You may be thinking what is swatting?; Swatting is the latest pranking trend in the cyber world. Its used mostly during video online gaming. Hackers are able to call the police making false reports of a bomb threat or murder no where near the location of the faulty crime. The false accusations cause a large response from authorities where they raid and search innocent people's homes. The swatting trend began as fun and games but authorities don't see it as such. The consequences for 15 year old Paul Horner shows the seriousness of the prank swatting. Horner who became upset after repeatedly losing to another gamer in the video game Battlefield 4 was able to gather his personal information and made a faulty call to police and reported a murder/hostage incident at the home. The police came to search the home and sadly the gamers father was shot during the raiding of the house. Horner was found guilty on two counts of domestic terrorism and sentenced to 25 years to life in federal prison. He will go down in history as the first person to be charged with swatting. The prank of swatting started in 2013 the trend went viral after the YouTube video "The Creatures ( kootra ) got SWAT raided". Authorities noticed the trend and didn't take it lightly. They began wasting money and equipment on the false reports. The harm innocent people were put in by having their homes raided, swatting has taken calling 911 as a mistake to a new level. Knowingly making a false police report is dangerous and can also take away from someone that may truly need the authorities to come to their rescue. Online gaming is for gamers to interact with each other all around the world if you lose don't be a sore loser and Swat someone as a payback. Whether you're a child or not you can be charged as an adult and federal jail time can be your consequence.