The hunt morphs into an all-out farce as it escalates to include bounty hunters, police and finally, the army.
In the game, a conflict between the pitcher, Lori Chang, and the opposing team escalates to include her father, Happy.
Fisher says he is not, and is also not privy to the details of the internal probe - "just in case" it is escalated to include investigating him.
Still, Mills said, her gaze defiant, even though the violence later escalated to include rape, she wouldn't have wanted the police to know.
The Rev. Sammy Titaley, who heads the Protestant churches in Ambon, said the fighting had escalated to include mortars, automatic weapons and even small armored vehicles, a sign of organized military involvement.
Here, tensions between hunters and anti-hunting groups have escalated to include rural surveillance operations by anti-hunting groups, physical scuffles with hunters, retaliatory poaching and measures unheard of in Europe, such as the use of drones or army interventions.
In the months following July 1999, the rhetoric in the state-run press escalated to include charges that Falun Gong was colluding with foreign, "anti-China" forces.
Within an hour this had escalated to include more than 300 prisoners, and apparently the riots were all because of cigarettes.
Fighting broke out in earnest on June 5 in Southern Kordofan -- a northern oil state that borders the south -- and has escalated to include artillery and warplanes as the north has tried to crush what it calls an armed rebellion.
