swatting

A Bungie executive was awoken at 4AM by police and a chopper flying over his head, the latest victim in the prank called "swatting."

A new video has surfaced that shows an online gamer streaming himself being swatted. It's not what you think, swatting isn't some gamer term for losing or getting your virtual butt kicked. It's much, much worse!

It's a somewhat new low for competitive online gamers, swatting. The way it works is a person, or in this case some butt hurt gamer pranks a local 911 operator into thinking there's a real emergency. The operator then dispatches emergency responders, police and even swat teams to your location. Of course when they show up you have no ideal what they're there for or why your entire neighborhood loo