California – Playing video games for a living doesn't usually mean you have to worry about getting handcuffed as police officers search your house, but one of the biggest names in Hearthstone had exactly that happen to her while gaming.

Professional Hearthstone player Alexandra "Alliestrasza" Macpherson was streaming live on Twitch when officers responding to a phony 911 call cuffed her and her family while they searched the house.

The stream went normally for just over an hour, until Macpherson left the room, and the next thing viewers saw were armed officers searching the room.

According to PCGamer, Macpherson returned to the stream to update her viewers before signing off.

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"I'm gonna turn the stream off now, the very nice officers are in the house. They're gonna take a crime report and take our IDs. Literally got swatted. I'm OK but, yeah... we were all handcuffed and everything. Everything's fine, they're very nice, I'm gonna leave and talk to you guys later, OK."

Later, Macpherson tweeted to let her fans know how she was doing.

"Well I never thought I would get SWATTED... but alas, here we are. Everything is okay, though. Just a little shaken up with nerves. The officers were great and handled everything very well. They obviously had to take the threat seriously so our whole family was cuffed outside."

Swatting is an extremely dangerous prank where callers report a crime and say it happened at the home of their target. It has even led to at least one player dying after an online argument between Call of Duty players in 2017. The innocent victim was shot dead by police.

In many US states, swatting callers face heavy fines and jail time, and in California, where Macpherson lives, callers have to pay the full cost of the police operation.