I honestly don't know what to think about this. It's unreal! It amazes me that these kids think that it's acceptable to waste the time of the police and emergency services like this when they could be saving lives instead. Let me know what you all think.
 

 

Long Island police dispatched helicopters, emergency vehicles and an army of cops to a home where someone called in a bloody rampage on Tuesday.
They arrived with guns drawn and ready for war — only to find out the call to cops was an act of revenge by a gamer whom the teen who lives inside had just beaten in an online Call of Duty battle.

The prank caller told police over Skype that he was Rafael Castillo, 17, of Long Beach — and that “I just killed my mother and I might shoot more people,” cops said.

“Some guy threatened to Swat him,” Castillo’s brother told The Post. “He was pissed that he had lost.”
The disgruntled gamer had just been eliminated by Castillo and gave police the teen’s home address in a dangerous game called “Swatting,” and the authorities went into full emergency mode.

In the two-hour standoff, authorities scrambled choppers over the house and rushed in more than 60 officers with weapons drawn — including elite members of Nassau County’s special operations unit.
Fire trucks also sped to the home on Laurelton Boulevard near West Fulton Street.

When cops got to the home, Castillo’s mother was in the kitchen and Rafael’s brother arrived home from lunch.
“I thought there was a fire at my house. I ran up and saw my mom running out, I didn’t know what was going on,” said the brother, Jose, 21.

“Then one of the police officers said somebody called and said that the mother and brother of somebody in this house was killed. I said, ‘How is that possible if she’s right there and I’m right here?’”

 

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Edited May 8, 201412 yr by Tom H

I play COD muitplayer and when i do im always get threats to be hacked or be swatted  if i win a match against a competitive punk who hates losing its insane all those people are just a bunch of punks its saddening to see people actually follow up with their threats and do this junk.I hope the butthurt punk that did this gets caught 

Edited May 8, 201412 yr by gamerdanger99

I really hope they find the little bitch that called it in. Teach him a lesson about how serious it really is to "swat" someone.

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Edited June 23, 20241 yr by tobeymaguire

Who even plays CoD?

Edited May 9, 201412 yr by Olanov

ITS A GAME PEOPLE. QUIT WASTING THE POLICE'S TIME!  OMG They took his pc to track the kid who got swatted!  EPIC!!!!!! I hope they find that kid. I have never been on Call of duty and threatened to be hacked but i have been on other games. As far as the swatting goes i haven't been threatened ever.

Edited May 8, 201412 yr by OSHPTROOPERSHORTY

This is why I left CoD for TitanFall.

 

Seriously though, with that much manpower deployed based on the 911 call, they will track down the other kid and he will face charges. No agency likes to be played like that and filing false reports is the fastest way to get them to track you down.

I actually live 2 towns away from where that took place and got the message on my phone from a Nassau County Police Group Chat I am apart of and didn't know it was from a COD game until after this took place. Thought it was pretty stupid since calling the police is no joke and you can get into serious trouble.  Hopefully they find the other person apart of this prank call.

Doesn't surprise me.

 

Call of duty players are pretty much the most immature, negative jerks out there.

well, league of legends is up there as well. 

 

Both communities are 95% douche canoe. 

 

Edit: Watched the video, he's going to be billed 100k? LOL.

Edited May 8, 201412 yr by Requiem

Doesn't surprise me.

 

Call of duty players are pretty much the most immature, negative jerks out there.

well, league of legends is up there as well. 

 

Both communities are 95% douche canoe. 

 

Edit: Watched the video, he's going to be billed 100k? LOL.

not me i don't go raging when i lose i just say "good game guys" 

This happened not too far from my home.

Great, some retarded imbecil giving a bad name to gamers. Inb4 soccer moms try to ban video games.

Idiot should have his account banned and IP banned for this and, (if it has been already). just my 2 cents 

This is why I left CoD for TitanFall.

 

Seriously though, with that much manpower deployed based on the 911 call, they will track down the other kid and he will face charges. No agency likes to be played like that and filing false reports is the fastest way to get them to track you down.

Titanfall is COD with robots.

Such an idiot. Why do people even bother to go that far over losing a damn video game?

lol "swatting"?

 

that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard

Shit like this doesn't happen in Battlefield.

This happened a while ago in Edmonton (city near me)

Honestly, if you can't handle losing online in the game, then there's a simple solution: Don't play online or, don't play at all

 

The Edmonton news article can be read here

I saw this a while ago on Yahoo; I never played this Call of Duty or other shooting games because I suck.

 

I have tried GTA Online a while go, I quite because people kept killing me.

 

COD is for little kids.......CS:GO is where the comp. scene is at.....