An 18 year old went into a fit of rage late on a Saturday night(Aug 9th) after his game of Starcraft was cut short because his internet connection cut out. The enraged 18 year old proceeded to grab a kitchen knife, walk into the street, and then stab an innocent 15 year old girl passing by on her way home form a party with her friend. Although she was stabbed multiple times by the crazed 18 year old, none of the injuries were life threatening.
As for the 18 year old, he was going to be convicted of attempted homicide, but instead is being sent for psychiatric care. Occurrences like this make you wonder what must be running though his mind. He could have simply waited for the connection to come back, but now because of his irrationality and rage, he probably won’t be playing Starcraft for a long time to come. I’m sure this will turn out to be another bad notch in the “gaming makes you do bad things” belt.
[Metro (translated from Swedish) Via SK-Gaming, Thanks TheGazettEchick]
Ummmmm FYI if you get disconnected it kicks you off line, which means that the other players keep playing without you, and this isn’t Diablo where you can just rejoin the game ._. once its been started its been started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Just pointing an obvious fact. Sorry for any typos.
I can’t stop laughing at the picture with the starcraft guy holding the knife
This kind of stuff makes my parents go apeshit about games, well my mom at least.
Well, this is going to make a nice reputation for the gaming society. Again we’ll have the bullshit of “gaming makes you stab young girls” and “gaming makes you lose control over yourself”
You gotta be wondering what’s going through the mind of such a guy, that is. Maybe it’s more because of his addiction to games than the game itself? Can’t they like, start a research about that instead of researching the game?
that is just messed he is worse when avgn gets mad at least he never stab any body on the other hand he did rip bugs bunny’s head off XD
Yay! Another excuse for Jack Thompson to bring his ugly ass around again. Jk
But seriously, there had to be something mentally wrong with that kid to make him stab that girl, and it wasn’t from the videogame. He sounds like he might have been bipolar.
Either that or bad parenting. Your choice. xP
FACT: Video games make people go out in the street and stab children.
FACT: People that play video games are always rapists.
FACT: At any given time there are at least 3 people in the United States wearing a dried macaroni necklace.
FACT:people on the internet are retarded
FACT: The Guy Above me is correct. Some people on the internet are.
@Newbtastic only 3 people at any given time?
*facepalm* that 18 yr old needs to get laid, badly.
“Although she was stabbed multiple times by the crazed 18 year old, none of the injuries were not life threatening.” >> i hope you mean “none of the injuries were life threatening.”
A better solution would have been to break into the girl’s house install starcraft and play on her connection.
Wow, that’s crazy. What a dick! Should StarCraft be blamed? Of course not! I have StarCraft, and yes sometimes my connection cuts off on me, but not once have I ever thought of doing something crazy like that.
If it wasn’t StarCraft, it would have been something else that would of triggered that type of behavior. I really hope this story doesn’t get blown out of proportion – “critics” claiming that it’s the video game industries fault. That’s strictly bullshit.
I hope the girl is ok. As for the lunatic, he either needs some good psychiatric help, or he needs to be put in jail. Sad story though. You wish stuff like this doesn’t happen, but unfortunately it does. Sucks.
There is no way Starcraft, or any video game could cause that. Trigger it maybe, but the underlying mental stability issues are the problem which result in incidents like this.
So let us all sit back and watch the Religious Right flog this rotting horse corpse.
Wow thats some fucked up shit. See those WoW players and those Starcraft players are some scary ass mother F’ers. They need to relax and play some Wall E or something like that.
Games don’t make people crazy, crazy people just happen to play video games. This guy was just a loose cannon and i bet in retrospect he regrets it because he probably won’t be playing StarCraft ever again I would hate to be the person to tell him that though
WHAT?
another blame on video games >_>
I can hear the media coming a mile away. Come on it wasn’t the game that made him do this, it’s the internet provider to blame.
That guy has a mental issue.
i think the title should be, guy stabs 15yr old girl, he happened to play starcraft
its just one more bad image for gamers. i would like to know this kids side of the story, to see why he thinks he did it. there has to be more behind what really happened than what this reporter is saying.
If all it took was his internet connection dropping to cause him to go into a rage then he has more problems then let on to. The 18 y/o seems he was “mad” before this even happened. I bet if he was making a sandwich and didn’t have his cheese for it, it would have resulted in the same effect. lol
Dumbass reporter was lucky enough to see his modem booting back up and blamed in on Gaming. For all we know he wasn’t even playing Sratcraft. lol
Although random acts of violence are nothing to laugh at!
Gosh, People like this that have the capability to get this angry and upset over a video game should really be looked at or given some consoling. But im shore this guy must of had past mental problems, or some type of anger management. People should really start learning there limit and how to control there andger and them self’s when incidents like this happen. What happened to that poor girl could have been avoided, if the guy would of used his head, then just going off on a rampage.
the reporter is a fartknocker, Games don’t make people violent, only IF they take it toooo Serious
Did he stab her in the name of Starcraft? If not chalk it up to “Everyone loves video games, even batshit crazy people.”