Wife Hears Hip-Hop In Background; Thinks Husband Is Held Hostage

This story would actually be pretty funny if it wasn't so sad and racist.

It all started in a suburb of Chicago, when a butt dial went horribly wrong.

The wife of a Winnetka school employee called out the SWAT Team, because she feared her husband had been kidnapped and was being held hostage.

Why did she think this terrible thing?

Because she received a call from her husband's cell phone, but no one was there and all she could here was the sound of hip-hop music playing in the background.

"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," said Winnetka police Chief Joseph De Lopez. Apparently,what she heard led her to believe there was someone holding him hostage so she called the police.

This makes sense!


Because whenever you hear no voices and hip-hop music playing, it must mean the caller is being held hostage by mean black men.
It then stands to reason that he can't speak and has struggled with his dying breath to grab his phone with his one free foot and desperately dial you for help.

"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," explained Mark Friedman, interim co-superintendent of District 36.

After a frantic 911 call from the school employee's wife, more than 30 gun-toting officers converged on Carleton Washburne School, which also houses the District 36 offices where the man works.

Armed with automatic weapons and wearing bulletproof vests, SWAT team members circled the school searching for a reported gunman who might be holding a hostage.

The all-clear sounded nearly three hours later, after the man was found safe at home by police.

The paranoid wife later explained to Friedman that "there were lyrics on the radio as he was driving home, and she listened to it and became concerned."

The husband of the crazy lady did not want to comment further, Friedman said.

Shocker.

"He's embarrassed," the superintendent said. "Who wouldn't be? He's taking it hard that it created such a response."

Ok, I lied, this is actually pretty funny.