SWAT Team Takes Down a Pair of PS3 Gamers

Couple of years ago one of my friends neighbours saw us loading a replica pulse rifle (from aliens) into the back of a friends car. She had no way of knowing it was a laser gun prop and so called the police. We're driving through the middle of the city where i used to live on the way to a comics convention when we get pinned by two ARV's and surounded by cops pointing MP5's at us. Anyway the driver goes to turn the ignition off when i suddenly shout 'dont take your hands off the wheel, everyone keep your hands where they can see them.' Everyone, including the cops think I saved his life that day. None of the whole experience was fun but the worst part was the rookie cop who forgot to secure her MP5 to her chest while she rooted around in our boot making sure the prop was a fake (actually the lead cop recognised it as a rifle from aliens as soon as he saw it.) Anyway this officers weapon was pointed straight at us while it bounced off the back of the car and we where lined up on the curb being searched. When the lead officer saw the look on our faces because of what she was doing he not only very rougthly pulled her away from the car but publickly shouted her down telling her the 'those geeks had more of an idea of how to handle fire arms then she did.'  It was all one hell of an experience and makes an amusing story now but at the time it was no so funny. I will never forget having a flack armoured cop right by my window with a gun pointed squarly at my head, although now when drunk idiots square up to me in pubs it really doesn't bother me. guess it gave me some perspective on what is a real threat to my life and what isn't. 

This reminds me of Home Alone...both Home Alone and Home Alone 2 actually.  They always have that scene where Kevin plays a specific scene from a movie OUT LOUD and the "bad guys" come in, looking for Kevin, hear the movie play but think its real.

I bet that neighbor was smootchin' Moe with the Gimpy leg...heck, that neighbor was probably smoothcin with everybody!

LMAO!!  I want a sound system so bad ass the neighbors thinks it is actually GUNFIRE!  Now you can tell the story of how your house was sourounded by SWAT for fraggin noobs in Call of Duty 4 for the rest of your life! 

You'd think, with the sounds that close nearby and almost certainly being from automatics, they'd realize when bullets didn't come zipping through their walls that it was likely a game.

Hmmm...maybe I should be very careful with my new Bose system...I live in a corner apartment on the top floor surrounded by a hall and a stairwell, if someone hears my system and I get a SWAT visit--then maybe it's a little too loud.

 

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So is this a SWAT fail... or a neighbor fail?

...cause it's sure as hell a win for whoever made that sound system!!!

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Benjamin Franklin

*looks up from EarthBound and Blades of Steel* Hmm?  Oldschool, you say? ;D

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The Mammon Industry

What's worse than nosey neighbors? STUPID Nosey Neighbors.

Just to be that guy, I will toss a bit more in. First of all, it's not really a SWAT team. All it could be described as is regular police in a bigger van with more equipment like Anti-Riot shields etc.

But as stated above, Copenhagen have been the subject to some gang feuds and eliminations - so the police have been forced to be more active on the street as well as having visitation zones. When the call came in, the police didn't take any chances and just went all out.

Gendarmes? French horsemen? In our Denmark?

I wish I could of seen they're faces...  Imagine if the SWAT would of just Breached the house...

Tear Gas comes in the windows, doors being broken down.  

You just see the guys:" THIS GAME IS AWSOME!!! , Effects looks so real!!"