This Map Shows Where the Assholes On Twitter Are From
For those who travel by air a lot you want to just disable the ability of
these people to screw with the transportation system
"I have a bomb on one of your planes, but I forgot which one when I left the airport," one message read. "Can you help me find it?"
ATLANTA -- Two passenger planes were escorted by fighter jets to Atlanta's airport Saturday afternoon after bomb threats were made against them, authorities said.
Late Saturday, the airport posted to its Twitter account that both planes had been cleared and that normal airport operations had resumed.
Delta Air Lines Flight 1156 from Portland, Oregon, and Southwest Airlines Flight 2462, arriving from Milwaukee, landed at a remote location at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the airlines confirmed to CBS News.
CBS affiliate WGCL in Atlanta reported the threats were made on Twitter, with the first message sent to Delta at noon EST.
"I have a bomb on one of your planes, but I forgot which one when I left the airport," one message read. "Can you help me find it?"
According to WGCL, the person claimed to have smuggled the bomb through a back entrance at the airport and placed the bomb on the back of the plane. They also claimed to have a friend in airport security help them get through.
The person ended the series of tweets by threatening more flights if anything were to happen to him or her.
In recent days, unfounded bomb threats have also been made against Delta flights bound for Raleigh, N.C., and Tel Aviv.
Swatting is the act of tricking an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing a 9-1-1 dispatcher) into dispatching an emergency response based on the false report of an ongoing critical incident. Episodes range from large to small, from the deployment of bomb squads, SWAT units and other police units and the concurrent evacuations of schools and businesses to a single fabricated police report meant to discredit an individual as a prank or personal vendetta. While it is a misdemeanor or a felony in the US in and of itself to report any untruth to law enforcement, swatting can cause massive disruption to the civil order and the public peace by the hoaxed deployment of police and other civic resources such as ambulances and fire departments. The term derives from SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), a highly specialized type of police unit.