Man SWATTED 47 TIMES!.... And Owes 50k For It

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 146 minutes

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For 18 months, a teenager allegedly operated a “swatting” service out of his father’s California home, where criminals could call in a hoax bomb threat or mass shooting almost as easily as ordering a burger on UberEats. Alan Winston Filion, 17, is suspected of targeting hundreds of high schools, mosques, historically Black churches, US senators and even the US Supreme Court with swatting attacks that placed thousands of people in the crosshairs of heavily armed police response teams. Prosecutors say the 6ft 3in teenager advertised his services under the pseudonym Torswats on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, charging as little as $40 to get someone’s gas shut off, $50 for a “major police response”, and $75 for a “bomb threat/mass shooting threat”. Mr Filion would then post chilling audio of the 911 calls on Telegram as a proof of purchase, according to court documents. Among the hundreds of “swats” that Torswats allegedly claimed credit for were multiple hoax callouts at the home of Patrick S Tomlinson, a Milwaukee-based science fiction author who says he has been swatted dozens of times in the past four years as part of a targeted harassment campaign by a group of “sociopathic” stalkers. hkh Check out Barstool Sports for more: http://www.barstoolsports.com Follow Zero Blog Thirty here: Facebook: https://facebook.com/zeroblog30/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zeroblog30 Instagram: http://instagram.com/zeroblog30

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0:09.7	Of Zero Block 30, today we're going to be talking about a bunch of things. One, I'm sure whenever you
0:15.1	logged into the podcast if you're on the audio version, you saw that it's like three hours long or something like that.
0:21.1	And there's a reason why. The big reason why is that at the end of the show where Kate's on me,
0:26.2	cons, Rudy, White Sox, Dave, Chief, a bunch of Nicki Smokes, a bunch of other people have come into the office with us and they are doing a breakdown of Masters of the Air.
0:37.4	Now this isn't something that I don't really think has a whole lot of spoilers yet.
0:42.3	Primarily what Kons and I have done is gone through the show
0:46.0	and then give realistic examples of how that type of thing happens.
0:50.0	We give our example, it's probably the most intensive combat conversations
0:54.3	Kans and I have had since we've done the show maybe on episode 15 like we haven't
1:00.3	dove into combat stuff in a long long time like we did here so you you
1:05.4	might enjoy listening to that if you like that kind of thing and if you stick
1:09.5	around with us for the war stories we're gonna talk about. That's like two hours long at the end of the show. But right now we're going to get into one of the topics that really blew my mind this week. And it's something that I haven't talked about I heard about and we've actually had experience here at
1:23.4	Barstool it's swatting and do you guys know what swatting is you probably do since I
1:28.4	sent out the sheet well I mean I I know because I read the sheet but had I not read that I had never really heard that term I know because I read the sheet but had I not read that I had never really heard that term.
1:34.5	I know 23 year old Kate when I went to the bars it was swatting the boys away.
1:39.5	Oh yeah yeah I thought you were gonna say you've been smacking them cheeks on different fellas all across the globe.
1:46.4	Oh, that's not that's not swatting that's slamming. No, no, no. No, no, not you getting cheeks slammed, you slapping other people's cheeks.
1:56.3	Oh, pardon me, I said that's bold chaps.
1:58.8	Yeah, I would never.
1:59.8	That's like that one time on the ad read, and you were like,
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