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How the Teen Who Became America’s Worst Serial Swatter Was Caught

Torswats triggered lockdowns, evacuations, and panic across the United States, and wrote online that he hoped to cause tens of millions of dollars in damage and wasted police resources. Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► Listen to the Get WIRED podcast ►► Want more WIRED? Get the magazine ►► Follow WIRED: Instagram ►►…

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Torswats triggered lockdowns, evacuations, and panic across the United States, and wrote online that he hoped to cause tens of millions of dollars in damage and wasted police resources.

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  1. @aqqibabs

    January 31, 2025 at 12:08 pm

    This is so sickening

  2. @Babagrillen

    January 31, 2025 at 12:11 pm

    Just listening to those shots…😣

    • @Zoooker1

      January 31, 2025 at 1:28 pm

      counter strike AK sound lol. Wouldnt even hear gunshots on a phone like that

  3. @senayghirmay8172

    January 31, 2025 at 12:14 pm

    America is a dangerous place.

  4. @blankwavemessiah

    January 31, 2025 at 12:19 pm

    wtf…. why am I not familiar with this????

    • @ISMsoccerboy

      January 31, 2025 at 12:42 pm

      Same never heard about this. Though it’s possibly because of how easy he did it, or to not encourage copycats, which I think is a big part.

    • @levidavis1093

      January 31, 2025 at 2:14 pm

      Because it happens everyday

    • @levidavis1093

      January 31, 2025 at 2:15 pm

      Because it happens every day

  5. @brevoort101

    January 31, 2025 at 12:21 pm

    This is the dude raging in mw2 lobbies back in the day

    • @levidavis1093

      January 31, 2025 at 2:13 pm

      Lol bruh, we’ve ALL raged in CoD. Lmao 😂

  6. @ting280

    January 31, 2025 at 12:28 pm

    usual suspects

  7. @BlackCeII

    January 31, 2025 at 12:34 pm

    What kind of clickbait b******* is this? How they caught this guy? This is just violence p***. There’s no indication of how they caught this guy. Do better wired

  8. @noneshere

    January 31, 2025 at 12:35 pm

    911 calls are heresay calls.
    Violators call 911 as Victims often.
    Government don’t actually know Anything until it arrives for itself.

  9. @sebringb

    January 31, 2025 at 12:41 pm

    So…how was he caught again?

    • @Bobdibob

      January 31, 2025 at 12:44 pm

      Yeah, I missed that part

  10. @ISMsoccerboy

    January 31, 2025 at 12:42 pm

    Thats psychotic and disturbing.

  11. @albertgreene313

    January 31, 2025 at 12:54 pm

    Dear Wired, yall didn’t even link to a longer video detailing “how” he got caught. Please, for your own sake as a business, let alone one that purports to be some variant on “press”, have the gumption to fulfill the demands of your caption.

    • @No-wayJose0

      February 1, 2025 at 8:21 am

      “Gumption” really is one of those words that immediately makes you a nerd. There’s a certain niche of 50-year outdated words that can only be used in academic writing

    • @harshvardhan4771

      February 2, 2025 at 5:02 pm

      ​@@No-wayJose0shut up billionaire-simp and criminal-simp.

    • @MysteryWgF_show

      February 4, 2025 at 9:34 am

      ​@@No-wayJose0 At least they were polite

  12. @thebundok

    January 31, 2025 at 12:57 pm

    Did I miss the answer in there somewhere? This was high-school quality video editing click-bait.

  13. @Zoooker1

    January 31, 2025 at 1:26 pm

    The counter strike AK spray made me lol

  14. @jeroen1989

    January 31, 2025 at 2:13 pm

    So, what was the purpose of this clip? Nothing shows how he was caught or even what is motives were…

    Just showing the face of a clearly sick individual without any additional ubderlying message? Just for the giggles?

  15. @levidavis1093

    January 31, 2025 at 2:15 pm

    This is America

    • @kittykapow

      January 31, 2025 at 2:57 pm

      Dont catch you slippin now

  16. @Roguefem76

    January 31, 2025 at 2:40 pm

    Serial “swatter”? What kind of dystopian sht is that? If you’re putting up a video of a school shooter, at least have the decency to say that.

    • @jeroen1989

      January 31, 2025 at 2:49 pm

      @@Roguefem76 I think he didn’t actually shoot, only made fake calls to the police of him acting out his fantasies. But even that remains somewhat vague in this clip…

    • @kittykapow

      January 31, 2025 at 2:58 pm

      Do you know what swatting is, Boomer?

    • @matthewsmith6057

      January 31, 2025 at 3:36 pm

      A swatter is a person who calls in fake attacks to get police (specifically SWAT teams) to show up at a location and cause chaos.

    • @Roguefem76

      January 31, 2025 at 3:50 pm

      @matthewsmith6057 That makes more sense, thanks for explaining.

      Of course now I’m wondering why something that amounts to a prank warrants an overly dramatic Youtube vid. 😕🤔

  17. @Maharet69

    January 31, 2025 at 3:46 pm

    So… How was he caught

  18. @billbolls

    January 31, 2025 at 6:42 pm

    what even is this video? why is this video? how is this video?

  19. @kathleen88863

    January 31, 2025 at 7:16 pm

    Thanks to trumps republicans. Criminals. One and all.

  20. @circeus

    January 31, 2025 at 8:55 pm

    Oh look, a reason to use DeArrow on a short

  21. @Julibellule24

    January 31, 2025 at 9:58 pm

    Can you stop those kind of shorts? I didn’t subscribe to see this s*#&. I love your videos, they are so interesting and intelligent and informative. This here has nothing to do with the content I signed up for and I don’t want to see it in my feed.. there is enough hate in the world rn, stop spreading it! ❤🌎

  22. @werdwerdus

    January 31, 2025 at 11:08 pm

    i liked the part of the video where we never learn how he was caught 👍

  23. @filmontheeyes

    February 1, 2025 at 2:00 am

    For your entertainment

  24. @whyme8068

    February 1, 2025 at 4:45 am

    Because of his name, my guess is that he was caught because he thought the Tor network was truly anonymous😂

  25. @EverettvonNordeck-gf2cw

    February 1, 2025 at 6:47 am

    Who made this clip? This seems like some sick homage to the weeb in the mugshot instead of what the title says. Try harder next time for the sake of the future. Best of luck I’m unsubscribing

  26. @MysteryWgF_show

    February 4, 2025 at 9:32 am

    How are this channel’s shorts so poorly made?
    I thought you were supposed to inform people, not to get more views and clicks on your content.
    A shame, I genuenly thought this was an informative YouTube channel.
    Also, to clickbait on something like this is inhuman.

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