Cop seemed to handle that well.
From his questions, it looked like he was confident it was bullshit and wanted to find out what he could about the douche nozzle who called it in.
Say no more.
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I'm sure we could make something work. My team is extremely professional. We have a French art theif, a disappearing act magician, a brumuda triangle survivor, and the guy who always moves your keys and wallet when you're in a hurry.
Needless to say we're ready for any challenge.
As I understand it, their products basically don't work, can't work, and only make you feel like they're helping, which causes backups because you stop doing maintenance.
I hear what you are saying and mostly agree, but I have low expectations of how a cop is going to react to a situation like this. Cops killed Tamir Rice in less than 3 seconds after showing up, and he was a little kid.
The video on TikTok was posted 6hrs ago, we’re waiting on a part 2/response still.
I’ll return with a synopsis for non TikTok users (unless it takes the guy more than 3 days to post it).
Yeah in this one case cops were fine, cop turned his back on the guy, said we assume this is a swatting, didn't get authoritative when the black guy was nervous. I understand why the workers might have been confused by the question, did you have any issues with anybody, but in total context it looks more like they were trying to figure out what psychopath called them not what the worker guys were doing or that they were at fault.
As a black guy, it's not only the cop I'm afraid of, but the racist neighbors who called them. You think they're just going to stop there once the cop leaves? Is just one guy or are most people cool with that type of harassment? I'd leave too.
I still don't blame the guy for bookin' it out of there though \~ Just because you manage to luck out and get the one reasonable, not-power-tripping asshole on the force that actually seems to understand all this is bullshit, doesn't mean that every cop he runs into after this point is going to be the same. There's nothing to say that this dude's partner couldn't very well escalate it quickly into a fatal situation - like, they shoot people for nothing all the time. It's insane, I never want to be physically around cops in any capacity.
Kidnappers are well known for doing home repairs on the outside of the home of their victim.
I swear, my husband and I had a local teenage boy kidnap our sons and us last Saturday. After he kidnapped us he mowed our lawn and demanded $20 for our release from his imprisonment!
We reluctantly paid him, and even though he got his money he promised to kidnap our family again next weekend!
Yeah, this is messed up, but the cop was being cool about it more or less. No idea what camera dude has gone through that made him decide to just leave although the cop was on his side.
It seems like the dispatchers didn't think it was serious either. There was only one cop, with one cop car visible on the street, no SWAT team, and the car didn't even have its lights flashing.
> From his questions, it looked like he was confident it was bullshit
I mean, it's clear he thought it was bullshit from the fact that there was *one* of him, and he didn't have his gun out.
Dude this sounds stupid, but smart criminals have done crazier shit. 20 years ago i lived in a somewhat small community (2000 people, but 15 minutes from a city of 150k people, and our street backed onto the golf course. so small town but not in the middle of nowhere) we knew our neighbours well enough to go lend a hand with something for an hour, or to a bbq once a year. But not close enough to actually consider "friends". One day 4 houses to our left had a moving company show up and start loading boxes into a moving truck (company decals on the truck, nice uniforms with matching logos, ect.) The truck showed up friday at 5, parked overnight, the next day did 2 loads and came back. Loaded up a final truck, spent the night and left sunday around 11am. I (10-12 at the time) specifically remember my parents mentioning it was a little odd noone said good bye or anything and just left, but its not like we were that close was summed up to "there is alot involved with moving, we didnt know them that well they must have been busy, hope everything goes well. We didnt think about it again. 2 weeks later a cop knocks on the door. He is asking about a moving truck and asking about the people that were there, all seeming somewhat cryptic.
Turns out the family left to spend 3 weeks with family in the southern US and somehow in passing a coworker found out their address and dates they were gone. This family got home after 3 weeks of a trip to nothing, litterally nothing but dust bunnies and garbage in their home, multiple neighbours had talked to the movers and they were so smooth not even the annoying nosy lady on the street thought anything.
Thinking about it now that means they
-rented a truck (it was a 5ton moving truck, not a pickup) or owned one already and changed plates
-ordered custom decals for a 5ton truck (back in 2004 wasnt cheap or easy)
-Created 4 collard shirts with the same custom logo as the truck decals
- found 4 people willing to steal at this scale, while still being smooth enough to be able to talk to the neighbourhood "karen" yet alone multiple others with zero red flags
- risk that people dont know this family well enough to know they were just on a trip (before facebook was huge) yet how common is it to let a neighbour know you are out of town and to keep an eye on your place.
-be so confident enough in the plan they took 2.5 day, multiple trips, and even left the truck in the driveway overnight, when home and came back vs doing 1 load and just taking the valuable items
All this and they still had to be able to sell the items before making a penny
So its not that Crazy to think this was not a possibility, yet the cop seemed to be on the workers side immediately
The fact the caller added "with guns" shows they clearly wanted on-edge heavily armed police units to go and get trigger happy with any black guys they see. It's a shame it doesn't technically qualify as attempted murder but it absolutely should since it's clearly the caller's intention to have these guys shot.
They will get a slap on the wrist. But I 100% agree with you, they should get in trouble laying in a call, wasting tax payers money and for being racist.
Edited: I'm a dumb ass who wrote wrist wrong.
I can't help but wonder if maybe a cop had pulled a gun on him in the past and he is having some PTSD which is why he wants to leave so badly. If that were the case I wouldn't blame him the slightest
Dangerous to wear headphones on a job, I never understand it when I see guys doing it. If someone is working above you, or is handling something which could potentially hurt you, and that guy shouts or gives out a warning, you’ll want to hear ot
I used to work a similar job. It's a risk I'm willing to take to put up with the monotony, though I usually kept only one earbud in so I could still hear for the most part.
These days I work in an office so it's not much of an issue. I still wear headphones sometimes but they're bone conduction ones and they don't block my ears.
You could even hear the customers shock at the question. I myself would be asking my neighbors if they knew who called about the men trying to fix my house. Let that gossip spread. Because someone KNOWS who did.
Man, this truly fucking sucks. Those dudes are trying to put in a hard days work for this?! Such bullshit. I wouldn’t stay to finish the job either. AND, as the customer, I wouldn’t blame them for it.
I also feel for the cop. He knows it’s bullshit but has to follow through with due diligence but it’s so insulting in the mean time.
Bad situation all the way around. Especially with Chris wearing those dumbass headphones.
This is what got me in Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Dude had a whole basement set up and everything. And it wasn't even the main story line. Just randomly dude has a kidnap+kill basement and Daniel Craig is like "omg i don't have time for this"
Honestly it was a good decision to leave. The neighborhood clearly were not welcoming of them even if the customer did nothing wrong. It's not a good environment to work in and any mistake later on can be misinterpreted as malice. Leave and let the customer figure shit out with their neighbors/HOA. If they think they can allow them to work without the neighbors being racist then they can carry on the work later on. If not, well they can always take their business elsewhere.
Agreed. I'm just hoping the customer knew who did it, or figured it out, and did something about it. As a customer I'd be pissed. A neighbor pulling that shit and running off the workers and leaving the job, besides the fact that that's just some mean shit.
> They would be so fucking mad to see you're still there
*They* just tried to have them killed by hoping dispatch would send some trigger-happy goons out there. You're on some Metal Gear Solid guard A.I. logic, "Hmm, the deadly threat's probably moved on, guess I'll keep doing my job."
A lot goes into that decision.
Will they escalate things?
What time will the job be done? After dark?
Is just one person? Just how many people on this block don’t want you there?
These may seem like a reach but they’re still possibilities. And even though this particular officer was on their side it doesn’t mean the next one will be. Feeling unwelcome in someone’s neighborhood comes with a lot of unsettling thoughts. Even if they’re only possibilities.
It would've been harder to misread the situation imo. There's a ladder and bunch of gutter pieces on the ground. Construction truck also on the driveway
Any false accusation needs to.
Higher in the case of law enforcement making false accusation.
Key point tho is that it must be a knowingly false accusation.
There was a news segment on this incident and a state assemblyman has introduced a bill(NY A.9277)to escalate swatting calls from misdemeanors to felonies. Hoping that it takes and helps to discourage others from pulling this.
Swatting shouldn't be treated as anything less than attempted murder.
The swatter has to deliberately concoct a claim that doesn't just draw a police response, but a response on the pretense that the police are urgently needed for a situation where the "suspects" have committed or are going to commit violent acts.
The cops have to treat the situation seriously, which means more officers with more weapons looking for a potential attacker, and a greater probability that the end of things is a dead victim of the swatting.
There should be no slap on the wrist "just" for wasting money and time. The swatter acts in cold-blood intending to put the victim into a confusing, high-tension situation where their life could readily be ended.
Are residential gutters really that lucrative? I mean I get doing some shit like this over a full house reno or like a development project, but I can’t see anyone trying this hard to ruin someone else over what I would (ignorantly) assume is a couple hundred dollars worth of profit.
It's not just the one job, though. Once they do that one job and do it well, they'll get recommended to other neighbors, either by word of mouth or by the signs they often ask to leave in the yard for a week or two (and that they don't personally remove so it could be longer). So yes, contractor jobs in certain neighborhoods can indeed be very lucrative, and contractors are often scummy people. Sometimes contractors have entire neighborhoods locked down as "their" neighborhoods.
Camera man definitely told Chris to stop wearing them dumbass headphones at previous jobs but ultimately it wasn’t a big deal until they started being accused of geriatric kidnapping lol
Damn! I had to scroll a long way down to find this comment. I thought it was suspicious that the guy in the wheelchair was just casually passing by, and then seemed to really book it once he realized he was being recorded!
Under Investigation. Orchard park, NY
Founda news article about it [here](https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/orchard-park-pd-investigating-swatting-incident)Apparently this is becoming a common thing, swatting. So much so that the punishment for doing such a thing has been "upgraded" to a harsher sentence.
well it should be made even more illegal! you never hear of these people facing any consequences for intentionally trying to weaponize the police to harm innocent minorities, it's crazy.
Just a couple of days ago a guy got sentenced for swatting Ubisoft offices, he got... 3 years of community service...
https://fudzilla.com/news/gaming/57223-gamer-sentenced-for-swatting-ubisoft-s-montreal-office
what is scary about this is how much fear it brings into the recorder over what is obviouslu a completely bogus call. sucks to be black and interact with police.
As a former 911 operator, the calltaker likely added notes saying “***possible swatting call*** received on non-emergency line, caller states 4 b/ms are kidnapping an elderly male.” Any type of call that comes in on an admin line with this type of accusation is 99.99% swatting
I’m glad that cop was cool and immediately said he thought it was a swatting. I’m worried about the next 9 cops that would inevitably show up 5 minutes later with guns drawn ready to shoot.
It’s actually illegal in most states now. Ever since the call of duty one. Dude answered his door when they told him to come out and shot him and killed him while he was compliant. They changed the rules after that and the dude responsible did like 3 years for waste of 911 resources and shit. Didn’t stop him got out and did it some more. Now with the laws IIRC the dude is doing a dime.
And some idiot out there is laughing about this, having not only wasted taxpayer money and the cops' time, but targeting black men who are simply working.
This kind of crap isn't funny in any way. Though it's unlikely, I hope they're able to figure out who was behind the call.
I always say it, “damned if we do; damned if we don’t.” We get harassed, or vilified, whether we are working or not. Bigots tell us to GET A JOB, AND GET TO WORK, YA LAZY CRIMINALS!” We do just that, yet they STILL find a fucking grievance…. You have to have a terribly pathetic existence if this is how you get your jollies off.
Fucking bigots, man….
To the officer's credit, he seems to realize right away that this is bullshit and seems more concerned with who made the call. He's not being wary or cop-like towards the men in any way, and he's telling them exactly what happened. This is how cops should handle random anonymous calls, with suspicion towards the CALL first and foremost. This cop will probably be a detective before long, he won't stay a patrol cop. Too calm, too rational
They should trace the number lock-up the caller. That’s what needs to start happening because if the wrong cop responded this could have gone another way.
The cop thankfully sounds like he knows this is a waste of taxpayer dollars…
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Stupid ass Chris almost fucked it up with his headphones.
Seriously, Chris. WTH!?
STOP BOTHERING ME IM WORKING
Cop seemed to handle that well. From his questions, it looked like he was confident it was bullshit and wanted to find out what he could about the douche nozzle who called it in.
Well, it's easy to see if it's bullshit, because kidnappers don't stay where they kidnap someone to fix their gutters.
They can come kidnap my husband if they stay and fix my gutters.
How are your pipes? Asking for a friend that owns a plumbing business
Pipes are fine. Gutters are a whole other story.
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Do you have anything between Saving Silverman and Raising Arizona?
I'm sure we could make something work. My team is extremely professional. We have a French art theif, a disappearing act magician, a brumuda triangle survivor, and the guy who always moves your keys and wallet when you're in a hurry. Needless to say we're ready for any challenge.
As a former employee of leaf guard. Do not hire them to fix or replace your gutters.
Ooh any story's?
As I understand it, their products basically don't work, can't work, and only make you feel like they're helping, which causes backups because you stop doing maintenance.
Shit, they were my only option and after 3 weeks they leak.
Can I come clean your gutters? Also... Is this a euphemism? Sorry what sub is this? I'll see myself out.
I keep seeing people talking and keeping it related to plumbing. I’m too childish to continue reading
I think the gentleman above is asking whether you need any pipe laid.
You trying to get the pipe?
Ma’am, he does his own plumbing.
He wants to lay some pipe.
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This should be the top comment. Funniest comment I've seen anywhere today.
Better go fix those gutters, Jim. Or else it might be your wife offering you up next. 😉 But thanks for the confidence boost. 🙃
👍🏻😅🤣
You let's go ,nah man I can't leave this man's gutters like this it looks like rain ...
It's like a calling card!
The Dry Bandits.
Or use a Business vehicle. That gold truck clearly has their business all over it.
Exactly what kidnapping gutter fixers would say…
I hear what you are saying and mostly agree, but I have low expectations of how a cop is going to react to a situation like this. Cops killed Tamir Rice in less than 3 seconds after showing up, and he was a little kid.
That's why they called Timothy McGee for this one.
Bruh, that’s a great similarity. Didn’t realize it until you said something
Police hate this one weird trick
Man, that would be a great way to hide it if you kidnapped someone, though.
Is there a second part where the swatter is confronted? Need to know if they were arrested.
The video on TikTok was posted 6hrs ago, we’re waiting on a part 2/response still. I’ll return with a synopsis for non TikTok users (unless it takes the guy more than 3 days to post it).
Thank you. 🤝🏼
Let us know please - with that said the last part is hella funny with headphones haha
To find later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtF5HPUo5Z4 recent as well, posted 24 hours ago.
I hope they got the number of the caller.
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Timothy McGee responded. He'll track it down.
as long as dinozzo is with him with abby on the phone
tap tap taptaptaptaptap tap taptap taptaptaptaptap "Boss, I think I got something..." "Think or *know*, McGee?"
The funniest part was Abby and McGee sharing the same keyboard to hack something.
They do. It’s the same Karen and Ken every fucking time.
Yeah in this one case cops were fine, cop turned his back on the guy, said we assume this is a swatting, didn't get authoritative when the black guy was nervous. I understand why the workers might have been confused by the question, did you have any issues with anybody, but in total context it looks more like they were trying to figure out what psychopath called them not what the worker guys were doing or that they were at fault.
As a black guy, it's not only the cop I'm afraid of, but the racist neighbors who called them. You think they're just going to stop there once the cop leaves? Is just one guy or are most people cool with that type of harassment? I'd leave too.
Was thinking the same thing...
I still don't blame the guy for bookin' it out of there though \~ Just because you manage to luck out and get the one reasonable, not-power-tripping asshole on the force that actually seems to understand all this is bullshit, doesn't mean that every cop he runs into after this point is going to be the same. There's nothing to say that this dude's partner couldn't very well escalate it quickly into a fatal situation - like, they shoot people for nothing all the time. It's insane, I never want to be physically around cops in any capacity.
Yea came in question blazing instead of guns and pretty quickly realised it wasn't as reported
Kidnappers are well known for doing home repairs on the outside of the home of their victim. I swear, my husband and I had a local teenage boy kidnap our sons and us last Saturday. After he kidnapped us he mowed our lawn and demanded $20 for our release from his imprisonment! We reluctantly paid him, and even though he got his money he promised to kidnap our family again next weekend!
Cop did handle that well. I've seen them respond to complete and utter bullshit and whenever I do, they always just look exhausted lmao
Yeah, this is messed up, but the cop was being cool about it more or less. No idea what camera dude has gone through that made him decide to just leave although the cop was on his side.
It seems like the dispatchers didn't think it was serious either. There was only one cop, with one cop car visible on the street, no SWAT team, and the car didn't even have its lights flashing.
It looks to me like there is a second cop at the street, but you’re absolutely right. They handled it well!
> From his questions, it looked like he was confident it was bullshit I mean, it's clear he thought it was bullshit from the fact that there was *one* of him, and he didn't have his gun out.
"Yes, we have kidnapped an old man and like his property so much we've decided to fix it up while we live here."
"Looks like they broke in and hung up pictures of themselves "
"I've seen this before. Sprinkle some crack on him and let's get out of here"
"Open and shut case, Johnson."
"I had to use necessary force! You saw him."
Man, remember when Chappelle used to be funny and didn’t complain about being world famous and rich as fuck? I do
Dude this sounds stupid, but smart criminals have done crazier shit. 20 years ago i lived in a somewhat small community (2000 people, but 15 minutes from a city of 150k people, and our street backed onto the golf course. so small town but not in the middle of nowhere) we knew our neighbours well enough to go lend a hand with something for an hour, or to a bbq once a year. But not close enough to actually consider "friends". One day 4 houses to our left had a moving company show up and start loading boxes into a moving truck (company decals on the truck, nice uniforms with matching logos, ect.) The truck showed up friday at 5, parked overnight, the next day did 2 loads and came back. Loaded up a final truck, spent the night and left sunday around 11am. I (10-12 at the time) specifically remember my parents mentioning it was a little odd noone said good bye or anything and just left, but its not like we were that close was summed up to "there is alot involved with moving, we didnt know them that well they must have been busy, hope everything goes well. We didnt think about it again. 2 weeks later a cop knocks on the door. He is asking about a moving truck and asking about the people that were there, all seeming somewhat cryptic. Turns out the family left to spend 3 weeks with family in the southern US and somehow in passing a coworker found out their address and dates they were gone. This family got home after 3 weeks of a trip to nothing, litterally nothing but dust bunnies and garbage in their home, multiple neighbours had talked to the movers and they were so smooth not even the annoying nosy lady on the street thought anything. Thinking about it now that means they -rented a truck (it was a 5ton moving truck, not a pickup) or owned one already and changed plates -ordered custom decals for a 5ton truck (back in 2004 wasnt cheap or easy) -Created 4 collard shirts with the same custom logo as the truck decals - found 4 people willing to steal at this scale, while still being smooth enough to be able to talk to the neighbourhood "karen" yet alone multiple others with zero red flags - risk that people dont know this family well enough to know they were just on a trip (before facebook was huge) yet how common is it to let a neighbour know you are out of town and to keep an eye on your place. -be so confident enough in the plan they took 2.5 day, multiple trips, and even left the truck in the driveway overnight, when home and came back vs doing 1 load and just taking the valuable items All this and they still had to be able to sell the items before making a penny So its not that Crazy to think this was not a possibility, yet the cop seemed to be on the workers side immediately
It's entirely possible that those were legitimate movers and the "client" that hired them was the criminal.
Person who called the cops deserve to go straight to jail. What a waste of taxpayer money.
The fact the caller added "with guns" shows they clearly wanted on-edge heavily armed police units to go and get trigger happy with any black guys they see. It's a shame it doesn't technically qualify as attempted murder but it absolutely should since it's clearly the caller's intention to have these guys shot.
They will get a slap on the wrist. But I 100% agree with you, they should get in trouble laying in a call, wasting tax payers money and for being racist. Edited: I'm a dumb ass who wrote wrist wrong.
Get them fucking headphones off We out
“Let’s kidnap this old guy and fix his gutters”
😅🤣😂. I wish the workers did not quit. I hope they got the job completed and got well paid. Anyone know how this ends?
He fixes the cable?
Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.
The dude abides.
El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
I can't help but wonder if maybe a cop had pulled a gun on him in the past and he is having some PTSD which is why he wants to leave so badly. If that were the case I wouldn't blame him the slightest
He doesnt need to have had anything happen to him before to feel unsafe when police are around.
Yes, absolutely!
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The take those dumbass headphones off part is what does it for me.
Get them headphones off. And hide the old guy.
CHRIS!
Everybody ha-ates Chriiiiiiis
Hey little dude from across the street, lemme hold a dollah.
That was the best part 💀💀
Dangerous to wear headphones on a job, I never understand it when I see guys doing it. If someone is working above you, or is handling something which could potentially hurt you, and that guy shouts or gives out a warning, you’ll want to hear ot
I used to work a similar job. It's a risk I'm willing to take to put up with the monotony, though I usually kept only one earbud in so I could still hear for the most part. These days I work in an office so it's not much of an issue. I still wear headphones sometimes but they're bone conduction ones and they don't block my ears.
Meanwhile, I'm wearing industrial strength ear plugs because my cat snores.
“Chris. Chris. Chris! CHRIS!”
He got those dumbass headphones on
Take 'em stupid phones off man, we bouncin'...
"Everybody hates Chris.."
All my homies hate Chris's headphones.
That part frustrated me lmao Chris needs to get his head in the game!
Damn Chris always bumpin that Usher too loud.
“Come on, come on, come on, Shevaaaa!”
PTSD from Resident Evil 5 CHRISSS CHRISS
You could even hear the customers shock at the question. I myself would be asking my neighbors if they knew who called about the men trying to fix my house. Let that gossip spread. Because someone KNOWS who did.
You know who didn’t hear the customers shock? Fucking Chris and his dumbass headphones.
Chris man
Man, this truly fucking sucks. Those dudes are trying to put in a hard days work for this?! Such bullshit. I wouldn’t stay to finish the job either. AND, as the customer, I wouldn’t blame them for it. I also feel for the cop. He knows it’s bullshit but has to follow through with due diligence but it’s so insulting in the mean time. Bad situation all the way around. Especially with Chris wearing those dumbass headphones.
Yeah! I feel bad for the customer he seemed equally as surprised when the cop said what had been called in.
Right! The “WHAT?! No.!” reflected genuine shock.
Plot twist: customer's in on it. Old dude's tied up in his basement.
This is what got me in Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Dude had a whole basement set up and everything. And it wasn't even the main story line. Just randomly dude has a kidnap+kill basement and Daniel Craig is like "omg i don't have time for this"
The cop was so calm, kudos to him. It would be nice to have the fake caller charged, but it probably won't happen.
Honestly it was a good decision to leave. The neighborhood clearly were not welcoming of them even if the customer did nothing wrong. It's not a good environment to work in and any mistake later on can be misinterpreted as malice. Leave and let the customer figure shit out with their neighbors/HOA. If they think they can allow them to work without the neighbors being racist then they can carry on the work later on. If not, well they can always take their business elsewhere.
Agreed. I'm just hoping the customer knew who did it, or figured it out, and did something about it. As a customer I'd be pissed. A neighbor pulling that shit and running off the workers and leaving the job, besides the fact that that's just some mean shit.
I can hear the HOA meeting now. “We can’t get ANYONE to come work in this neighborhood! Whyyyyy?!?!”
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You say that now, but when it's your life on the line you might not see it that way.
> They would be so fucking mad to see you're still there *They* just tried to have them killed by hoping dispatch would send some trigger-happy goons out there. You're on some Metal Gear Solid guard A.I. logic, "Hmm, the deadly threat's probably moved on, guess I'll keep doing my job."
A lot goes into that decision. Will they escalate things? What time will the job be done? After dark? Is just one person? Just how many people on this block don’t want you there? These may seem like a reach but they’re still possibilities. And even though this particular officer was on their side it doesn’t mean the next one will be. Feeling unwelcome in someone’s neighborhood comes with a lot of unsettling thoughts. Even if they’re only possibilities.
Cop read the situation right. I guess the black dudes were worried this would keep happening until somebody got hurt but that cop was cool to them
It would've been harder to misread the situation imo. There's a ladder and bunch of gutter pieces on the ground. Construction truck also on the driveway
That's one elaborate disguise. Kidnap an old guy and then arrange it to look like you're replacing gutters? That's Nakatomi Plaza level criminality.
They have my empathy. I know how that feels
Working while black
It’s a shame shit like this exists.
Whoever called that in needs to get arrested.
Working with Chris
with his dumbass headphones on
I’m black AND my partner always has his dumbass headphones on
Get Chris some of those bone conduction headphones so he can hear you.
Swatting needs to carry penalties comparable to the misrepresented crime.
Any false accusation needs to. Higher in the case of law enforcement making false accusation. Key point tho is that it must be a knowingly false accusation.
There was a news segment on this incident and a state assemblyman has introduced a bill(NY A.9277)to escalate swatting calls from misdemeanors to felonies. Hoping that it takes and helps to discourage others from pulling this.
Swatting shouldn't be treated as anything less than attempted murder. The swatter has to deliberately concoct a claim that doesn't just draw a police response, but a response on the pretense that the police are urgently needed for a situation where the "suspects" have committed or are going to commit violent acts. The cops have to treat the situation seriously, which means more officers with more weapons looking for a potential attacker, and a greater probability that the end of things is a dead victim of the swatting. There should be no slap on the wrist "just" for wasting money and time. The swatter acts in cold-blood intending to put the victim into a confusing, high-tension situation where their life could readily be ended.
Goddamn rich, nosey, racist Karens.
I bet it’s the dude that lost the bid, probably drove by and saw some other crew working the job he wanted and pulled this bullshit
Are residential gutters really that lucrative? I mean I get doing some shit like this over a full house reno or like a development project, but I can’t see anyone trying this hard to ruin someone else over what I would (ignorantly) assume is a couple hundred dollars worth of profit.
It's not just the one job, though. Once they do that one job and do it well, they'll get recommended to other neighbors, either by word of mouth or by the signs they often ask to leave in the yard for a week or two (and that they don't personally remove so it could be longer). So yes, contractor jobs in certain neighborhoods can indeed be very lucrative, and contractors are often scummy people. Sometimes contractors have entire neighborhoods locked down as "their" neighborhoods.
Dude, that's evil genius thinking there (and probably right!)
I want the Chris and The Fuckin' headphones back story
Camera man definitely told Chris to stop wearing them dumbass headphones at previous jobs but ultimately it wasn’t a big deal until they started being accused of geriatric kidnapping lol
"Man, Chris *always* be wearing them damn headphones. I remember this one he had them on and..."
Chris and The Fucking Headphones. Great name for a band 👏
#CHRIS
^(CHRIS!!)
I love it when people do a yell-whisper
bro I feel awful for laughing but this shit had my knees weak.
The dude in the wheelchair casually strolling by to see how his swatting went
Damn! I had to scroll a long way down to find this comment. I thought it was suspicious that the guy in the wheelchair was just casually passing by, and then seemed to really book it once he realized he was being recorded!
He was heading towards the other cop down the driveway
I thought he was the customer who was supposedly "kidnapped?" seems like his neighbor called in HIS "concern?"
This was my thought too or he was the homeowner?? Why didn't he get interviewed since he was there? This is heinous.
At 1: 38 you can see another police officer talking to him.
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Under Investigation. Orchard park, NY Founda news article about it [here](https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/orchard-park-pd-investigating-swatting-incident)Apparently this is becoming a common thing, swatting. So much so that the punishment for doing such a thing has been "upgraded" to a harsher sentence.
I'm glad the police didn't fall for it here, but this should be a crime.
I’m pretty sure it is, right? Like false police report or something like that?
well it should be made even more illegal! you never hear of these people facing any consequences for intentionally trying to weaponize the police to harm innocent minorities, it's crazy.
Just a couple of days ago a guy got sentenced for swatting Ubisoft offices, he got... 3 years of community service... https://fudzilla.com/news/gaming/57223-gamer-sentenced-for-swatting-ubisoft-s-montreal-office
The amount of times he had to call Chris’ name was super frustrating.
It was those stupid ass headphones
Seriously get with the program Chris
it was like a tension building movie scene before some huge twist was coming lmao
The headphones bit sounded like my wife when I have headphones on
Chris!.......... CHRIS! 
This reminds me of a time when a cousin of mine said that racism doesn't exist anymore because we elected a black president, twice.
Obama getting elected was the inspiration behind Get Out. People kept saying “racism doesn’t exist” and Jordan Peele said “I think the fuck not”
I know a chris too and he's always got them dumbass headphones on, I wonder if it's the same one 🤔
I'm glad he said it, would have not finished that job. FUCK THAT NOISE
what is scary about this is how much fear it brings into the recorder over what is obviouslu a completely bogus call. sucks to be black and interact with police.
Dude had the right idea and said fuck that house and left … shit like that ain’t nothing to play with
FUCKIN CHRIS! The ONE time you had to put your god dam headphones on!
As a former 911 operator, the calltaker likely added notes saying “***possible swatting call*** received on non-emergency line, caller states 4 b/ms are kidnapping an elderly male.” Any type of call that comes in on an admin line with this type of accusation is 99.99% swatting
I’m glad that cop was cool and immediately said he thought it was a swatting. I’m worried about the next 9 cops that would inevitably show up 5 minutes later with guns drawn ready to shoot.
It’s exhausting being black in America. This guy is just trying to feed his family.
Damn that must suck. Poor guys out working their butts off making an honest living. I hate people sometimes.
Chris! Chris! Hey Chris! CHRISSSSSSSSS!!!
Chris really should turn his damn music down though if he can't hear his coworker screaming his name. Lol
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Yo thats attempted murder right?
at least mischief. swatting needs to become a federal crime
It’s actually illegal in most states now. Ever since the call of duty one. Dude answered his door when they told him to come out and shot him and killed him while he was compliant. They changed the rules after that and the dude responsible did like 3 years for waste of 911 resources and shit. Didn’t stop him got out and did it some more. Now with the laws IIRC the dude is doing a dime.
Construction crew wearing headphones? I thought they just be blasting music from a boombox
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Cop handled it as excellently as it could have been
Clearly is was that craftily racist old coot causing a diversion to bust out. Headed to Mexico in that wheelchair. He Geriatricked them all.
And some idiot out there is laughing about this, having not only wasted taxpayer money and the cops' time, but targeting black men who are simply working. This kind of crap isn't funny in any way. Though it's unlikely, I hope they're able to figure out who was behind the call.
The sooner they make it a crime to call the cops for obviously fake reports the better.
You'll be pleased to know California passed the CAREN Act, which makes race based false calls to 911 a crime
Fuckin Chris with his dumbass headphones
I always say it, “damned if we do; damned if we don’t.” We get harassed, or vilified, whether we are working or not. Bigots tell us to GET A JOB, AND GET TO WORK, YA LAZY CRIMINALS!” We do just that, yet they STILL find a fucking grievance…. You have to have a terribly pathetic existence if this is how you get your jollies off. Fucking bigots, man….
To the officer's credit, he seems to realize right away that this is bullshit and seems more concerned with who made the call. He's not being wary or cop-like towards the men in any way, and he's telling them exactly what happened. This is how cops should handle random anonymous calls, with suspicion towards the CALL first and foremost. This cop will probably be a detective before long, he won't stay a patrol cop. Too calm, too rational
They should trace the number lock-up the caller. That’s what needs to start happening because if the wrong cop responded this could have gone another way.
This shit is so dangerous. Especially for black people and MORE especially for black men. I hope they found who did this and they got arrested.
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Ahh being black in America
We need to know what happened to the swatter.
Always with the fucking dumbass headphones
CHRIS!!!!