Harlem Kid Killed While Playing Tony Hawk: Ride

[DemonicVixen]

the Daily News declined to connect the game with the subsequent violent behavior.

Happy opposite day!

Really makes a change but then again, there isn't anything there to point the blame at the game or the console. Either the guy was warped or there was something else behind the attack. Poor kid, didn't deserve to die, and especially as he would have suffered first.

 

[sylekage]

So. A 25 year old guy stabs a 9 year old kid. And the article is trying to make it out that, the guy stabbed him over the game, the kid loved only the playstation and nothing else, and his entire family left him with a much older guy. what the hell?how does that make sense?

 

[Soxafloppin]

So now frigging Tony Hawk games are being blamed for violence. Seriously, he was playing a game and got stabbed, the two aren't connected. I do feel sorry for the kid though.

By the way, am I the only one who read the title and thought that the game had literally. Now that I think about it I don't even know how that could happen.

I thought he fell of the board or something, when i read the title.

 

[The Rascal King]

That's a shame, that game was balls anyway.

 

[ArtVSscience]

Wait until frumpy mom hears about this one!

 

[Chewster]

I thought this was going to be about that board controller thing.

Me too. I came in figuring that the kid had fell and hit his melon on a table or something and had died from it.

Since that is not the case I am in full agreement with ShadowKirby. If the big media isn't playing the 7 degrees of video game violence then why are we? Unless the escapist plans on making articles memorializing every gamer and person who dies near a game console I don't see why this article was posted. Especially since the Globe and Mail posted this article not so very long ago

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/teen-found-after-meeting-his-42-year-old-online-soulmate/article1416257/?ok

Now keep in ming when reading the URL that nothing, absolutely nothing, illegal happened. He may be a teen but he is also of age.

This is what I figured as well, and I assumed this story was then going to focus on the dangers of flailing Wiimotes and Carpal Tunnel Rock Band Syndrome.

Odd that a mainstream news story about video games and death surprised me with violence for once. Usually, that is all we get to hear about.

Also, that kid is from my hometown (don't ever bother visiting, it's a horrible place), and getting a motel in Midland is profoundly funny, in a sad sort of way. I rather enjoyed the grammar errors in his "I'm running off" note. Another wonderful product of the Barrie education system. Go Vikings!

 

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[clint5254]

kinda reminds me of the story when two mate got in a fight over a monopoly player piece and one shot an arrow through the other ones heart... thats what i call game related murder this story how ever has a rather large amount of holes in it in the area of it being related to the game. i feel for the family and the kid but im sure no-one here knows what really happend to cause such a brutal murder.

 

[squid5580]

I thought this was going to be about that board controller thing.

Me too. I came in figuring that the kid had fell and hit his melon on a table or something and had died from it.

Since that is not the case I am in full agreement with ShadowKirby. If the big media isn't playing the 7 degrees of video game violence then why are we? Unless the escapist plans on making articles memorializing every gamer and person who dies near a game console I don't see why this article was posted. Especially since the Globe and Mail posted this article not so very long ago

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/teen-found-after-meeting-his-42-year-old-online-soulmate/article1416257/?ok

Now keep in ming when reading the URL that nothing, absolutely nothing, illegal happened. He may be a teen but he is also of age.

This is what I figured as well, and I assumed this story was then going to focus on the dangers of flailing Wiimotes and Carpal Tunnel Rock Band Syndrome.

Odd that a mainstream news story about video games and death surprised me with violence for once. Usually, that is all we get to hear about.

Also, that kid is from my hometown (don't ever bother visiting, it's a horrible place), and getting a motel in Midland is profoundly funny, in a sad sort of way. I rather enjoyed the grammar errors in his "I'm running off" note. Another wonderful product of the Barrie education system. Go Vikings!

Well of course it is a horrible place. It is in Ontario. I'm just a couple hours away

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Stabbed for no reason? Whaaaaa? Why? Questions need answers!

But I'm glad they decided to not link the murder to the damn video game for once.

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

I was expecting a funny story about one hell of a wipeout while playing the game. Something about tripping on the controller and being catapulted out a window. I was sadly mistaken. Oh well... At least they're not blaming the game.

 

[twcblaze]

The boy then called out, "Uncle, uncle, I've been stabbed!"

the boy's grandfather, Antonio Juela, 59, stating "My grandson died over a video game,"

okay, I know I'm a bad person for saying this, but these two quotes need addressing:

as for line one: WORST LAST WORDS, EVER!!

line two, however, is correct in the sense that if he was playing the game at the time he was stabbed, he would have literally died on top of the controller.

 

[WestMountain]

I hate how the media always put so much emphasis on that the murderer/murdered play games when it have almost nothing to do with it.

 

[De Ronneman]

Did the murderer even take the game? Or was the murderer just a skaterhater?

Guess we'll never know, but please, media, do your frigging homework before writing...

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

Tony hawk ride+stabbed in the chest=video game violence? Was he playing with a knife controller?

 

[FinalGamer]

In a case like this, you cannot blame the game. There was barely a player involved here. Maybe finally the media can realise some people are just evil and videogames has nothing to do with their actions.