and asked how she though their babies fed and grew. but she refused to believe me until I asked her about single moms, lesbian moms, etc. I explained about the umbilical cord, etc. The patient was convinced that her baby was living off of her boyfriend's semen, and that it would starve if they stopped having sex. Patient: "How will I feed the baby if I can't have sex?!?" Me: "I'm sorry, ma'am, could you repeat that?" She tearfully exclaims, "But how will I feed the baby?!?" I looked at her file, and saw she was having pre-term contractions, so I explained that sexual activity can cause contractions, so it was safer to abstain so the baby could stay inside as long as possible. I will cancel the call, thank you for calling.Ī quite pregnant (don't remember exactly how far along, but definitely past 30 weeks) woman calls to say that her doctor told her to refrain from having sex for the rest of the pregnancy and she didn't understand why.
I'm really embarrassed.ĩ11: That's fine, Sir. Oh god, it's getting bigger! The whole top of the hill is on fire now!ĩ11: Stay calm sir, we're sending somebody out.īF: It's getting bigger! Doesn't anybody else see this?! It's lighting up the sky around it.it's huge! Oh god! Oh.oh, wait.īF: I am SO sorry.I'm not usually out this time of night, I just got off work late.that's, that's the sun.īF: I am so, so sorry for wasting your time, there is no fire, that's just the sun rising. This shift he got off work a few hours late.īF: I'd like to call and report a fire. He usually worked a late shift, walking home about 2 am. A bill aimed at combating swatting was introduced in Congress last summer, but it has remained in committee review.ĭefendants have faced federal charges before, CNN legal analyst Paul Callan said at the time of Finch’s death.Not an operator, but my boyfriend who called in. There aren’t any federal anti-swatting laws.
There aren’t any national statistics about how many swatting incidents occur reach year, the FBI says, but as of 2013 an FBI special agent guessed there were hundreds. Police arrived, and when Finch opened the door, an officer discharged his weapon, killing him. According to the 911 tape, Barriss told the operator he had just shot his father and was holding his family hostage at gunpoint, adding, “I already poured gasoline all over the house. The gamer gave Barriss an address where the target player had once lived, but was then Finch’s home.īarriss called Wichita authorities, pretending to be inside the Wichita home. He was an innocent bystander in the swatting, and had no contact with the other individuals involved.īarriss, who was in California, made the call that led to Finch’s death after being contacted by another gamer who asked him to swat a player he’d been arguing with while playing “Call of Duty.”
The perpetrator might be swatting their target as part of what they believe to be a harmless prank, according to the FBI, or as an act of revenge.Ĭallers sometimes use “spoofing” technology to make it look as though the call is coming from inside the victim’s home, or at least nearby.įinch did not play video games, his family has said. It’s often carried out by the internet-savvy, such as members of online message boards, or, in Finch’s case, gamers who are competing and interacting with each other in online games such as “Call of Duty.” Perpetrators sometimes use technology to mask their true location This results in a forceful response from local police or SWAT teams, who have no way to know the call is a hoax. The difference is, swatting is a prank call made to authorities with the express purpose of luring them to a location – usually a home – where they are led to believe a horrific crime has been committed or is in progress. Swatting is not new – it was on the FBI’s radar as early as 2008 – but its origins are murky.Īt the most basic level, swatting is similar to the prank calls you and your friends might have made growing up.
Police made to think a crime has occurred Here’s what you should know about swatting. It’s a dangerous prank that’s found it’s way into the public eye in recent years because of some high-profile, celebrity victims such as Ashton Kutcher, Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian.īut it reached a new level of notoriety when 28-year-old Andrew Finch was inadvertently killed by police in his Kansas home, a victim of a swatting prank in December 2017.įriday, Tyler Barriss, the man who made the hoax call to police that precipitated the shooting, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty. His 'swatting' call led to the death of a man.
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