Danish SWAT team surrounds PlayStation shoot-'em-up

Apartment block 'gunfire' incident

By Lester Haines • Get more from this author

Posted in Bootnotes, 13th January 2009 12:28 GMT

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A couple of Danish gamers indulging in some light PlayStation shoot-'em-up action were on Saturday night treated to a visit by uniformed blokes carrying real guns after concerned neighbours called in the cops.

As far as we can make out from this report, two young men from Valby near Copenhagen were giving it some stick on a large flatscreen telly with the volume cranked up, prompting residents in their apartment block to suspect someone had been shot.

Cue rapid SWAT intervention, with the area sealed off and heavily-armed officers using megaphones to order the pair to surrender. The two apparently came quietly, and suffered nothing more than a temporary cuffing while police ascertained that the only danger posed was to the neighbourhood's peace and quiet.

John Hansen of Copenhagen police explained that officers never ignore a report of gunfire, even though many alerts turn out to be fireworks or other false alarms "as tonight's incident demonstrates". ®

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