Who Deserves a Flog Today - Bonus Post

I've had it with the new trend of "Swatting" (!). If you are not yet familiar with the term or what it means, don't worry. It's really new in MSM and, although akin to being Pranked, is always a hu-mongus waste of police resources and city funds. 

"Swatting" is simply a bogus call to 911 from anyone who claims that a certain address had been heard to have some kind of dangerous activity afoot - such as the sound of guns and The Four Horsemen descending on reported/said address and, natch, the address is of a Big Name Celebrity with Security Guards who, when the sirens sound and police abound, usually say "Nay" that any Major Mayhem is going on at the MegaStar's abode - where, most of the time during the Swatting Calls, the owner(s) are thousands of miles away from the structure, oblivious (temporarily) to the BS surrounding what they once thought was one of their "safe havens." 

The Prankster Jabbing of the latest disruption for so-called Entertainment and/or a "Statement" of some sort to do with either the Celeb Element and/or Police Harassment is not cool, you Swatting Twats! Are you giggling or sitting back in front of the HD Flat Screen watching your perverse Works Of Non-Art catching LIVE BREAKING NEWS attention, plotting the next revenge of some sort just because?

Yesterday it was Rihanna's Pacific Palisades home; today it was Justin Timberlake's Hollywood Hills abode. In my air space. Hours of helicopter loopings around-and-around-and-around for at least three hours. When helicopters do their noisy Helicopter Twirlings in my area - even when I lived in The Flats in this same area, it's either indicative of a blockage on a nearby artery between the Valley and West Hollywood; a Super Major Event down the hill involving award shows or premiers; a celeb of some sort in trouble at home and/or losing cars on the side of hills, or a fire in the vicinity. Blah-Blah.

But today our airspace was filled once more with the sound of rotor-blades because I just found out Justin Timberlake has a home in these here hills and someone made a Swatting Call! The sound of helicopters looping over this area went on and on and on. Why so long? It was Swatting. No one was harmed. How many local TV crews and police air vehicles are needed to cover what is, essentially, a non-story? And, in the end, unless the Swatters are found, taxpayers pay the bill for all of the Police Involvement, while local and sometimes National TV make money from the "sensational" element involved with the TV and I-Net coverage.

Is "Swatting" The New Distraction, one wonders if in a Conspiracy Mode? Or should all of us in any country, city, mountain, beach areas, where Famous People Have Homes (yes, I'm talking to you London, Germany, Paris, Montana, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Utah, New Mexico, New Jersey - not only LA and NYC) get crackin' with tipping-off "authorities" when more than the perpetrators of this Non-Really Funny Bait & Twitch know who's behind the Ridiculous Trend.

OMG! Am I suggesting calling authorities on Rebel Actions? What's happened to me? Have I become that bitchy neighbour down the street? Nope. Just someone who finally woke up and started to smell burning money with a possible smelly old fish attached.

Rant not over until "Swatting" ends.