Re: @Bob Dole (tm) @Pascal Monett
"Of course that's the right action "IF it's a true hostage situation", but do you really think that passing a law like this is going to stop all the idiots from Swatting people???"
Passing a law won't stop idiots from swatting people.
Seeing on TV that someone got five years jail for a swatting incident where nothing went badly wrong. Someone else getting ten years for swatting when an innocent victim got injured by police. And someone getting twenty years to live for swatting when an innocent victim died. That's going to stop many idiots over time.
Because these idiots think it's a joke with no real life consequences. A long jail time tends to change that assumption.
And last, why not? There is no reason why society should have to accept this kind of behaviour. If you find your wife having sex with someone else, and you kill the wife or her lover or both, that's something that society has to live with. People using emergency services for a bad joke, that's not something we have to live with. It's a direct attack against society, for no valid reason whatsoever, so society has the right to stomp this out.