In last week’s cover story, Telephone Terrorist, Scene brought you the tale of a group of social recluses who decided it would be fun to pull pranks on SWAT teams across the country.
The men, who met on a phone chat line service, took turns playing practical jokes on one another. The pranks escalated from sending out pizzas that nobody ordered to shutting off people’s phone and power lines. But it got truly dangerous when they started making fake 911 calls, forcing SWAT teams to close roads and evacuate neighborhoods.
They are believed to have made more than 100 911 calls during their spree, but one call may have topped them all…
This article appears in Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2008.