Swatting: The New Prank

[lleeder]

I'm watching the news and there is a new craze sweeping the nation. Kids make prank calls to 911 and pretend to have people held at gunpoint. They then try to get swat teams to show up on an unsuspecting person. Its happened a bunch of times. Probably not a really popular thing but the news just hyped it up like its an epidemic.

[TooLowBrow]

esd should 'swat' the o and a show

[Ritalin]

Shit, that's not even funny. I called the cops when I lived in Chicago once because I thought someone was breaking into my house. It turned out not to be true, so I went out to the front of the house to meet the cops and tell them I was mistaken.

I walked onto the sidewalk to find 3 cop cars with the cops behind them with their guns drawn. Holy fucking shit. It didn't make it any better that the reason I thought someone was breaking in is because I was high as a kite.

You definitely don't want 6 or 8 itchy cops pointing their weapons at you.

[west milly Tom]

I just saw that on fox, this new prank will end when the first idiot teenager gets shot. What a bunch of assholes. We used to throw snowballs at cars, these guys are just showing off.

[FUNKMAN]

sounds a bit more dangerous than when we ordered 5 pizza pies to our neighbor, Mr Paszul, because he always took our ball when it went in his gate..

[PapaBear]

I read about a case of this. SWAT was outside the house. The husband grabbed a knife and was lucky to not be shot. Though they said it's almost impossible to catch kids who do this, they did catch and convict the kid in this particular case. The problem lies in 911 issues with internet based phone lines.

Here's the story I read. (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/02/america/NA-TEC-US-Prank-Emergency-Calls.php)

Doug Bates and his wife, Stacey, were in bed around 10 p.m., their 2-year-old daughters asleep in a nearby room. Suddenly they were shaken awake by the wail of police sirens and the rumble of a helicopter above their suburban Southern California home. A criminal must be on the loose, they thought. Doug Bates got up to lock the doors and grabbed a knife. A beam from a flashlight hit him. He peeked into the backyard. A swarm of police, assault rifles drawn, ordered him out of the house. Bates emerged, frightened and with the knife in his hand, as his wife frantically dialed the emergency dispatcher. They were handcuffed and ordered to the ground while officers stormed the house.

[keithy_19]

Here's the story I read. (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/02/america/NA-TEC-US-Prank-Emergency-Calls.php)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! LMFAO!

DON'T YOU GET IT!?!?

THEIR NIGHT WAS RUINED!

HAHAHAHA!



I hate my generation...

[boosterp]

This is beyond stupid. We did some dumb shit in my day like calling Dominos pizza to a neighbor's house, throwing easter eggs at passing cars, and prank knocking. What the fuck is wrong with these kids? PS3 not keeping their attention, cell phone taken away by the parents, girlfriend broke up, what?

[SatCam]

Dont these kids realize someone could get hurt?!?!?!

[high fly]

Someone's gonna get an eye poked out, just you wait and see!

[Slumbag]

This is beyond stupid. We did some dumb shit in my day like calling Dominos pizza to a neighbor's house, throwing easter eggs at passing cars, and prank knocking. What the fuck is wrong with these kids? PS3 not keeping their attention, cell phone taken away by the parents, girlfriend broke up, what?

My Grandfather was killed by a stray Easter Egg thrown at his car.
The day before his 50 wedding anniversary. They say the ambulance would have made it, but was being blocked by a Dominoes driver. Turns out, he wasn't even delivering to a house that wanted it. Someone prank called the order.
That shit ain't funny.
:furious:

[lleeder]

Aren't all Easter Eggs strays?

[boosterp]

My Grandfather was killed by a stray Easter Egg thrown at his car.
The day before his 50 wedding anniversary. They say the ambulance would have made it, but was being blocked by a Dominoes driver. Turns out, he wasn't even delivering to a house that wanted it. Someone prank called the order.
That shit ain't funny.
:furious:

Oh my, I am sorry for your loss.

The time we did it as kids no one got hurt, no wrecks, and the police were called and scared the shit out of us from ever doing it again.

[TheMojoPin]

My Grandfather was killed by a stray Easter Egg thrown at his car.
The day before his 50 wedding anniversary. They say the ambulance would have made it, but was being blocked by a Dominoes driver. Turns out, he wasn't even delivering to a house that wanted it. Someone prank called the order.
That shit ain't funny.
:furious:

I gotta know if they were related or were indepedent prankings.

[instrument]

Man, I thought asking bowling allleys if they had 12lb balls was funny.

[brettmojo]

I prefer tit slapping.

[weekapaugjz]

Man, I thought asking bowling allleys if they had 12lb balls was funny.

i preferred the call, "is your refridgerator running?"

[weekapaugjz]

I prefer cock slapping.

fixed.