SWAT team breaks into a gamer's house while he was streaming live on Twitch
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[QUOTE]A Littleton, Colorado man named Jordan Mahewson was raided by a heavily armed SWAT team thanks to a false shooting and hostage report, and all the chaos was captured on a Twitch game stream (see below). During a [I]Counter-Strike[/I] session, Jordan "Kootra" Mathewson -- a founder of [URL="http://www.twitch.tv/thecreatures"]The Creatures[/URL] -- suddenly noticed things around him were amiss. "Uh oh. This isn't good. They're clearing rooms. What in the world, I think we're getting swatted," he says in the video. Luckily, Mathewson stayed calm throughout the ordeal and was [URL="https://twitter.com/Kootra/status/504762262465544192"]released [/URL]a short time later.On top of invading his offices, police locked down several schools and businesses in the Littleton, Colorado area. Suffice to say, the situation was extremely dangerous, and the police chief [URL="http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/parents-warned-of-active-shooter-near-broadway-and-mineral"]said[/URL] "we have real guns and real bullets, and there's potential there for some tragedy."
Sadly, Mathewson's ordeal isn't an isolated one: "[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting"]swatting[/URL]" is the act of calling in false reports to draw [I]real[/I] SWAT teams to a target's house, and is often inflicted on rival gamers. As [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ziLjOPCQwg"][I]Vice News[/I][/URL] pointed out recently, the phenomenon is fairly new and can easily result in deaths, especially when malicious calls involve shots fired. There's no word yet on who perpetrated the hoax (despite one [URL="https://twitter.com/ScrewPain"]claim[/URL]) but police said they'll prosecute whoever it was "to the fullest extent of the law."[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/28/false-report-brings-swat-raid-on-gamer/?ncid=rss_truncated[/URL]
Searched for the words 'SWAT', 'Twitch' and nothing came up. So this is probably new.
Haha, calling the cops on someone is so hilarious, amirite guys?
Can a mod change the title to:
'SWAT team called by Pranksters breaks into a gamer's house while he was streaming live on Twitch'
Thanks
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[sp]it's funny in this case because the fake swat call claimed he was hiding drugs in his house and the sniffer dog actually found a few pounds of marijuana[/sp]
Counter-Terrorists win
this shit needs to fucking stop..It is to the point where it happens daily on twitch. Cops don't need this shit as much as we do. It wastes their time that could be used ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING.
Sketchy as hell the moment he said he was streaming they tried to disable his camera.
One day this shit is gonna get someone killed.
These people who do this shit really need to stop, it isn't funny or clever.
What the fuck guys don't kick me, a SWAT team just raided my house.
Like sheesh, just call poison control if you're going to call anyone. It's [del]not dickish at all[/del], [del]not harmful[/del] somewhat dickish, but far far less than calling a whole SWAT team on a house.
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