Drunken Woman Stabs Boy Over Xbox Playing

Greg Tito

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Drunken Woman Stabs Boy Over Xbox Playing



A Scottish woman was found guilty of stabbing a 13-year-old boy with a kitchen knife for refusing to stop playing his Xbox.

The 55 year old woman, Isobel Mackenzie, purportedly lunged at the boy and stabbed him in the stomach with a kitchen knife during a fight (or as the Scottish call it, a row.) They were fighting because of the boy's usage of an Xbox and a computer. The woman admitted to being drunk while the boy was under her care, but denied that she had attacked him with the intent to hurt him. Her claim was that the boy hurt himself in order to get her in trouble. Mackenzie was convicted by a jury in Inverness after a 3 day trial. The woman avoided jail-time, but was sentenced to 300 hours of community service.

Here is a sample of the kid's testimony:

She hit me on the back of the head. I stood up and pushed her back. We started fighting. She pushed me back down on the chair. I saw she had a knife. I got up and tried to push her back, and then got stabbed. She lunged at me.

It seems there has been a rash of violence by parents or caretakers to control the gaming habits of their wards. Which, of course, is the most ironic thing I've written all week.

Source: The Scotsman [http://news.scotsman.com/inverness/Drunken-women-stabbed-boy-13.5933472.jp]

(Image [http://www.flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/317534647/])

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Amnestic

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Sounds like a normal evening for a Scot. Hell, it's pretty tame.

Also, "Drunken Scottish Woman" is pretty redundant. You could just redact the 'drunken' part ;)

/English
//Love the Scots
///And the Irish.
////Not the Welsh though ;3
 

j0z

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OH THE DELICIOUS IRONY!

Yep, I must admit, video games DO cause violence.
By the parents.
 

Cherry Cola

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The irony is to massive for me to be able to feel sympathy.

If there is a God, he's got one wicked sense of humor.
 

RatRace123

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There we go, this is much better solution for dealing with kids than the last woman who had this problem.

Sarcasm obviously, we need a method for dealing with kids that isn't too light (IE: mother who had to call 911 on her little spawn.) Or too heavy (stabbing a kid) Why stab when a beating works just as well and gets you much less jail time.
 

Onyx Oblivion

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Any clue to what he was playing? In the last news post about something like this, he was playing GTA4. Or is it simply too much time playing?
 

Sewblon

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Its Scotland. How did a stabbing even make it into the news? That's the equivalent of gambling in Las Vegas.
 

The Rockerfly

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Amnestic said:
Sounds like a normal evening for a Scot. Hell, it's pretty tame.

Also, "Drunken Scottish Woman" is pretty redundant. You could just redact the 'drunken' part ;)

/English
//Love the Scots
///And the Irish.
////Not the Welsh though ;3
My exact thoughts down to the emoticons. Also why is the knife gold?
 

CivilWar

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Jeez, who would be stupid enough to stab themselves just to get there parent in trouble?

She needs a better defense.

Time to call Phoenix Wright, me thinks?
 

Supreme Unleaded

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Wow, just yesterday we get a pushover parent with the videogame palying, now we get someone going to far and stabbing the guy. Lucker her kids still alive though.
 

Aesir23

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Huh, so gaming does incite violence... by the parents!

Give me a few minutes to soak in this information...