14-Year Old Kills Father for Taking Keyboard Away
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anyone else think of that episode of american dad where steves going through puberty and such.
also whats with the 14 year olds lately?
also whats with the 14 year olds lately?
..... You have GOT to be kidding me... this is a joke right? And people wonder why so many people have no hope in the human race.... god damn that's messed up...
It's the "Teenager who killed his mom for cutting his Halo time and ended up in jail months later" story all over again.
Am I the only one who still remember that event?
Am I the only one who still remember that event?
The solution is obvious. Ban sledgehammers. And video games, for good measure. And for fuck's sake, don't let anyone from the US try to adopt him.
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Anyway, I feel sorry for the father and mother. Although I get the feeling that this might have been the first time these parents actually tried discipline. It's actually quite hard to raise that cold-blooded of a child.
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Anyway, I feel sorry for the father and mother. Although I get the feeling that this might have been the first time these parents actually tried discipline. It's actually quite hard to raise that cold-blooded of a child.
Maybe he was playing Command and Conquer. But really, you don't kill your father until he kills an innocent family member on purpose. If he hits you, just hit back. But since neither of these occured, he was not justified and seemed to be psycotic before this. Even I've gone for 15 hours straight and never did this. But I start to pass out after a while. So I should eat my words.
Holy crap.
He just went back to playing his video games after killing his own father???
I have to admit, I could never imagine myself doing such a thing...
edit: hmmm...
I hear a lot of people saying that people are going to point towards violent videogames as a cause... but I dunno, I think in a way it could be blamed on video games, actually, but not in the way that violent video games specifically has caused this...
I have more of a feeling that this is a really really serious case of addiction to video games, coupled with some serious psychological issues.
The problem, I think, doesn't lie in the fact that said video game was violent or not, but just by the fact that he obviously wanted it so badly that he would kill his own father for it. People shouldn't just use it as another excuse to try and ban video games... We need to work out how the child got into such an emotional state, and furthermore how he got so addicted to the thing in the first place. Just trying to ban the games won't work - such a thing won't happen anyway. What can happen, and I would like to see happen, is analysis on what kind of behaviour we need to look for, and how we can help the person affected by the video games before he/she turns violent and/or starts to neglect their day-to-day needs like sleep, food, etc.
He just went back to playing his video games after killing his own father???
I have to admit, I could never imagine myself doing such a thing...
edit: hmmm...
I hear a lot of people saying that people are going to point towards violent videogames as a cause... but I dunno, I think in a way it could be blamed on video games, actually, but not in the way that violent video games specifically has caused this...
I have more of a feeling that this is a really really serious case of addiction to video games, coupled with some serious psychological issues.
The problem, I think, doesn't lie in the fact that said video game was violent or not, but just by the fact that he obviously wanted it so badly that he would kill his own father for it. People shouldn't just use it as another excuse to try and ban video games... We need to work out how the child got into such an emotional state, and furthermore how he got so addicted to the thing in the first place. Just trying to ban the games won't work - such a thing won't happen anyway. What can happen, and I would like to see happen, is analysis on what kind of behaviour we need to look for, and how we can help the person affected by the video games before he/she turns violent and/or starts to neglect their day-to-day needs like sleep, food, etc.
The article said nothing about gaming really. For all we know it could have been an online chat obsession. If it was gaming, and the kid really needed his fix, there are tons of free flash games you can play with just a mouse. Much easier than patricide.
Clearly there were underlying mental issues with this kid if something like that could set him off. It almost sounds cold hearted to say especially when the father was the victim, but really Mom and Dad? Did they not notice a pattern of abhorrent/psychotic behavior in this kid that it could even get to this point? What a sad story.
Clearly there were underlying mental issues with this kid if something like that could set him off. It almost sounds cold hearted to say especially when the father was the victim, but really Mom and Dad? Did they not notice a pattern of abhorrent/psychotic behavior in this kid that it could even get to this point? What a sad story.