CHICAGO, Illinois - January 5, 2011 - SWAT teams swarmed a Chicago-area school Monday evening after some hip-hop music and an accidental phone call led a woman to believe her husband was being held hostage, officials said.
Toting automatic weapons and clad in riot gear, SWAT team members stormed the Winnetka, Illinois school where the woman's husband works and searched it for nearly three hours - all because of a "butt-dial".
"You know how when you sit on your phone when it's in your back pocket and it calls the last number that was dialed? His wife was the last number he'd dialed," Winnetka Police Chief Joseph de Lopez told the Chicago Tribune.
"He was listening to music and he had, I don't know, hip-hop… or music like that, where there were lyrics that were gangster-like," said Mark Friedman, the school district's superintendent. "So there were lyrics on the radio as he was driving home, and she listened to it and became concerned."
The wife, who was not identified, told 911 that when she received the call, she could not get her husband to respond, reported Pioneer Local, leading her to believe he was being held hostage by a gunman in his office.
The sweep at the Carleton Washburne School ended when police found the man safe at home, the Tribune reported. The man, who is an administrative employee at the school, declined to comment on the incident.
