UN JUGADOR DE CALL OF DUTY PIERDE UNA PARTIDA Y MANDA A LOS SWAT A CASA DE SU RIVAL
Para algunos jugadores no hay medida en la rabia que les da perder contra otros online, pero una cosa es pillar una rabieta y estrellar el mando contra el sofá o aporrear el teclado, y otra muy distinta es llamar a los SWAT para que monten una operación de emergencia en contra del jugador que acaba de tocarte la cara en el CoD.
Call of Duty Swatting
Tras perder una partida al Call of Duty, un jugador estadounidense llamó a la policía de Long Island, Nueva York, para informar de que era Rafael Castillo, que había matado a su madre y que posiblemente seguiría disparando a más gente. Además del nombre de su oponente, dio la dirección de este.
La policía tomó la llamada con la seriedad debida y se presentó en casa de Castillo con helicópteros y otros vehículos de emergencia. Al llegar, pudieron comprobar que la susodicha madre estaba vivita y coleando y que Castillo no había efectuado la llamada.
“Cuando uno de los policías dijo algo sobre alguien llamando para decir que la madre y el hermano de alguien habían sido asesinados dije ‘cómo es posible si está justo aquí y yo estoy aquí’, comentó el hermano a la policía. Cuando José Castillo fue a buscar a su hermano Rafael, este llevaba cascos y no se había enterado de nada.
No es la primera vez que esta broma se lleva a cabo en Estados Unidos por lo que se las ha acuñado como hacer un swatting. Afortunadamente se trataba de una broma, pero la operación de dos horas y más de 60 oficiales salió pagada del bolsillo del contribuyente.
Call of Duty loser calls in SWAT team hoax on kid who beat him
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.
But Castillo was only using virtual firearms in the online video game.
“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?’”
Cops tried for 20 minutes to call Rafael and get him to come out, but he had headphones on and was still glued to his video game console.
“He didn’t realize anything was going on, he couldn’t hear anything,” his brother said. “I told him that there’s a bunch of cops outside that are looking for you.”
He eventually came outside and the emergency services cops rushed in to make sure there was no reality to the phony call.
“I right away had an idea what it was, because I’ve seen [pranks] on the news,” said Jose Castillo.
Rafael, known as Rafi, is a junior at Long Beach High School and was at home playing video games because it was spring break.
The vicious gamer likely traced Castillo’s IP address online to find out where he lives, police sources said.
“It was probably just an evil little kid,” one officer said.
“We went and checked out the place and there was nothing there … It sucked up a lot of resources, caused traffic problems. It turned out to be a hoax,” the cop added.
Cops were trying to track down the hoaxer by tracing his electronic footprints, police sources said.
Long Beach Police Commissioner Michael Tangney said it’s just the latest example of the “Swatting” game.
“In this … bizarre world of Swatting, you get points for the helicopter, for the police cars, for the SWAT team, for the type of entry,” he told CBS. “It’s very sophisticated. Unfortunately, it’s very dangerous.”
