[tptacek]

You're fixating on the name "Swatting". The technique works whether or not you get an according-to-Hoyle SWAT team called.

[ryandrake]

Whatever word you use for it, a single, often anonymous, phone call should not directly and immediately result in an armed assault on an address.

[JumpCrisscross]

> a single, often anonymous, phone call should not directly and immediately result in an armed assault on an address

It wasn’t anonymous. The teenager impersonated an officer.