OK, before I start, I know we get eleventy seven of these threads a week, but I felt I had to share.
As some of you guys know, I'm from an island called Jersey [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands], home of cows, Bergerac, over 50's holidays and not much else. As you can guess from the description, this place tends to be pretty quiet. The police did a survey recently, they left a wallet on a bench with a uniformed copper in sight, to see who would actually turn the wallet in. They didn't count on no-one picking it up in 3 working days.
But anyway, that's not what I made the thread about. I made the thread about this:
I mean out of the 91,626 (July 2009 estimation) people who have houses over here, there's probably about 2,000 gamers, maybe a couple more on this particular bit of rock. And we're all psychos, obviously.
To actually make this a discussion thread and not a "my dad's pissed me off because he's always banging on about games making people violent and now this has given him what he thinks is solid proof" thread, any of you lot had something similar happen near where you live?
[sub] I'd also like to point out, that as a gamer who is annoyed at one of his parents, I am not going to resort to raping someone. Promise.[/sub]
As some of you guys know, I'm from an island called Jersey [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands], home of cows, Bergerac, over 50's holidays and not much else. As you can guess from the description, this place tends to be pretty quiet. The police did a survey recently, they left a wallet on a bench with a uniformed copper in sight, to see who would actually turn the wallet in. They didn't count on no-one picking it up in 3 working days.
But anyway, that's not what I made the thread about. I made the thread about this:
Now, the bit that annoyed me? With it being a small island, that's the only local newspaper that gets printed, and there are a hell of a lot of people who take it at it's word. The article centers (for me) on the fact that a mother can't control her 14 year old kid.Teenage rapist "played war games for hours"
[sub]The area at Westmount where the attack took place[/sub]
A SCHOOLBOY jailed for four yesterday for raping a teenage girl had stormed out of his house after spending hours playing war games on his computer.
After a row with his mother over the amount of time he was spending playing the game, the 14-year-old left home with the intention of mugging the first person he saw. He took a kitchen knife and home-made balaclava with him.
After first ignoring a heavily-built man, he turned his attention to a 19-year-old who was making her way home from town late on 13 October. After following her to the Westmount area, he forced her into a field at knifepoint before subjecting her to brutal rape.
Yesterday, the boy, who cannot be named because of his age, was jailed for four years by the Royal Court.
> Full report in today's Jersey Evening Post
Los Linkage [http://www.thisisjersey.com/2010/01/26/teenage-rapist-played-war-games-for-hours/]
I mean out of the 91,626 (July 2009 estimation) people who have houses over here, there's probably about 2,000 gamers, maybe a couple more on this particular bit of rock. And we're all psychos, obviously.
To actually make this a discussion thread and not a "my dad's pissed me off because he's always banging on about games making people violent and now this has given him what he thinks is solid proof" thread, any of you lot had something similar happen near where you live?
[sub] I'd also like to point out, that as a gamer who is annoyed at one of his parents, I am not going to resort to raping someone. Promise.[/sub]
