Law enforcement in Arizona recently arrested a teenager in connection with a Twitter scheme to clog 911 phone lines.
The sexist eroticism18-year-old allegedly almost took down several emergency lines in the Phoenix area, as well as some in Texas and California.
SEE ALSO: How an attack on a company you've never heard of crushed the internetHe's been charged with three counts of computer tampering, according to the local ABC News affiliate.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office reportedly linked the teen to a San Francisco-based account that tweeted a link that forced Twitter users to call 911 whenever a user clicked on it, causing a storm of calls for some emergency lines.
The 18-year-old said the whole thing was a prank gone wrong.
Mashablecalled the sheriff's office for more information but hasn't heard back as of this writing.
The teenager reportedly told authorities he had meant to tweet a different link, and that he had been working on an Apple product bug in order to become better known as a hacker.
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