Side note - yesterday I was with my mom when my dad called from work (our family owns a small business) to say all kinds of fire trucks and unmarked cars were racing up the road. It turned out the local high school up the road got an 'active shooter' alert at the same time several other high schools in the Bay Area did. They say it is a new thing called swatting - idea is to cause chaos.

Alameda Co. Sheriff's Lieutenant Ray Kelly says this is a new phenomenon. He explained the motive behind the threat, which he says is usually done anonymously through a digital platform.

"It's to create havoc and chaos and anarchy. That's what it's designed to do. The perpetrators are usually young people," Kelly says.

Kelly says they believe the calls Wednesday are related to a series of calls from last month and that one person may be behind this.

Great.

https://abc7news.com/south-san-francisco-high-school-woodside-swatting-incident-active-shooter-prank/12320353/