Ex-Call of Duty Developer Subject to Police Raid by Mistake
"Once they realized I wasn't a hostage, [we] spent the next 30 [minutes] talking about games and playing with our giant NES controller," Bowling later said. Nobody was hurt, thankfully, but how did this happen?
In an interview with Polygon, Bowling explained that the police raid was a result of an employee pressing the building's panic button, triggering a 911 response. The button was installed the previous day. "One of our designers, who shall not be shamed, pressed it on his way out," he said, "because apparently when boys find buttons that they are unsure of, their first instinct is to push it."
The staff went home for the day shortly after the button was pressed, "leaving their lonely studio head to receive the assault of their actions," Bowling said.
He continued, "I was in my office when [the police] arrived and saw them coming up our stairs, guns drawn. They yelled for me to put my hands up and walk towards them slowly, then took me into custody and out of the studio until they cleared the rest of the rooms and floors."
The officers soon realized Bowling was not, in fact, the hostage of a video game statue.
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Source: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/05/31/ex-call-of-duty-developer-subject-to-police-raid-by-mistake
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LumPosted:
I laughed so much reading this, got to feel bad for the man, but all in all the news to this happening is pretty hilarious.
TaigaAisakaPosted:
NinjaWizardSorcery Who the hell presses a panic button just for the thrill?
Idiots.
They trolled the master troll lol Robert Bowling trolled the whole MW3 community xD
elsePosted:
So the guy pressed the button because he saw the statue of ghost with a gun? I would have expected him to have seen it before since he works there and all. Bowling was probably scared when he saw those cops with guns going towards him
skathe665Posted:
Sorcery Who the hell presses a panic button just for the thrill?
Doubt they did. They are just saying that to cover the police departments poor police work.
5KModsPosted:
Cops dont mess around, especially with all the recent acts of terror in US.
Bowling is one dumb induvidual.
Bowling is one dumb induvidual.
SCOPosted:
Noval Well if it isn't moving maybe its a fake????
Jeez some police are stupid these days.
Exactly, some people are just stupid...
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