10 Times Famous Streamers Got Swatted
Having your gaming sessions disrupted is always a hassle, buy having it broken up by a Swat team is something else entirely.
Published 4 years ago in Facepalm
Now imagine having your gaming session disrupted by a SWAT team.
Some trolls on the internet get so irritated with the people they see on Twitch, they make false police reports to try and get SWAT sent to their homes. And of these streamers, no one has been swatted, more than Ice Poseidon.
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Kootra - Kootra had SWAT break into his house while streaming Call of Duty live on Twitch. The cops handcuffed him, searched him, and interrogated him all while he was still on camera! All because the SWAT team was told hostages were being held in the building Kootra was streaming from.
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Two Russian Gamers - Two Russian Gamers were minding their business in their room gaming on twitch when suddenly an armed task force broke into their room and forced them from their computers to the floor in a panic. Someone from their Twitch stream had found their address and sent the police there claiming acts of violence had been taken.
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Gross Gore - One of the most surprising instances of swatting comes from Gross Gore. Instead of panicking and crying as most people do. ( Who can blame them? ) Gross Gore was playing League of Legends on Twitch and didn’t seem to mind when the SWAT team came into his house. Instead of freaking out, he calmly explained the situation and invited the officers to join in on commentary on his Twitch stream. He even invited the cops to sit down on the couch and relax while he finished his match.
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Calebhart42 - Caleb is a Twitch streamer, and speedrunner, who was swatted after some troll called the police to his house pretending to be him, claiming he was going to 'commit acts of violence." Once the officers arrived on the scene however they determined that he was actually of no threat and they’d been called unjustifiably and left. All they could do was ask about his Twitch stream and what it actually was.
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Joshua Peter - Joshua was devastated when during his RuneScape stream someone swatted him, sending police to his home. Apparently the swat team pointed their guns at his younger brothers, leaving his whole family extremely shock from the incident.
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Mhova - Mhova is a twitch streamer and a model that ended up getting swatted while on stream. Like Gross Gore, instead of freaking out and being scared she was calm and helped easily resolve the situation by showing officers that they’d been falsely called to her apartment. Surprisingly, getting swatted only increased her popularity on Twitch. So while it can be a terrifying experience, it can boost your income!
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Jess - During a game of Call of Duty Black Ops II, Jess had her house breached by SWAT and she was forced to the ground in handcuffs while the police searched her property. The swatting took place in 2015, and while Jess wasn't a huge streamer, she did eventually change her name and addressed because of the event.
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Summit1G - Summit1G’s swatting is actually really unique. Instead of the police finding him at his house, the Twitch streamer was playing Pokemon Go and hunting for pokemon outside when the police approached him. The swatting was supposedly carried out by a viewer that donated to him and said “Watch the stream in five minutes.”
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Jordan Nothing Gilbert - Jordan was playing Counterstrike: Global Offensive live on Twitch when a SWAT team busted into his house in 2014. Thankfully, no one was hurt and in a rare turn of events, the person who falsely called the police was actually charged with a crime. Most of the time people who call in fake Swat calls are never charged for their crimes.
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Ice Poseidon - There is no one who has been the victim of Swatting to the degree Ice Piodeison has. He's been swatted at home, in. bank, and even while sitting aboard a plane, 35, 000 feet in the sky. What is perhaps the most unusual case of swatting ever, is when someone called in a bomb threat, using Poseidon’s real name, forcing his plane to land. It was such a huge story when it happened that he made all major news channels.
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