This Call of Duty 4 screenshot resulted in BBC contacting its owner

With the many mistakes that were done in the past regarding including pictures and videos of Video Games in news reports, you’d think everyone learned their lesson by now. Nope, not yet apparently. And this time it’s BBC itself.

One guy sent a screenshot from a crash in Call of Duty 4 to BBC News twitter account saying “hi I have images from terrorist attack in Kazakhstan. Many People dead. Send help”. Shortly after, he was actually contacted by one reporter to get the full story not knowing that it’s a game’s picture.

The funny thing is that CoD 4 doesn’t have that great of graphics by today’s standards, yet somehow the reporter mistook it for real life. We’re glad that the prank Cameron did went safely, because it sure made us laugh out loud.

Hahahaha man thinks a cod 4 map is a terrorist attack pic.twitter.com/wVuzDXA23w

— cam ☾ (@dxhty) April 20, 2016