Congratulations.
You just SWATED your neighbors visitor.
No, he didn’t. He called up and asked a question. The cops then decided to ovrblow all by themselves and make it a training exercise.
The whole thing that makes it SWATTING, as we are discusing it, is that the intent is to deliberately call up and get the person in trouble, knowing full well there is nothing wrong and no trouble. That means lying to police about the nature of it because there’s nothing going on. The point is to get a person who’s carrying in trouble and they hope maybe they get shot by the cops, for doing nothing wrong.
That is not what Cletus did. At least as far as what he wrote indicates. Asking a question is not lying to cops about a gun threat. If anything he was maybe naive to not consider an dangerously overblown response by them to his question.
:: DPS told me that it is considered a professional courtesy to do so. ::
Yeah, I get it and, trust me, I felt remorse for the over-reaction of the local fuzz. Interestingly enough, these guys (Local DPS) were also investigated by DEA.
Butt, wasn’t it the DPS that over-reacted?
Seriously, they could have just shown up, asked him about his weapon and left peacefully? No lights, no siren, just a friendly visit by those who assignment is “to protect and to serve”.