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TexasTowelie

(122,760 posts) Tue Aug 26, 2025, 02:44 PM Aug 26

Swatting hoaxes spark panic on college campuses - CNN

Reports of active shooters wielding assault rifles on campus sent excited students preparing for a new school year at Villanova University in Pennsylvania and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga into lockdown as law enforcement officers surged to the schools to assess the threats. Students hid behind walls, locked themselves into dorm rooms and frantically texted loved ones.

At both schools, the reports turned out to be false: There were no gunmen found, no shots fired. They’re part of an apparent wave of fake reports that have struck university campuses across the country, stirring fear and disruption from Pennsylvania to Arizona.

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Swatting hoaxes spark panic on college campuses - CNN (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 26 OP

I have zero understanding (imagination) as to why anyone would do this...but hlthe2b Aug 26 #1

If they catch these people, no mercy. The havoc and chaos they cause w/ these fake calls are despicable. SWBTATTReg Aug 26 #2

Followed by panic at the hospitals MaineBlueBear Aug 26 #3

This is the work of the repug's Nigrum Cattus Aug 26 #4

Happened at University of Arkansas yesterday Diraven Aug 26 #5

hlthe2b

(111,202 posts)

1. I have zero understanding (imagination) as to why anyone would do this...but

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 02:50 PM

Aug 26

I honestly have zero understanding why any sane person with even a modicum of intelligence (and especially self-defined and seemingly sincere Christians) would support Trump and his MAGA agenda. I guess I will never get it.

SWBTATTReg

(25,648 posts)

2. If they catch these people, no mercy. The havoc and chaos they cause w/ these fake calls are despicable.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 02:53 PM

Aug 26

MaineBlueBear

(262 posts)

3. Followed by panic at the hospitals

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 03:51 PM

Aug 26

Who are notified to prepare for a mass-casualty event.

Nigrum Cattus

(969 posts)

4. This is the work of the repug's

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 04:02 PM

Aug 26

They hate smart well informed/educated people.
The are all takers.
Taking the U.S. backwards due to their fear of progression forward.
You know, troglodytes !

Diraven

(1,537 posts)

5. Happened at University of Arkansas yesterday

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 04:23 PM

Aug 26

That's where my wife works. They locked down the whole school for half the day searching for non-existent shooters and cancelled all classes. Probably over a hundred officers responded so a huge waste of resources and time. It started as a total hoax apparently, although two idiot students decided it would be funny to post TikTok videos of themselves lurking through campus buildings carrying Nerf guns during the lockdown, which added even more confusion. My wife was very stressed.

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