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As you may know, there’s a stupid, harmful thing that some people do to mess with streamers.
They call in a bomb threat where they live, and make police officers invade their house.
It’s called swatting and it sucks.
Of course, this video is by no means supporting swatting.
It’s a terrible thing to do and has awful consequences for both the person making the
call and the person being swatted.
Hopefully this video will make the potential swatters out there think twice before possibly
ruining their life, or that of another human being.
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Destroy The World!
But before you do that, get ready, it’s time for the Top 10 Gamers Swatted Live on
Twitch!
Number 10: Kootra.
One day when The Creatures were streaming in their office, some dummy called in a false
report that hostages were being held in the building.
Swat members handcuffed Kootra and interrogated him before determining that no hostages were
being held.
Thankfully, everyone was fine, but it would have been a horrific experience.
It surprises me that so many of the officers seem to not be aware of the swatting phenomenon.
If I was called into a hostage situation and saw a dude playing video games, I might think
I’d been tricked.
But then again, it’s an incredibly high stakes job, so I understand sticking to protocol
to play it safe.
Number 9: Gross Gore.
Okay, here are some cops that get it a lot more.
Although it helps that they seem to just be UK officers and not a SWAT team!
Anyway, Gross Gore was swatted one day, as someone claimed he had killed his whole family.
But this time, rather than getting smashed to the ground, they just knocked politely,
he brought them in, and he explained the situation while he continued his game of League.
Still an awful thing to do, but this is definitely one of the better outcomes on this list, since
nobody was hurt.
Well, except his MMR.
Because he lost the game.
Number 8: N0thing.
N0thing was playing some Counterstrike when, as you’ve probably guessed, his place was
raided by police officers with firearms.
Now I hate to make light of this, but it’s just a bit hilarious that one of the people
he’s chatting with goes “Where’s the bomb?”
right before you see an officer looking under the bed.
Looks like a bad lip reading.
https://youtu.be/TiW-BVPCbZk?t=307 Thankfully, they search his room and eventually let him
go when everything is explained.
And everything worked out, because the swatter was eventually caught and is apparently facing
5 years in prison for terrorism charges.
Won’t say his name, not giving him fame.
But I guess… the Counter Terrorists win…
C’mon we were all thinking it.
Number 7: Mhova.
Mhova was streaming one day, just chatting with fans, when one played a ,,Funny,, joke.
Just kidding it was stupid and infantile.
She started noticing how many sirens were around, and it turned out they were for her
when a bunch of police officers showed up at her door.
Thankfully, the officers were super understanding, even waving hi to the camera, although it
probably helps that she, ya know, looks like that.
God the comments on that video are cuhreepy.
Number 6: Summit1G.
This one’s a bit different from the others, because he wasn’t swatted at his home, but
rather outside at a park.
Streamer Summit1G was streaming some Pokemon GO when cops started yelling at him to put
his hands up.
There are several tense minutes as he’s ordered to back up to the officers, but everyone
ends up okay.
Apparently someone had donated a few minutes previously and left a message saying “Watch
the stream in 5 minutes”.
Then they called in the threat.
Do I have to remind you that he might have been shot?
I don’t get people.
Number 5: ImGoreJess.
Yep, it’s time for another female streamer, but this time she didn’t get quite so lucky
with the officers who arrived.
This time she left the room and was subdued offscreen.
Don’t worry, she was okay.
Then some officers search her house, obviously finding nothing since it was just a stupid
joke.
It’s totally freaky, the only solace being hearing the cops, who barely, barely understand
what streaming is, try to make sense of what she told them.
There’s a link to that moment in the script.
Number 4: Trick2G.
Here’s one that’s kinda breaking the rules of the list, but I think it’s an important
PSA.
Trick2G was supposedly swatted during his 800K celebration stream.
But later it was revealed that he had just gotten actors to pretend to be cops.
Which many thought was pretty damn insensitive.
And, I’m not super surprised.
This might just be the benefit of hindsight, but holy cow his acting was atrocious.
Listen to this But anyway, he wasn’t swatted, so everything’s okay, right?
Nope, Twitch found out and banned him...
Just for a day, but still.
If you think fake swatting yourself is a great way to gain followers, maybe think again if
you don’t want to be banned.
And if you’re not as famous as Trick, you might not get quite so short a ban.
Number 3: Calebhart42.
Here’s one for the ladieeees.
Or, you know, anyone who’s into shirtless dudes with big muscles!
This must have been before they stopped guys from streaming with no shirt.
Anyway, this is one of the more chill swats, since he goes to the door and eventually comes
back in to explain his job to them.
Thankfully, this tends to be the case when it isn’t an actual SWAT team being called,
which is definitely nice.
Although it definitely helps that they all have video evidence from their stream that
they weren’t, ya know, planting bombs and killing people.
At least, not in real life.
The biggest bummer is that he was over an hour into his Megaman speedrun…
Well, maybe the second biggest bummer.
Number 2: WhiteBoy7thst.
Alexander Walker was streaming on Twitch when he had some unwelcome guests due to one particular
jerkbag troll.
He left the room for some time, then a K-9 unit was seen searching it.
While nobody was hurt, they actually did find his stash of marijuana, which led to him being
arrested for drug possession.
However, due to the circumstances, prosecutors dropped the charges.
Side note, I definitely thought his name was pronounced WhiteBoy7thst for way too long.
I’m a bit ashamed.
Number 1: Joshua Peters.
One of the most famous incidents involves Runescape streamer Joshua Peters.
Peters was streaming when he suddenly had to leave, as his mother had informed him that
police officers were in the house.
Peters, who was an Air Force veteran of all things, returned to the stream understandably
emotional, and explained that police had just pointed a gun at his 10 year old brother who
had answered the door.
Guys.
He could have died.
Just imagine you swatted someone and their 10 year old brother was killed.
This is not a joke.
I feel like a broken record but it’s true.
That’s it for today!
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Later gamers!