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In a brief and thankfully bloodshed-free face-off with the local SWAT team, a prominent Denver-area gamer experienced the violent prank of "swatting."

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Gamer Jordan Gilbert was playing “Counter-Strike” when one of his opponents called the police on him. Officers swarmed into his bedroom but after realizing the threat was nothing more than a “swatting” prank, they left. The entire incident was caught on Gilbert’s live stream, Kotaku reports. “Swatting,” or making false reports to trick police into responding […]

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Vice News talked with a SWAT team about “swatting,” a growing trend amongst hackers and gamers designed to lure a SWAT team into a false emergency. SWAT teams take every call seriously, but some of them turn out to be pranks. Law enforcement works to identify the perpetrators of these crimes, but with the increasing […]

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After being defeated in a game of “Call of Duty,” a Long Island teenager triggered a full-force SWAT response after he called the police and claimed the victor was on a shooting spree Tuesday. Authorities believe the prankster found 17-year-old Rafael Castillo’s Long Beach, New York, address by looking up his IP address. He called […]

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