14-Year Old Kills Father for Taking Keyboard Away

[ZehGeek]

The way how he calmly returned to his computer after bludgeoning his dad to death shows you his mental stability. This was not a problem of violent video games gone wrong (as media will always state) but rather of mental disability.

And was I the only one who thought of the angry German kid video?

It's now Angry Violent Russian Kid
OT: Everyone's gonna have one super field day with this. Like alot of people here have said, you can't really judge the situation till there's more details. Though everyone can agree the kid has problems. My opinion, he's got adiction and spoiled brat syndrom.
Then the mother's gonna try and blame the Video Games,so will CNN, FOX, and all them since barley, BARLEY anyone wants to take responsibility for screwing up or not taking of a simple issue. There are addiction and various other Mental Disorder treatments. People are the ones with issues, not Games.

 

[Macgyvercas]

I hope he was playing 'Putt Putt goes to the Moon' or something.
Otherwise the media is going to have a field-day with this.

The kid was obviously unhinged, and without knowledge of how this kid was raised, there are any number of reasons he's a little psychopath. But of course: They'll point at games.

Don't they always though? I mean come on, the media is about as reliable to us gamers as a red dragon who says he'll follow through on his promise (red dragons are chaotic evil, just in case some people don't know that)

 

[Sacman]

'Putt Putt goes to the Moon'

I love that game!!!

 

[Stuntcrab]

I have never thought I would say this but it looks like video games are destroying the world

 

[Musclepunch]

Well we can live in hope that he was playing farmville

 

[HentMas]

This kid obviously has problems going way beyond videogames.

EDIT: Also, I've never seen a keyboard look so ominous.

yeah, the theme from Space odisey was playing in my mind when i saw it...

 

[mike313]

great, just what gamers need....i cant wait until my parents hear about this one, they already thimk im a terroirst now they can think that im insane

 

[Composer]

oh pleaase god let him be playing farmville!!!

 

[JEBWrench]

One of these pops up every other week on The Escapist I swear. At this point I really don't give a damn if people blame video games or not, its not on my mind when reading these articles since I apparently care more for the family of the deceased than my entertainment games, my heart goes out to those who have lost their lives in these tragic incidents.

How can you say something like that?! Who cares if someone died! Video games might get blamed after the kid who played a lot of video games killed someone after being forced to not play video games, and then after the killing, went back to playing video games!

VIDEO GAMES!

 

[HT_Black]

Daaaamn. I can understand getting pissed off at your dad-- don't get me started-- but bludgeoning him to death with a sledgehammer? That's a little...insane. And then going back to the computer afterwards? If I'd murdered someone in the dead of the night, I'd be halfway to Mexico by noon the following day. There's no doubt about it-- that kid is frikkin' nuts, or at the very least a victim of ten thousand different neural misfirings. He either needs serious (electricity-based) help or a cap in the base of his neck.

 

[Luke5515]

Would this be an inapropriate for a "In soviet russia, sledge hammers you-esc" joke?
OT: well Cnn will be here soon. Maybe not, there's always hope.
But really a sledgehammer? he musta had some serious problems.

 

[master m99]

god poor mother. hope people dont run for the games are evil excuse again.

 

[Rainboq]

I can smell a shitstorm just over the horizon...

Crap, Micheal Atkinson will be all over this!

 

[Sethzard]

All I can hope is that no sensationalist members of the press get wind of this.

 

[Thaius]

I hope he was playing 'Putt Putt goes to the Moon' or something.
Otherwise the media is going to have a field-day with this.

The kid was obviously unhinged, and without knowledge of how this kid was raised, there are any number of reasons he's a little psychopath. But of course: They'll point at games.

The fact that you referenced, or even know about Putt-Putt makes you my new best friend.

OT: This kid has serious freaking issues. Anyone who refuses to see that and blames this all on games is a moron.

 

[nintendoeats]

Theory:If a parent is killed by their kid, who is under the age of 16, it is a sign of their failure as a parent and its a damn good thing that they had to face the consequences instead of the rest of the world.

Yes I am a cynical bastard, and I'm only here because of Yahtzee.

 

[ramox]

Something like that happened recently in Vienna. A 14-year old girl killed her mother with a knife because she had forbidden her to surf the Internet.

Here's a link: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1548138.php/Viennese-girl-kills-mother-after-internet-ban

Was about to post this as well since it happened just a day after that incident in russia and just about 50 km from where i live. There's a lot of fuzz about it over here.
However, in this case at least games are not involved. Sounds more like a facebook addicted teen girl to me. Like so may are. I tell you, not videogames are the evil, facebook is!

OT: In both cases something was wrong with those kids in the first place. And we'll never know what exactly that is.
However, this will of course by no means keep the press from placing judgement on...well, we all know on what.

 

[The Great JT]

Holy shit. That's crazy.

 

[Stuntcrab]

JESUS SHIT DID YOU JUST HEAR THAT NOISE!!!????.... I just heard it like a wolves howl, I think it was Jack Thompson screaming "I WAS RIGHT!!!". Wow... that guy can scream.

Great now 2 things a fear from this
1. That psychopath coming to america
2. Jack Thompson actually winning a trial and banning one video game... then onto the next, and next until video games become illegal