Couple logs 55 swatting incidents over 24 months tied to single Norm Macdonald post

The CBC report states the couple received repeated false emergency dispatches after a tweet mentioning the late comedian. Police records cited in the article list 55 distinct 911 calls with fabricated hostage or threat scenarios. Each incident triggered armed response teams at their residence.

Swatting data from the FBI's 2023 Internet Crime Report shows 1,163 documented cases nationwide, with average response costs exceeding $10,000 per event. Canadian agencies have not published equivalent national figures. The couple's volume exceeds the median single-target count by more than an order of magnitude.

The incident illustrates how low-friction social media amplification can trigger sustained real-world resource deployment without platform-level intervention thresholds. No arrests have been reported. Municipal police continue to classify the calls as originating from spoofed numbers routed through overseas VoIP providers.

Future mitigation depends on mandatory carrier-level caller ID authentication under STIR/SHAKEN frameworks already mandated in the United States but only partially implemented in Canada.