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A New Jersey state legislator who is sponsoring a bill against swatting, has himself been swatted:
According to a report by NJ.com, Moriarty received a phone call at his home on Saturday from a police officer asking if everything was okay; the assemblyman was then informed that someone had anonymously called in a report of a shooting at the home. He was then told to describe his clothing and step outside, where he saw a crowd of officers armed with "helmets, flak jackets and rifles."
There was no mention if the legislator questioned the over-militarizing of the police or no-knock raids...
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New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted
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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday April 17 2015, @12:27AM
> An anonymous phone call
Actually, swatting only works if the caller has enough knowledge to fool the 911's caller ID (why isn't that a federal offense?).
Maybe the cops need better 911 systems, which would stop the problem at the dispatcher. Barring that, they should really think twice before pulling out the big guns.
In this case, the cops did the right thing by calling the guy and asking him to step out. But he's a legislator, not the average Joe who doesn't answer his phone during his online game.
Your rant about extremists going after your guns is a nice bout of paranoia. You seem to forget that most cops are sympathetic to legal gun ownership.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @12:57AM
Actually, swatting only works if the caller has enough knowledge to fool the 911's caller ID (why isn't that a federal offense?).
Easy way around this -- I suspect that many of the callers are close to the victims, for the same reasons that much violence is "domestic". All they have to do is visit the Swatee (intended victim), chat for a bit, squirm for a moment and then ask to use the bathroom, make the call on an extension phone in another room...and then quickly exit stage left.