Illfonic UNDER ARREST!
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A few hours ago, this happened.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwNSzoe28MQ[/ame]
We're crunching for GDC making everything shiny, turns out Johnny-law was a-foot! Next thing I know there's a gun and a flash light in my face. Turns out, next door the alarm went off, and our back door was unlocked. The police, doing their job, roll in and cuff us up. Clarification ensues where it turns out they just busted the wrong address sends a sorrow over all the faces. After a good twenty minutes of chit-chat about video games, we're released back to our grind.
Events of the video, they open our back door, I come out, then our animator James, and our lead programmer Paul Jackson. We spend the next 20 minutes talking about battlefield 2, and they release us.
Not a productive night, lol.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwNSzoe28MQ[/ame]We're crunching for GDC making everything shiny, turns out Johnny-law was a-foot! Next thing I know there's a gun and a flash light in my face. Turns out, next door the alarm went off, and our back door was unlocked. The police, doing their job, roll in and cuff us up. Clarification ensues where it turns out they just busted the wrong address sends a sorrow over all the faces. After a good twenty minutes of chit-chat about video games, we're released back to our grind.
Events of the video, they open our back door, I come out, then our animator James, and our lead programmer Paul Jackson. We spend the next 20 minutes talking about battlefield 2, and they release us.
Not a productive night, lol.
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Best of luck with Nexuiz up at GDC
lol @ the cardboard ak-47
Ya that might have been one of those situations where giving the local cops a heads up could have been a good thing.
Lol, I was just waiting for that first one who peered through the door to get spooked by someone and light the place up. You could almost see the 24 episodes running through their minds.
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Here is a funny experience I had with a State Officer. In the neighborhood my friend lives cops expect Hispanics that drive around 12 am to be trouble and not to be able to speak English. I got stopped with my friend who is White and he asks for my license and registration. I say hi and tell him my registration is in my glove compartment. Then he sees my license and well I'm Hispanic so he asks me with a straight face. Do you speak English? Now I have to restrain myself and not make a smart ass remark like no I speak Chinese though, because I did not want a ticket.
Back in late 2008 I was living at my uncles house, sense had just graduated from college a few months prior and needed a place to stay. Well just a few days before xmas, I was sleeping when all of a sudden I hear banging on my bedroom door with a "open up, its the police". I woke up instantly and rushed to the door with them still banging at it, andas soon as it was open they flooded in and proceeded to do a pat down before I could hardly get in a word edgewise. After that one of them started asking me a bunch of random questions as the others started tearing through my room. They told me that my uncle was in some sort of trouble (but wouldnt say what) and they were going to have to confenscate basicly every piece of technology I owned (that means computers/hard drives/memory sticks/burned discs/etc., anything that could have data on it), and would probably not see it again for a long time (likely years).
So here I was being told every bit of data I had created or accumulated over the past 10+ years was about to be taken from me for something I didn't have anything to do with. I was told to leave the house while they did an inspection of the place from top to bottom, and shouldn't come back till later that night. For the rest of that day I shaking non-stop, stricken by both anger and concern. It wasn't just me and my uncle either, my brother was also having many of his possessions seized. Together we were frantically trying to find some way to stop this from happening, but to no avail.
Later that night we receaved a call from one of our cousins, who said that the police had decided not to take any computers. When we got back we found the machines sitting partially dissasembled and their parts labeld with identification stickers. They were gone at this point, and no one knew why exactly they changed their minds, but we didn't care.
Thus ends the story of one of the most stressful days I've ever been through.
shocking.
Holy shit, you guys are famous! Great press too, heh. You should have told us your company is housed next to a pot dispencery (sp?), that shit's totally OG.
I was scared enough when the police officer, holding just a clipboard, asked me downstairs for my contact details, then wanting to play on whoever's chipped Wii - having to give them a demonstration of the crappy, copied football game we had, because the officer wanted to buy it for his son's birthday.
This video absolutely terrifies me and supports my opinion that Americans should not be allowed guns - I probably would have filled my socks with piss.
Wow...Did they litrally apologise to you all?.....I also dont know how should I feel about this..Happy, or Sorry, or "WTF was that all about"...
<-- pot barn Illfonic game studio-->
They hold people at gunpoint that are suspected of carrying Marijuana?
wow, thats... wow.
Ahaha that was kinda awesome though :P, one time the cops pulled my buddies car over for no reason what so ever (because I asked him and he kept avoiding the question), dragged me out of the car, frisked me, threw my wallet and everything else in my pocket in the snow, my phone stopped working... then he gave me a ticket for having alcohol in the car and I was underage.. while it was the drivers drinks and he was 24, he just couldn't say anything and froze because he had already gone to jail and was scared as fuck!
Long story short... don't be the only colored guy in a small Canadian town... ahahaha
Gotta fill that quota buddy!
Come see us at E3. Big announcement in May!
The first time was while I was living in Pittsburgh, we had been out to see a film late at night and she had had about a gallon of coke and was desperate for a pee and miles from anywhere, so she pulled over in a layby and well.. had a pee. Lo and behold, the police draw up and start yelling at her. I opened my door and was going to explain the situation, turns out this is what you do if you want the fuzz to scream at you and point their guns at you.
Second time I was back home in London, was driving my Impreza to pick up my brother up from the station... the police pulled me over, I got out of the car and we had a good old natter. Thankfully no guns were drawn this time around - not that they tend to be armed anyway.
I see you've skipped over the "dealing with cops" section in the "yankeeland for tourists" book
But they usually don't tell you that peeing anywhere in public, e.g. next to the road, ain't allowed either in most places... indecent exposure or something like that. Tehn again who'd rather pee their pants in their own car??