[Oni]

While I agree with you, I didn't think that swatting was a part of hacker-culture. I thought it was the next most annoying thing up from calling a pizza joint and ordering 20 of them, solely because they got mad at someone and this is the most annoying thing they can do at getting them back.

It shouldn't be, but it sort of is. People that have done it would probably like to claim it's a form of "Social Engineering".