The Kansas gamer swatting incident? A new development!

The jerk who called the Wichita cops in December 2017 that prompted the SWAT deployment that resulted in the death of 28 year old Andrew Finch, well, he is serving 20 years. The other man in the argument has probably completed his prison sentence, he gave the jerk his old address.

A couple of things have happened. First, a court has ruled that the City and Police Department of Wichita cannot be sued in the matter, their policies and response were not inappropriate. That is sad, but at least the matter was looked in to by theoretically independent and neutral third parties.

But that's not the biggie.

A court, and held up by a Federal court, has revoked the qualified immunity of the police officer that fired the fatal round that killed Finch! From the KWCH article: "A U.S. appeals court sided with the Kansas district court in denying Officer Rapp qualified immunity in Finch’s death[.] The court said a reasonable jury could believe Finch was unarmed and unthreatening when Rapp fired the shot that killed him."

The family is suing the officer for wrongful death damages and now it looks like that trial will proceed.

https://www.kwch.com/2022/07/05/wichita-officer-face-civil-trial-deadly-shooting-swatting-call/

A video comparing Lord of the Rings movie locations with Lord of the Rings Online sites!

Very cool! I haven't been to Halls of the Dead or Helm's Deep, I've been everywhere else shown. Both are based entirely on the books. The game is 15 years old, add in some time to build it, and the game is forbidden from using material from the movies, so it's a lot more true to the books with some additional stuff like Goldilocks and the Killer Rabbit.

And you can play the game free... Right now we're having the Farmer's Festival, which is a lot of fun.

Watch on YouTube