I got SWAT'ed and handcuffed live while Linux development streaming!

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This would be a great comment if this was America...

Amazing - I read skimmed through the Wikipedia site for Swatting and tried to search online for it happening other places, but I couldn't watch a video while commenting so I didnt watch the source.

Fantastic case in point.

Still I struggle to understand how it's possible.

It's just the sad state of reality. People get hurt when cops don't act on this. Unfortunately many police are poorly trained and filtered out, so this does lead to many instances where people do get hurt because of them responding. Police officers need to be more strictly trained and monitored when dealing with situations like these, and the transparency of stuff like this is shockingly little.