This is the kind of world we live in? Hackers can obtain information about some guy on youtube just so he could "Joke around"? This is fucking stupid. It wastes everyone's time. The police could be doing something serious insted of sending a SWAT unit to some gamer's house. This is not just some kind of innocent Prank call, or "Trolling". This is dangerous and irresponsible, and i hope those hackers would find out that responsibility means through Jail time.
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Out of curiosity, what happens when there is an actual bomb or hostage threat?
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Bomb threats in public places are treated seriously, whole buildings get evacuated and searched.
But in case of private houses it seems only logical to investigate the case before storming doors just because someone made a call -_- especially if there are hostages involved...
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Yes but Police/SWAT was told it's a hostage situation, not a bomb threat. I can't imagine Police barging in the doors as a first thing in a hostage situation in Europe, that seems just utterly stupid and irresponsible without letting a negotiator have a go or at least acquiring some actual information about what's happening on the scene.
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Well, best thing is - the guy who did this "joke" wrote about it on his Twitter. But police probably won't do anything about it. I'm just waiting for the moment someone gets killed like this and then this "joker" starts thinking what he has done.
Good thing I live in Europe and worst we can get is bomb threat when people just get evacuated and nobody comes in with guns.
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this is one of the reasons I'll never want to live in murica, it's not perfect in europe either but seriously in murica the police situations are a lot more ridiculous that when I hear some news about police shooting/mistakes/misunderstadings murica is the 1st thing that comes to my mind
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Its just the police doing their job what if there was a real bomb etc. They are supposed to think the worst of everything until its confirmed that its safe for everyone.
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The real problem is that these so called police aren't doing their jobs. They are doing someone else's. This is the job of the military, not the police. The U.S. Police have crossed a fundamental line between what is Police and Military. Really scarry stuff.
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the "swatted" term exists because of that mentality, the police is really paranoid in the US and that increases the chances of an innocent falsely accused person being shot and killed, it wastes everyone's time and the own swat resources. if you think it's ok to go full "swat mode" just because an anonymous call said this and that at location X with no proof and/or documents to support his accusation then you should be living in the time when you could accuse everyone that they weren't catholics (with no proof) and they would be tortured by the clergy right away
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Wow, this is very interesting, and also scary. Glad, I'm not living in the US...
I hope, that or those prakster(s) get caught very soon. Also, anyone knows, how the story ended? Did they release Kootra or anything? Not that I'd know anything about him, because I'm not a CS gamer, but I still hope, he is all right.
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The guy who called the Swat team was found and fbi got him or somthing
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It's not limited to the US, a friend of mine here in the UK was Swatted. It was instigated by a former member of the GMod community he runs, so is another gaming related incidence. Considering how long people have been prank calling the emergency services, this is sadly just another incarnation of that.
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I laughed my ass of! I am writing from hospital while doctors are trying to reattach it.
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Ya ik just as they start talking ,in the game the teams like kootras got them bomb etc
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we live in fear in our own homes, i think theyve won, im not afraid of al queda theyre an unorganised rabble who's success rate in operations is pretty damn low in the UK, im terrified the NSA will decide im guilty of crimes against america and knowing damn well the UK government will gift wrap me for a trip down guantanamo way
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Fucking retard (the one behind the call, of course). This people just get so heard on my fucking nerves I cant even think of a long, logical comment here.
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They should catch whoever did this and set him/her as an example, publicly punishing the person and setting the norm to try to get the consequences of such an irresponsible action through to many of these trolls.
Imagine if, when the SWAT team entered the room, Jordan was doing a skit with one of his fake prop guns? He would have been shot right there in the spot.
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I think a hefty fine and a couple year prison sentence would be sufficient.
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It's disgusting to see comments about calling the police using excessive force or abusing their power, they're only doing their job.
If there is a possible hostage or terrorist situation, they're not going to knock gently on the door asking you to let them in (even though they yelled warrant before busting in). See it from their perspective, to them Kootra is a suspect. They're not going to be nice to you if you've threatened to hurt others. They did nothing wrong in that situation, only what they were supposed to do.
Imagine the shitstorm you people would raise if there was a call for help and police threw their hands up in the air and told you there's nothing they can do because "muh 4th amendment" or whatever the fuck you use as and excuse. If there is a situation, they are going to answer it and deal with paperwork later. Better be safe than sorry.
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This is definitely much more justifiable than most SWAT raids, people shooting shit up (albeit no one was, but these cops couldn't of known that so it's really not the cops' fault) is a lot worse than the typical "this guy might have drugs or something i guess, lets do a no-knock raid without a warrant" excuse for raids that normally occur. I wish this (even though nothing happened) was more the purpose of SWAT than just attacking drug suspects. Taking down actual violent dangerous criminals like they thought they were doing here is really quite noble, it isn't their fault that they didn't know it was a prank.
Psychos shooting people are serious threats with serious consequences, unless those psychos are cops. That's another issue though, and likely one reason why people in this thread are so hard on these cops. This story seems like one of the few instances where the "just doing their job" line is actually a justifiable excuse for such a raid, and nobody got hurt so nothing bad really happened. I think your post is one of the first times I've seen that typically statist argument actually used in an excusable scenario.
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Well, the good side is that their channel spiked.
http://www.reddit.com/r/TheCreatures/comments/2etjq8/thecreaturehub_youtube_channel_also_spiked/
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Saw the vid on fefes blog a few days ago and were like WTF. This new trend is seriously disturbing and plain dangerous. Fake ordering a pizza might give you a laugh, but this is just wrong. If those trolls keep on swatting streaming guys, it's just a matter of time until such a raid goes terribly wrong and the streamer or one of his family is getting hurt or killed.
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So far as i know of The creatures whiteboy7st have been swatted who else or is that just it?
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Im not shure if i should post this but hers the guy who apparently did it https://twitter.com/ScrewPain/status/504690928087343104
(If i need to i will take it down i will)
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So, Kootra was streaming some CS:GO on Wednesday, and suddenly a bunch of police officers with assault rifles come in and tell him to get down on the ground. Apparently someone thought that it would be funny to call 911 and tell that there is someone shooting people and taking hostages in the office building that the Creatures use.
Some people recorded it and posted it on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8yLIOb2pU
It also got on the news.
http://www.dailydot.com/esports/swatting-the-creatures-kootra/
It's not just Kootra and streamers, a lot of other people have gotten swatted, pretty much anyone can be swatted.
What do you think? Why do people do this? And could these trolls scare away some streamers? I think it's incredibly stupid, some guy thinks that it's hilarious to send cops to deal with some non-existent shooter or bomber, making them evacuate schools, stop traffic and ruin everyones normal day.
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