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The teenage boy, whose parents asked he not be named, was playing Call of Duty: Black Ops. He had joined friends playing online on the Xbox 360.
In the game, players can talk to each other using headsets. In between games, in a chatroom, the boy said a voice suddenly chimed in that he says he didn?t recognize. ?Some dude just popped out of nowhere, and basically said he?s going to hack me, he?s going to get my information, call the swat team over to my front yard.?
About 20 minutes later, Lewisville received a call from an operator with the AT&T Instant Message Relay Service. The system is designed to allow hearing impaired users to reach someone with a standard telephone. The operator said they had received a message that a person was shot and that someone was still inside the house shooting.
The first responding officers saw no signs of shooting at the home. The video game was still on when police surrounded the house, with the entire family inside.
?We were all scared, out of our minds,? he said. ?Didn?t understand why they were here. We thought there was some stranger some dude running around our house, hiding behind the boat. We didn?t know. We didn?t expect nothing.?
Captain Kevin Deaver with Lewisville Police said they started calling the family out because there were no signs of shooting. ?At one point they did come out of the residence but then went back in the residence, which did cause us some alarm,? he said.
What officers had seen was the boys father, pulling his wife back inside to keep her safe. The family hid in a bedroom, and the boy?s mother called 9-1-1 herself. The operator connected her to police who convinced the mother, father, three children and grandparents to come out.
Police are investigating the crime as a false report or false alarm. They are working on a subpoena to try to get the information for the gamer who made the story up.
It could have been a bit of social engineering and OSINT. How many kids use their XBox gamer tags as aliases on the net as well, or post them via social networking sites?
i?m not sure on the method used here, but it would be a simple issue to find ip of the game host with DDWRT on a common linksys router. at that point, there are a number of ways to turn an ip address into a physical address.
Most people don?t have a assigned IP Address and is random assigned to the user several times a day. It is the MAC address of your ROUTER that the Internet provider can trace because it has to be setup.
You two have any clue what you are talking about. IPs can only be traced to a host as most residential IPs are Dynamically assigned which could change intermittently. The only way for the police to determine the MAC address associated with an IP at a specific time is with a Subpoena.
Most times if you google someones Xbox live handle it will show up with their name or whatnot because they have linked it to forums.
Yeah how stupid of them to respond to a 911 call of an active shooting. How moronic of them! What a bunch of buffoons! They should really stop responding to those calls! Idiot!
Everyone in law enforcement is above the law after the coup and cover up. Welcome to the fascist military police state compliments of the last election.
One phone call and they send swat? A thinking person would realize thar a real shooting, would draw multiple calls from a quiet suburban neighborhood, so yeah, law enforcement failed?that kid or any member of his family could have been killed accidentally..
I agree. Had they broken the door down, shot the dog, and pushed the family on the floor, that would have been idiotic. Surrounding the house, calling inside with a bullhorn, and NOT shooting anyone when the mother appears to be dragged back inside the house ? that?s professionalism.
That was a very dangerous hoax to pull off. Someone could have gotten hurt or killed. I?ve done online gaming and what these hackers can do is pretty impressive, and frightening. If someone is able to hack into the gamertag, they can get the victim?s billing account information, which has the address and phone number. Many people use minimal and predictable button combinations as lock codes for their account. I hope they find the hacker and hold him/her accountable, that was a very dangerous thing to do.
Why would law enforcement look stupid? Someone falsely reported an incident to them. They obviously can?t know if something like this is true before they get there. The report they were given called for exactly the response they delivered, and usually when people call 911 to report an issue they are telling the truth.
So the SWAT team responds to 911 call reportedly from a deaf person and they announce their presence / give instructions outside with a bull horn? Makes as much sense as brail on the drive through menu.
Staggeringly stupid move on that police chiefs part to send swat at all, stupid people wont understand, but thats why this police chief needs to be fired?very very stupid.
Sniffit is manufacturing nickels. Listen pud, take your fairy tales somewhere else. Even if the kid made a low comment regarding The Won, chances are that it was overwhelmingly accurate ? no need to act like a Progressive and get all emotionally bent about it carrying all that water for the crook.
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The fact that the ?prankster? used an instant message relay service designed for deaf users means that every tax payer was aiding and abetting in this one. We pay for that service?not the user. We paid for the police too. So basically, we all got scammed, and are left paying the bill!
Amazing! Granny the name caller is censoring my comments because she does not agree with them. Is this the method of the Right? All I said was this boy may not be telling the full truth and may have made inflammatory remarks about the President online and someone reported it.
Uh, #1 how are your comments getting censored? #2 CBS is hardly a ?right wing organization? #3 ?inflammatory remarks? is no reason to send a swat team unless Obama is appearing in the kids house that day or something and there was a specific threat. It?s also not the reason the swat team , or the young man in question gave to the press. The cops to no action other than to say it was a hoax? Are you not ok in the head maybe?
Yeah because the ?right? would care about you posting inflammatory remarks about the president. Bugs Bunny said it best ?what a maroon?
all it takes if for the kid to use the same alias on xbox live as he does on other sites. If for instance you googled his unsername and came across posts on a forum using the same name and you could get enough info to track him down. If you found a photobucket account you could look at the meta data embedded in the pictures to find GPS location info. Find a pic taken inside his house and BINGO! You have the exact location of his house. Call 911 using the AT&T message service via a voip system with a spoofed ID and IP; you will never finr the guy.
This has happened before about 6 years ago in Irvine, CA?The caller was from Washington state, sent a swat team in and nearly killed the victim, I believe the kid only got a few years in prison, when he should have got more.
The kid was probably talking s**t to the one who called the swat team on him and then he was probably kept on talking and then got his door kicked in by real people with real guns they should have tased, pepper sprayed and batonned him for good measure and offered him a hair cut too.
Well, I agree with part of that. CoD kiddies are incredibly immature. A ?voice out of nowhere? in reality was probably a guy he was spawn-camping, and they undoubtedly talked trash for a good while before this went down. This doesn?t generally happen randomly, nor is it unheard of.
This police chief should be fired?.at what point do you deploy an entire SWAT team, surround a house with draw assault weapons, full riot gear?.in a quiet suburban neighborhood?.after ONE, I repeat ONE phone call!!! Seriously people if shots are fired in any suburban neighborhood, you could bet the phone lines would light up?.my God have we become a slow minded society. This Chief should just resign after this, as it shows utter incompetence. Sending a SWAT team into an obviously peaceful neighborhood is assinine. Folks you dont want more Government, you definately want less, what if one of the SWAT guys sincerely thought the kid had a real gun, through the window? huh? Thats right game consoles now sell gun like controllers, so gameplay is more natural?to that SWAT team guy, under the premise by which he was ordered to deploy could kill the little kid?this aint no joke?the chief should be fired period.
I?m with you. This SWAT team in every town stuff is just plain dangerous. One firecracker, one backfire from an old car and that house would have looked like swiss cheese.
How about the point where a call a about a mass shooting comes in with the perpetrator is still at large and shooting people. You can thank any number of incidents in the past where the lack of a adequate response by officers not properly armed caused more deaths. For those who have no clue, I guess you wouldn?t understand or care that the first steps would be tear gas that are carried by and deployed by SWAT. That is one reason of many you would instantly send SWAT. Not mention that your hostage negotiator is usually assigned to SWAT (unlike hollywood).
The big concern is WHY DOES A POLICE DEPARTMENT HAVE A SWAT TEAM in the first place. This is idiocy. A dozen high powered guns all pointing at a quite family and you expect nothing to go wrong? The drug war and the Homeland security are turning the USA into a police state.
This probably stems from all the s@$% talking that goes on in those online FPS games ? one of the main reasons why I stopped playing those kinds of games. Feelings get hurt, then someone with a little technical know-how decides to get even.
With the trigger happy nature of cops nowadays, a ?prank? like this could have gotten someone killed. If stuff like this becomes the new ?trend?, I think it?s time for people to abandon the first-person shooter genre for something a bit more civil.
When the US municipal police force can be used as a terror weapon, it?s time for a change. Goon squads with guns are not the answer. Neither are Unconstitutional searches.
I was the person affected in this case and I feel a frustration I can not control I feel embarrassed and my frustration is because of how the incident occurred, 4 children, 14.13 and 8 years and 2 elderly patients with more than 65, against the target of snipers and police of lewisville, which had no heart to lay down their weapons at any time, pitbulls dogs appeared on his prey even knowing it was a false alarm is heard according to the 911 call, not I like how they are handling the information supposedly came to save my family and was a disaster, destroyed my life in minutes to see the risk they ran their lives, would have preferred to shoot me, They keep for more than an hour to my child of 8years without shoes and without shelter, crying and trembling with cold and fear and with 14 years as the worst criminal handcofs next to me, the alleged perpetrator, to and to live the nightmare to know what it feels like, 3 days without sleep peacefully the whole family, there was no day of love and friendship, only bad dreams, impotence, and thinking that our lives depend on a phone call and a handful of men armed with licenses to kill, if the police cars have all cameras must be recorded that should put it there and to see the next act Find out from before this unjust way, I have many things I could say more but I can not sum it all in just one paragraph is really hard this situation I hope no one goes by this situation. I wish you good luck!
First, I don?t think this kid is telling the whole story. Have you heard these kids on xbox live they are always using the n word, the f word, the b word and other nasty talking that quite frankly I?m not surprised this has happened.
I have been on xbox live for over 4 years now and I can almost guarantee you that some random hacker is not going to just pop into the game lobby and state ?I?m going to hack you?. 10 times out of 10 you?ll hear those statements because some under age kid is running his mouth and cussing up a storm.
I guess he?s slightly under the age that should be playing M Rated video games. Maybe there are legitimate reasons for having a rating system after all.
No, no one thought it was real. One of the kiddies played a prank on another kiddie. That prank was telling the police that a shooting was happening, so that they would send SWAT.
Which ?he? are you talking about , the innocent kid who got SWAT called on his house, or the unknown person who made the illegal report? The rating of the video game has NO implications for this story- it is completely unimportant.
There is no longer democracy or freedom of press. What you?re reading everyday is nothing more than Psy-ops stories created to induce chatter.
The odds of the president?s and vice president?s last names combined having the same 9 consecutive letters as the name of the most wanted terrorist is over 5 trillion to 1.
With the media in on the last election, it?s why Sarah Palin was added to the McCain ticket. They had no intention of winning. Why do you think Republicans gained so many seats in the last midterm? Sarah and McCain were part of a coup. Obama was turned after he won the election to take down those who make up the ?organized community? that he spoke about.
the ratings in the games are all done through ESRB . The Entertainment Software Rating Board is not enforced by law and has absolutely no bearing on whether a kid plays these games. The ESRB was created as a best practice and pro-active practice in order to keep the government out of the entertainment gaming industry.
I?m not sure how anything in this article even hints at a legitimate reason to have a rating system, however your comment may be a legitimate reason to enforce IQ screenings before posting comments on boards such as this.
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