This is my story of how I got swatted, 1/21/2014. Someone I know was raided early this morning (1/21/2014) for CC Fraud and Computer Tampering. He has his computer and all of his hard drives seized, everything was taken for him. He was released later on due to them not having enough evidence. He is friends with RyanC (The guy who swatted Tibit, and all of Root). After being released, he was in a Google Hangout with RyanC, and another mutual friend of mine. I was listening to them talking, and talking back with them. I have never really talked to RyanC, and he told me that he was going to swat me. I made no big deal out of it, we were fucking around, I said I'd make cookies for them. All of the sudden, my local police department was added to the Google hangout call, and everything got silent. Ryan was now talking with the my local police. I don't remember exactly what he said, I should have the recording by tomorrow. "I have 5 hostages, and I'm about to start killing them until I receive my money. I want $100,000 USD, and for every half an hour it's late, one hostage will die. I'm at ___ Drive, be quick, their lives depend on it." I was shocked, I wasn't sure if it was a real conversation, or a recording, so I just stayed in there, and kept joking around, not thinking much of it. By now, he continued to swat more people. He tried swatting someone (not sure who), but the police took it as a joke, and hung up on him. He now decided to swat a good friend of mine. I just kept listening to this, and again, he stated that it was a hostage situation. I have cameras that overlook my property, so I kept looking at them to see if there were any police around the property. Some time shortly, my neighbor called my house, and I answered. "Dustin? What the fuck is going on. There are police all over our neighborhood, with SWAT trucks. They are asking about you, and if you're dangerous, they mentioned hostages." I simply replied, "Fuck I was swatted." and hung up. I woke up my brother, as my parents aren't home, and told him what was happening. He called my neighbor back, who then gave the phone to the cops. They talked for a minute, then he said, "Alright, you and your brother come outside with your hands up, have nothing on you." Right after he hung up, my brother called my Grandfather who is an ex cop, and told him the situation. We got dressed, because there is a blizzard right now, 8 inches of snow, and still going. My grandmother lives in the upper part of the house, so I went up to explain to her the situation. As soon as I got up there, she told me, "Lock all of the doors, someone took hostages in our neighborhood." I explained that it was a prank, and for her to stay inside. She handed the phone to my uncle, who told me that the police scanners were going crazy about this hostage situation at our house. We stepped out the door, to be greeted by 2 swat trucks, 6 police cars, and well over 10 cops, and an assault rifle for each cop in the dead end in front of my house. They yelled for us to keep our hands up, and slowly walk toward them. After getting close to them, they turned me around, and hand cuffed me. They pushed me up against the swat truck, and searched me. One of them pushed me inside of the cop car, and shut the door. After 3 minutes, he got into the car, and started talking to me. He wanted to know what the fuck was going. I explained to him how this was a prank, and it's called swatting. I even showed him Tibit's "Arkansas Swatting News Video" to help explain better. Eventually he got out, and 10 minutes later, he came over to my door, took off my hand cuffs, and put me back in the car. He came back in, and had me keep explaining the whole situation. Eventually they took me out the car, gave me my phone back, and told me to head inside to talk me. I took 2 pictures of the cop cars at the bottom of my driveway, when they gave me my phone back, but sadly none of the swat team. We talked inside, and I was made to explain the situation again. The ignorant cops explained to me how I need to be more internet safe, and not give my name out over the internet. They told us that while we were outside, one of the swat teams did a full sweep of our house, to make sure that no one is in there. During this time, they also shut off my power, internet, and phone lines. Pictures of cops: http://imgur.com/6DesUrm http://imgur.com/Nt0rPoD