‘Swatting’ prank brings heavy police presence to family home in Massachusetts

New York Daily News ^ | Wednesday, April 22, 2015 | Jason Silverstein

[stylin_geek]

Someone gathering intel on how SWAT teams operate call this one in?

[Steve_Seattle]

How easy is it for an ordinary prankster to hide their phone number or email address from the police? Doesn’t that require some sophistication?

[TigersEye]

The call came in around 8 a.m. from a blocked number. The caller, who identified himself as "Peter," spoke in broken English...

I see a couple of clues there. Could someone dig into their pockets and buy them for the Framingham Police Dept.?

[cherry]

if you buy one of those throw away phones, paid for with cash, how can they know who you are?......

[sparklite2]

It’s not hard to block your caller ID at all. Any SWATtable action phoned in from a blocked caller should alert the thugs with badges to maybe do a little investigating before terrifying innocent people in the middle of the night.

[Kirkwood]

What clues?

[GeronL]

Swatting is not a prank, it is attempted murder-by-proxy

[stylin_geek]

I understand it is easy to spoof a phone number with Vonage.

The SWATTing incidents I’ve read about before this one usually involve someone with a high profile that has angered the wrong people, AKA leftists.

This incident seems to be out of the ordinary which suggests to me someone with bad intentions, like jihadis, did this in order to gather some intel.

[unixfox]

Officers in Framingham, Mass. swarmed a home Tuesday morning with guns drawn, shouted for its residents to come out, searched inside — and then realized the bust was a bust.

What do you bet the sons of bitches didn't even check to see who lived at the address.

I guess a simple knock on the door is just too 1950's

[TigersEye]

[Kirkwood]

Thanks for the picture of a quarter, but I still don’t see any clues.

[Smokin' Joe]

This incident seems to be out of the ordinary which suggests to me someone with bad intentions, like jihadis, did this in order to gather some intel.

One possibility, to be sure. Others would be to get the police into a bad shoot for the purpose of pumping the bad press sure to follow, or for declaring another 'racial incident' depending on the race of the victims.

[9thLife]

Tom Cruise, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Rihanna

And Irandi Waighe and her 96-year-old mother-in-law — who is a double amputee in a wheelchair.

[9thLife]

I remember when Framingham was...oh, nevermind. It was always a degenerate dump with a couple of nice areas.

[stylin_geek]

Nah, if the perpetrators were looking for a bad shoot, they’d have picked someone who had a couple of good size dogs. (Okay, that’s sorta not a joke, is it?)

[TomGuy]

How easy is it for an ordinary prankster to hide their phone number or email address from the police? Doesn’t that require some sophistication?

Pay cash for a $10 cellular phone at a Dollar store.

Such phones have about 20 minutes of initial time.

Make the prank call, wipe the phone of prints, and ditch it.

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Of course, this means the government will soon issue regs that require stores to sell phones from behind-the-counter and require a background check with address and IP address.

[Smokin' Joe]

While many of us might revile the practice, shooting dogs seems to be standard fare.

[Marie]

Thank YOU.

Someday soon, somebody’s going to get killed with this ‘prank’. Then it’ll be ‘murder by cop’. If someone sets up a situation so that an officer has no choice but to shoot him, it’s ‘suicide by cop’. I don’t see the difference.

I’m shocked that we don’t already have a rash of dead dogs and burned houses from this BS crap.

I really hope that cops are starting to get worried about this, too.

[GeronL]

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