Ludwig swatted amid YouTube chess tournament, hits out at \u201cinept\u201d LA police YouTube: LudwigYouTube star Ludwig Ahgren was swatted during his August 28 chess tournament broadcast. Thankfully, everyone in his household is unscathed, with Ludwig more \u201cannoyed\u201d than \u201cdistraught\u201d after police officers swept his property. Ludwig is the latest victim of a swatting incident after Los Angeles police stormed his house on August 29 and forced an abrupt end to his chess tournament. Multiple armed officers could be seen checking his streaming room before the YouTube broadcast was taken offline. Following up soon after to assure fans everything was ok, Ludwig appeared back in front of the camera to address the situation. Having been swatted \u201cmultiple times\u201d in recent years, the popular YouTuber claimed he was completely \u201cfine\u201d after the latest encounter with police. \u201cEveryone\u2019s fine,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re fine, boys. If you missed the end of the last stream, you might not know the stream ended abruptly. As I went upstairs to refill my water, I was met with the gun of a police officer.\u201d For roughly an hour Ludwig sat in the back of a police car while they \u201cwent through [his] house\u201d room by room. This is allegedly standard protocol and something he\u2019s experienced before without bringing much attention to it. \u201cAs you can see, I\u2019m not too shaken up,\u201d he continued. \u201cMaybe a little bit of adrenaline. Generally, I\u2019m pretty fine. The initial part is kind of scary but then it\u2019s quickly overwhelmed with a sense of annoyance. I\u2019m just annoyed.\u201d This frustration stems from his past experience with local law enforcement. Having been the victim of swatting on numerous occasions, he\u2019s talked to various officers on how to avoid repeat incidents moving forward. \u201cI do have to quickly talk about the ineptitude of the police departments in Los Angeles,\u201d he said shortly after turning the stream back on. \u201cI\u2019ve been swatted a few times, this is generally how it goes: They take it very seriously at first. Eight squad cars, two firetrucks, one helicopter going around, because there\u2019s some made up story\u201d from the viewer that called it in. \u201cEvery time it\u2019s happened to me before, they say \u2018hey, give us a phone number and we\u2019ll call you when it happens again.\u2019 Because of that, I always have my phone on me when I stream. I\u2019m prepared for a phone call. The problem is, they\u2019ve never called. Every time they come, I get a little more annoyed.\u201d Clearly, the police are just doing their jobs, but with repeated calls tied to the one household, Lud was hoping to avoid any further swatting incidents, wasting not only his time, but theirs too. On one occasion, police allegedly told the YouTube personality he should look into securing a \u201cdifferent job\u201d to avoid such hassles. \u201cThat can\u2019t be the solution,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ludwig swatted amid YouTube chess tournament, hits out at \u201cinept\u201d LA police YouTube: LudwigYouTube star Ludwig Ahgren was swatted during his August 28 chess tournament broadcast. Thankfully, everyone in his household is unscathed, with Ludwig more \u201cannoyed\u201d than \u201cdistraught\u201d after police officers swept his property. Ludwig is the latest victim of a swatting incident after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}