BarryDonegan
08-23-2013, 12:33 PM
"Back in May of this year, indie game studio Robotoki, run by Call of Duty developer Robert Bowling, installed a panic button to use in the event of an armed intruder.
The following day, one of Bowling’s employees pushed the panic button out of curiosity at the end of the work day and then left for home, leaving Bowling alone in the studio. LAPD officers swiftly responded in SWAT style, rushing Bowling from the building, and then, after mistaking his life-sized Call of Duty mannequin for an active shooter, set about a tense standoff, nearly opening fire on a replica of the character Simon 'Ghost' Riley. Ultimately, officers realized that they were facing off with an inanimate statue before squeezing their triggers, differentiating this call from the Christopher Dorner manhunt in which paranoid officers shot two women in a case of mistaken identity."
Mod note- Closed - already posted here:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?416515-LAPD-Caught-In-Intense-Armed-Standoff-With-Call-of-Duty-Video-Game-Statue
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?416378-False-alarm-leads-to-LAPD-standoff-with-Call-of-Duty-mannequin
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?416645-LAPD-Caught-In-Intense-Armed-Standoff-with-Inanimate-Statue
The following day, one of Bowling’s employees pushed the panic button out of curiosity at the end of the work day and then left for home, leaving Bowling alone in the studio. LAPD officers swiftly responded in SWAT style, rushing Bowling from the building, and then, after mistaking his life-sized Call of Duty mannequin for an active shooter, set about a tense standoff, nearly opening fire on a replica of the character Simon 'Ghost' Riley. Ultimately, officers realized that they were facing off with an inanimate statue before squeezing their triggers, differentiating this call from the Christopher Dorner manhunt in which paranoid officers shot two women in a case of mistaken identity."
Mod note- Closed - already posted here:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?416515-LAPD-Caught-In-Intense-Armed-Standoff-With-Call-of-Duty-Video-Game-Statue
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?416378-False-alarm-leads-to-LAPD-standoff-with-Call-of-Duty-mannequin
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?416645-LAPD-Caught-In-Intense-Armed-Standoff-with-Inanimate-Statue