[White_Pointer]

This is just beyond stupid.

http://www.kotaku.co...lamed-stabbing/

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Game-blame news from Romania: a 15-year-old boy said to be “dependent” on video games stabbed to death his adoptive mother, after she refused to pay the internet bill in hopes the disconnection would put an end to his Counter-Strike addiction. In the narrative of the attack the boy, Ionut Savin (pictured), stabbed his mother (on her 16th wedding anniversary, no less), then looted the home of its money and went to an internet cafe to get his Counter-Strike fix. The woman’s lifeless body was found by her husband, and Savin turned himself in to authorities quickly thereafter. He’s now under armed guard at a psychiatric hospital.

This naturally has mobilised the Romanian media, because there’s nothing worse than a kid with 200 absences from school and no friends snapping in such an unpredictable way. It doesn’t justify a murder, but by their own reporting, the warning signs were plenty.

[Coz]

Sigh.

It's not about the games. It's about a kid having an epic tantrum.

[tira.soleil]

What a fucked up child.

[Cav]

Well that's one way to get out of paying a bill

[Humanslayr]

Wow. Well that's a bit past a temper tantrum.

I can't believe after he did it he didn't even care about her and just stole some money to keep playing......Unbelievable.

[Moebi]

Another killer in the making

[Tyson B]

Humanslayr, on 19 January 2010 - 07:43 PM, said:

after he did it he didn't even care about her and just stole some money to keep playing......

That's perhaps the worst part; "I just committed murder.. now im off to the net cafe".

[Loki Kola]

I honestly wait for the day where a kid does mushrooms, bludgeons his family to death with snapping turtles and then dies because he ate a tulip to gain pyrokinesis.

Would this ignite a crusade against Mario?

[Mistymoose]

CS is so violent no wonder he stabbed his mother ahurrrrrr

It's nto a games fault this child is a psychotic.

[Kineas]

Quite honestly, the kid had missed 200 days of school just to play games (or so we're told), that shit should have been nipped in the bud a long time ago. I'm not justifying what he did but it certainly wasn't like it had no lead-up.

[Loki Kola]

The fact that these sorts of cases are the exception rather than the rule sort of proves that games aren't really responsible for turning people into murderers. I actually think that games help relieve stress: people sure as hell seem to release a lot of tension online in games like Modern Warfare 2, where lobbies often become screaming matches or at least shit-stirring contests, so it'd be interesting if I got to see whether these people were more relaxed when not playing games, because they had an outlet for their stress.

Or maybe these people are just mal-adjusted spastics who also go insane when their tea has one grain of sugar too many or if someone mentions them by name.

[Remnant]

He looks like the sort of prick who wants to ruin it for everyone, too.

Oh, and he stabbed his mum. Over a 10 year old game. What a shithead.

[FireStalker]

Fucking kid deserves to rot, spoiled little shit.

My mum was always reminding me who was boss, regular slaps over the back of the head, i new have a automatic reaction whenever she enters the room or is standing behind me and i see a shadow move i duck, im 23 years old and my mother scares the shit out of me.

If i took a knife to her i imagine she would beat me half to death with the handle then stab me in the ass for good measure.

[OtaKhu]

Depends what type of kid...

And whether you stand up to em or not when they're young.

So they're scared shitless. lol.

[Rodregeus]

FireStalker, on 21 January 2010 - 09:56 PM, said:

Fucking kid deserves to rot, spoiled little shit.

My mum was always reminding me who was boss, regular slaps over the back of the head, i new have a automatic reaction whenever she enters the room or is standing behind me and i see a shadow move i duck, im 23 years old and my mother scares the shit out of me.

If i took a knife to her i imagine she would beat me half to death with the handle then stab me in the ass for good measure.

That's probably a little too far in the other direction if I'm honest.

[dowza]

Is somebody going to preemptively say that Atkinsons going to use this as one of his many examples? If not, called it.

He can stick it there along with Rapelay to show why we are all fucked up.

[FireStalker]

Rodregeus, on 22 January 2010 - 02:12 PM, said:

That's probably a little too far in the other direction if I'm honest.

Haha, just a little.

[Dryk]

If not games, then TV, or drugs. Fucked up people will do fucked up things when they don't get help, it's nothing new.

Tyson B, on 20 January 2010 - 05:12 PM, said:

That's perhaps the worst part; "I just committed murder.. now im off to the net cafe".

Do you reckon he kept the bloody knife in the hopes it would get him the cafe faster?

[Fleeek]

I really shouldn't have laughed at what Dryk just said.

It's a shame that parents aren't able to discipline their children without have DOCS knocking on their door.
Mum used the wooden spoon on me plenty of times, breaking them too because I wouldn't eat my dinner. Scared the living shit out of me.