Breaking: Man Sets Fire to GameStop, Arrested After Standoff with Cops

[ReaperzXIII]

Ahh the war on terror now needs to be expanded to Pre-owned terrorists

DEATH TO THE TRADE-IN INFIDELS! GLORY BE TO EA!!! FALALALA! /joke

I wanna know what his motives were because this just sounds retarded.

 

[Nurb]

>Go to Gamestop
>Try to cancel preorder
>They try to talk me out of refund
>Fat guy has overpowering body funk
>Snap
>set fire to store
>barricade self inside
>have standoff with cops
>get arrested
>FUCKING GAMESTOP

 

[The Zango]

Ahh the war on terror now needs to be expanded to Pre-owned terrorists

DEATH TO THE TRADE-IN INFIDELS! GLORY BE TO EA!!! FALALALA! /joke

I wanna know what his motives were because this just sounds retarded.

Its actually 'Death to all trade-infidels'... See what I did thar?

 

[icame]

He probably doesn't like those f**cking stickers

 

[darkman80723]

N***** burned mah shop!

...sorry, had to be done.

He could have been planning to hold up the store until BLACK Ops comes out.

I just had to do it.... ¬.¬

Seriously? Half an hour into a thread we've got two people who feel they need to point out that the guy is black. Grow up.

hey now, Im surprised it made it half an hour. you should be proud of the fellow escapists for being able to self contain for that long.

 

[fulano]

damn, I was just in that mall a few months ago, that is some weird shit man but glad they caught the idiot

Him not having shoes seems suspect. Maybe he is mentally ill, who knows. It's too early to be calling him an idiot.

 

[Tyger Yang]

Heard about this whilst in my H&S class. From what I heard (rumor) he had been angry about Black Ops, although the exact reason was unknown to me.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

There is no indication of the suspect's motives and we may not know for several days.

I'm not saying the guy is right here... but I think I know his motives. #1, he's obviously insane. #2, GameStop's business model basically rams it up the consumers ass, so everyone hates them. I'm actually surprised something like this hasn't happened sooner. We gamers are a wiley bunch, afterall.

 

[Imp Poster]

Oh, you can totally tell this guy was hired to do that by Senator Yee.

 

[poiuppx]

Part of me wonders if all this negative attention on gaming thanks to the Supreme Court case inspired this. Though by the sound of it, this mighta been the act of a total wackadoodle nutjob, and the location might have been secondary. Unless he really did go loopy from games and was convinced Cortana was telling him this was a mission objective.

 

[Thaius]

I'll love seeing Fox cover this if the guy turns out to be a fundamentalist trying to burn the evil video games. I really, really hope that's what this is. Anything else will be given a bad spin...

 

[Smooth Operator]

This happens moments after GameStop published it's game... I wonder no more.

Kill it, kill it with fire!!!

 

[ninja51]

I doubt theres much more to it besides he was batshit insane.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

Keep us posted man. Was he a past employee?

OT: That's a bit drastic, no matter what he did that for.

 

[DaftJok3r]

I live just outside the mall. It's surreal watching the smoke pour out of the mall. Sadly, this will not make Gamestop reconsider their pricing on merchandise.

 

[dalek sec]

I doubt theres much more to it besides he was batshit insane.

Same here, this doesn't exactly smack of brilliant planning. The lack of shoes and anti theft device thing in his pockets kinda seals the deal for me.

 

[ANImaniac89]

I think some one took Moviebob's latest GameOverThinker about "The Revolution" a little too serious.

http://screwattack.com/videos/TGO-Episode-41-The-Revolution

 

[Formica Archonis]

We don't know which games were set on fire by the suspect.

Given that the neighboring stores were soon on fire, I'm betting on "all of them".

More seriously, though, I doubt he picked and chose carefully in an effort to make a statement on man's inhumanity to DVDs.