Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a police officer who used a gaming app to help rescue a kid who ran away and how different it was when Chuck ran away from home.
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00:00there's a police officer in New York City who has grown up playing video games and the fact
00:09that he's a gamer is being credited with how he was able to help save the life of a teenager the
00:17story on this one now from WPIX TV a New York City cop uses his training and gaming skills
00:25to find a missing Manhattan boy I saw the app and I realized that if he's has this on his phone as
00:31well then there's a chance that I could get through to him this way officer Gary struggle
00:35who's been working with the NYPD for three years says his social media skills kicked in Saturday
00:40night while responding to a missing kid call at a family's home on the Upper East Side we looked
00:45around to see if there was anything that might help us and I noticed that his computer was open
00:50with an app that I recognized the app discord allows users to communicate with others while
00:57playing online games officer struggle uses the app I've been playing video games since I was a little
01:02kid he was able to connect with the missing 15 year old right away once he logged on I don't know exactly
01:08if he's gonna come home or not so it's kind of a little grace period where you don't know what's
01:11gonna happen you're kind of just hoping police say he told officers trouble he was at a nearby
01:16shake shack asked him that's where you'd find me come home at his apartment with his parents and
01:21uh we're just worried about him I let him know that I'm just a normal guy I play games just like
01:26him officer struggle who's now being called the gamer cop says he never thought his off-duty hobby
01:31would help him save a life I was very happy that he came home I was ecstatic that it actually worked
01:37and that he believed me you know it's crazy so he had a phone yeah he had a phone
01:43I have a phone yes my kid has a phone your kid's not gonna answer your call so that's just it he
01:53was intentionally then not like he wasn't lost he was just intentionally not answering because he
02:01was trying to get that shake shack he's like listen I will go live at shake shack that was that is fine
02:07start a new shake shack life I'll get on discord I'll play my video games so that's why he was like
02:13you don't sound like a cop did you see like you don't seem like a cop to me he's got okay he's
02:19got a little bastard kind of yes I'm pretty skeptical you're no you're no police officer like
02:25honestly if I had a if my kid who I've given a phone to does not respond to me oh my god I mean
02:33like his playstation would be he'd find it in the bathtub of course but he ran away so he's not
02:38gonna respond to you and he's suspicious of everyone who's messaging him can I see your badge
02:44rank please it's different when that when you ran away chuck and no one knew no one even yeah
02:50exactly there was no there was no there was no cop trying to I didn't have a phone you know what I
02:57mean no they just thought I was well that speaks it speaks to how much my dad cared
03:03one less mouth to feed
03:07I don't give it it was like me and two other people were like no one cared about any of us
03:18people waited and waited
03:19it was the 80s
03:20no one ever came up for us I'm sure
03:23no it wasn't that it wasn't that it was like they're just they're sitting around they're crying
03:27their eyes out where is he where did he go why in the world did he leave us
03:34he's he's probably gonna make something of himself now
03:39never hear from again change his name
03:43never come back I strolled in at about 9 45 they're like oh hey Charlie
03:50guess I just didn't quite wait long enough no
04:00wait overnight or so you would never do that if you didn't want to be uncomfortable just wild
04:06because like so my son my son he's playing like basketball at one of his friends houses and
04:12you know it starts to get dark out and then I got someone just pacing around the house and like
04:18it's dark it's dark the lights are pace and pace and I'm like he'll be he's fine he's fine
04:25you know but like I guess we care about him
04:29our parents they were in a different world well have you ever seen that battery commercial where that
04:34chick's got her kid and he runs into the woods and she's like ah billy
04:38billy
04:40no no billy
04:43sorry go to the woods
04:44well luckily they microchipped the kid oh yeah
04:47with the power of Duracell or whatever
04:49is this the one you're talking about Duracell
04:52I think so
04:53if you think all batteries are the same
04:56consider this
04:57turns her back for a goddamn minute
04:59Billy just
05:00Kevin can you hand me
05:07oh he's not in a bag
05:11Kevin
05:16you lost all the
05:18back
05:18I
05:20can
05:20Duracell
05:21trusted every
05:22what
05:23Where did that kid go, by the way?
05:25Did he see it?
05:26Because he came back with a red balloon.
05:27One red balloon on a string.
05:29And the best part is she's like, oh, yay, I found you.
05:33And the truth is I would have come through with a flying clothesline.
05:36Exactly.
05:36I'm like, oh, Kevin, you little son of a bitch.
05:39Oh, Kevin, you're going to pay for this.
05:41What are you doing, you little son of a bitch?
05:44Boom, DDT.
05:48He's a little bastard, though, and he just disappeared right away.
05:51She's like, have a good day at the park, Kevin.
05:52And he's like.
05:56Comes back with a red balloon.
05:58Yeah.
06:00That's terrifying.
06:01Kevin was like 12 years old and she had a stroller for him.
06:04Yeah, what's up with that?
06:04No, he wasn't 12.
06:06I was like.
06:07Kevin was about to graduate high school.
06:09Oh, stop it.
06:10Exactly.
06:10Look, he's a little guy.
06:12I know.
06:12He looks too big for a stroller, though.
06:13He's way too big for a stroller.
06:15He drove them there.
06:17Really?
06:18Exactly.
06:19He's got a real dumb haircut.
06:20Yeah, he does.
06:20Kevin!
06:21Where's your stupid hair?
06:23Probably why he ran away to hang out with the hobo.
06:24Where's your stupid hair?
06:26He was an old man with a stick.
06:29He gave me this balloon.
06:31Yes, he did.
06:32Kevin!
06:33Thank God Kevin's okay.
06:34Duracell!
06:35He gave me this Leon.
06:45He got me down.