"Gaming Community" Connected to Pipe Bomb Attack

[gigastar]

Looks like another one of the ever-despised Xbox Live meta-cunts set off someone who took it too far if you ask me.

But seriously... if I burned down a building and said it was in the name of Mashed Potatoes, what would happen?

Being America it would probably impact the local sales of mashed potatoes for a year or so. And lead to a lynching of those who still bought mashed potatoes.

 

[Screamarie]

What the HELL does being involved in a gaming community do to cause you to throw PIPE BOMBS into a house with CHILDREN inside?!

Would it be different if there were just adults inside? Why the need for the emphasis on "children"?

I didn't say that. I just think you have to be a special kind of cruel to want to hurt and kill children.

 

[faefrost]

There are some other reports out there that seem to indicate that the Son of the victim was a bit of a neighborhood problem, and tended to run with entirely the wrong crowd. I'm guessing this is not a World of Warcraft guild. More likely it is a crew of Meth dealers that had a falling out.

 

[WanderingFool]

I blame the internet. Where do you think they got the directions to make a pipe bomb?

 

[Vault101]

the only thing I can get from this is mabye an Xbox live/COD grudge....other than that...yeah, usually I dont care about thease things but the conection is weak at best

 

[=y]

But seriously... if I burned down a building and said it was in the name of Mashed Potatoes, what would happen?

Clearly it was the Mashed Potatoes that made you this way, we must ban them all to prevent their influence from spreading. The fact they are delicious isn't worth the risk of having our youth corrupted into becoming arsonists.

OT: So yeah, a horrible act of violence. Terrible yes but the fault of video games? No.

 

[Inbar Fink]

It's always like that, since the fucking dawn of time: some psychopath\idiot\horrible horrible person does something awful - and the media automataclly link it to the latest scapegoat to freak out the paranoid moms: Nowdays it's video games and social networks, before that it was the internet itself, or D&D, or rock music, or TV, or comics ,or moving pictures, or cave paintings.

I wish that one day all those idiots will look back on this history of scapegoats and realised that a game, or a genre of music, or Socrates didn't cause little Timmy to shoot down 12 kids - Little Timmy did, or his "friends", or bad education or his actual fucking life.

Using those kinds of horrible things to justify your own Techophobia is one of the most cynical, disrespectful things you can do.

 

[TakeyB0y2]

Er... I think you're all this reading wrong.

What I think they're saying is the attack was caused because an argument or SOMETHING happened in a gaming community. The oldest son did SOMETHING to piss them off enough to attack his family. That's how I'm reading it, I don't see ANYWHERE on there how they're directly blaming video games for the attack, rather an involvement in a certain community.

 

[Porygon-2000]

The only thing that would make any sense to me would be if the guy pissed someone off in something like EVE online, maybe cheating someone out of cash-monies.

Seriously, this is just baseless faux scapegoating. Nobody else is giving this a flying fuck, and I am certainly not going to either

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

Guys, just look at that police photo from the scene of the attack, that is clearly Tavish Degroot, better known as the 'demoman' from team fortress 2. CLEARLY videogames are to blame and you're fools for denying that Mr Degroot's involvement in the videogame industry is unrelated to this unsolicited attack.

He's a known drunk, and is constantly called upon for ochestrating such attacks in his role as demoman for team fortress 2. My guess was that their house might have been painted blue so he mistook it for the enemy base. Spies don't help either since you can never tell till after you attack them. All in all, this crime would have been entirely avoided if it weren't for videogames, and in particular team fortress 2.




((I am glad however that the people are ok))

 

[Tsaba]

Thanks CBS, thanks for reminding us what utter trash you really are.

Spoiler

 

[Unsilenced]

Vagueness. Vagueness everywhere.


It doesn't really look like they're blaming videogames, which is good, but god damn they could be just a little bit less fucking obscure. They didn't say "video games led to bombing attack," but because they just vagued vagueness all over the vaguetude, that's what it's going to read as.

How vauge can you be?

It seem like they think we all live together in one secret underground society and plot the downfall of the surface world. Come to think of it that would be kinda cool. We could form tribes based on genres!

*rushes to kickstarter*

We should split up by fandom.

"FOR LORD GABEN, AND THE VALVENITES!"

*Throws a molotov*

 

[Right Hook]

just all them crazy videogamers in general

YES, my fellow escapists, YES. It has begun...Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL gaming community!

No, but seriously, just kidding...can't believe I live in a world where I feel I have to specify that my above comment is a joke.

 

[DugMachine]

Honestly people this was just worded poorly. There is a very real chance that this kid pissed someone off enough to get him and his buddies (must have pissed em off too)to pipebomb his home.

We've read stories of WoW psychos tracking down rivals in the real world and COD grudges. Who's to say this isn't the case? I don't think this is blaming the whole of video games but the communities of certain gamers who take their games very, VERY seriously.

Also someone said above, though kind tinfoil hat-ish, that a lot of games involve real world money now. People tend to kill over money.

 

[dthree]

Er... I think you're all this reading wrong.

What I think they're saying is the attack was caused because an argument or SOMETHING happened in a gaming community. The oldest son did SOMETHING to piss them off enough to attack his family. That's how I'm reading it, I don't see ANYWHERE on there how they're directly blaming video games for the attack, rather an involvement in a certain community.

Agreed, they are just talking about motive, not blaming games. Haven't there been plenty of real-world attacks for online game activity in the past? Just its usually in Asia. Save your ire for the real cases of misdirected blame.

 

[vid87]

While obviously not as horrible as this, there's also a trend of prank calling 911 to get SWAT Teams to raid people's homes that were being trolled online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfo4o-C-1vU

 

[lacktheknack]

I'm curious as to what the older brother's involvement was.

This.

Face it guys, it's completely possible (and disturbingly probable) that the oldest brother smack talked a total psycho in an online game. Which WOULD connect the attacks to the gaming community, like it or not.

Instead of flipping out and flinging our poo, how about we WAIT FOR DETAILS, like pleasant human beings?

 

[Ghonzor]

What the hell.
That is all.
Now, if this actually does have connections to gaming (like some idiots taking competition too far or getting incredibly upset over something trivial) then I will redact some of that statement. If only for "IT STILL ISN'T GAMING'S FAULT PEOPLE ARE MALADJUSTED IDIOTS" in large neon letters.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

All those people threatining to come to my house the 2 times I've played CoD online are real...

[small]I'm scared.[/small]

 

[Stryc9]

Yeah! Let's blame something other than the individuals involved! *picks up a pitchfork*

But seriously... if I burned down a building and said it was in the name of Mashed Potatoes, what would happen?

You'd go to the rubber room on the funny farm and they'd find a way to blame in on Burger Time.

This is just another instance of people, the media included trying to foist blame off onto someone other than the people who committed the crime. People can't commit crimes just because they're dicks anymore, there always has to be some reason behind it.

This isn't video game's first turn at the lash either, there was a similar hysteria in the mid to late 70's that caused some places to ban arcades all together when they weren't just eliminated certain games that offended the morals of the community.

10+ years ago it was offensive and violent lyrics in rap music that was going to turn little Timmy and Nancy into sociopathic murderers that would kill any cop they saw at the drop of a dime. That got boring and they put those stupid Parental Advisory warnings on the CD cases which most parents ignore anyway so now it's video games that are up for another whipping.