confused. Who was the caller on phone with? Was he on the stream but thankfully it stopped playing in her location because her boyfriend turned it off and so the cops didn’t hear it?
@@JenAnnaOk, so QT is outside with the poilce while Lud is finishing up the stream; the person that is calling in the SWATing is on the phone while QT is outside; QT overhears the conversation between the police officer with the phone, and the person "pranking" them So the "prankster" is also watching Lud's stream, and as Lud is ending his stream that's when they say to the police "I've got a gun, i'm going to shoot" to try and make the police shoot Lud as he comes outside hopefully that clears it up for ya
The whole government operation is psychotic. This is not a light subject and I don't wish ANY of this on anyone but this should be a HUGE eye opener for people. Everyone who thinks swatting is bad should read the Patriot Act and then the UN charter. There are literally no real enforceable laws that ensure reasonable expectations of civility. The Government can be weaponized against you for ANY reason at ANY time and only minorities feel this fire constantly. America dehumanizes people to use them for (prison/slave) labor. We are conditioned to be afraid of our neighbors and communities because of minor differences. It was Native Americans, blacks, and any one against or exposing human rights violations under the government. Thing is the way these laws are written ANY one can be targeted. And in this culturally insulated society we are all economically competing against each other and "civilly" competing for dignified living. Sadly this reality is on 'If you know, you know' terms and that's a huge problem. People only pay attention once its too late and its happened to them.
Agreed. The last part gave me chills. Ludgwig ended his stream and was going to walk out so the prankster wanted them to think he would walk out shooting. Did they want them to shoot Ludwig?! That's horrible
Swatting is where a jackass calls 911 on a streamer and tells them that the streamer is barricaded in their house with hostages/bombs/guns basically creating a false alarm but such a large alarm that it may end in the streamer getting killed by police.
Most swatters don’t even get fined due to them setting their device to a separate or an impossible location to call from then destroying the phone they called in on, this person was just stupid and didn’t use any security. So this is a very rare case
@@Reyna_avalia_ramirez_arelliano Swatting is a 'prank' people pull on streamers/youtubers or other celebrity or public figures where you call the police or the fbi and claim that the streamer is dangerous and making threats like bomb threats or shooting threats to get the SWAT team to show up at their house. In this case it sounds like the person who called claimed to be ludwig (the streamer) themselves so they could claim that Ludwig was dangerous, threatening to shoot SWAT/the police outside, to try and get SWAT to shoot or arrest everyone.
My sister wanted pizza and my mom said she'd cover the charge of it. (My sister lives away from home) So my mom put down in the pizza delivery instructions to say "Tell me I have pretty eyes." My sister's boyfriend (now fiance) answered. So the delivery guy told her 30-foot-tall boyfriend that he had pretty eyes. _That's_ a prank. This is not.
@@arizonaranger8799 cause what? Elaborate, may you? You do know that many people in these cases actually get killed, and the aim of some people organizing a swatting do it for the purpose of the content creator to get hurt badly?
QT doesn't have PTSD 😂 a minor incident like that doesn't change your entire brain chemistry, and if it's true she is incredibly mentally weak.... Like seriously
People who do this are not funny at all, a prank is only a prank when it’s funny for everybody. Putting someone’s life in danger is not a prank, it’s just a disgusting act of a pathetic human.
@@GarySiniseOfficialludwig had ended the stream and the person on the phone saw that and while still being on the phone with police said “im gonna come out and shoot” .. this couldve easily got lud killed
If S.W.A.T is called it is because it is a highly dangerous thing that need to be taken care of fast.(or that is at least what they are told) They can't believe that everyone who says they are a streamer is a streamer
@@ashtongribblebut they need more clear evidence before they send squads multiple times. Getting swatted the first time is understandable for the police. Someone calls in a big threat and you answer, but then this happens a second time and the police should know to use more caution. Especially in situations like this where the caller is pretending to be the one being swatted
@@Leg1503 SWAT follows orders, you can't take the risk of not being 100% in the game because if there is a chance that a streamer is going to shoot someone you need to be ready.
@@mrfixit3666 but you can simply ask for some kind of simple confirmation. If these calls come from within the house multiple times, then it’s a higher chance that it’s an outside attack.
Y’all need to watch her full interview. She later goes on to reveal this happen SEVERAL more times to the point where she would stay up every night for days/weeks/months without sleep waiting for them. The one night she finally let herself go to bed? Swatted.
@@oh-noe it's her job though? She needs that money to pay for things like her therapy. Wouldn't you keep going to work if it was your passion and you enjoyed it? Then again, your name is a generic, almost bot-like, username. So you're probably some troll looking to put down anyone you at least vaguely disapprove of...
A lot of the time it’s the phrasing that gets the swat team sent in. If you as a caller can convince the 911 operator that the threat is evidently there they’ll make sure the swat team is called every time
Well if you were a cop and were told multiple people were being held hostage or a similarly bad situation. How are you supposed to act? They HAVE to take every call seriously. Imagine they didn’t and how many real situations like this would end up with innocent people dying. It’s kinda like any random person could call an ambulance as a prank and say someone is injured and dying even if they aren’t. They kinda have to take it seriously and send an ambulance you know?
Straight up looks like shell shock. I imagine that part of it is her trying to reenact her shock from the moment when it was happening, but you can see that she's seeing it clearly again in her head.
Bruhh whyy do these people do this,imagine living a life when you're just having fun out of traumatising youtubers who live their lives doing content.Why do they do this bruhh.
It a "iT's JuSt A pRaNk, BrO" troll. They think they're being funny or they get snubbed by a sreamer and want revenge. Just the one of the worst kind of people. The fucked up thing is they are rarely brought to justice..
@@RoyHoy maybe it the first time someone did it to a streamer, because of how bizarre it is. "I see a swat team to some random streamers house and it was caught on stream". but the novelty/humor has worn off. people do it with a real intent to hurt the streamer atp
Swatting should carry a minimum of a year in prison. Specifically, no protective custody for the offender. Don’t play with other peoples lives, go fuck your own up.
@@The_New_Mexican_Dog just because it’s a felony doesn’t really mean anything. Felony charges can carry as little punishment as a small fine. Mandatory prison time 🤌
I was in a drug raid at 8. They cuffed me and had a gun in my face several times until my dad ripped into them for scaring me. Shocked them back to protect and serve settings.
This is the only thing I know her from, & I’ve seen comments saying the guiltily party is in prison, but I still feel so sorry for her over this. I can’t imagine the fear & pain she’s felt over this, & while I’d hate for anyone to have gone through this, I’m guiltily grateful it’s not been me.
Not only was someone cruel and insensitive enough to do it once but it happened again is so insane and disgusting to me… like would these “pranksters” be laughing now if it went horribly wrong and fatal? If you’re that hungry for attention there are plenty of other ways to fill that need without getting someone nearly killed…🤦🏻♀️
@@devbyrd6127 it isn’t because of free time, it’s because of deep mental issues. I mean, you probably wouldn’t go around attempting to get someone murdered just because you have free time
QT: I have PTSD from having a bunch of guns aimed for me while I’m just trying to chill at home Self proclaimed tough guys in a UA-cam shorts comment section: tOuGhEn Up OmG
My friends uncle pulled up next to me when I was waiting on my mom in the middle of the night, dude pointed a gun and sped off, I was in middle ATM so it was mad scary but I ain't say nun cuz me snd tha friend are close
Absolutely not a single comment said this. Even I am usually a person who says "yeah theres people with much bigger problems than you" but even I know that swatting and doxxing is generally one of the worst things to ever happen.
according to other comments, it's a felony in most of the US but people either call in from out of the US (which gets sticky with different laws), or they spoof their number so it can't be traced to them
A prank is only a prank if, and only if, both people, the prankster and the victim, come out laughing. If the victim comes out with PTSD, that’s not a prank, that’s a crime.
Thank you. SWATting is probably one of the worst so called "pranks" then kind of were viral. But there also were way too many "prank"-youtubers etc, who would film stupid stuff and call it a prank, when it CLEARLY was not.
My neighbor klled a guy in his unit next to mine, and all the units (4) got swatted, except for mine, because I was the one who called the police. Let me tell you, hearing the mrder, smelling the blood, and seeing/smelling the decomp weeks later was NOTHING compared to the witness the swatting, the screaming, the noise and me having to give away the keys to my unit, having strangers go through my phone, my home, everything... You do not feel save at home anymore, and that sht is terrifying. Any noise can trigger such an incredible fear, my lord it was exhausting
I need to understand the police's protocol for these types of calls. How can they tell if it's a prank or serious? Edit 04/01/2024: I'm surprised there are so many different ways to say the same thing lmao, now I get why the police act the way they do in this type of situations (thanks for the clarification, everyone!)
The bad part is they have to take every call about these seriously so they really never know which one is real or not until they get there. Of course like we all know it’s illegal to do that and a seldom few have been arrested for this but I doubt that systems and laws regarding this aren’t gonna change anytime soon
I get why it would go like that. In another short where this streamer is featured, she says they've talked to the police about this issue and that the police are supposed to ring them or something before actually going to the house. I don't even know how such an arrangement would work, but I wish the police would use their efforts to track the pranksters instead of swatting the same people over and over again when they know they're most likely not a threat!
@@marcar19 I'm pretty sure this clip she's talking about the initial first time they were swatted, not any after where they've discussed with the police
It's crazy to me that it takes hours for them to get kids out safely when there is a school shooter but if there's an mystery caller and they need to SWAT some UA-camrs they're there right away. Make it make sense
Warped perception. You have no idea how long this call went on, how many calls were made, how long they staged and prepared. With a shooting, you usually hear about it about the time the swat do and see the lesd up response time. With swatting, you don't see the lead up so it appears much smaller.
@@MrNaesmeif it takes so long then how come the swatting on Q and ludwig happened so many other times that she couldn’t sleep properly for months without being swatted
Also, this was LAPD SWAT which is a completely different team from a completely different police department in a completely different state than Uvalde. Something to keep in mind.
@@soda_pop9446do you know how many hours are in a month ? literally someone could call at anytime , any day . even if they took six hours to arrive they could come more than 20 times in a month. learn your mathematics.
Do you know how much of a false equivalency that is? You can't just blindly run into a building with an active shooter. That's how you cause a mass casualty or hostage event
she’s not playing either, look in her eyes as she retells the event she’s reliving it not retelling it. and she has to deal with that for the rest of her life
As a fellow content creator, swatting has been a massive concern for me. I got the chance to speak with one of the swat officers in my town recently about swatting. He informed me that it is illegal and that if it happened, he would be sure to take the necessary actions to trace the number and have the caller arrested. I hope other content creators will see this and begin pressing charges against these "pranksters". People need to understand that if they swat you, the will 100% end up in a jail cell.
The issue is that the *"smart"* ones route the call through; or call directly from places outside the US which makes any action against them impossible, or so impractical it may as well be
The worst part is this is VERY traumatic to the victim as she said the swat team or LAPD or whatever takes everything VERY seriously and the even sadder part is these people who call them barely EVER get caught
@@jawstrock2215 I think the amount of people who have died because they have been swatted were gamers and someone they gamed with called. I know someone was swatted because of their twitter handle and died because of that as well. None of the ones I read about were famous and it wasn't talked much about beyond a couple news articles.
These swatters are people you work with, friends, classmates, coworkers. Empty people like this do not show it 24/7. Take any warning signs about others with extreme care, as it could be the tip of a much darker person
Traumatizing UA-camrs is fucked up. Idk why "swatting" became a thing anyway. I guess nobody has a soul anymore (Just an fyi there's so many bots in the comment section 😂)
@@friendlyneigborhoodbean you see, now, that'd be kinda funny sending someone a pizza or something like that, but not fully loaded, body armored cops with a potential to kill you
Bruh shes talking about being swatted by the government. Swat team. Its not the pull up trend. She said “all i see are lights all i see are guns”. The US government wasted money on swatting youtubers that didn’t deserve it and had a laser pointed at them before ever saying a word.
@@stardust3118"Swatting" refers to the act of making an intentionally misleading police call against an individual that warrants SWAT intervention, like claiming they have kidnapped individuals in their home, claiming they have active explosives, etc.
It’s a felony but the people who are swatting ain’t dumb. ( well not as dumbs as you think) they jump location, use different phones, and more to hide their location and get away with it. The thing is teams like this really do save lives so you can’t just ignore calls.
@Bchuenjoyerwell if they said “someone needs to track them” someone stupid might say “well how would they do that blah blah blah”. there’s nothing wrong with using the correct method/term of something. u sound weird getting mad at someone for just using the correct technical term.
My brother got us raided by FBI, and is now in prison, I still have PTSD from that experience too, even though it's not as extreme a response as being swatted. Every time a large vehicle drives down the road I tense up expecting it to be the FBI again, even though there's no reason for them to come back.
Yeah hate to inform you that is not ptsd, that is a mad memory but far from ptsd. Also you shouldn’t be so light when using that term, unless you’ve dealt with a friend or relative with ptsd you have 0 idea what REAL PTSD is or the symptoms of it
I just wonder why they aren’t using resources to track down the original callers for wasting police resources and endangering the lives of the people they are ‘pranking’… I think that would discourage many people from swatting in the future, either way a despicable ‘prank’ to play and I’m so sorry for the people who now have ptsd from this.
I feel like you don’t realize that people who do this probably have a general idea of how to prevent that from happening. Like using burner phones, using a spoofed phone number, etc. it’s VERY hard to track people who do this. According to some articles I read it can cost $100,000 to identify a single one of these callers. And like I said it isn’t easy either.
@@spritemon98 they rarely ever have military grade equipment and the stuff they do have is typically hand me downs from the military and is often beat up as heck. Also, military grade doesn’t mean good, it means who selling it the cheapest to the military. Idk where the idea of it being good came from cause the stuff is normally awful.
It's sad knowing popular actors/actresses, UA-camrs/Streamers whatever have to literally tell the police before, during or after, that any sort of threat that would inquire a swat team is false due to people swatting. Pranking any sort of emergency service should be highly illegal, and more thoroughly monitored. Declining phone call regions not in their district except for top officials to communicate.
Number spoofing. 🤷♀️ I had a friend move my car with a spare key. I called the police and then my friends came out of the shadows, embarrassed, explaining. I'm actually thankful the cop didn't come down hard on them. He just made his displeasure known with a screening burnout as he pulled away.
it’s genuinely insane how easy it is to just convince a full swat team to show up at a random person’s house and threaten them, like why do we give people that power???
Anyone with PTSD should try EMDR therapy. As a person who was also diagnosed this saved my life and changed my life. Don't stop trying to get help, it's important to keep researching, learning and doing therapy. There is hope.
Who tf says “let me prank these people by calling swat teams with guns who are willing to shoot and kill them if they make a wrong move. Oh man this will be an amazing prank”
Me watching this and understanding the terror as I was swatted once before and it is absolutely terrifying. There are guns everywhere and you genuinely are terrified that one wrong movement and you or someone you love is gonna get hurt. I remember whenever I got swatted, I didn’t know what to do and they busted my bathroom door down, and started yelling all at once and I couldn’t even hear what they were saying, all I remember is repeatedly saying “please don’t hurt my boyfriend” and the whole situation was fucked. They literally threw a flash bang or whatever it’s called, even though everyone was complying. I stream on twitch occasionally and this is the biggest thing stopping me from pursuing it. I’m genuinely so afraid to experience it again
100% real. Which people toss around PTSD but I understood it when I got into my own apartment as an adult. Your home. Your safety. At 3am I was woken up with loud knocks at my door, my doorknob turning. Thank god it was locked. I had never been so scared. It left me paralyzed. Your not the person you think you are in fear. I heard a guy loudly yell, "Sarah! Thats not our apartment!" And the sounds stopped. I ran to the door and saw my neighbor and her husband stumble drunkenly to their door. No harm done, simple misunderstanding. When i turn on my dryer it gives out loud knocks and it freaks me out. I can only turn it on when im at work. Nothing happened and im still jumpy. I cant imagine the other way, with someone wanting to do you harm
We need to call this as it truly is, its not a prank, its attempted murder. Also its been a huge amount of time since this has become a thing, there should have already been a system to avoid sending gun happy police to go kill an innocent person(s) based off a call with little to no solid proof behind it.
If they were truly gun happy there would be alot more deaths this is swat they are called for extremely dangerous people and proof doesn’t mean anything when in their prospective time is on the clock for this person to do something horrible
There’s nothing wrong with the police assuming that the call is valid the first time. But I agree that the police really need to learn to adapt to avoid the situation happening over and over again
The sad thing is they can't just ignore a call like that if they think it's a prank because it could ACTUALLY be a druglord torturing people, they kinda have to go and check.
Problem is when they do it repeatedly in the same adress, it has happened with Ludwig and Qt like three times already, probably more. At what point is the police gonna go and tag that adress as a streamer/youtuber adress that is prone to being "pranked" like that?
Just for anyone that is thinking of swatting a streamer. You will be found and you will get put in prison for it. Nobody has gotten away with it, nobody ever will.
As much as i wish that was true, it's most certainly not; people routing through other countries or calling directly from them have and will continue to get away with it unfortunately...
actually@@ninjablade2 sorry for correcting you but i dont want to risk someone seeing your comment and deciding to do it, you will absolutely get caught, i believe this counts as cyber terrorism, if it doesnt, you will still get caught, you will still go to prison. you are NOT anonymous while you are online. especially not from the goverment
@@BenBWZ I mean, the only people who would see it and do it are the people i would HOPE would be charged with cyber terrorism, that being said I have no faith in the people investigating to have any power over people calling from other countries/routing through them with any competency
how can they even swat people without looking into the case first? its insane that the police have that much power to just decide to do this without a proper reason.
The thing is sometimes there’s not time to go ok I’m going to take a few days and go through this groups of peoples records and where they have been in the past month blah blah blah. No it’s like this group of people at this location are planning on doing a mass shooting at so and so tonight. There’s no time and teams like this genuinely do save lives.
Because its SWAT, Special Weapons And Tactics. They are called for things like bomb threats and terrorists. Looking into the case usually takes too much time for things like a bomb threat or a suspected terrorist, crucial time and lives is potentially on the line and they have to act fast.
Imagine the inverse of this though. What if it was a genuine situation and in the time it took them to investigate if they should even go to the situation, people died. We'd all be talking about how useless they were for not responding. As far as they were concerned, people's lives were in immediate danger, and in that situation, every minute counts. It sucks that there are people out there putting innocent people's lives at risk for shits and giggles and they deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but I'm not going to blame the police for reacting the way they did.
@@Npyne well we're already complaining when we hear of a woman killed by her BF even after multiple police calls to come over.. :/ They ever swat for that but, ya know.
@Emma okay Emma let me break this down for you, most swat task forces don’t kill on sight, they only use lethal force if lethal force is first used upon them, hence it’s not attempted murder simply misuse of public resources, I’m sorry your heart weeps so much for people that rake in more than your parents will ever see in a year in a week by putting themselves in front of a webcam and occasionally giving a tiddy shake
@@toughasnails91you clearly got some stuff goin on. This happens to normal people too, people have been killed by swatting. I hate the ultra-rich as much as the next guy, but this isn't something you do to another person.
Some people are so sick, any amount of control they can get makes them feel important, even if it endangers people's lives. A dangerous lack of empathy.
Okay the first half got me as “what a scumbag, but I’m sure things can be resolved” then the second part of that hit me like a truck. Whoever called needs to be arrested and put under attempted murder or even attempted manslaughter, whatever it is they needs to have the book thrown at them.
Can you grow up honestly? There’s no fucking racial bias with policing, there’s just inherent bias against anyone who’s not a police officer. You’re not more likely to be killed by corrupt cops because you’re black, you’re likely to be killed by corrupt cops because they’re corrupt cops. White people get their rights trampled and victimized by police all the same. Trying to make it into a race issue when it’s not detract from fixing the actual corruption an ego in our police departments
To some degree I understand it, but Jesus Christ America, you can't just break down someone's door and point a rifle to their head without any evidence or justification.
@@jasonclassmate2292 Its essentially what they did even if the door wasn't broken down they went into the house pointed a gun with no wcidence and gave someone ptsd
@@creepercalvin tf, so if there may be an emergency in a house potentially involving guns, you won't enter because of lack of evidence? If I hear a gun shot in my neighbor's house I want a fucking swat team there that isn't asking me to provide evidence that I heard a gun shot.
I refuse to believe someone is doing this as a prank. This is malicious intent. You are trying to get someone killed. This has to be someone with some kind of delusion that one of these streamers has slighted them and now they "deserve" to be shot. No one with even a semblance of sanity would do this as a prank.
They do it to get content from it. They go oh this will be entertaining that’s why it’s best to end the stream before you draw any attention at all that you have been swatted. This makes you a prime target for more swattings because you make content of it, you show it.
@@The_New_Mexican_Dogbro talking about your experience being falsely swatted doesn't equate to you condoning and making the problem worse you're genuinely victim blaming here stop it be smarter then that.
The swatter that caused this incident actually did get a streamer killed in another call in 2017. And is probably why they got 20 years in jail instead of just a few years.
The calm that washes over you when a gun is pointed at you is honestly insane. You’re brain just goes into 100% survival mode and only after your no longer in danger do you break down.
It’s adrenaline, And honestly not everyone is able to stay calm. If you’re able to stay incredibly calm during a life or death situation you have a very strong headspace
I got swatted one day. I just complied with the cops and soon enough, they were apologizing to me and left me with a single patrol cop. Turns out there was a mixup and they swatted the wrong apartment, the dude an apartment over jumped out of the 4th story window and broke his leg, the rest of the cops went down to pick him up. It was pretty scary at first, but the look on that patrol cop's face when he realized they got the wrong apartment was priceless. Got some money from the PD for damages (they broke our door with a ram.
It’s so sad that many youtubers and streamers get swatted because they’re normal just like us. Just because they’re more popular and well known doesn’t mean that they don’t have feelings and fears like all of us. I wonder what the person who called the swatted on them would feel if they were to get swatted once or more times.
Swatting refers to a harassment technique most often perpetrated by members of the online gaming community. Swatting entails generating an emergency law enforcement response against a target victim under false pretenses.
i can see why she has ptsd if you ever been in a raid where they just kick the door down and swarm into the building with guns up mask on and yelling all sorts of shit
To stop this from happening you would want to talk to your local police department to ensure that if a call like this happens a swat team isn't sent to your streaming home or location since they will have that information to ensure no mistake like this happens.
I don't think this is true, as Lud and QT said themselves, after the first they simply never said anything about being swated when they were because it would only embolden the swaters to do it more; they continued to be swated many, many more times though thankfully they were able to have much more leeway on subsequent incidents after it happening so many times... People who are swated now i'm sure simply say nothing as it's worse to let them know they were successful, hense the impression it's gotten better...
Quick note: The people that do this? If they go to prison, career convicts will NOT treat them kindly when, and it is WHEN, they find out what they're in for.
Considering it's a felony to make a false 911 call, if ppl actually have the brains to make a criminal complaint, the caller will be a felon and won't have a fair number of rights
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That "I'm coming out and I'm going to shoot" part, that takes swatting to another level. That person actually wanted for them to be shot, it was not just a stupid prank.
Anybody that swats a person wants them to be shot on some level, it's never just a prank. This particular swatter was just wanted as much chance of that happening as possible.
What does that bit mean? The roommate on the phone with lud said that into the phone?
@@Springflowers221in the video, she's saying that the person on the phone was trying to frame ludwig as dangerous, and get him shot when he came outside by saying he was going to come out armed/shooting. the person on the phone had been watching ludwig's stream and had tried to set ludwig up (and anyone in the same house as him) to be shot at by police, w the police thinking that they were actually in danger.
@@donkmaster6762 oooh thank you
@@CiCaruanaIt was probably an obsessed fan that jerks off to her Instagram photos and tried to get her boyfriend killed out of jealousy.
The caller adding the _"im coming out now, im going to shoot"_ bit is where it stops being an unbelievably obnoxious and dangerous "prank" and becomes actual attempted murder imo
I’m confused. Who was the caller on phone with? Was he on the stream but thankfully it stopped playing in her location because her boyfriend turned it off and so the cops didn’t hear it?
@@JenAnnaOk, so QT is outside with the poilce while Lud is finishing up the stream; the person that is calling in the SWATing is on the phone while QT is outside; QT overhears the conversation between the police officer with the phone, and the person "pranking" them
So the "prankster" is also watching Lud's stream, and as Lud is ending his stream that's when they say to the police "I've got a gun, i'm going to shoot" to try and make the police shoot Lud as he comes outside
hopefully that clears it up for ya
@@ninjablade2now that I understand this…
I have no words
@@ninjablade2Thanks!
@@ninjablade2 omg wtf
these aren't pranksters, these are psychopaths.
The whole government operation is psychotic.
This is not a light subject and I don't wish ANY of this on anyone but this should be a HUGE eye opener for people.
Everyone who thinks swatting is bad should read the Patriot Act and then the UN charter.
There are literally no real enforceable laws that ensure reasonable expectations of civility.
The Government can be weaponized against you for ANY reason at ANY time and only minorities feel this fire constantly.
America dehumanizes people to use them for (prison/slave) labor. We are conditioned to be afraid of our neighbors and communities because of minor differences.
It was Native Americans, blacks, and any one against or exposing human rights violations under the government.
Thing is the way these laws are written ANY one can be targeted. And in this culturally insulated society we are all economically competing against each other and "civilly" competing for dignified living.
Sadly this reality is on 'If you know, you know' terms and that's a huge problem.
People only pay attention once its too late and its happened to them.
womp womp
@@dooley9117you are a horrible human being
Agreed. The last part gave me chills. Ludgwig ended his stream and was going to walk out so the prankster wanted them to think he would walk out shooting. Did they want them to shoot Ludwig?! That's horrible
@@dooley9117why so cheeky
Sadly, I rarely see stories of these swatted "prankers" actually getting sentenced to prison.
More of them needs to go to jail
The only one I remember is when the innocent guy got shot for opening the door. At least they got arrested
It happens sometimes at least
They do…
It's just a waste of their Time (The callers time bc they can end up in jail), the swat teams time, and the streamers energy for a 'prank'
“If only one person is laughing, it’s not a prank.”
-Ray William Johnson
Or If no one is laughing
10/10 pfp
Btw what was the context here? Like I'm confused as to what's going on in the video
@@lifeisconfusing4833 someone called the swat team on them i think
Swatting is where a jackass calls 911 on a streamer and tells them that the streamer is barricaded in their house with hostages/bombs/guns basically creating a false alarm but such a large alarm that it may end in the streamer getting killed by police.
If it makes anyone feel better, QT confirmed the person behind this has been caught and is in prison
It does a little bit but there's still people out there that do this that don't get in trouble and that's why it keeps happening
Most swatters don’t even get fined due to them setting their device to a separate or an impossible location to call from then destroying the phone they called in on, this person was just stupid and didn’t use any security. So this is a very rare case
That’s good, it doesn’t always happen.
I hope he get that sad virgin in his mom bassement is having hard time in prison.
@@JasTheSassBro wtf is that profile pic
Swatting needs to be treated as what it is - attempted murder.
it is, if they catch u and u get punished its for attempted murder
Did they "catch" him/her?
Cause you never hear that. @@_gnom_672
Can someone tell me what swatting is?g
@@Reyna_avalia_ramirez_arelliano Swatting is a 'prank' people pull on streamers/youtubers or other celebrity or public figures where you call the police or the fbi and claim that the streamer is dangerous and making threats like bomb threats or shooting threats to get the SWAT team to show up at their house. In this case it sounds like the person who called claimed to be ludwig (the streamer) themselves so they could claim that Ludwig was dangerous, threatening to shoot SWAT/the police outside, to try and get SWAT to shoot or arrest everyone.
@@adollfordolls Oh , that’s horrible, thank you for telling me
A prank is having a pizza delivered to someone's house. Swatting should be charged as attempted murder
My sister wanted pizza and my mom said she'd cover the charge of it. (My sister lives away from home) So my mom put down in the pizza delivery instructions to say "Tell me I have pretty eyes." My sister's boyfriend (now fiance) answered. So the delivery guy told her 30-foot-tall boyfriend that he had pretty eyes. _That's_ a prank.
This is not.
What size pizza does a 30-foot guy eats?
@@nicogervacio3760 Large, I think.
Someone already died because of swatters. I saw a documentary about swatting a while ago.
@@L.C.1 God. They died? That's awful. Inevitable, all things considering, but awful.
It’s horrible that someone would actually do that to them
Well romtoehre
Who cares, there all talentless
Well anyone really, it’s actually horrible though
People used to do this to Adin Ross a lot
@@l1nken813 still do
That shit should count as attempted murder...wtf
It does, the sad thing is that they are almost never caught
No
@@arizonaranger8799 and why not?
@@_aoe cause
@@arizonaranger8799 cause what? Elaborate, may you? You do know that many people in these cases actually get killed, and the aim of some people organizing a swatting do it for the purpose of the content creator to get hurt badly?
PTSD is genuinely so debilitating. Like this person permanantly altered their lives by doing that.
QT doesn't have PTSD 😂 a minor incident like that doesn't change your entire brain chemistry, and if it's true she is incredibly mentally weak.... Like seriously
@@cyberius14 ummmm firstly maybe you don’t understand the concept of trauma but you nor them get to determine their reaction to a situation
@@cyberius14 get real and get a life, pos
@@cyberius14have you been swatted before? Don’t think so
@@cyberius14 Spoken like soft little couch potato.
"it's just a prank"
The prank:
would've been better if the caller said "i have a bomb" instead of "im gonna shoot"
What was the prank?
People who do this are not funny at all, a prank is only a prank when it’s funny for everybody. Putting someone’s life in danger is not a prank, it’s just a disgusting act of a pathetic human.
Also…how much money wasted and fucking government ressources.
Because it is not a prank, people who swat have only bad intentions in mind. They thrive on chaos, harm and possibly inflict death on famous people.
@@EagleBoxx do they get caught? Ir are there any who have?
@@bhuwin6186 I’m pretty sure they almost never get caught unfortunately
Thank you
" im coming out now im going to shoot " made me freeze, mustve been so traumatizing for lud and qt.
Wait im confused, who even said that?
the person making the swat call pretending to be ludwig talking to the police over the phone @@GarySiniseOfficial
@@GarySiniseOfficialludwig had ended the stream and the person on the phone saw that and while still being on the phone with police said “im gonna come out and shoot” .. this couldve easily got lud killed
@@zoopziiwait so the person was impersonating lud or something???
@@anon_ninjaYes. The person who made the call as Ludwig made it seem like he was going to come out shooting
Police need to have more clear guidelines on handling swatting
If S.W.A.T is called it is because it is a highly dangerous thing that need to be taken care of fast.(or that is at least what they are told) They can't believe that everyone who says they are a streamer is a streamer
@@ashtongribblebut they need more clear evidence before they send squads multiple times. Getting swatted the first time is understandable for the police. Someone calls in a big threat and you answer, but then this happens a second time and the police should know to use more caution. Especially in situations like this where the caller is pretending to be the one being swatted
@@Leg1503 SWAT follows orders, you can't take the risk of not being 100% in the game because if there is a chance that a streamer is going to shoot someone you need to be ready.
@@mrfixit3666 but you can simply ask for some kind of simple confirmation. If these calls come from within the house multiple times, then it’s a higher chance that it’s an outside attack.
@@Leg1503 confirmation from who?
The people that make those calls deserve to be sent to prison at the very very least
Y’all need to watch her full interview. She later goes on to reveal this happen SEVERAL more times to the point where she would stay up every night for days/weeks/months without sleep waiting for them. The one night she finally let herself go to bed? Swatted.
gosh, im surprised shes still on the internet
@@zoopzii money hog. Greed pushes you past your limits
@@oh-noe It's not being a money hog, it's about not letting these people win. Going offline and into hiding is what these people want.
@@oh-noe it's her job though? She needs that money to pay for things like her therapy. Wouldn't you keep going to work if it was your passion and you enjoyed it?
Then again, your name is a generic, almost bot-like, username. So you're probably some troll looking to put down anyone you at least vaguely disapprove of...
@@oh-noe well its also her job soo… 😭😭
I don't understand how a random person can just call the police and somehow convince them to send heavily armed forces to someone's house.
A lot of the time it’s the phrasing that gets the swat team sent in. If you as a caller can convince the 911 operator that the threat is evidently there they’ll make sure the swat team is called every time
right? like this person likely doesnt live anywhere near QT but was still able to do all this
Because usually they report hostages or smth similar where people might die and. They don't have time to make sure it's real
Well if you were a cop and were told multiple people were being held hostage or a similarly bad situation. How are you supposed to act? They HAVE to take every call seriously. Imagine they didn’t and how many real situations like this would end up with innocent people dying. It’s kinda like any random person could call an ambulance as a prank and say someone is injured and dying even if they aren’t. They kinda have to take it seriously and send an ambulance you know?
It doesn't take much to get US police to use excessive force
when she says “all i see are lights all i see are guns” u can see her 1000 mile stare i’d recognize that flashback face anywhere
Straight up looks like shell shock. I imagine that part of it is her trying to reenact her shock from the moment when it was happening, but you can see that she's seeing it clearly again in her head.
WTFE what do you know about a 1000 mile stare...
@@josephgicewicz5384 Probably by the fact that it's common in patients diagnosed with PTSD, as QT claims she is, and that it looks exactly like one
Swatting needs to be a punishable offense. This is insane
It is.
It's a felony now
Bruhh whyy do these people do this,imagine living a life when you're just having fun out of traumatising youtubers who live their lives doing content.Why do they do this bruhh.
It a "iT's JuSt A pRaNk, BrO" troll. They think they're being funny or they get snubbed by a sreamer and want revenge. Just the one of the worst kind of people. The fucked up thing is they are rarely brought to justice..
@@lincdc12 Ikrrr frrr
@@RoyHoy maybe it the first time someone did it to a streamer, because of how bizarre it is. "I see a swat team to some random streamers house and it was caught on stream". but the novelty/humor has worn off. people do it with a real intent to hurt the streamer atp
@@RoyHoyIt can kill people
"But no one got hurt though so it's fine"
Swatting should carry a minimum of a year in prison. Specifically, no protective custody for the offender. Don’t play with other peoples lives, go fuck your own up.
W comment 👍
Pump those numbers up bro, I'm saying at least 4 years minimum
It’s a felony
@@The_New_Mexican_Dog just because it’s a felony doesn’t really mean anything. Felony charges can carry as little punishment as a small fine. Mandatory prison time 🤌
I mean especially in America it is basically attempted murder because of the… limited competence of much of the police force
I was in a drug raid at 8. They cuffed me and had a gun in my face several times until my dad ripped into them for scaring me. Shocked them back to protect and serve settings.
Yeah sometimes swat officers are to focused on the task at hand to remember their true job
This is the only thing I know her from, & I’ve seen comments saying the guiltily party is in prison, but I still feel so sorry for her over this. I can’t imagine the fear & pain she’s felt over this, & while I’d hate for anyone to have gone through this, I’m guiltily grateful it’s not been me.
sounds a bit like "survivor's guilt"
Not only was someone cruel and insensitive enough to do it once but it happened again is so insane and disgusting to me… like would these “pranksters” be laughing now if it went horribly wrong and fatal? If you’re that hungry for attention there are plenty of other ways to fill that need without getting someone nearly killed…🤦🏻♀️
Goes to show that some have too much free time on their hands
they need to spend a long time in jail. this is attempted murder
4 times
Look up the guy that swatted the one that did end fatally. He still refuses to take any responsibility for the murder he committed
@@devbyrd6127 it isn’t because of free time, it’s because of deep mental issues. I mean, you probably wouldn’t go around attempting to get someone murdered just because you have free time
That guy trying to frame Ludwig as he was going to shoot it really had me reconsider how immoral somone can get
Isn’t Ludwig a really sweet person?
@@steph8030593my guess a QT fan that is too parasocial or just a Ludwig hatewatcher who has a screw loose
He didn’t just try to frame him, that was attempted murder.
@@steph8030593allegedly
QT: I have PTSD from having a bunch of guns aimed for me while I’m just trying to chill at home
Self proclaimed tough guys in a UA-cam shorts comment section: tOuGhEn Up OmG
For real, I guarantee ALL of them have never had a gun pointed at them before. Nonetheless in their own home by an armed taskforce for fucks sake.
My friends uncle pulled up next to me when I was waiting on my mom in the middle of the night, dude pointed a gun and sped off, I was in middle ATM so it was mad scary but I ain't say nun cuz me snd tha friend are close
Absolutely not a single comment said this. Even I am usually a person who says "yeah theres people with much bigger problems than you" but even I know that swatting and doxxing is generally one of the worst things to ever happen.
@@octav7438 you must not have looked through many comments because there’s a lot of them
@@octav7438absolutely yes there are comments saying this you just haven't seen them bc of all the positive comments
You know America is great when completely innocent people being confronted by law enforcement automatically fear for their lives.
This 1,000,000%
Maybe don’t have a guilty conscience I guess
I know I don’t get scared when I’m near police because I know I haven’t done anything
my state is passing a law to make swatting with no evidence or reason illegal and have either a fine or time in prison.
Should count as third degree attempted coersed murder
according to other comments, it's a felony in most of the US
but people either call in from out of the US (which gets sticky with different laws), or they spoof their number so it can't be traced to them
I wonder if anyone has actually called in and it wasn’t to swat someone but they got arrested for swatting
It used to always be punished, but now people do it all the time without any retribution
It should be straight prison time. No fine. Just straight to prison.
A prank is only a prank if, and only if, both people, the prankster and the victim, come out laughing. If the victim comes out with PTSD, that’s not a prank, that’s a crime.
Thank you.
SWATting is probably one of the worst so called "pranks" then kind of were viral.
But there also were way too many "prank"-youtubers etc, who would film stupid stuff and call it a prank, when it CLEARLY was not.
The caller should be charged with attempted murder
My neighbor klled a guy in his unit next to mine, and all the units (4) got swatted, except for mine, because I was the one who called the police. Let me tell you, hearing the mrder, smelling the blood, and seeing/smelling the decomp weeks later was NOTHING compared to the witness the swatting, the screaming, the noise and me having to give away the keys to my unit, having strangers go through my phone, my home, everything... You do not feel save at home anymore, and that sht is terrifying. Any noise can trigger such an incredible fear, my lord it was exhausting
I need to understand the police's protocol for these types of calls. How can they tell if it's a prank or serious?
Edit 04/01/2024: I'm surprised there are so many different ways to say the same thing lmao, now I get why the police act the way they do in this type of situations (thanks for the clarification, everyone!)
The bad part is they have to take every call about these seriously so they really never know which one is real or not until they get there.
Of course like we all know it’s illegal to do that and a seldom few have been arrested for this but I doubt that systems and laws regarding this aren’t gonna change anytime soon
I get why it would go like that. In another short where this streamer is featured, she says they've talked to the police about this issue and that the police are supposed to ring them or something before actually going to the house. I don't even know how such an arrangement would work, but I wish the police would use their efforts to track the pranksters instead of swatting the same people over and over again when they know they're most likely not a threat!
@@marcar19 I'm pretty sure this clip she's talking about the initial first time they were swatted, not any after where they've discussed with the police
@@halliehannum7632 yeah, but she then goes on to say this happened multiple times after.
@@marcar19 yea the cops wouldn’t do something like that if either they talked to the people or it’s like the 3rd or 4th time
It's crazy to me that it takes hours for them to get kids out safely when there is a school shooter but if there's an mystery caller and they need to SWAT some UA-camrs they're there right away. Make it make sense
Warped perception. You have no idea how long this call went on, how many calls were made, how long they staged and prepared. With a shooting, you usually hear about it about the time the swat do and see the lesd up response time. With swatting, you don't see the lead up so it appears much smaller.
@@MrNaesmeif it takes so long then how come the swatting on Q and ludwig happened so many other times that she couldn’t sleep properly for months without being swatted
Also, this was LAPD SWAT which is a completely different team from a completely different police department in a completely different state than Uvalde. Something to keep in mind.
@@soda_pop9446do you know how many hours are in a month ? literally someone could call at anytime , any day . even if they took six hours to arrive they could come more than 20 times in a month. learn your mathematics.
Do you know how much of a false equivalency that is? You can't just blindly run into a building with an active shooter. That's how you cause a mass casualty or hostage event
she’s not playing either, look in her eyes as she retells the event she’s reliving it not retelling it. and she has to deal with that for the rest of her life
As a fellow content creator, swatting has been a massive concern for me. I got the chance to speak with one of the swat officers in my town recently about swatting. He informed me that it is illegal and that if it happened, he would be sure to take the necessary actions to trace the number and have the caller arrested.
I hope other content creators will see this and begin pressing charges against these "pranksters". People need to understand that if they swat you, the will 100% end up in a jail cell.
The issue is that the *"smart"* ones route the call through; or call directly from places outside the US which makes any action against them impossible, or so impractical it may as well be
The worst part is this is VERY traumatic to the victim as she said the swat team or LAPD or whatever takes everything VERY seriously and the even sadder part is these people who call them barely EVER get caught
Terrifying. What's even worse is imagine how many of these ended badly and we never hear about it because it's a normal person
I have a feeling it's still mostly streamers being targeted, not normal people.
pretty sure someone did get shot and killed
@@synergy8879tyler bariss. Sure did, sadly ://
@@jawstrock2215 I think the amount of people who have died because they have been swatted were gamers and someone they gamed with called. I know someone was swatted because of their twitter handle and died because of that as well. None of the ones I read about were famous and it wasn't talked much about beyond a couple news articles.
These swatters are people you work with, friends, classmates, coworkers. Empty people like this do not show it 24/7. Take any warning signs about others with extreme care, as it could be the tip of a much darker person
I recognize that look in her eyes when she is remembering so vividly she feels like she’s back there, wishing you peace and love
What's also sad is people have actually died from being swatted
Traumatizing UA-camrs is fucked up. Idk why "swatting" became a thing anyway. I guess nobody has a soul anymore
(Just an fyi there's so many bots in the comment section 😂)
I'm pretty sure swatting started with like ordering a pizza to the person's house and just way escalated
@@friendlyneigborhoodbean you see, now, that'd be kinda funny sending someone a pizza or something like that, but not fully loaded, body armored cops with a potential to kill you
Bruh shes talking about being swatted by the government. Swat team. Its not the pull up trend. She said “all i see are lights all i see are guns”. The US government wasted money on swatting youtubers that didn’t deserve it and had a laser pointed at them before ever saying a word.
@@stardust3118"Swatting" refers to the act of making an intentionally misleading police call against an individual that warrants SWAT intervention, like claiming they have kidnapped individuals in their home, claiming they have active explosives, etc.
my biggest thing about being swatted is how fast id have a panic attack in this situation and they’d all deem me uncooperative
Youd think there would be more communication the second time this happens but woo wee by the 10th time you would think the cops would learn
They need to reverse IP these people and sue them. In no way is this okay.
It’s a felony but the people who are swatting ain’t dumb. ( well not as dumbs as you think) they jump location, use different phones, and more to hide their location and get away with it. The thing is teams like this really do save lives so you can’t just ignore calls.
@@The_New_Mexican_Dog this one was pretty dumb though. They got caught and are apparently serving jail time now.
Swatting required 911. 911 tracks you
@Bchuenjoyerwell if they said “someone needs to track them” someone stupid might say “well how would they do that blah blah blah”. there’s nothing wrong with using the correct method/term of something. u sound weird getting mad at someone for just using the correct technical term.
My brother got us raided by FBI, and is now in prison, I still have PTSD from that experience too, even though it's not as extreme a response as being swatted. Every time a large vehicle drives down the road I tense up expecting it to be the FBI again, even though there's no reason for them to come back.
How did you brother get you guys raided?
what did he do
You probably just get triggers bruh not ptsd
@@Guillermogonzalaz Triggers for some sort of Post Traumatic Stress, maybe?
Yeah hate to inform you that is not ptsd, that is a mad memory but far from ptsd. Also you shouldn’t be so light when using that term, unless you’ve dealt with a friend or relative with ptsd you have 0 idea what REAL PTSD is or the symptoms of it
Imagine beibg so sad and depressed with yourlifw that you think swating make a prankster
That's not a prank, that's attempted murder.
I just wonder why they aren’t using resources to track down the original callers for wasting police resources and endangering the lives of the people they are ‘pranking’… I think that would discourage many people from swatting in the future, either way a despicable ‘prank’ to play and I’m so sorry for the people who now have ptsd from this.
I feel like you don’t realize that people who do this probably have a general idea of how to prevent that from happening. Like using burner phones, using a spoofed phone number, etc. it’s VERY hard to track people who do this. According to some articles I read it can cost $100,000 to identify a single one of these callers. And like I said it isn’t easy either.
@@zigsteenine8650 they have enough money to afford military grade equipment. A 100k is a drop in the bucket
@@spritemon98 they rarely ever have military grade equipment and the stuff they do have is typically hand me downs from the military and is often beat up as heck. Also, military grade doesn’t mean good, it means who selling it the cheapest to the military. Idk where the idea of it being good came from cause the stuff is normally awful.
@@spritemon98please don't speak on things you have no knowledge in. Blurting out wrong and impulsive info is not helpful
@@UwU-235they actually usually do have military equipment, idk wtf you think flash bangs are but they arent for civilians
It's sad knowing popular actors/actresses, UA-camrs/Streamers whatever have to literally tell the police before, during or after, that any sort of threat that would inquire a swat team is false due to people swatting. Pranking any sort of emergency service should be highly illegal, and more thoroughly monitored. Declining phone call regions not in their district except for top officials to communicate.
Number spoofing. 🤷♀️
I had a friend move my car with a spare key. I called the police and then my friends came out of the shadows, embarrassed, explaining. I'm actually thankful the cop didn't come down hard on them. He just made his displeasure known with a screening burnout as he pulled away.
it’s genuinely insane how easy it is to just convince a full swat team to show up at a random person’s house and threaten them, like why do we give people that power???
Anyone with PTSD should try EMDR therapy. As a person who was also diagnosed this saved my life and changed my life. Don't stop trying to get help, it's important to keep researching, learning and doing therapy. There is hope.
Who tf says “let me prank these people by calling swat teams with guns who are willing to shoot and kill them if they make a wrong move. Oh man this will be an amazing prank”
Me watching this and understanding the terror as I was swatted once before and it is absolutely terrifying. There are guns everywhere and you genuinely are terrified that one wrong movement and you or someone you love is gonna get hurt. I remember whenever I got swatted, I didn’t know what to do and they busted my bathroom door down, and started yelling all at once and I couldn’t even hear what they were saying, all I remember is repeatedly saying “please don’t hurt my boyfriend” and the whole situation was fucked. They literally threw a flash bang or whatever it’s called, even though everyone was complying. I stream on twitch occasionally and this is the biggest thing stopping me from pursuing it. I’m genuinely so afraid to experience it again
Literally profusely shaking right now as I relive the moment
I'm so sorry this happened to you... there should be laws around this, god... I hope you're ok
100% real.
Which people toss around PTSD but I understood it when I got into my own apartment as an adult. Your home. Your safety. At 3am I was woken up with loud knocks at my door, my doorknob turning. Thank god it was locked. I had never been so scared. It left me paralyzed. Your not the person you think you are in fear. I heard a guy loudly yell, "Sarah! Thats not our apartment!" And the sounds stopped. I ran to the door and saw my neighbor and her husband stumble drunkenly to their door. No harm done, simple misunderstanding. When i turn on my dryer it gives out loud knocks and it freaks me out. I can only turn it on when im at work. Nothing happened and im still jumpy.
I cant imagine the other way, with someone wanting to do you harm
We need to call this as it truly is, its not a prank, its attempted murder. Also its been a huge amount of time since this has become a thing, there should have already been a system to avoid sending gun happy police to go kill an innocent person(s) based off a call with little to no solid proof behind it.
If they were truly gun happy there would be alot more deaths this is swat they are called for extremely dangerous people and proof doesn’t mean anything when in their prospective time is on the clock for this person to do something horrible
There’s nothing wrong with the police assuming that the call is valid the first time. But I agree that the police really need to learn to adapt to avoid the situation happening over and over again
The sad thing is they can't just ignore a call like that if they think it's a prank because it could ACTUALLY be a druglord torturing people, they kinda have to go and check.
Problem is when they do it repeatedly in the same adress, it has happened with Ludwig and Qt like three times already, probably more. At what point is the police gonna go and tag that adress as a streamer/youtuber adress that is prone to being "pranked" like that?
@@ryder98307the cops have to take every call as serious, many actual crimes would've gone unnoticed if they started the ignore calls
@@ryder98307cops will always answer as if its real to prevent a "boy that cries wolf" situation
@@ryder98307 Ever heard of the boy who cried wolf?
It says a lot about how militarized the American police force is when calling the cops on someone as a "prank" is the equivalent to attempted murder.
Just for anyone that is thinking of swatting a streamer. You will be found and you will get put in prison for it. Nobody has gotten away with it, nobody ever will.
As much as i wish that was true, it's most certainly not; people routing through other countries or calling directly from them have and will continue to get away with it unfortunately...
actually@@ninjablade2 sorry for correcting you but i dont want to risk someone seeing your comment and deciding to do it,
you will absolutely get caught, i believe this counts as cyber terrorism, if it doesnt, you will still get caught, you will still go to prison. you are NOT anonymous while you are online. especially not from the goverment
@@BenBWZ I mean, the only people who would see it and do it are the people i would HOPE would be charged with cyber terrorism, that being said I have no faith in the people investigating to have any power over people calling from other countries/routing through them with any competency
how can they even swat people without looking into the case first? its insane that the police have that much power to just decide to do this without a proper reason.
The thing is sometimes there’s not time to go ok I’m going to take a few days and go through this groups of peoples records and where they have been in the past month blah blah blah. No it’s like this group of people at this location are planning on doing a mass shooting at so and so tonight. There’s no time and teams like this genuinely do save lives.
Because its SWAT, Special Weapons And Tactics. They are called for things like bomb threats and terrorists. Looking into the case usually takes too much time for things like a bomb threat or a suspected terrorist, crucial time and lives is potentially on the line and they have to act fast.
Because they get huge boners doing it for real, any chance they get to gear up and bring their toys on a scene, they'll take, safety be damned.
Imagine the inverse of this though. What if it was a genuine situation and in the time it took them to investigate if they should even go to the situation, people died. We'd all be talking about how useless they were for not responding.
As far as they were concerned, people's lives were in immediate danger, and in that situation, every minute counts.
It sucks that there are people out there putting innocent people's lives at risk for shits and giggles and they deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but I'm not going to blame the police for reacting the way they did.
@@Npyne well we're already complaining when we hear of a woman killed by her BF even after multiple police calls to come over..
:/
They ever swat for that but, ya know.
How is that not attempted murder
Because it's America. We don't care for the people like we should
@@gyrozeppeli4862 wahhhhhh poor millionaires
@Emma okay Emma let me break this down for you, most swat task forces don’t kill on sight, they only use lethal force if lethal force is first used upon them, hence it’s not attempted murder simply misuse of public resources, I’m sorry your heart weeps so much for people that rake in more than your parents will ever see in a year in a week by putting themselves in front of a webcam and occasionally giving a tiddy shake
@@toughasnails91you clearly got some stuff goin on. This happens to normal people too, people have been killed by swatting. I hate the ultra-rich as much as the next guy, but this isn't something you do to another person.
It's a very punishable offense, the problem arises with actually catching the swatter
Swatting someone is literally attempted murder and should be treated as such…
I thought she meant getting spanked as a kid!🤦♀️ That is a VERY scary situation, and I'm sure you were terrified!
Some people are so sick, any amount of control they can get makes them feel important, even if it endangers people's lives. A dangerous lack of empathy.
Okay the first half got me as “what a scumbag, but I’m sure things can be resolved” then the second part of that hit me like a truck. Whoever called needs to be arrested and put under attempted murder or even attempted manslaughter, whatever it is they needs to have the book thrown at them.
They were arrested and put into jail
and that's only the first time. Theyve been swatted numerous times
As a black person, to be swatted, I don’t know if I would survive. This is literally horrible.
Can you grow up honestly? There’s no fucking racial bias with policing, there’s just inherent bias against anyone who’s not a police officer. You’re not more likely to be killed by corrupt cops because you’re black, you’re likely to be killed by corrupt cops because they’re corrupt cops. White people get their rights trampled and victimized by police all the same. Trying to make it into a race issue when it’s not detract from fixing the actual corruption an ego in our police departments
One of my most traumatic experiences growing up in my teens was when the FBI kicked our door in and painted ARs at my head with their lasers.
To some degree I understand it, but Jesus Christ America, you can't just break down someone's door and point a rifle to their head without any evidence or justification.
They didn't break open the door, but ok
The problem is, maybe I this time and the next hundred times it’s a prank, but maybe it’s not
@@jasonclassmate2292 Its essentially what they did even if the door wasn't broken down they went into the house pointed a gun with no wcidence and gave someone ptsd
That's the SWAT team for you
@@creepercalvin tf, so if there may be an emergency in a house potentially involving guns, you won't enter because of lack of evidence?
If I hear a gun shot in my neighbor's house I want a fucking swat team there that isn't asking me to provide evidence that I heard a gun shot.
I refuse to believe someone is doing this as a prank. This is malicious intent. You are trying to get someone killed. This has to be someone with some kind of delusion that one of these streamers has slighted them and now they "deserve" to be shot.
No one with even a semblance of sanity would do this as a prank.
They do it to get content from it. They go oh this will be entertaining that’s why it’s best to end the stream before you draw any attention at all that you have been swatted. This makes you a prime target for more swattings because you make content of it, you show it.
@@The_New_Mexican_Dogbro talking about your experience being falsely swatted doesn't equate to you condoning and making the problem worse you're genuinely victim blaming here stop it be smarter then that.
@@ashton5380 I never said I have been swatted what’s your point
The swatter that caused this incident actually did get a streamer killed in another call in 2017. And is probably why they got 20 years in jail instead of just a few years.
I pray that person does not get let out of jail
I’m a 911 operator. We’ve had trainings on how to detect swatting, it’s genuinely fucked and people don’t realize that.
The calm that washes over you when a gun is pointed at you is honestly insane. You’re brain just goes into 100% survival mode and only after your no longer in danger do you break down.
It’s adrenaline, And honestly not everyone is able to stay calm. If you’re able to stay incredibly calm during a life or death situation you have a very strong headspace
“If the person on the receiving end of the prank isn’t laughing, it isn’t a prank, you’re just an asshole”
- RWJ
Nobody in the world thinks this is a prank. It’s a crime
If the police did their jobs, Swatters would be tracked and arrested for attempted murder.
This is so scary I can’t imagine omg 😭 I feel so awful she had to experience that
That is so horrible that I can't even imagine what that's like. I'm so sorry for QT and anyone else who has to go through this.
This is counted as attempted murder, but the people who do this NEVER get in trouble, it's fucking horrible
no its not. swatting is a felony under federal law but this wouldn't constitute as attempted murder.
The guy who called in on them is literally in jail
@@girlalmighty2210ehh it kinda depends? If the swatting did harm the person severely then yea sure it’s attempted murder AND false reporting
@@girlalmighty2210 OK but legally it should. There have been multiple instances of false swat calls resulting in death.
I remember when my school was swatted, but luckily I didn't gain ptsd, but what happened to her was tragic
We need to redefine what a prank is because this should never be considered as a prank.
How does somone get so delusional that they think it's a good idea to SWAT SOMONE...🤦♀️
they know its a bad idea, but then do it anyways, because they know they wont get punished ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sadly as long as the internet exists this bs will always happen, only absolute a**holes would even think of doing this to someone.
This happened before the internet. This happened before phones. Just in different ways.
That’s terrifying :(
I got swatted one day. I just complied with the cops and soon enough, they were apologizing to me and left me with a single patrol cop. Turns out there was a mixup and they swatted the wrong apartment, the dude an apartment over jumped out of the 4th story window and broke his leg, the rest of the cops went down to pick him up. It was pretty scary at first, but the look on that patrol cop's face when he realized they got the wrong apartment was priceless. Got some money from the PD for damages (they broke our door with a ram.
It’s so sad that many youtubers and streamers get swatted because they’re normal just like us. Just because they’re more popular and well known doesn’t mean that they don’t have feelings and fears like all of us. I wonder what the person who called the swatted on them would feel if they were to get swatted once or more times.
Swatting refers to a harassment technique most often perpetrated by members of the online gaming community. Swatting entails generating an emergency law enforcement response against a target victim under false pretenses.
i can see why she has ptsd if you ever been in a raid where they just kick the door down and swarm into the building with guns up mask on and yelling all sorts of shit
i love when anthony padilla randomly shouts YEAH!!!!!
To stop this from happening you would want to talk to your local police department to ensure that if a call like this happens a swat team isn't sent to your streaming home or location since they will have that information to ensure no mistake like this happens.
A lot of streamers (including QT's boyfriend) have done that but police still go.
they still go to her house but they are more chill.
If anybody haven't watched the video her cat was lost too due to this and the swat team just left like nothing happened.
I mean it’s not really the swat teams fault
If your "prank" gets a swat team in action, you might want to reconsider your definition of a "prank".
I’m sorry that happened, sending support to you and your family!
I’m so glad people aren’t being swatted as much as they used to
I don't think this is true, as Lud and QT said themselves, after the first they simply never said anything about being swated when they were because it would only embolden the swaters to do it more; they continued to be swated many, many more times though thankfully they were able to have much more leeway on subsequent incidents after it happening so many times...
People who are swated now i'm sure simply say nothing as it's worse to let them know they were successful, hense the impression it's gotten better...
thats fucked up, these people should be fined heavily if not jailed for murder attempt and wasting public resources
It’s a felony
it’s terrifying to hear this knowing they really could’ve lost their lives on that moment.
Need a new law with a life sentence for someone convicted of swatting!
The worst part is, it's 100% possible that this wasn't someone who didn't like them. It could have been their biggest fan
Bruh, just so you know, you accidentally posted this 3 times
Quick note: The people that do this? If they go to prison, career convicts will NOT treat them kindly when, and it is WHEN, they find out what they're in for.
qt: telling the most traumatic story ever
Anthony: 😮
Some people just dont deserve rights
Considering it's a felony to make a false 911 call, if ppl actually have the brains to make a criminal complaint, the caller will be a felon and won't have a fair number of rights