Police swarmed around CNN reporter Wolf Blitzer's home this weekend, responding to what turned out to be another example of the prank known as swatting. According to The Washington Post , someone sent a message to the police on Saturday evening, saying that someone had been shot at Blitzer's house in Bethesda, Maryland. After setting up a perimeter, though, police confirmed with CNN that Blitzer hadn't called in a shooting, and in fact wasn't even in town. Instead, says Montgomery Police Captain Paul Starks, someone had sent a fake message with Blitzer's address through a cell carrier's emergency relay system.
Swatting — a dangerous trick in which someone makes a fake 911 call, sending a SWAT team to investigate a shooting or suicide...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/29/4281768/wolf-blitzer-hit-with-swatting-fake-emergency-call
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