14-Year Old Kills Father for Taking Keyboard Away
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Bah, this is just warped. A classic case of psychosis or perhaps extreme ADHD.
It's saddening, honestly, to hear about the poor dad. He probably removed the keyboard for the kid's own good, too. What a horrific thing to do just because you want to play a game. Imagine being the mother. Everything is just over if that happens. Some amazing people can defy situations like that and still achieve something, but not without spending years of their life trying real hard.
But that is a common result of this equation. If a kid is loopy, they potentially have even less restraint than an adult who is. If they then have access to a weapon, Columbine happens all over again, or at least, some innocent has their life ruined forever.
That's why it's not just guns that kill people. Every hitting, bludgeoning or slicing tool, if we can access it at any time and anywhere, can do the same. I'm not saying we should restrict every knife and hammer we see, but good grief, at least this kid didn't have access to a shotgun or a pistol. The father wouldn't be the only one in a grave.
It's saddening, honestly, to hear about the poor dad. He probably removed the keyboard for the kid's own good, too. What a horrific thing to do just because you want to play a game. Imagine being the mother. Everything is just over if that happens. Some amazing people can defy situations like that and still achieve something, but not without spending years of their life trying real hard.
But that is a common result of this equation. If a kid is loopy, they potentially have even less restraint than an adult who is. If they then have access to a weapon, Columbine happens all over again, or at least, some innocent has their life ruined forever.
That's why it's not just guns that kill people. Every hitting, bludgeoning or slicing tool, if we can access it at any time and anywhere, can do the same. I'm not saying we should restrict every knife and hammer we see, but good grief, at least this kid didn't have access to a shotgun or a pistol. The father wouldn't be the only one in a grave.
Crazy stuff happens everywhere.Aloran said:
THANKYOU! am I a bad person since that's the only thing I could notice while reading this?kesslerparadox52 said:
"damn thats an delightfully ominous keyboard. look at the shadowing on that... wouldn't wanna lan with that on a dark friday night... nope nope..."
but yeah kids got problems.
Oh no, here comes Jack Thompson!
I'm not quite sure what to say, except that the kid obviously has some serious mental health issues.
I mean, my parents had barred me from games countless times in my life. Have I gotten mad at them for it? Hell yes I have, but certainly not enough to EVER even so much as consider attacking them.
I'm not quite sure what to say, except that the kid obviously has some serious mental health issues.
I mean, my parents had barred me from games countless times in my life. Have I gotten mad at them for it? Hell yes I have, but certainly not enough to EVER even so much as consider attacking them.
Wow some of the things you all are saying is hilarious. I'm a gamer and i think this is crazy but just wow.
'OMG games arent to blame for this! its the parents fault!! they didn't raise him right!'
So every murderer had bad parenting? If you don't want games to be blamed you cant turn around and blame it solely on parenting. Since if you are a gamer, you spend just as much time gaming(i've been gaming for 20 years now. TWENTY YEARS), as you do being raised if not more. Games are interactive media and like TV and books and what have you they affect your opinions and thinking as well. If not you wouldn't have all these kids having videogame characters as idols, i.e people who they ASPIRE to be(think ff series or anything else remotely popular) regardless of the fiction. So saying 'it must've been the parents' isn't quite fair either.
The mother probably didn't call the police but the relatives because 1)she's just been TRAUMATIZED by you know, her husbands brain goop on her. or 2) her husband has just been killed by her son, 9months inside of her and 14 years she had to spend money to raise him(i mean he did have his own PC, so he wasnt that deprived), to call the police is to place her in a situation of 'my husbands dead and i sent my son to his grave, i have nothing left.'. Its far easier for her to call her relatives and they do the 'dirty deed', then do it herself and make her out to be the bad guy to her son and the media.
Or maybe she was just scared and called the relative so the kid wouldn't be suspicious. :shrugs:
Also maybe they were taking steps to discipline him and this was the final decision for both of them if he couldn't straighten up himself(btw, there are mmo-ers who grind for DAYS without sleep, don't hear about them killing their folks either...). Such as, maybe they berated him during the week about being online too much or warned him ahead of time and he ignored them and played anyway resorting to them taking away his keyboard. That also brings me to, even with the best parenting there are still kids who are hellions and are absolutely horrible. So who knows, maybe he was very apathetic and could hide it well. Not every psycho announces it in someway that he's crazy. But hell even if he didnt, i know people who went frikkin CRAZY because they lost a game or it wasnt going their way. They didn't kill anyone no, but should you have to wait til then? There are plenty of people who take things way too seriously and games are included in that.
In closing, people have their own peevs, maybe he was SOO close to getting the legendary item of legends and that was the last day and he just snapped. He HAD to have the item and was just so raged that they'd do that to him on that day that he acted on that rage and killed his dad. And maybe his shock was going back to the game...or his 'escapism', as some of you have called out, from the real world event of what had just happened.
'OMG games arent to blame for this! its the parents fault!! they didn't raise him right!'
So every murderer had bad parenting? If you don't want games to be blamed you cant turn around and blame it solely on parenting. Since if you are a gamer, you spend just as much time gaming(i've been gaming for 20 years now. TWENTY YEARS), as you do being raised if not more. Games are interactive media and like TV and books and what have you they affect your opinions and thinking as well. If not you wouldn't have all these kids having videogame characters as idols, i.e people who they ASPIRE to be(think ff series or anything else remotely popular) regardless of the fiction. So saying 'it must've been the parents' isn't quite fair either.
The mother probably didn't call the police but the relatives because 1)she's just been TRAUMATIZED by you know, her husbands brain goop on her. or 2) her husband has just been killed by her son, 9months inside of her and 14 years she had to spend money to raise him(i mean he did have his own PC, so he wasnt that deprived), to call the police is to place her in a situation of 'my husbands dead and i sent my son to his grave, i have nothing left.'. Its far easier for her to call her relatives and they do the 'dirty deed', then do it herself and make her out to be the bad guy to her son and the media.
Or maybe she was just scared and called the relative so the kid wouldn't be suspicious. :shrugs:
Also maybe they were taking steps to discipline him and this was the final decision for both of them if he couldn't straighten up himself(btw, there are mmo-ers who grind for DAYS without sleep, don't hear about them killing their folks either...). Such as, maybe they berated him during the week about being online too much or warned him ahead of time and he ignored them and played anyway resorting to them taking away his keyboard. That also brings me to, even with the best parenting there are still kids who are hellions and are absolutely horrible. So who knows, maybe he was very apathetic and could hide it well. Not every psycho announces it in someway that he's crazy. But hell even if he didnt, i know people who went frikkin CRAZY because they lost a game or it wasnt going their way. They didn't kill anyone no, but should you have to wait til then? There are plenty of people who take things way too seriously and games are included in that.
In closing, people have their own peevs, maybe he was SOO close to getting the legendary item of legends and that was the last day and he just snapped. He HAD to have the item and was just so raged that they'd do that to him on that day that he acted on that rage and killed his dad. And maybe his shock was going back to the game...or his 'escapism', as some of you have called out, from the real world event of what had just happened.
EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!
I think it might be that russian kid we all know about. The one who flipped out and smashed his keyboard when he was gaming :O!
If so it was obvious he had problems from the start.
To hell with you people who may have ninja'd this
I think it might be that russian kid we all know about. The one who flipped out and smashed his keyboard when he was gaming :O!
If so it was obvious he had problems from the start.
To hell with you people who may have ninja'd this
Well, there's one child who can't be accused of sparing the rod. Pity that's not the way it goes.
that is quite scary. i dont care about them taking his keyboard and him playing games all week. that he takes a SLEDGEHAMMER and bludgeons his father to death is no fucking joke. although i´d say he is slighty addicted to video games, he has some kind of mental trauma.
That's the most disturbing thing i've heard of so far. going back to play? really? Hm , if my kids ever act up this way, instead of taking the keyboard id just switch my internet to dialup.
Try playing modern gay fuck stupid on 56k you little shit!
Try playing modern gay fuck stupid on 56k you little shit!
That's freakin insane, what is this world coming to 
It's terrible that he just shrugged it off and went back like nothing had happened.
JB
It's terrible that he just shrugged it off and went back like nothing had happened.
JB
Everyone here is warning and complaining that violent video games will be to blame for this. It's interesting to hear because it sounds like you guys think that video games had NOTHING to do with this action. To be honest, you people are just as biased and closed minded as those who do blame it on the game. You have all become so fixated on the idea of violent video games brainwashing children as their only argument, that you completely dismiss all the other dangerous effects of playing video games, or doing anything in isolation, for so long.
It's not so much the actual game that hypnotized the child into violence; that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying it was the physical action of playing video games for so long that lead this child to this level of what I can only call sociopathy right now. He became so attached to the computer, and so disconnected to actual human beings, that he chose his father's life over the computer's.
I'm not blaming Video Games in specific, but just the act of one isolating themself and becoming so connected to a fictional world, and disconnected to the real. The same thing happens with books, movies, pornography, and much more.
So who's to blame? The child; he chose to do what he did. As for the worry of what will happen to him. Well again that's just Western mentality speaking. Not all criminals need to be punished with pain to teach them a lesson. In many ways that does not work. In many ways, a criminal becomes what they are because they have been excluded and alienated by society.* Putting them in jail just makes that problem worse. It does not help. This is what happened to this child. He was alone in a room for a week, and become disconnected from the idea of loving a person. The parent isn't the one to blame for this. It's society's cruel nature towards children's development. The lovely fascist world that we live in.
Edit: Cut out paragraphs.
*There are many different kinds of criminals, not just rapists and murderers! They don't all deserve the same treatment and punishment! Assuming so would mean that assuming the justice system was correct, and run fairly, and that the government is always right.
Major Edit: Just hit me he's 14. People, a person doesn't have to be a complete psycho to go out and kill. He's a teenager, going through the most stressful, confusing, and oppressive years of his life. Every think about that? That the pain of life is so much that he has isolated himself in the world of video games, and any attempt to rip him from comfort leads to blind bloody revenge? I have never met a truly happy teenager in Canada; I bet it's just as bad in Russia
It's not so much the actual game that hypnotized the child into violence; that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying it was the physical action of playing video games for so long that lead this child to this level of what I can only call sociopathy right now. He became so attached to the computer, and so disconnected to actual human beings, that he chose his father's life over the computer's.
I'm not blaming Video Games in specific, but just the act of one isolating themself and becoming so connected to a fictional world, and disconnected to the real. The same thing happens with books, movies, pornography, and much more.
So who's to blame? The child; he chose to do what he did. As for the worry of what will happen to him. Well again that's just Western mentality speaking. Not all criminals need to be punished with pain to teach them a lesson. In many ways that does not work. In many ways, a criminal becomes what they are because they have been excluded and alienated by society.* Putting them in jail just makes that problem worse. It does not help. This is what happened to this child. He was alone in a room for a week, and become disconnected from the idea of loving a person. The parent isn't the one to blame for this. It's society's cruel nature towards children's development. The lovely fascist world that we live in.
Edit: Cut out paragraphs.
*There are many different kinds of criminals, not just rapists and murderers! They don't all deserve the same treatment and punishment! Assuming so would mean that assuming the justice system was correct, and run fairly, and that the government is always right.
Major Edit: Just hit me he's 14. People, a person doesn't have to be a complete psycho to go out and kill. He's a teenager, going through the most stressful, confusing, and oppressive years of his life. Every think about that? That the pain of life is so much that he has isolated himself in the world of video games, and any attempt to rip him from comfort leads to blind bloody revenge? I have never met a truly happy teenager in Canada; I bet it's just as bad in Russia
I can't be correct. All claims to truth are false. I just wrote on the biased OPPOSITE side of what everyone else was saying. Then it lead somewhere else, then I got bored of writing.UNKNOWNINCOGNITO said: