swatting

Saratoga County Law Enforcement responded to a violent 911 call on Thursday night, but when they arrived the incident spun into a different type of danger - an online prank meant for maximum psychological damage.

All this new fangled terminology we all have to learn!  Here's a new one - SWATTED.  And the victim?   American Idol's Ryan Seacrest

I though I had heard of everything, but apparently not. There is a new very dangerous form on pranking people online called "swatting" and a local 12 year old boy was a victim of it.  What is "swatting?"