A fake emergency call to police resulted in officers responding Friday night to the home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just a day after she removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause.

She becomes the latest elected politician to become a target of swatting, which involves making a prank phone call to emergency services with the intent that a large first responder presence, including SWAT teams, will show up at a residence.

Bellows was not home when the swatting call was made, and responding officers found nothing suspicious.

  • @afraid_of_zombies
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    1811 months ago

    Five bucks says it is someone who has already gotten some infamy for doing things like this in the past like Jacob Wohl.

    • FuglyDuck
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      11 months ago

      You’re on. I say it’s Trump. Or possibly Byron Barron. (edit…lol. we should all just start “who are you again? Duncan?” to trump. probably set his ego off even more than tiny-hands jokes)

      • @spamfajitas
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        611 months ago

        Probably some punk named John Barron who I hear many people say has the yugest hands and smells amazing.