Skype users bombard Zimmerman witness with calls

Natalie DiBlasio | USA TODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption Skype users bombard Zimmerman witness with calls While on the stand in the George Zimmerman trial via Skype, Scott Pleasants' testimony was interrupted when dozens of viewers started calling him.

A Skype testimony from one of George Zimmerman's former college professors was interrupted with a flood of video-chatting pranksters dialing into the conversation.

After prosecutor Rich Mantei's Skype username showed up on the screen in the courtroom -- and on televisions across the nation -- other users of the video chat program started to call in, disrupting the courtroom.

Scott Pleasants, a Seminole State College professor who taught a criminal justice course Zimmerman took, was testifying remotely from Colorado before he was silenced by the beeps and blips of incoming Skype calls.

"There is now a really good chance that we are being toyed with -- just so you know," Zimmerman's lawyer Mark O'Mara said.

Pleasants used his cell phone to finish the testimony.