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NFT: Sore Loser in Video Game Sends SWAT Teams to Teen's Home

Mike in Long Beach : 4/23/2014 12:32 pm

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SWAT teams, Long Beach and Nassau County Police officers, and MTA Police responded to a hostage call in a Long Beach home Tuesday afternoon, but the 911 call turned out to be a horrible prank stemming from a video game, according to multiple reports.

A man called Long Beach Police at around 3 p.m. and reported that "he had shot members of his family and was threatening to kill others," according to CBS.

The call sent officers swarming around the Laurelton Boulevard home, prepared for hostage negotiations.

When police entered the home, however, they found no one was injured and that the man was actually playing a video game on the internet.

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lmao

Vin R : 4/23/2014 12:33 pm : link

that's gold

"Swatting"

RC02XX : 4/23/2014 12:38 pm : link

isn't a new concept, and this one is just as bad as the previous incidents involving celebrities.

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Swatting is the tricking of any emergency service (via such as a 9-1-1 dispatcher) into dispatching an emergency response based on the false report of an on-going critical incident. Episodes range from large to small, from the deployment of bomb squads, SWAT units and other police units and the concurrent evacuations of schools and businesses to a single fabricated police report meant to discredit an individual as a prank or personal vendetta. While it is a misdemeanor or a felony in every state in and of itself to report any untruth to law enforcement, swatting can cause massive disruption to the civil order and the public peace by the hoaxed deployment of police and other civic resources such as ambulances and fire departments. The term derives from SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), a highly specialized type of police unit.

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What game were you playing

Pork and Beans : 4/23/2014 12:41 pm : link

when they showed up?

Pork

YAJ2112 : 4/23/2014 12:49 pm : link

FEK would definitely be the SWATter not the SWATtee

I haven't played a video game other than NHL or FIFA

Mike in Long Beach : 4/23/2014 12:52 pm : link

in 10 years... played the original Halo a lot in the early 2000s.

Mike in Long Beach : 4/23/2014 12:53 pm : link

I played Madden a bit in college, actually. But never anything but sports.

Whatever happened to ragequitting and crying on a message board after

Kyle : 4/23/2014 12:55 pm : link

Kyle

80offensive : 4/23/2014 1:03 pm : link

Rage quitting became German?
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Good ol' Long Beach pulls through again

SB : 4/23/2014 1:07 pm : link

...that town never ceases to entertain!

make that shit a felony

fkap : 4/23/2014 1:09 pm : link

if it isn't already. diminishes the funny factor quite a bit.

fkap

Dave in PA : 4/23/2014 1:13 pm : link

My first thought was that this guy should go to jail for reckless endangerment

RE: make that shit a felony

superspynyg : 4/23/2014 1:22 pm : link

In comment 11634532 fkap said:

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if it isn't already. diminishes the funny factor quite a bit.

it IS a felony and if the one who called was in another state then its a federal crime.

better question

Giantsfan79 : 4/23/2014 2:24 pm : link

Why did MTA show up, don't they police mass transit?

RE: lmao

G2 : 4/23/2014 2:44 pm : link

In comment 11634436 Vin R said:

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that's gold

Grow up?