Bungie executive swatted, finds police chopper over his house
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[quote]At 4am on Thursday, a police helicopter descended on the street an unnamed Bungie executive resides on, and cops surrounded his home. Authorities had been told the exec "had an assault rifle and he had placed explosives in the yard and he was holding a family hostage".
He had of course done nothing of the sort. The call - the latest incident of "swatting" to affect a member of the video game industry - had been a hoax, and when police got in touch with the suspect to confirm what was happening, he emerged from his home in his bathrobe "very confused at what was going on".
According to KOMO News, local police "believe the suspect has ties to the video game community".[/quote]
wow
[url]http://kotaku.com/bungie-executive-swatted-finds-police-chopper-over-his-1655828456[/url]
This "swatting" thing is so disgusting.
People need to get punished for this
I'm pissed off about Destiny too, but swatting employees from Bungie isn't going to solve anything.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;46444108]This "swatting" thing is so disgusting.
People need to get punished for this[/QUOTE]
They do, if they are caught. Some places it's even a felony.
Swatting is super illegal to conduct because you're wasting police time and resources
There's been cases of people who've done that shit and been trialed for it, if you google it you'll find some cases
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Just about all the time they're disgruntled teenagers pissed off cause somebody isn't doing something in their favour
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;46444168]Swatting is super illegal to conduct because you're wasting police time and resources[/QUOTE]
I think its super illegal because it is fucking dangerous. They storm in the house and things go down really really fast. If you even hold an object that the SWAT team cant recognize right away, you can get killed. Or if you turn towards them suddenly.
[QUOTE=FLIPPY;46444121]They do, if they are caught. Some places it's even a felony.[/QUOTE]
You can get somebody killed by doing this, in which case you're facing a murder charge. It's not just a waste of time and resources but also extremely dangerous and should be considered a felony nationwide in my opinion, if it isn't already.
Something has got to be done about this. It's gotten completely out of hand.
[quote]According to KOMO News, local police "believe the suspect has ties to the video game community".[/quote]
worse than Al-Qaeda
[QUOTE=Str4fe;46444357]I think its super illegal because it is fucking dangerous. They storm in the house and things go down really really fast. If you even hold an object that the SWAT team cant recognize right away, you can get killed. Or if you turn towards them suddenly.[/QUOTE]
Damn, I can't imagine how a cop would feel after shooting someone who was holding something that simply looked like a weapon. This "swatting" bullshit should be a felony charge nationwide, like LSK said.
my friend who was swatted now has ptsd, shits not a joke.
swatting is seriously really scummy.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;46444108]This "swatting" thing is so disgusting.
People need to get punished for this[/QUOTE]
Isn't it a form of perverting the course of justice?
So the NSA is ok with tracking and selling a bunch of information, but won't track down swatters? What a waste of taxpayer money.
dont tell me youve never swatted a bothersome fly
[quote]Authorities had been told the exec "had an assault rifle and he had placed explosives in the yard and he was holding a family hostage".[/quote]
Pretty sure I'm not a bad person for laughing at that.
[editline]9th November 2014[/editline]
Hopefully they didn't miss out on any other potential crime scenes due to this.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;46446656]Pretty sure I'm not a bad person for laughing at that.[/QUOTE]
"He had a bunch of machine guns or something, and, no, like, a bomb, no, 3 bombs, and he was throwing them around, and there was a hostage, too, but it wasn't, like, one hostage, it was, like, a lot of hostages."
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;46444108]This "swatting" thing is so disgusting.
People need to get punished for this[/QUOTE]
Find those 2 people who clicked Disagree...they're the culprits!
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