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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treepuncherPosted:
Even if they got it right and with that firepower he would have still gone into Final Stand!
TaigaAisakaPosted:
xCeeTee So who installs a panic button but doesn't explain to all the employees what it's for? So if that did happen, and it was one of them..they wouldn't know wtf to do!
Infinity Ward. Where promises are broken and lies are made. This made the whole article perfect imo.
"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."
StonerzardPosted:
So who installs a panic button but doesn't explain to all the employees what it's for? So if that did happen, and it was one of them..they wouldn't know wtf to do!
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