Swatting?

[BillJ]

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192111974.html

Swatting happened when someone makes a call to a police department with a false story of an ongoing crime – often with killing or hostages involved – in an attempt to draw a large number of police officers to a particular address.

Swatting has gained traction across the country with online gamers. Those who try to cause the swatting incident will use caller ID spoofing or other techniques to disguise their number as being local. Or they call local non-emergency numbers instead of 911, according to 911.gov.

Never knew this was a thing. It ended up costing someone their life. Hopefully, the "swatter" ends up with a lengthy prison sentence.

 

[Mick]

That individual is going to go from swatting to squatting.

 

[Rincewiend]

It's a thing and some of the people doing it are socio-paths...

Example:
https://kotaku.com/17-year-old-swatter-sounds-like-a-complete-terror-1706131116

More:
https://kotaku.com/tag/swatting

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Why would people think it would be fun to endanger others lives in such a manner, even more so in a country like the US where you know they police are going to appear at someone's door home heavily armed in response as standard in such matters.

I mean that is some scary stuff and should be treated as a murder charge for the person doing it if it results in a death of a innocent person this one did.