There are all sorts of rumors about how the term 420 came to be associated with lighting up a joint, but according to the myth-busting website Snopes.com, it was born in the 1970s at San Rafael High School in California, where about a dozen students gathered each day at 4:20 p.m. to smoke pot.
Mary Surratt was arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Louis Weichmann moved into Mary Surrattâs boardinghouse on November 1, 1864. On December 23, 1864, Dr. Samuel Mudd introduced John Surratt, Jr. to John Wilkes Booth. Booth recruited John Jr. into his conspiracy to kidnap Abraham Lincoln.
Obviously, making false claims to police drains police time and can cause extreme distress to the victim or first responders. Although there have been some arrests, âswattingâ is notoriously difficult to trace. In 2009, Mathew Weigman, then 19, was sentenced for more than 11 years for a âswattingâ conspiracy. His first âswattingâ offense was in 2004 when, aged 14, he convinced a police unit to descend onto the home of a girl who refused to have phone sex with him, claiming they were being held hostage. There was also a brief craze back in 2007 âswattingâ celebrities.