Submitted by Bmartin_ t3_125pzzj in Pennsylvania
Comments
kozynook t1_je5phhj wrote
I don’t agree with it, but it’s being talked about as a protest to do something about the school shootings in the US. These false calls are supposed to escalate to all schools around the country everyday. Not so much for the lols. Just a horrible mess the US is in.
i_like_my_dog_more t1_je5tf61 wrote
It could also be testing to see what responses are.
For example the email we got from our school, the police said every call will be responded to as if there is an active shooter. If you were looking to launch some kind of attack, that's good info, because it means police will commit resources.
So if someone wanted to do something really bad, they could trigger all of these calls to occupy police over a large area, and then go do the really bad thing while the police are busy responding to the fake calls.
Weird_Major2489 t1_je5zkig wrote
That’s what I was worried for. If all the police rushed to initial responses it would leave the latter calls vulnerable.
barnegatsailor t1_je8cwo9 wrote
When my mom was a kid someone called a bomb threat at the public school in her town in Jersey. While the cops were at the school, the bank was robbed.
quietreasoning t1_je7eopy wrote
Sounds like something the white terror Republican extremists will do when they want to go bigger than shooting up the power grid.
JayDogg49ers t1_je7j97o wrote
🤡 comment
heili t1_je5wbf6 wrote
These calls that incite terror for a political reason are terrorism. They're not a protest.
Kabloosh75 t1_je668ee wrote
It's one thing to block the road.
It's another to call the police and say the school is being shot up.
This isn't protesting. This is using fear to get people to break. Aka, terrorism.
heili t1_je66njz wrote
Glad someone else sees this for what it is.
SeptasLate t1_je7aony wrote
Agree with it or not, when people don't care about the other forms of protest, or actual school shootings, this protest seems to be gaining people's attention.
gslavik t1_je8urtj wrote
WikiSummarizerBot t1_je8utc9 wrote
>Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of intentional violence and fear to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war against non-combatants (mostly civilians and neutral military personnel). The terms "terrorist" and "terrorism" originated during the French Revolution of the late 18th century but became widely used internationally and gained worldwide attention in the 1970s during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Basque conflict, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
^([ )^(F.A.Q)^( | )^(Opt Out)^( | )^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)^( | )^(GitHub)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
SeptasLate t1_je9uqgu wrote
Yup, people can apply that definition. But that does not negate the possibility of it being a form protest.
split_oak t1_jeea86b wrote
Yes it does. There is no protest here. None. It's theft of services, it's public endangerment... but it's anonymous and has 0 message.
It simply isn't protest.
"I sent the fire department to a place where there's no fire.... to protest fires."
SeptasLate t1_jeep28n wrote
It has a message if you look for it. It could be a message to the politically obstinate that it could happen in their community in an attempt to motivate people to take reforms seriously.
I don't know if wer even put forward new legislation after mass shootings anymore.
paultimate14 t1_je5x21u wrote
If you say you're afraid of any sort of protest, all protesters now become terrorists! Quite convenient.
heili t1_je5xtgd wrote
There are many, many ways to protest that do not literally terrorize children in their own schools.
CrazyOkie t1_je61wam wrote
Considering the absolute terror for the kids and their parents, I hope the instigators are caught and prosecuted, put away for a long long time.
I suspect if the goal is calling attention to school shootings and wanting gun control, this will have the opposite effect.
psychcaptain t1_je63hpt wrote
Will it though? I mean, there are a lot people that simple don't care about kids dying right now. I doubt their minds will be changed one way or another because inconvenience trumps child safety.
CrazyOkie t1_je66ss6 wrote
Are there people who don't care? Possibly. I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about parents with kids who are in school - whatever age level. They care - a great deal. Doesn't mean they agree about the solution. For those affected by today's stunt, they're angry.
I'm fairly sure it will have the opposite effect if the intent is to make people want gun control.
When I was young, back in the late 1970s, the state of Oklahoma was considering the equal rights amendment for the U.S. constitution. They were one of the last statest to vote on it, and if Oklahoma passed it, it only needed one more state to be approved. Polling the state legislators, it seemed likely to pass. Oklahoma at that time was run by the Democratic party. The National Organization for Women (NOW) decided that wasn't good enough and unleashed a campaign, having people from around the country mail postcards to all of the Oklahoma state legislators urging them to vote for the amendment. The legislature's post office was flooded with these things. There was so much, it was crazy. I was a Senate page at the time and we were tasked with helping sort through the mail because the regular mail room crew couldn't handle it. We were asked to sort out what had come from Oklahoma residents and what was out of state (the postmark told us). All of it was from out of state, none of it was personally addressed or written - just the postcards. The legislators were so mad at the attempt to influence them from people who didn't live in Oklahoma, the amendment didn't pass. The people of Oklahoma overwhelmingly agreed with their legislators. And to this day, there is no equal rights amendment in the U.S. Constitution.
So yeah, stunts and games to try and influence public or lawmakers opinions can have the opposite effect of what was intended.
wagsman t1_je69ihs wrote
I find it hard to believe that postcards made them change their minds a full 180 degrees. They surely had their reservations(whatever those may have been) to begin with, and the postcards were what ultimately tipped the scales in the state senate.
Hell, the state house refused to vote on it, so even if the Senate had passed it, ratification wasn't going to happen.
SunOutrageous6098 t1_je6b2n5 wrote
How is it any different than the active shooter drills kids have been doing monthly or quarterly since Columbine? What was that- 1998 or 1999?
Do the police practice responding to school shootings? If Uvalde is any indication, I’m gonna go with “no”.
How do you think teenagers feel when they’re listening to a sitting politician go on the news and say “we aren’t going to fix it. Criminals don’t follow laws. My kids are homeschooled.” Like the one from Tennessee did yesterday?
Kids are more likely to die from a gunshot than from anything else these days.
They live with this terror in the back of their mind 24/7.
CrazyOkie t1_je6br9e wrote
There's a huge difference between a planned drill - which students and parents are told in advance about - and receiving a message that there is a shooter at your school.
SunOutrageous6098 t1_je6c9ck wrote
We were absolutely not told about them in advance. Remember, the Columbine shooting was done by students. Imagine the damage that could be done if a student shooter knew exactly when all the kids would be huddled in the corner behind the teachers desk.
CrazyOkie t1_je6h7hc wrote
Seems crazy and irresponsible for the school district not to warn the parents or at least put it in the alert that it's a drill.
And what would this putative student shooter learn from an announced drill that they wouldn't already know from online research?
SunOutrageous6098 t1_je6kcel wrote
Warning students or parents ahead of time would reveal the exact day and time that the drill is occurring… thus making it easier for a bad actor to act since everyone will be hiding behind the teachers desk/in the corner because 40 kids don’t exactly fit behind a desk. In most schools the classroom doors don’t lock, either.
What do you think happens during an active shooter drill in a public school?
We don’t give lunches to kids if they can’t pay- you think we have bunkers to hide in?
CrazyOkie t1_je6nfnw wrote
Still doesn't answer my question of how that's an advantage to the shooter. By that logic, they could call in saying they saw a shooter and then go in guns blazing.
No idea what schools you went to but all the schools I went to and my daughter went to there absolutely were free lunches and breakfasts for those that couldn't pay. Heck, for my daughter's schools we were required to fill out the forms even if we knew we didn't qualify because the school gets federal money regardless.
SunOutrageous6098 t1_je6s1af wrote
Knowing the exact day and time that every student in the school is going to be huddled in the corner of each classroom is an advantage if you are looking to inflict maximum damage. No one is roaming the halls, everyone in administration thinks it’s a drill, so if your goal is destruction… you’ve got sitting ducks.
And yeah, we had a free lunch program. But if you weren’t on it and just forgot your money or your lunch account didn’t have enough… tough! No lunch for you. Google “lunch debt”. It’s a real thing and schools do not care.
SunOutrageous6098 t1_je6s2w0 wrote
Knowing the exact day and time that every student in the school is going to be huddled in the corner of each classroom is an advantage if you are looking to inflict maximum damage. No one is roaming the halls, everyone in administration thinks it’s a drill, so if your goal is destruction… you’ve got sitting ducks.
And yeah, we had a free lunch program. But if you weren’t on it and just forgot your money or your lunch account didn’t have enough… tough! No lunch for you. Google “lunch debt”. It’s a real thing and schools do not care.
CrazyOkie t1_je6tdmu wrote
>we had a free lunch program
So you admit that your prior statement that we don't give lunches to kids who can't pay wasn't true? I understand the "I forgot my account number" but forgetting it one day isn't the same as not having a program for it.
And I'm sorry, but your logic makes no sense on the forewarned drill. There absolutely should be administrators & cops observing what the teachers and students are doing, to correct anything they do wrong, otherwise the drill is pointless. If that's what they did at your school, your school administrators weren't very bright.
SunOutrageous6098 t1_je6ujqu wrote
There were 3500 kids in my high school and 5 principals. Which students did you want them to watch?
It was up to the teacher to make sure we did it right. You know, the one all 25 of us were supposed to hide behind.
SunOutrageous6098 t1_jebd8p8 wrote
Here’s a relevant case of “not all schools provide free lunches” for you.
CrazyOkie t1_jebkpfv wrote
Yes, a very misleading case based on one idiot lawmaker flapping his gums. Which the media was happy to run with.
That in fact was a vote for a state program which would have supplemented the existing federal program, to cover kids in families that are between 130%-185% of federal poverty levels. Kids in families below 130% of the poverty level in North Dakota are still going to get a free lunch at school (and free breakfast as well), just like they do in every school (public or private) in the good old USA. Families that are below 200% also qualify for reduced price meals at school.
https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/03/28/nd-legislature-votes-down-free-school-lunches/
Luvs2spooge89 t1_je7hxl8 wrote
I mean, they might not send out a memo and announce it in school the day before. But the kids would 100% know they were having a drill before the drill actually happened. They weren’t left to believe that it was an active situation. That’s insane.
SunOutrageous6098 t1_je7omlo wrote
Probably? The teacher of whatever class we were in probably told us. It was in the years right after Columbine- an announcement went over the PA system saying “Mr Smith is in the building” or something and that meant we all had to go stand in the corner, behind the teachers desk.
We all knew it wasn’t going to work if there actually was a situation.
bullwinkle510 t1_je7slo5 wrote
I heard talks of a walk out or not go to school due to hostile environment.
Gothsicle t1_je627ax wrote
i have heard water cooler talk that parents are being encouraged not to send their kids to school on Friday as a "nationwide protest".
Yen-sama t1_je95usn wrote
We've had incidents of kids in my school district making bomb and shooting threats as a prank just to get out of going to school, so I'm not so sure this is it.
Besides which, this is a horrible way to protest. With how common school shootings are, this is only going to distress students, and the teachers that don't get paid enough to deal with this. Protest in a way that doesn't traumatize innocent people.
IrrumaboMalum t1_je9fy53 wrote
They should investigate every call and arrest each person who made the call. I believe something like this is a felony.
JohnDeere714 t1_je58msi wrote
All calls are to be computer generated. It’s gone as far as Pittsburgh
They are confirmed to be false. Schools are going on a no visitor policy
MW1369 t1_je5b9ar wrote
Hoping it’s not a bunch of fakes and one real mixed in
PPQue6 t1_je5wp5n wrote
You can add Erie to the list as well...
kshucker t1_je7qhlo wrote
Just China and Russia testing us.
zappafrank2112 t1_je5bv5m wrote
They have not been confirmed to be false in Pittsburgh. It's irresponsible to declare as such. I live less than a mile from the Pittsburgh call and I hear helicopters and sirens, and have received multiple EMS alerts.
For people downvoting: I was reporting what I knew to be true at the time of the comment I was replying to. At that time, nothing had been confirmed either way, and I was simply providing feedback as someone who's received multiple EMS alerts, as did my co-workers, and I'm literally still listening to helicopters in the air, even though yes, it's NOW since been confirmed to be a hoax. Good lord, people.
No-Lifeguard-8173 t1_je5cnva wrote
They have been confirmed. They've cleared the building and are letting kids back into the classroom.
Viola-Intermediate t1_je5daz7 wrote
They are still evacuating at Central Catholic in Oakland, as far as I can tell
JohnDeere714 t1_je5dr19 wrote
Yeah they’re possibly still clearing the school. As far as I can tell it’s the same call being broadcasted. Active shooter with 6 students shot.
[deleted] t1_je5eaap wrote
[deleted]
Gothsicle t1_je5cs7g wrote
There were several schools targeted in Blair and Cambria Counties.
hiding-identity23 t1_je5qyni wrote
Yep. My kids’ was one. It’s really hard to be a parent in this world today.
Spiderhater76 t1_je5vkmk wrote
Agreed. My child is in elementary school in PA right now and I panicked when I saw the headline. I panic every single day she gets on that bus and I'm not there to keep her safe. It's truly difficult to send your kids off and not know what will happen to them
hiding-identity23 t1_je60eop wrote
One of mine was in first grade when 20 first graders were slaughtered at Sandy Hook, so I feel like it really touched a nerve with me. Unfortunately it doesn’t always work out when they take the bus, but I drop them off fairly regularly. When I do, I always tell them “I love you; have a good day” when they’re getting out of the car. Though they’re teenagers now and usually have headphones in. 😒
[deleted] t1_je6qqnq wrote
[removed]
suzannem18 t1_je615eh wrote
My daughter goes to Altoona. It's really sad that this is what our kids have to deal with—that this is their normal. This sort of stuff never happened when I was in school back in the Dark Ages before Columbine and the rest. I'm just glad it was actually a hoax... I can't imagine what it would be like if it were a real situation.
hiding-identity23 t1_je6295i wrote
Columbine happened at the end of my junior year. There were (rumored?) bomb threats about the prom that year, but they were quickly debunked. I don’t think we had any threats of anything my senior year.
One of mine was in first grade at the time of Sandy Hook. I don’t know if that’s why it really started on my radar or what, but I just feel like from then on out they’ve just been practically nonstop.
suzannem18 t1_je7alzs wrote
I think I’m a few years older than you. I had just turned 23 when Columbine happened and was in my senior year of college. I’ve worked at universities since 2001, and had threats after Virginia Tech, as well as for random reasons. My kids have had so many lockdowns… It never gets easier, and it’s way too much!
randomnighmare t1_je771o4 wrote
It's messed up for sure.
Pink_Slyvie t1_je62hza wrote
>Yep. My kids’ was one. It’s really hard to be a parent in this America today.
Fixed it for you. Sure, there are places way, way worse, but when it comes to developed nations, we are really the only place where these issues exist.
hiding-identity23 t1_je63sq1 wrote
Very good point. Other countries have figured this shit out, but somehow we just can’t seem to.
Pink_Slyvie t1_je682mo wrote
Oh we know the problem. Fundamentalist religious organizations.
BryGuy610 t1_je5vcen wrote
Several in Northampton, Lehigh Counties in PA and Warren County NJ.
randomnighmare t1_je76zvv wrote
Yes. It was schools in two counties.
Nurse-88 t1_je6a20y wrote
My daughter sent me a text message this morning stating she could hear someone yelling in the hall outside of her classroom. Two minutes later I got another text that she could see police officers with guns pulled and some had shields. Another text followed just saying "if anything happens, I love you."
It is an incredibly gut-wrenching feeling to read it in real time, knowing there isn't anything I could do in that moment. I am beyond thankful it was only a hoax and that she will be walking through the door at some point today.
I will say that the emergency response time was excellent. Several police departments were brought in, essentially all hands on deck.
MaddBunnyLady t1_je9xd6j wrote
I can't imagine that feeling. Horrifying.
[deleted] t1_je6rapl wrote
[removed]
tigerbalmz t1_je5j3ud wrote
Using children as pawns. Absolutely disgusting!
psychcaptain t1_je60j99 wrote
Pawns for what?
tigerbalmz t1_je62iqk wrote
For whatever the objective of these hoax calls are… these kids have nothing to do with it, but the way these children live will forever change. Some will be able to overcome, some will suffer from anxiety and who knows what other psychological trauma this might cause.
I know for my own young children, they hear the news… They don’t understand it. They’re confused by it and they ask if it could happen in their school. Parents can’t tell their children this won’t happen in their school. They’re practicing drills in their classrooms. It’s sickening.
psychcaptain t1_je633li wrote
The kids are the ones dying, so I am not sure whether they have 'nothing to do with it'.
Honestly, I don't know what the end goal is, but after over 130 mass shootings in the US so far this year, it would be nice to actually have people care enough about it to do something.
tigerbalmz t1_je64otk wrote
Truly I don’t know what the hold up is… O yes, there’s that thing about rights to bear arms./s
I don’t think we’ll be moving the meter very far if we’re going to climb that hill. One thing I believe most law makers agree on is the status of mental health… Now why they haven’t done anything about it is beyond me. There’s a lot of talking heads and not enough leaders willing to push through legislation.
Then you get politicians who straight up gave up… “There’s nothing more we can do.” People who want to focus on religion, race, and now gender identity… It’s incredible how these senators will latch onto anything possible to not have to talk about gun laws.
SunOutrageous6098 t1_je6c0et wrote
We’ve been practicing intruder & active shooter drills since Columbine. It’s not new.
The real question is- do the police practice responding to school shooters? I went to a high school with over 3,000 students in it. Absolutely massive building with multiple entrances and floors.
I have no faith that if the shooting was in the language pod that the police would know where that is. Football field, sure. Gym? Absolutely. Chemistry lab? Nope.
tigerbalmz t1_je6e1s7 wrote
Drills are certainly not new… but with the news of more school shootings though, I think it changes the context quite a bit for kids.
I just read this morning in an incident at Newark, DE a hoax caller made a threat. The school was put in lockdown and cops didn’t show up for 70mins. They claimed miscommunication… All while parents are trying to get into the school. It’s just a hot mess. Over a decade of preparation and tragedies every week, how are we not getting better at handling this? Watching the video of how they sent in one lone police officer who clearly had no clue what to do… it’s infuriating.
SunOutrageous6098 t1_je6nur7 wrote
Columbine was 24 years ago. Over a thousand people have been injured in a school shooting since then, with hundreds dead.
We aren’t getting better at handling this because it’s apparently not a priority to any of our lawmakers - from Mayors, who in some towns ARE in charge of the police, to Federal legislators.
Ya’ll gotta vote this year and every year. Show up. Raise your concerns in a calm manner. We saw record voter turnout in 2020 and the President can’t do anything about this. In 2021 we went back down to a 22% voter turnout.
VOTE like your kids lives depend on it because they do.
[deleted] t1_je6s0ln wrote
[removed]
DAllen873 t1_je5decl wrote
Bellefonte, Altoona and Holidaysburg had calls from what my wife who works in a school nearby said. They have basically all the surrounding area schools on alert with state police presence now.
somberblurb t1_je6r2y0 wrote
Bellefonte Area High was on lock down for a good part of the morning due to a threat.
State College Area School District did not receive any threats, but cancelled outdoor activities and increased police presence at all schools due to the situation statewide.
shanafme t1_je7bjoa wrote
Hollidaysburg didn’t get a call, they locked things down because of Altoona getting the call. But at least those kids didn’t have to look at a full-sized Pride flag while they were in lock down.
dropkickpa t1_je5bvfs wrote
Same thing happening right now at at least 2 western PA high schools. Central Catholic (Pittsburgh), Hopewell High school (Hopewell Twnshp).
The_RonJames t1_je5k8u4 wrote
Also Farrell in Mercer County. Police from all over the county responded and the declared it was a hoax.
HellBoygamingYT t1_je6kqhj wrote
I went to Farrell and I live across the street from the school I got woken up by the sirens
midnight_meadow t1_je5s216 wrote
Happened at Laurel Highlands (Uniontown) as well.
imrightontopthatrose t1_je5uvpf wrote
New Castle as well
KringlebertFistybuns t1_je73rmk wrote
I work with people who have kids going to Hopewell. It was truly awful for them not knowing what was happening. Then, the false reports of mass casualties that spread all over the Facebook "News" groups started up. As if the original hoax calls weren't bad enough, we had parents thinking their children were hurt or killed.
heili t1_je5x0dd wrote
Add Laurel Highlands to that and Oakland Catholic.
vixxn845 t1_jeabe5f wrote
Washington HS got a call, too, I am pretty sure. A friend works there
Unique-Public-8594 t1_je5ayo4 wrote
These poor kids. No one should grow up with this fear. 😢
Travis123083 t1_je5c4iq wrote
We've been growing up in fear since Columbine and 9/11.
johnhd t1_je5ez22 wrote
For real, I remember people calling in bomb threats a few times per school year back in the 2000s, and that was way before social media was around to give kids stupid ideas.
Travis123083 t1_je5gdbb wrote
I can remember the day columbine happened. We went into lockdown and were never allowed backpacks in halls again.
SwanPuzzleheaded4304 t1_je5gu8b wrote
My HS had bomb threats a lot too. They would check our bags when we arrived to make sure nobody had a weapon or anything.
Unfamiliar_Word t1_je5l5il wrote
They seemed to happen particularly often during weeks when there were a lot of tests being administered, as I recollect.
Critical_Band5649 t1_je6bsdz wrote
Right? I was 9 when Columbine happened. Now my kids are in elementary school and it's a whole new level than we had growing up. It used to be disgruntled/bullied high school kids, that was the worry. Now it can be grown adults waltzing into schools to kill innocent elementary aged kids who they've never met.
My son was the same age as the kids who died at Uvalde. We had a brief but heartbreaking conversation about it. 9 year olds aren't supposed to live with that fear but here we are, 2nd generation in a row.
Travis123083 t1_je6mdp2 wrote
I remember going to school before all this, and my parents never had to worry about whether I'd be shot or not. The biggest worry was cars hitting us or being kidnapped.
gslavik t1_je8tz7l wrote
Sad thing about Columbine is that the shooters were the bullies. They were also into Nazis for some weird reason.
avowed t1_je5pffj wrote
Duck and cover drills during the cold war.
Ct-5736-Bladez t1_je5g6qt wrote
I have a friend in Massachusetts. He said the same thing happened there as well yesterday.
Olive_Mediocre t1_je69dyp wrote
Well we could do something about this.... but that would require gun control.... and people would rather see this and dead kids than to even consider gun control.
shatterly t1_je5uxdn wrote
I'm in Utah. We've had a bunch this morning, either individual high schools or entire school districts: https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/hoax-school-shooting-calls-force-police-response-across-northern-utah
wintermoon138 t1_je5clbn wrote
Has anyone heard if Hopewell High School is just a threat as well or is there an Active shooter there? my office has people hearing reports of an active shooter situation there
Edit: Just updated it was a hoax like a lot of other schools around here in Western PA
heili t1_je5x3ul wrote
Same hoax, same call. All the calls are the same. Someone purporting to be a student saying six students were shot.
i_like_my_dog_more t1_je5mbdf wrote
Similar calls have been received across Lehigh and Northampton county. Allentown school district, Bethlehem school district, and East Penn at the very least.
Also calls were received in Warren county at Phillipsburg school district. I saw some other folks mentioning Somerset county.
MissionRevolution306 t1_je6ugta wrote
When I was a student at a Catholic hs in Camp Hill in the late 1980s, we would get at least one bomb scare per year, usually on a cold or rainy day, so on top of being scared we were freezing outside in our skirts until the campus/buildings could be cleared. People who do this stuff are AHs.
annalatrina t1_je72uog wrote
This happened in Utah today too. Even schools that are vacant due to spring break got swatted.
The_RonJames t1_je5jyey wrote
This also happened at Farrell Schools in Mercer County
DorkOfDarkness666 t1_je5wc91 wrote
Unfortunately, this is the norm we live in..
psychcaptain t1_je63rbd wrote
Guns are an ever present threat these days. You can't take it lightly.
MajinSkull t1_je60ys6 wrote
My school got a call. We just got out of our lockdown
xAsroilu t1_je664lm wrote
Need to start putting these people and/kids (whomever made the call) to enforce a 0-tolerance policy for this behavior. I thought people used to get arrested for this??
somberblurb t1_je6rlwg wrote
It seems like this is a coordinated effort by a group with a lot of resources. Calls are being sent out automatically, presumably anonymously, by pre-recorded computer voices.
xAsroilu t1_je6sosd wrote
Surprising to many, it's not hard to do. They literally have free software for that kinda stuff online. It's wack. A lot of phone scammers do the same thing + spoofing someone else's number, I've literally gotten phone calls from myself. We need a stricter crackdown on this malicious software that people use for this kinda crap.
gslavik t1_je8uden wrote
Asterisk + a TTS from a list: https://medevel.com/14-os-text-to-speech/
gslavik t1_je8ucno wrote
Don't need lots of resources, just enough determination. Asterisk and a TTS (https://medevel.com/14-os-text-to-speech/) and you can do such things.
I used to work in a company that did something similar. It would escalate issues and if the automation was coded for it, you could respond on your phone and it would take actions against your systems.
One time, someone used this system to call a local restaurant to place an order for pick up.
This is tech from like 15 years ago, if not earlier and it is open source.
All you really need is a phone exchange or VOIP provider who can hide your true identity (this is also how all those scam calls from across the pacific get made).
[deleted] t1_je6sznh wrote
[removed]
Cold-Resolve1923 t1_je7ix11 wrote
I;ll soon be 68, wth happened to our country?
30686 t1_je9gcc1 wrote
There is a special place in hell for people who do this.
[deleted] t1_je5fmbf wrote
[deleted]
[deleted] t1_je6k7r4 wrote
[removed]
[deleted] t1_je6k8i9 wrote
[removed]
[deleted] t1_je6qv3h wrote
[removed]
[deleted] t1_je6qxhd wrote
[removed]
[deleted] t1_je72j33 wrote
[removed]
[deleted] t1_je7rd8t wrote
[removed]
PurplePigeon96 t1_je9f82b wrote
It broke me yesterday. Because the initial report said there were dead kids and very specific. It was multiple schools near Pittsburgh. When I read the news before we know it is a hoax I completely lost it at work. I cried hysterically and couldn't stop. I never cry in public. But I was terrified. My son was texting me that he was ok and then I found out it was a hoax but my nerves were done. I was still trying to calm down. Before anyone makes fun of me....I am on tons of meds, I go to therapy but this shit is breaking families. It is causing trauma for our kids collectively. I read about little kids being so scared they didn't sleep last night. There's going to be a whole generation fucked up from this shit.
Stonecutter_12-83 t1_je9mf9l wrote
This is terrible.... but nothing new. It's been happening regularly since columbine
duck4129 t1_je6djs2 wrote
If your kids school doesn't use an app like "remind" you should get in touch with the administration there to have it implemented, my kids school uses it and I can get texts from the teachers and admins instantly, that they can send out in mass to every parent at once vs trying to call each parent individually.
TheTr7nity t1_je8scfw wrote
The penalties for swatting should be so severe that it deters people from doing it. Making it punishable by incarceration in the house of correction for 2 years or more should do the trick.
Dan42004988 t1_je70h51 wrote
When do we just make schools a police station. All the students and cops in one building, then surrounded by a mote filled with laser beam equipped crocodiles. And maybe a frozen yogurt place, that would be nice too.🐊 🍦
wagsman t1_je6ad2f wrote
Give it another 5 years and conservatives will be arguing for school uniforms to consist of tactical gear in your school's colors, and within 10 they will be arguing for children to conceal carry.
Cioger t1_je5aphw wrote
Imagine getting your lol's by swatting schools. Absolutely disgusting.