Someone Tricked a SWAT Team Into Scaring a Grandma Raising Money via Video-Games for Her Sick Grandchild; What is Wrong With People?

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…