A middle school prank became much more than a harmless joke on Monday after 15 students went from riding the bus home to being treated for "respiratory irritation." The incident started when someone ...

Last night at the dinner table, my girlfriend, out of the blue, picked up her phone, held down the home button and the familiar Siri bong sounded. She said clearly into the phone. Before I could tell ...

ATLANTA - Officials with Atlanta’s 911 Dispatch Center said prank and non-emergency calls are adding to slow response times. With over 3,000 calls a day, dispatchers said only three-quarters of those ...

A former firefighter from the Plymouth Township Fire-Rescue Tilbury Station in West Nanticoke allegedly reported three false emergencies, including one that launched a 2.5-hour search of the ...

Tough guy Clint Eastwood has joined the ranks of Ashton Kutcher, Miley Cyrus and many other celebs as the latest victim of a prank known as “swatting.” A law enforcement source told TMZ that a 911 ...

Boulder city officials say they will be removing five emergency phone stations from University Hill because over the past two years the devices have only been used to prank call police. In 2009 and ...

The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) is appealing to parents and guardians to discourage children from making prank calls to ...

The public health permanent secretary on Tuesday asked parents in Ayutthaya and Nakhon Sawan to warn their children after the 1669 medical emergency hotline in the provinces had been flooded with ...

Thousands of harassment and prank calls are made each month to the emergency hotlines of the Israel Police and Magen David Adom (MDA) - and the Knesset is moving to stop the phenomenon. One in five ...

Officials at the emergency control room, functioning in the Ernakulam collectorate building, have got an additional responsibility — to manage prank calls. When parents give mobile phones to children, ...

KUALA LUMPUR: There have been over 160,000 prank emergency calls recorded, says Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming. He said people need to be responsible when calling the emergency services. Nga ...

Muntinlupa Representative Ruffy Biazon files the Anti-Prank Caller Act after the 911 hotline received 1,119 dropped calls and 304 prank calls on its first day of implementation MANILA, Philippines – ...