14-Year Old Kills Father for Taking Keyboard Away

[Jared]

Wow...thats pretty bad...I hope he gets a sentence to fit the crime. The chilling thing is though he just went straight back to playing...

 

[dochmbi]

Holy shit, guys. I mean what is wrong with the world? Are we honestly at the point where you need to have some sort of license to game?

Nothing is wrong with the world. We have more than 6 billion people in the world, this sort of stuff is supposed to happen, it's statistically normal.

 

[Uszi]

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.

Seems like being unhinged might have caused him to play video games for a week straight, rather than the opposite.

Me thinks.

 

[Sir Kemper]

You know, i have to wonder:

What the fuck's wrong with these kids?

I mean, Hell, everybody get's mad, but most people know how to fucking deal with it.

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

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.

Putt putt travels through time, one of the classic games of my childhood.

 

[Nouw]

... And if you thought the South Koreans were the most hardcore gamers, think again

I lol'd being South Korean. Although I bet the deaths due to Video Games are much much lower then America. I think. As I learnt from the Newsroom.

OT: Wow, I really am desensitized to this kind of stuff. The first time I saw something like this I was completely shocked. Now I'm like meh. Poor Dad. Bad Kid.

Bet it was Farmville. Most games have Joystick capability so IT MUST'VE BEEN FARMVILLE. I kid.

 

[Distorted Stu]

Thats some horror film shit there.. smashes his fathers skull in with a tool and then goes on to accept his keyboard, plug it in and continue gamign as if nothign happened..

 

[elderscrolls584]

Man, that kid needs some help. But seriously, i really hope no one blames this on the games themselves. I just think that's total bs. I hate people that blame games for emotional or mental problems, the games have nothing to do with it.

 

[Ashtovo]

Damn, I can see Fox News and CNN humping this article tenfold.

Either way the parents apparently couldn't educate him properly. It's their job to monitor and watch over what your child is doing.

My dad did the same thing with my PS1 when I kept gaming, I had the same urge but my respect and his sheer might and authority didn't allow me to do such things.

my parents have taken way my things and i have never even had the urge *shrugs*

 

[SextusMaximus]

Oh yeah, he bludgeoned him to death with the family sledgehammer, the one we keep around are emotionally and hormonally stressed kids who we are punishing...

...wait-

 

[Weaver]

Have fun in Russian jail.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

In addition to what everyone else has already said, I have a couple questions:

1) Why did the parents wait an entire week before taking the keyboard away? Surely even 24 solid hours would be cause for concern.

2) Where did the kid get a sledgehammer? That isn't exactly a common household object.

How is getting a sledgehammer difficult?
You'll probably buy one if you ever have to break down a wall or something like that...

 

[Beefious Maximus]

Let's just hope that he wasn't playing "Red Faction: Guerrilla" or we will never hear the end of it.

But in all seriousness this is tragic and probably a result of severe mental disorder and/or bad parenting.

 

[Methos12]

They're in Russia. Craaaaazy stuff happens there.

Hell, that's why I'm surprised, especially at his mother's reaction of just giving him back the keyboard. Was expecting that she would ***** slap him followed by a one-liner like "In Soviet Russia, keyboard bludgeons you" or something. Disappointed.

Just like in all these "gamez are bad!11!" cases, the act of confiscation was but merely a trigger.
It could've been anything.

You know, i have to wonder:
What the fuck's wrong with these kids?

They're all too protected from all legal angles.
Seriously, what CAN a parent do these days to discipline his child? Glare at him occasionally?

 

[DoctorObviously]

OH COME ON! WHAT THE FUCK! This retarded bastard, (and many other people who have comitted a similar crime) fuck up and give us, normal gamers a bad name!

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

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.

The thing is, the media are very likely to assume that, had this kid never played a video game, he would've been perfectly normal and grown up to be a productive member of society. Since children are inherently innocent and would never dream of doing bad things by themselves, obviously video games turn every child who plays them into a heartless murderer, and they should be banned immediately.

 

[DarkBlueDarZ]

RAGE QUIT

 

[OceanRunner]

The problem is that when something like this happens, videogames come under fire simply because they're eaisest to blame. People get scared and instinctivley latch onto the nearest, most remotely associated subject and tell themselves "Itstheirfault!Itstheirfault!Itstheirfault!", and perhaps don't even care if its true or not, just so long as it helps alleviate that fear.
This attitude has been demonstated plenty of times by the media, like Glenn Beck talking about GTA:IV, and FOX News about Mass Effect.