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New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted

posted by CoolHand on Thursday April 16 2015, @09:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-desserts dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @12:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @12:57AM (#171810)

    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.