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A Minecraft player who was swatted off for using abusive language had a non-figurative SWAT team storm the booter's house.
Jacob Neumann, 16, of Kingston, Washington is a Minecraft administrator who removed an unidentified Canadian player from the game for posting abusive comments. The player threatened to "swat" Jacob's home, a form of phone pranking in which someone files a false police report that prompts a SWAT team call to someone's home. Jacob didn't buy the threat until a heavily armed police tactical team ordered him and his family out of their home, according to KING5.
The unidentified player called the sheriff's office's 911 line and told the operator that "a man shot his 14-year-old daughter because she got pregnant" at Jacob's address. Police stormed the home and placed Jacob's father, Dave, in handcuffs and began to place him under arrest until police realized the father of two boys didn't have a daughter.
Thankfully, no one was hurt in the raid, at least not physically and if you don't consider making someone experience being ordered on the ground while staring down the business end of a Benelli M4 "hurtful." And nobody thinks that.
Jacob Neumann, 16, of Kingston, Washington is a Minecraft administrator who removed an unidentified Canadian player from the game for posting abusive comments. The player threatened to "swat" Jacob's home, a form of phone pranking in which someone files a false police report that prompts a SWAT team call to someone's home. Jacob didn't buy the threat until a heavily armed police tactical team ordered him and his family out of their home, according to KING5.
The unidentified player called the sheriff's office's 911 line and told the operator that "a man shot his 14-year-old daughter because she got pregnant" at Jacob's address. Police stormed the home and placed Jacob's father, Dave, in handcuffs and began to place him under arrest until police realized the father of two boys didn't have a daughter.
Thankfully, no one was hurt in the raid, at least not physically and if you don't consider making someone experience being ordered on the ground while staring down the business end of a Benelli M4 "hurtful." And nobody thinks that.
Link: http://www.gametrailers.com/side-mission/2012/06/21/minecraft-player-prompts-fake-swat-call-to-player-who-booted-him/
