Muay Thai trainer's Apple Watch sparks full-blown police raid at gym

A Sydney-based private coach says he “panicked” after his Apple Watch by accident known as police, sparking a full-blown raid at his gymnasium.

Muay Thai and boxing teacher Jamie Alleyne was coaching an early morning shopper when a lone police officer wandered into PTJ Gladesville round 7.45am Tuesday, after receiving experiences of gunshots.

Minutes later greater than a dozen officers swarmed the ability.

Alleyne informed Today he made a joke to the one officer, however the seriousness of the state of affairs quickly got here to mild.

Jamie Alleyne said he 'panicked' when more than a dozen officers swarmed the gym on Tuesday morning. — Jamie Alleyne stated he ‘panicked’ when greater than a dozen officers swarmed the gymnasium on Tuesday morning. (Today)

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“I had a little joke saying, ‘You sure it’s not my client hitting the pads?’ Anyway, he went to go and look through all the gym,” Alleyne stated.

“Next minute, about 15 of them show up, all arms, all vested up.

“So that is after I began to, you recognize, panic slightly bit as a result of it was getting slightly bit critical.”

The officers rushed to the scene after receiving reports of gunshots. (Supplied)

Alleyne was stumped as had heard no gun shots, revealing he thought there may have been a “killer on the unfastened”.

But he wasn’t the only one puzzled.

One of the officers tried to pinpoint who made the call, but they initially mispronounced the 34-year-old’s name.

Eventually the officer realised Alleyne was the man they were looking for, but another mystery emerged.

The officers were kitted out with bullet proof vests. Alleyne admitted he momentarily thought a killer may have been on the loose. (Supplied)

“I’m like ‘look that is unimaginable’. I’m trying round for my telephone. I can by no means discover my telephone. That took about two minutes,” Alleyne said.

The pair checked the call log and sure enough the device had dialled 112, an emergency telephone number that can be called free of charge from most devices.

“I (nonetheless) thought it was unimaginable as a result of I had no telephone on me and I took my watch off in between the pad rounds,” he said.

“What we realised is when you maintain the Crown button in your Apple watch, it asks for Siri. I bear in mind taking it off as a result of Siri was going off, being annoying. I will need to have shouted the combo 112, (which is) jab, jab, cross.

“It must have called emergency services … then in the background you can hear, you know, the crackle off the pads like ‘boom’ and me saying, ‘good shot’ or ‘nice shot'”.