Alert citizens in Uddevalla, Sweden notified police that they had seen what looked like a brutal pummeling, as a silhouette in an apartment curtain seemed to punch another silhouette over and over again. Officers burst into the apartment to find five people huddled around Kinect Sports, playing the boxing game (Metro.co.uk via Hot Blooded Gaming). Explanations were in order and no arrests were made.

Motion gaming is a new thing, so I suppose the population hasn’t been desensitized yet to catching sight of someone flailing their body about in weird and violent fashions. But I doubt most passers-by would bat an eye at the sound of screams and gunfire coming from a neighboring apartment, or at least they would hesitate before calling the police, wondering if it was just a movie or TV. Also, Kinect boxing is a pretty benign thing to be caught in the act of doing. Recall any gaming moments that would make the cops bursting through the door even more awful and awkward? I’m trying to think whether or not I would just make things worse by trying to explain to the cops that I was just curious to see what the dwarf prostitutes in Dragon Age would say when I picked them.