Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid

An anonymous reader writes "The Orange County Register reports that a 19 year old from Washington state broke into the Orange County California 911 emergency system. He randomly selected the name and address of a Lake Forest, California couple and electronically transferred false information into the 911 system. The Orange County California Sheriff's Department's Special Weapons and Tactics Team was immediately sent to the home of a couple with two sleeping toddlers. The SWAT team handcuffed the husband and wife before deciding it was a prank. Says the article, 'Other law enforcement agencies have seen similar breaches into their 911 systems as part of a trend picked up by computer hackers in the nation called "SWATting"'"

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Re:Drugs

[Romancer]

Honest question. Would you legalize cocain and sell it to kids?

Unless it's dirt cheap as well, kids that get some from their parents legal purchases and get hooked are going to have to either get their parents to get more for them or they would become the same gun carrying, drug dealing, robbing for the cash to get their next fix, problems that we have today. I already see kids running drugs and carrying guns to school as it is.

I honestly consider legalization an option, but only see it fixing the problem to a degree, and shifting the problem area more likely. Not solving the underlying problem that the drugs exist and can be used to feel good and are addictive. Unless those are addressed, I see no real solution.