[Razengan]

> somebody has been (rightfully or wrongfully) arrested for literally ‘crying wolf’?

Willfully diverting limited public service resources, that might potentially be assigned to saving someone's life or health?

Practically a social DoS

[colechristensen]

>Willfully diverting limited public service resources, that might potentially be assigned to saving someone's life or health?

This is an accurate criticism of the boy in the fable, if... an unnecessary way to express the idea.

[littlestymaar]

Yeah, I really don't see the difference with false bomb alerts.