A coordinated “swatting” effort may be behind hundreds of school shooting hoaxes that sent police rushing to quiet schools, where they smashed doors open and stalked the hallways armed with rifles, only to find terrified teachers and students.
Over the past year, more than 500 schools in the U.S. have been targeted in a coordinated campaign of fear, according to media reports and dozens of public records requests obtained by Washington Post.
The obvious reason is to promote fear about school mass murders in the hopes of more gun bans. It might also be bored and malicious students trying to get things more interesting than calculus or English Literature. The ability to spoof phone numbers is a very real nuisance even if they are just a Mumbai boiler room telemarketer.
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