Scottish Police Blame Throat Slashing on Gears of War

[krazykidd]

two things.

1. the fact that he's 13 and has a child of his own proves that his parents are absent and inneffective, and with the xbox's parental controls, they could have prevented his exposure. although i dont blame the game at all.

2. he slashed the kid's throat deep enough to expose the windpipe and he didn't die? that's pretty hardcore. i usually think of throat-slashing as a death sentence. he's gonna have a badass scar.

1)You know how babies work right? Man donates sperm , woman carries child . All this proves is that he had sex . Hes 13 . Why are you surprised he had sex?

2) i completly agree, i also thought slashed throat = death sentence . The victim is lucky and a freaking beast . The scarr is gonna make him badass

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Inadvertently GoW may have been the reason these two met and possibly the reason they had a falling out. It does not mean that GoW was the reason for the throat slash. I don't remember that being a feature of the game, just chainsaws.

 

[JaceArveduin]

two things.

1. the fact that he's 13 and has a child of his own proves that his parents are absent and inneffective, and with the xbox's parental controls, they could have prevented his exposure. although i dont blame the game at all.

2. he slashed the kid's throat deep enough to expose the windpipe and he didn't die? that's pretty hardcore. i usually think of throat-slashing as a death sentence. he's gonna have a badass scar.

1)You know how babies work right? Man donates sperm , woman carries child . All this proves is that he had sex . Hes 13 . Why are you surprised he had sex?

2) i completly agree, i also thought slashed throat = death sentence . The victim is lucky and a freaking beast . The scarr is gonna make him badass

I'm not completely up on my anatomy, but I'm fairly sure you can get cut all around the throat so long as it doesn't hit the jugular(sp) or mess up your spinal cord.

 

[AgentLampshade]

Yep, that sound like us alright.

All of it. The 13-years-old-with-child included. There's a dude in my town who got his cousin pregnant at 13[footnote] I found something funny recently on Facebook about him actually. He posted "Can't wait to see my bairn to see if it looks like a [family name redacted], then directly afterwords he posted "bros before whores." God the inbred are hilarious.[/footnote]

 

[ninjaRiv]

"The Daily mail reports." Of course it does.

notice that nobody's saying "ban games" which is good.

 

[CriticalMiss]

It's all true, Marcus Fenix HIMSELF bought the kid the Xbox, XBL subscription, copy of Gears of War and then taught him how to slice necks like a pro. Down with games! rabblerabblerabble. Obviously the excellent parenting that produces a kid who has underage sex and has access to a knife that can mutilate people is not a factor.

 

[martyrdrebel27]

two things.

1. the fact that he's 13 and has a child of his own proves that his parents are absent and inneffective, and with the xbox's parental controls, they could have prevented his exposure. although i dont blame the game at all.

2. he slashed the kid's throat deep enough to expose the windpipe and he didn't die? that's pretty hardcore. i usually think of throat-slashing as a death sentence. he's gonna have a badass scar.

1)You know how babies work right? Man donates sperm , woman carries child . All this proves is that he had sex . Hes 13 . Why are you surprised he had sex?

2) i completly agree, i also thought slashed throat = death sentence . The victim is lucky and a freaking beast . The scarr is gonna make him badass

i'm well aware of the steps necessary to create life in you sticky human creatures, my point was the fact that he is having sex at 13, without condoms no less, proves his parents weren't exactly parently. and why am I surprised? BECAUSE HE'S 13! I don't think we should be living in a society that just shrugs that off. 13 is way too young to be having sex for a whole host of reasons.

 

[ChrisCarTheMarauder]

>Met via Gears of War

>Gears of War clearly the cause

Oh elderly conservatives, you'll all die off one day and videogame scapegoating will be far less of a problem.

Till then, I roll my eyes and laugh.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

Yeah, Clydebank represent!
Sadly it isn't all that surprising that it happened here... Yeah, this has nothing to do with video games and everything to do with Socio-economic problems surrounding Clydebank.

 

[Subatomic]

I'm not completely up on my anatomy, but I'm fairly sure you can get cut all around the throat so long as it doesn't hit the jugular(sp) or mess up your spinal cord.

Yep, cutting through the windpipe isn't neccessarily life threatening, it's even sometimes performed as an emergency procedure to allow someone to breath (though far more often in medical dramas than in reality). The cartoid artery which supplies the head with blood lies a bit deeper inside and better protected. Still, slitting someone's throat is attempted murder, no question. It's just not a 'certain death sentence', especially if the attacker doesn't know what he's doing (i.e. he's a 13 year old fucked up kid).

 

[Roxas1359]

I don't blame the game for this, but it was a factor in a sense. However, this kid's parents obviously were not responsible at all, I mean he's 13 and he already has a child!? That just shows bad parenting on their part. Feel bad for the victim and he is quite lucky to be alive.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

And what game should we blame for his lack of knowledge about contraceptives?

 

[krazykidd]

two things.

1. the fact that he's 13 and has a child of his own proves that his parents are absent and inneffective, and with the xbox's parental controls, they could have prevented his exposure. although i dont blame the game at all.

2. he slashed the kid's throat deep enough to expose the windpipe and he didn't die? that's pretty hardcore. i usually think of throat-slashing as a death sentence. he's gonna have a badass scar.

1)You know how babies work right? Man donates sperm , woman carries child . All this proves is that he had sex . Hes 13 . Why are you surprised he had sex?

2) i completly agree, i also thought slashed throat = death sentence . The victim is lucky and a freaking beast . The scarr is gonna make him badass

i'm well aware of the steps necessary to create life in you sticky human creatures, my point was the fact that he is having sex at 13, without condoms no less, proves his parents weren't exactly parently. and why am I surprised? BECAUSE HE'S 13! I don't think we should be living in a society that just shrugs that off. 13 is way too young to be having sex for a whole host of reasons.

Okay . But i fail to see how his parents are at fault . He's 13 , they are no longer following him around wherever he goes . I don't know about you , but when i was 13 , my parents weren't exacly breathing down my neck everytime i wanted to go somewhere . And teenagers lie all the time about where they are and who they're with . So if this kid wants to go out and have sex , he will regardless of what his parents say/think .

Also , we got 16 , hell 20 year olds having unprotected sex and getting pregnant , is it really surprising that a 13 year old kid didn't use protection?

 

[josemlopes]

He has a kid at the age of 13, clearly Gears of War 3 is what is wrong in his life

 

[Teoes]

Yep, that sound like us alright.

All of it. The 13-years-old-with-child included. There's a dude in my town who got his cousin pregnant at 13

Yeah, Clydebank represent!
Sadly it isn't all that surprising that it happened here... Yeah, this has nothing to do with video games and everything to do with Socio-economic problems surrounding Clydebank.

See, the Scots understand! This isn't gaming culture or hip-hop culture like @Therumancer was talking about.. it's just some wee rocket from an area of Glasgow where stabbing someone is considered appropriate conflict resolution. He'd be chibbing folk, if he hasn't before already, at the drop of a hat without the X-Box being any kind of tenuous instigator.

Please! Do they even have chainsaws in Scotland?

Argh, what's that gif from? I recognise it but can't remember. Please put me out of my misery or I'll slash ye.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Couple of things here: 1, Daily Mail. That kind of says all that needs to be said about it right there.

But also, this stuff won't go away if we keep giving these old fogeys a platform. A cop should know better than to blame a murder on a bloody piece of media, but then I guess cops aren't known for their stellar judgement... ironically enough. Gaming is not this heavily persecuted infant medium anymore, we haven't had a real issue outside of Australia, China, or Germany since Hillary Clinton went on her anti-GTA crusade in the early 2000's, and Australia at least is finally joining the 21st century. Any and all cases like this, where gaming is blamed for something horrible, are pretty much guaranteed to be coming from some old fart so out of touch with reality that nobody in their right mind would take them seriously. Writing articles about the crap that dribbles out of their mouths is giving them undue credence. It's like saying Jim Crow laws are coming back because somebody has a racist grandpa.

 

[Baresark]

Meh, of course they do. Police do things to make themselves look stupid all the time. That would be like blaming Match.com if you picked up a stalker from a date through the site. They met and communicated in game, that is all. The fact that one of them was unsettled enough to to slash another kids throat says a whole lot more about his psychiatric health than it does violent videogames.

This is shoddy and lazy police work, to seek a boogie man than to blame the child who committed the crime.

 

[Jamash]

And what game should we blame for his lack of knowledge about contraceptives?

Fable 2. That game awarded you with Good points/Purity for having protected sex and Evil points/Corruption for having unprotected sex.

Obviously the kid was trying to be a badass Corrupt Hero like in the game. I wouldn't be surprised if he avoid vegetables and mostly consumed meat and alcohol for similar reasons.

 

[SecondPrize]

They blame Gears of War, huh? That's funny, because I blame Scotland. Why don't you work on creating a safe environment and then when you've worked that out, we can look for other causes for the crimes which occur.