An entire SWAT team was dispatched to the home of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian after a prank call to emergency services said that a prowler was on the premises and that a staff member had been shot.

The act of making a false call to emergency services in an attempt to lure a number of armed police to a place is known as SWATTING – and it goes without saying that this is highly illegal.

According to a tweet from Southern California Monitoring Association, the SWAT team forcibly entered the house, before realising it was a prank.

Interestingly, this isn’t the first time this has happened to members of the Kardashian family, with a similar incident occurring to Kris Jenner in 2013.

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