14-Year Old Kills Father for Taking Keyboard Away

[REPLAY13]

those crazy ruskies!

seriously though, if this gets twisted in a way that video games are the problem, i might have to break something.

 

[guyroxorz]

HAHAHA never mess with a gamer...

 

[Ajna]

Theres an "In Soviet Russia" joke in here somewhere, I just can't see it.

The boy currently resides in a pre-trial detention center; under Russian law he is old enough to be charged with murder.

Well to be honest..good.

In USA, man in house beat son on computer. In Soviet Russia, son on computer beat man in house!

 

[ScarlettRage]

He was probably playing Farmville

Farmville does tend to corrupt people...
fucking Farmville!

 

[TerribleAssassin]

This is crazy. Unfortunately, I'm sure if CNN or other parental groups get a hold of it, it will become another story of how "violent video games are ruining our kids" rather than seeing it for what it is: a kid with severe emotional and rage issues finally acts out, and in the worst way.

The only question is which game is being blamed today? I call WWE and Triple H!

 

[the idiot computer]

one thng i can count is that BBC news won't have anything to say until half a century later.


OT:I'm scared a keyboard can cause murder. So i'm currently stockpiling baked beans, spagheti, hot dogs, frozen vegetables and ham now in my loft.

 

[Critical92]

20 years in prison? totally worth it so he could play for a couple of hours...


this is sad though, and its building on the stereotype that gamers are rage filled psychopaths

 

[brucelee13245]

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

This may be true, but he DID murder his father. Though it will most likely ruin the rest of his life, he SHOULD be prosecuted for murder. And although i agree with you about stressful teenage years, does this justify a right minded fourteen year old's brutal killing of his father? And who knows, maybe deep down he wasn't right minded and there was really something wrong up there.

 

[Goldeneye103X2]

*Stand patiently in a spot, then looks at watch*
(sigh) Any minute now.....
Jack thompson's gonna be coming outta retirement for this one.

 

[icaritos]

Well im glad Russian law will allow him to be judged like an adult. Regardless of his age what he did is plain, brutal murder and he must be punished for it.

 

[chenry]

wtf, Russia. What. The. Eff.

Reminds me a Stewart Francis joke though:

One summer, all the kids were getting skateboards. It was all the rage. My parents wouldn't buy me one because we were so poor. So in the middle of the night I got a plank of wood and a hammer and I beat them to death.

My foster parents bought me five skateboards

 

[DocRoe92]

This is gonna stir a big pile of s**t that anti-gamists are gonna backstroke in and c**p in till it's overflowing!!!

 

[Crayzor]

Aaaand the media will inevitably blame video games for this. The boy clearly has deeper issues than just being annoyed about having his keyboard taken away. I mean, come on, he went back to playing as if nothing happened? No normal person would do that!

 

[FungTheDestroy]

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

This may be true, but he DID murder his father. Though it will most likely ruin the rest of his life, he SHOULD be prosecuted for murder. And although i agree with you about stressful teenage years, does this justify a right minded fourteen year old's brutal killing of his father? And who knows, maybe deep down he wasn't right minded and there was really something wrong up there.

That's the exact thing I said, though. He wasn't right minded. He'd isolated himself from society for a full week, disconnected from human emotion, proofed enough by the bloody murder of his Father. But when I hear him being accused of being broken in the mind, it sounds like you're all saying that he had a brain malfunction that naturally came into effect, that society and video games (or any other isolated activity!) had nothing to do with him losing the ability to love and forgive. Maybe it was his interaction with video games over interaction with humans that lead him to be this way?
Prosecution and social oppression are the reasons teenagers get like this. Charging them like a serial killer will do no one no good. Especially since the other victim is the mother, who would want the last thing to be her son in jail for a long time. "Punishment", in my opinion, should be to replace his father in some way. Get a job, take responsibility for some of the house work.Putting him in jail would just make the woman suffer more.

 

[Criquefreak]

So, video games were the only thing keeping him from embracing his psychopathic, homicidal tendencies in the real world... there's just no upside here.

 

[Salviar]

This is crazy. Unfortunately, I'm sure if CNN or other parental groups get a hold of it, it will become another story of how "violent video games are ruining our kids" rather than seeing it for what it is: a kid with severe emotional and rage issues finally acts out, and in the worst way.

Too true. If he was playing pool and his dad took away his stick then they wouldn't have a reason to use that excuse and they'd actually see it for what it was.

OT: This kid is seriously messed up. I hope he at least he has a shred of humanity and feels some sort of guilt once he realizes the severity of what he did.

 

[SirCannonFodder]

Christ, he killed his father with a sledgehammer? Gives homewrecker [http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Homewrecker] a whole new meaning.

 

[archvile93]

he needs to be in a mental institution rather than a prison, if he just went back to the computer after brutally murdering his father, continueing as if nothing interupted his schedual, but it makes me wonder did his mom just leave his dads beaten bloody corpse on the ground as she crept away to call for help from relatives or what, and didn't anyone else hear what was going on inside the house? I could imagine there'd be a lot of screaming

I know too much about psychology to believe anyone would pay attention to the screaming, Not after that woman got stabbed to death while tweleve people watched from the comfort of their homes without so much as calling 911. It's called diffusion of responsibilty.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Who in their right mind would go back to resume playing after bludgeoning their father to death.

Some people are really fucked in the head...

I bet that "violent" video games will get blamed for this incident.

 

[Robbie Rosendorf]

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