At about 9:15 a.m., Monday the Sarasota County switchboard received a call from an undetermined number with a male caller saying authorities have 24 hours to figure out which SCAT bus had a bomb on it, according to the sheriff's office. The caller then hung up.
Fortunately for the detectives, the search took place today as SCAT canceled all bus service due to Tropical Storm Isaac. All busses at the depot were thoroughly searched and no explosive devices were found, according to the sheriff's office.
The sheriff's office is trying to trace the call and believe it's a SWATing case, where people hack Internet telephony programs, some of them even used on XBox Live, to manipulate the system to make a call
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