A list of the most recent victims of a weird new prank phenom: celebrity swatting, in which 911 calls are made to get police to send a SWAT team a celeb’s home. Earlier this month LA police declared a blackout on reporting such calls, which we though meant the end of swatting. We were wrong.

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Last month, a 12-year-old boy admitted to “swatting” the Los Angeles homes of Justin Bieber and Ashton Kutcher – his prank calls sent heavily-armed swat teams to the stars’ homes on false alarm. To combat copycats, the LAPD will no longer publicize these pranks.

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Remember a more innocent age where kids would prank people by ordering unwanted pizzas to their door? Today’s equivalent is a lot more dangerous: “Swatting” — fake 911 calls that send SWAT teams on false alarms to the homes of celebrities.

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On October 10, an LAPD swat team was called out to mansion in Calabasas to subdue a gunman who allegedly fired a gun several times, threatening the residents’ lives. The police swarmed the home to find nothing. The home’s owner, Justin Bieber, was out on tour. The incident was a hoax now commonly known as “swatting”.

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