[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Throw the book at them! Max them out! Someone could have easily gotten killed! A-holes!

[driftdiver]

Story also give further insight to the abuse of swat teams. Raid a house based on an anonymous 911 call?

[M203M4]

Cole said that the group swatted people for two reasons: for kicks, and to get even. "They had very limited social skills so they were kind of immature," he said.

Martinez who is described as the one generally responsible for making the telephone calls, was nicknamed the "Wicked Wizard." He would often swat victims as a way of getting even for some chatroom slight, Cole said. "I think it was a power trip for him. It was his way of being the big man."

A great plan, until a 400 lb bubba leans over and asks what he is in for - a few months later, he will have some boobs tattooed onto his back in newspaper ink, and will walk funny. The twerps probably thought high-school was bad.

[ElkGroveDan]

These fools could get someone killed. Imagine if one of these victims had just returned from the shooting range and was on their back porch cleaning their guns when all this went down.

[ASOC]

LOL

Sounds like the old school 2600 / phreak crowd has found a new way to be a giant PITA!

Hope they learn to love the new accommodations....

[rogue yam]

The Rosoff group has been connected to about 60 incidents...

I'm having a little trouble with the fact that after, say, twenty or thirty fake calls that these fraudsters' techniques, whatever they were, continued to work another thirty or forty times,

[nw_arizona_granny]

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