10 Swatting back.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

After New Jersey Assemblyman Paul Moriarty (D) introduced a bill to stiffen the penalties against pranksters who make fake 911 calls to get police and SWAT teams rushing off to phony emergencies, he became a victim of one of those hoaxes. Same thing happened in California to then-Senator Ted Lieu (now a U.S. representative) after his bill passed in 2013. "This incident brings up emotions you never want to experience," his local paper reported him saying at the time. Expensive, dangerous and potentially deadly, so-called "swatting" is on the rise...