Anonymous Domino’s App User Pulls ‘Swatting’ Prank in California | Eater
"After an unknown person used a pizza delivery app to send a 'help me' message claiming a hostage situation, a SWAT team descended on a home in Sherman Oaks, California; police arrested one person and discovered there was no violent crime, identifying the incident as a swatting hoax. Unlike earlier swatting that typically involved direct calls to police, this version coerced an unwitting third party—pizza-chain employees whose job is making pizza, not investigating kidnappings—into contacting law enforcement, creating an especially dangerous scenario in which staff could unintentionally trigger a potentially deadly armed response. Although restaurant employees have helped in genuine hostage cases before, this tactic is a particularly malicious inversion of past prank calls about late pizza orders." - Tim Forster
