Enraged Starcraft Player Stabs Random Girl
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Starcraft, PC, Game, Knife, Stabbing | Themes: Software, Digital Entertainment
A disconnected Starcraft player takes out anger on a girl.
Apparently, someone was in dire need of anger management, as this Swedish report states that on Friday an avid Starcraft fan went rather bonkers on an innocent girl with a common kitchen knife. Unfortunately, thanks to this 18-year-old gamer, Jack Thompson can now chalk up another point in his cause to ban gaming altogether.
According to the report, the gamer grew furious when his Internet connection was disconnected during a round of Starcraft. In a blind rage, he stormed out of his room and charged into the kitchen, grabbing a sharp butcher knife. Without thinking, he marched outside onto the street and grabbed the first person walking by: a 15-year-old girl.
The girl, coming home from a party, was laughing along with her friend as they walked by the 18-year-old's residence. Like some kind of horror movie serial killer, the gamer lunged for the victim and plunged the knife into the girl multiple times.
Although the details of his apprehension were not clear, the 18-year-old Starcraft player was charged with attempted manslaughter. Originally the prosecutor pushed for attempted murder, but the court decided against the ruling because of the psychiatric component of the crime. He is now in psychiatric care.
The victim received several wounds, but her injuries were not life threatening.
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I know its messed up, and I feel bad for the innocent girl... But, it kind of reminds me of that new GameFly commercial ... That is how I picture the kid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGH [...] r_embedded
Why does the headline say killing spree if he didn't kill anyone?
WTF!?! Get this guy out of the gene pool ASAP.
what the F***
What the F***!
Do you think he'll have this same problem in prison??
Ouch
I heard he watched the Oprah Winfrey show also. Can we change the title of the headline to "Enraged Oprah Fan Stabs Random Girl" please? Thx
Seriously though, why do they always come up with something to blame. Can't people just be plain outright crazy anymore?
Why can't the stupid people just stab themselves?
And even worse, you can't just blame someone for being stupid any more. You have to figure out what music they listen to and video games they play... as though that's the cause of their stupidity. Stop looking so hard for an underlying reasons. Just accept that they are naturally stupid.
Why ban video games while you can ban butcher knives. You know, FOR THE SAKE OF CHILDREN!!!!
yea b.net has been acting up lately, everyone looses connection like every 20 mins. How better to send Blizzard a message than going zealot on the innocent
Here's Johnny!!!
Why can't the stupid people just stab themselves?And even worse, you can't just blame someone for being stupid any more. You have to figure out what music they listen to and video games they play... as though that's the cause of their stupidity. Stop looking so hard for an underlying reasons. Just accept that they are naturally stupid.
Right on Zirb!
[citation][nom]Zirbmonkey[/nom]Why can't the stupid people just stab themselves?[citation]
LOL!!! Yes!
Ok that was bad, but killing spree?? Come one people talk about scandalizing a topic to draw interest. He stabbed one girl, ONE, who didn't die. How is that a killing spree??
Blaming games.. Blegh
But what bothers me even more, I dint knew the girl was still alive till the end of the article.
What is more important? Knowing that shes still alive and then reading the store about the idiot or first reading it ..
Get the guy a death pennalty
Oh yeah, it's cuz of starcraft i'm sure. No, nothing to do with being CRAZY. Love how they just throw starcraft in there. Yeah, blame it all on video games that will solve everything.
I remember in college once we were playing teams. One guy moved all his units into his partners base, then left his computer, but didn't resign from the game (he was quite drunk). His partner was none to pleased, as all the units prevented him from building additional buildings. Needless to say, I don't recall any stabbings.
Maybe this individual had other mental health issues, and Starcraft had nothing to do with it? Maybe, just maybe.
Thank god the girl is fine.
Let us try to not having "leading or misleading news articles". Articles like this might as well say, "smoker stabs little girl", "man who drinks Budweiser stabs little girl", "Nun stabs little girl" (ok, I"m reaching a bit here.) But the fact is a person who cannot control their anger took it out on someone else. The fact that he is/was a gamer isn't relevant. The fact a smoker is going through withdrawal isn't relevant, the fact a man wanted a beer really bad and found he had no money in his wallet isn't relevant and the fact that the nun who refused to take an antipsychotic because God would fix her isn't relevant. A person lost it and hurt someone. That is relevant.
Why does the headline say killing spree if he didn't kill anyone?
Sensationalism.
Oh, really, cuz of starcraft huh? I'm sure this guy is perfectly normal and starcraft just made him go crazy right??? Amazing. Did he drink water? Eat food? He lived in a house, maybe that did it....
How come they didn't name the article-
Enraged person who drinks water, eats food, and lives in a house Stabs Random Girl......
I'm just imagining the investigators in the house, I can see them doing a walk through, digging through evidence, taking hours looking through his diary, and then the lead detective looks up and says, "OMG- I can't believe I missed it, look everyone "starcraft".. I bet he was playing that right before it happened, everyone can stop looking for evidence now, just bag this game and we are done here".
They should make it a law that anytime something like this happens they have to post a scan of there brain with the article. Just cuz im sure this guy has a completely normal one. I'm sure he grew up completely normal, no problems with police, did great in school, has loving family, probably a cat, doesn't do drugs, probably normal looking and a steady girlfriend. Probably even popular in school and in his neighborhood. Yeah, definately must have been starcraft...
F&^%$*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
don't know why anyone hasn't mentioned this yet but... NERD RAGE!
How much do you want to bet he thinks god was punishing him? He probably thinks that he didn't deserve the "lost connection" and went and did something that was mighty "evil" of him. Douche bag.
Yes, ban all knives and video games!. J/k
He was watching Oprah. I blame Oprah. Did you guys know that Oprah is really an Alien? I blame Aliens on Oprah. I blame Oprah for blaming Aliens, who in turn are the cause of this attempted murder. I blame this attempted murder on Aliens.
Starcraft has Aliens. I blame Aliens for the invention of the game Starcraft. In conclusion, Starcraft is to blame for this horrible tragedy. Blame.
F@#$#@ing hackers.... they enrage me too but I'm not going to stab anybody.
I play starcraft daily and I get pissed when people are obviously cheating... I mean, if you're going to cheat... What's the point of playing online? It's not like you're actually good at the game if you're cheating. Might as well comp stomp.
If someone is crazy enough to do this with the first Starcraft, imagine the increase in violence that is going to be caused by Starcraft II when someone's ISP goes down or Blizzard's online authorization system hangs, crashes or goes down, and there is no LAN to fall back on. Another reason to have LAN play - decrease the senseless violence caused by emotionally troubled gamers.
Wouldn't it be his Internet Service Provider's fault for dropping the signal as opposed to it being the game itself which is a program that requires an internet signal??? This could have happened regardless of it was a game or not, it was the signal that went down, not the game...
Either way, i blame the girl, she shouldn't have been walking down that street at that precise moment... kidding!
LOL STARCRAFT?! that's about the last game i'd expect to cause a stabbing. If anyone looks at the actual gameplay, they would realize that they can't blame this one on the game lol.
I think we're all failing to see the real enemy here... KITCHEN KNIVES! IF it wasn't for them, this wouldnt have happened! They MUST be banned!
I know its messed up, and I feel bad for the innocent girl... But, it kind of reminds me of that new GameFly commercial ... That is how I picture the kid...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGH [...] r_embedded
I lol'd at your comment but this is sad and his outrage has nothing to do with gaming. He was simply psychotic for w/e reasons caused it.