If you need some news to illustrate how humanity is increasingly becoming terrible, here you go. An 81-year-old grandmother who has been live-streaming herself playing video games so that she can raise money to help pay for her grandson’s cancer treatment was the victim of a cruel and dangerous, “Prank.” Known online as GrammaCrackers, Sue Jacquot found herself awoken with quite the surprise when a SWAT team burst into her house under the assumption (from a fake caller) that Sue was dead, and her grandchild had shot her with plans to kill himself. This is part of an idiotic online trend known as, “Swatting.” A number of Internet streamers have fallen victim to this, and it can get people seriously hurt or even killed--we're talking SWAT teams that are ready to use lethal force in extremely dangerous situations.
Controversial figures seem to fall victim to this a lot more often, of course. Still, it raises the question of why someone would do something so crass and unsafe to a sweet old lady raising money for a sick grandchild? To her credit, Sue discussed everything online and even remarked that the whole event was, “Kind of fun.” Still, this is another example of people trying to use the Internet for good, and then it being used by terrible people as well. At least this brought more attention to Sue/GrammaCrackers and her admirable work to help her grandson. I can only hope it assists in raising more money, whilst I also shake my head at how the American healthcare system has put Sue and her family in such a difficult situation.
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