"Epic Fail" LAPD confronts Call of Duty 'Ghost' statue in tense standoff

shankly1985 · 1 Jun 2013 at 11:11

Late last night the offices of Los Angeles-based independent game studio Robotoki were stormed by the Los Angeles Police Department after a curious designer pressed the building's "panic" button, studio founder Robert Bowling told Polygon.

The 911 response ended in a tense showdown with a life-sized statue of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's Simon "Ghost" Riley, which the police mistook for a gunman.

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http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/31/43...botoki-invaded-by-lapd-after-curious-designer

Lol how funny would off that been, "get on the ground"

godinman · 1 Jun 2013 at 11:14

They seem to be taking it in reasonably good humour.

"Our studio is equipped with a 'panic' alarm in case of an armed threat, which was installed yesterday," Bowling said. "One of our designers, who shall not be shamed, pressed it on his way out because apparently when boys find buttons that they are unsure of, their first instinct is to push it."

Biohazard · 1 Jun 2013 at 11:22

at that quote.

dowie · 1 Jun 2013 at 11:24

The numpty who pushed the button deserves a talking to tbh... Surely the company would be fined for this?

SexyGreyFox · 1 Jun 2013 at 12:04

shankly1985 said:
Lol how funny would off that been

YOU BROKE THE INTERNET

shankly1985 · 1 Jun 2013 at 12:41

Dimple said:
YOU BROKE THE INTERNET

Not sure what you mean by this?

Art · 1 Jun 2013 at 12:46

dowie said:
The numpty who pushed the button deserves a talking to tbh... Surely the company would be fined for this?

Says in the article that they weren't.

It's a bit silly though, why put an emergency response button in without telling people what it is? What good is it if the people it is supposed to help don't know it has been installed?

Five.Stars · 1 Jun 2013 at 13:05

Publicity stunt written all over it.

TheVoice · 1 Jun 2013 at 13:05

Five.Stars said:
Publicity stunt written all over it.

Pretty risky thing to do in that case, no?

ikillbears · 1 Jun 2013 at 13:16

Dimple said:
YOU BROKE THE INTERNET

precisely my thoughts

ikillbears · 1 Jun 2013 at 13:17

shankly1985 said:
Not sure what you mean by this?

Lol how funny would off?????? that been

panyan · 1 Jun 2013 at 13:21

panic button testing

shankly1985 · 1 Jun 2013 at 13:24

ikillbears said:
precisely my thoughts

What that got to do with breaking the internet?

Confused.com :confused:

Razor-BladE · 1 Jun 2013 at 13:33

Didn't know this??

Bowling said the panic alarm was installed as a precaution to protect his team, "as game developers receive their fair share of death threats."

Squark · 1 Jun 2013 at 13:37

Surely it's just Bowling who gets death threats, for the piece of turd he managed to turn CoD in to.

Reaper 392 · 1 Jun 2013 at 15:44

Razor-BladE said:
Didn't know this??

Pretty much anyone who is famous will get death threats. The youtuber Nerdcubed, who doesn't usually say much that is controversial, said that he gets at least one per day. With the 'quality' of games that infinity ward has produced it doesn't surprise me that they've got some.

Was the panic button labelled to say that it would call in the police, or are we just talking about a big red button that said "panic button"?

Moothead2 · 1 Jun 2013 at 16:11

Reaper 392 said:
With the 'quality' of games that infinity ward has produced it doesn't surprise me that they've got some.

Really? Most of their games have been good games. Sure MW2 was unbalanced in many aspects but the single player was decent and multiplayer was incredibly fun albeit frustrating at times and of course no dedicated servers was a massive kick in the teeth for PC gamers.

I wouldn't really count MW3 as an Infinity Ward game considering how much changed between MW2 and MW3 at Infinity Ward.

Orionaut · 1 Jun 2013 at 16:19

Wasn't there a similar case some years ago here in the UK where armed Police stormed some guys house because he had a life size "Lara Croft" mannequin in his front room!

Ah, Here we are

Moothead2 · 1 Jun 2013 at 16:23

Orionaut said:
Wasn't there a similar case some years ago here in the UK where armed Police stormed some guys house because he had a life size "Lara Croft" mannequin in his front room!

Ah, Here we are

Not as bad as this

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C.R.A.Z.Y · 1 Jun 2013 at 16:59

dowie said:
The numpty who pushed the button deserves a talking to tbh... Surely the company would be fined for this?

If it's anything like the U.K then they already have to pay for the police panic button. A once in a while false alarm should be covered in these costs one would think.