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Seriously. How about, "Whoever committed this crime should go to prison"?

I also object to the headline. It makes it sound like the police raided and arrested him for playing games.

you are probably right. it's a crime to abuse civil servants but wow what timing. right when the US is in the middle of a militarisation of police debate centered in part around abusive use of SWAT everywhere. In the end though this particular use illustrates that not all police are animals. Of course, Kootra is white. Just sayin.

"could have easily resulted in a death" applies to lots of things.

Getting in your car in the morning can easily result in a death.

From a statistical point of view, this situation probably wasn't as dangerous at it seems.

While I agree wholeheartedly, we should probably discourage pranks that have non-zero (or at least non-negligible) chances of death as a potential outcome.

Exactly. Techcrunch writes about interesting events sometimes, but boy do they have room for improvement when it comes to quality.