Neighbor calls 911 after hearing hockey fans yell ‘Shoot! Shoot!’

A neighbor called sheriff ’s deputies on some rabid Tampa Bay Lightning fans who were screaming “shoot! shoot!”as they watched Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final on television Wednesday night.

The call prompted several Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies to show up at Devon Garnett’s apartment door in Tampa, Florida.

He and two friends had gathered to watch the game at Garnett’s apartment near the University of South Florida.

Garnett was recently profiled by the Tampa Bay Times as a superfan of the Lightning.

In one first-period sequence, when Victor Hedman controlled the puck in the Lightning’s offensive zone, the friends began screaming, “Shoot! Shoot!”at the TV.

Evidently, that prompted a neighbor to call police. Minutes later, a handful of Hillsborough County Sheriff ’s Office deputies were at their doorstep.

The caller told dispatchers someone was yelling loudly in the apartment above just before 8:30 p.m., according to sheriff ’s spokeswoman Natalia Verdina.

“So they came to the door and thought there were guns in the house,”Garnett, 26, told the Tampa Bay Times.“We’re like, ‘Nope, we’re just screaming for Steven Stamkos.’”

According to a sheriff ’s office dispatch report, the complainant told police he heard a couple screaming at each other, with one yelling,“I dare you to shoot!”

Deputies went on their way after talking to everyone involved.

“(The police) completely understood and just laughed it off,” Garnett said.“But they thought it was serious because I was screaming ‘Shoot!’ as in ‘Shoot the puck.’”