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Blue_Tires

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Wed Apr 23, 2014, 12:19 PM Apr 2014

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.”

http://nypost.com/2014/04/22/call-of-duty-loser-calls-in-swat-team-hoax-on-kid-who-beat-him/

Haven't played it in 2+ years, but good to know the CoD franchise is still full of bad kiddies...

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Call of Duty loser calls in SWAT team hoax on kid who beat him (Original Post) Blue_Tires Apr 2014 OP
An enormous civil fine ought to cure him of that. Aristus Apr 2014 #1
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