Did Yale Get SWATted?

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This strikes me as profoundly suspicious:

Police in New Haven, Connecticut, said they were searching Yale University for a gunman on Monday after an anonymous caller claimed his roommate was headed to the Ivy League school’s campus intending to shoot people.
No one was injured and no shots were fired, said New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman, who noted that witnesses reported seeing a man on the campus with a “long gun,” or rifle of some kind.
The department received an 911 call at 9:30 a.m. from a man on a pay phone near Yale’s campus, who stated that his roommate was en route to the Yale University campus “with the intention of shooting people,” Hartman told reporters.
“We have not yet identified that caller,” Hartman said. “He did not identify himself when asked, he did not remain on the 911 line when asked.”

OK, so you have anonymous report of a deranged gunman, but when the police show up — no gunman. 

Has anyone seen Neal Rauhauser around New Haven? Just sayin . . .

 

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  5. Maybe someone who grew up saying “in the floor” instead of “on the floor” used the resulting variant of the standard internet acronym for rolling and laughing, and someone else misunderstood.

    Those CHICOMS, you can never be sure what they’ll do.

  10. […] Somebody anonymously calls the police (from a payphone!) and claims his roommate is about to go shoot up the Yale campus. Yup, it’s a hoax. Or rather, the trolls well know that the police are but a tool in their hands to engage in real-life lulz. Why not, when one anonymous phone call means they can lock down portions of a city and cause everyone to cower in fear like terrified rabbits while the police sweep the area? (Nevermind that lockdown is completely ineffective – the Boston bomber was found by a random citizen, not the police.) […]

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