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An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted (www.thegamer.com)

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An 81-year-old streamer, playing through Minecraft until she "beats" it, has been swatted, with 20 police cars, five SWAT cars full of multiple SWAT officers, and drones arriving at her house.

GrammaCrackers, who has over 600,000 YouTube followers, is using her viral streams to raise money for her grandson's cancer treatment. She was asleep, while her stream of Minecraft was still live, when officers were seen entering her house with torches and rifles.

"I was asleep, I did not want to get up, and these policemen came in the door," the 81-year-old said in a follow-up video. "They locked me out. I didn't know what was going on, but it was kinda fun. My kid and my grandkid were hugging me; I don't get that kind of attention normally. Then I got to ride in a police car. I've never ridden in a police car before. Then it was all over, so I thought 'Well, I've gotta go to bed', so I took an ibuprofen and went to bed."

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[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Swatting a streamer is completely illegal in the US and is often prosecuted as a felony.

Seems like if it was really often prosecuted as a felony, it would be less common.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 1 month ago

"often" = weasel word.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 month ago

I don't think it's uncommon for the source of the swatting to be foreign. I know that Indian scammers did it to people who fucked with them for a while.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

first comment sum it up:

America - the country where they can afford to send 25 police cars to your house for no good reason, but have no money to pay for cancer treatment. Amazing.