In Apex Legends, a Twitch streamer found himself in serious trouble and cried out desperately for help. This was misinterpreted, and suddenly the police were there. However, they responded quite nicely. Read the whole story here on MeinMMO.
Why was there such loud shouting? The Canadian streamer Vuzby was playing Apex Legends and streaming it live on Twitch. In the game on the newly redesigned Map Olympus in Season 12, he found himself in serious trouble. Vuzby apparently panicked and shouted loudly in the voice chat for help.
Help did come, but not in the way Vuzby probably expected. Suddenly, uniformed officers were knocking at his window, and shortly thereafter, a police patrol stood in his streaming room, looking over his shoulder at the camera.
Police wishes good luck and many views
Why did the police come? The officers asked calmly and politely whether he was currently streaming and had possibly shouted for help loudly recently.
Vuzby then said that this could very well have been the case. He was doing it for “content” and had been quite startled when the police suddenly appeared.
How did the situation end? The officers took it with amusement and explained to Vuzby that apparently, passersby had taken his desperate screams for a real threat and had subsequently informed the patrol. He was asked to please close the window so that this wouldn’t happen again.
As a farewell, the officer looked into the camera and wished Vuzby many viewers in his stream. According to Vuzby, the officer even asked for his channel name. Perhaps there might be a future collaboration, Vuzby cheekily suggested at the end.
Thus, the situation ended unexpectedly well. As nice and friendly as this situation was handled, some confrontations between streamers and the police have ended tragically in the past.
Because of the dangerous practice of “swatting,” malicious trolls have sent police units after streamers, and in one case, a streamer was shot by the police for this reason.
