Gisteren heeft de politie uit Los Angeles een inval gedaan bij het kantoor van game studio Robotoki, waar niemand minder dan Robert Bowling de baas van is. De reden hier voor is dat er een paniek knop was geïnstalleerd na een conflict met een ex werknemer en iemand op de knop had gedrukt. De LAPD kwam met getrokken wapens binnen en dachten dat een levensgroot beeld van Simon "Ghost" Riley een echt persoon was, en dat Robert Bowling gegijzeld werd. Lang verhaal kort te maken alles is uitgepraat en iedereen was blij.

Update in dit artikel doet de politie zijn verhaal, en er is een video verschenen die je hier onder kan zien.

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.

At 7:10 p.m. four officers arrived at the front of the building only to find that there was no way to get in from that side. As they moved around toward the back where Robotoki's entrance is located, the officers spotted Bowling's life-sized statue of Ghost standing at attention with his gun at the ready.

So they made entry.

"I was in my office when they arrived and saw them coming up our stairs, guns drawn," Bowling said. "They yelled for me to put my hands up and walk towards them slowly, then took me into custody and out of the studio until they cleared the rest of the rooms and floors."

Bowling said about 15 minutes later the officers emerged, laughing - they had mistaken Ghost for a real threat and had nearly taken him down. The photo above was taken from Robotoki's security cameras and shows the moment the cops approached Bowling's office.