Swedish Gamer Stabs Girl Over Dropped Internet Connection

[Lordmarkus]

We Swedes are ever so violent.

Though the article in Metro made me laugh becasue it was so horrible written.

"The computer-game-fixed 18 year old". It says that, in direct translate. Man, my country are heading downhill.

 

[mayney93]

the net and gaming gets bad rep u never hear of them praising ppl for the SETI project or medical protein folding tho do ya?

 

[Kriptonite]

The translation sounds funny but that's the only part. That's really sad that something like was allowed to happen. Where are the police when you need them? I have faith the the judicial system will process him the way he should be. Thank you people, I'll be doing typing comedy all year.

 

[WhiteTiger225]

Oh, for Christ sake. Why do we get these morons who constantly have to give the naysayers ammunition.

It becomes increasingly difficult to defend gamers/ing when you get people like this, especially when in this case the victim was a 'random' 15 year old girl who is now probably scarred for life both literally and metaphorically.

It doesn't become diffucult at all.

When they say "He killed someone over the internet!"
You point to the Millions upon billions of gamers who havent killed anyone

 

[Xanadu84]

I think people are a bit too on edge about this: As far as I see, it was never implied that gaming was to blame. It just gave the facts that the kid got angry during a starcraft game, and went and stabbed someone. They even mentioned that this wasn't the first violent incident, and that the kid was mentally ill. There's plenty of garbage reporting trashing gamers out there without needing to imagine that this article is as well.

 

[SnipErlite]

Oh, for Christ sake. Why do we get these morons who constantly have to give the naysayers ammunition.

It becomes increasingly difficult to defend gamers/ing when you get people like this, especially when in this case the victim was a 'random' 15 year old girl who is now probably scarred for life both literally and metaphorically.

Indeed - We all know the rage that is induced from dropped connections but this is pure overkill (No joke intended).

How are the decent gamers supposed to defend the industry from political nanny-state'ers when this happens??

=(

 

[Simply Simon]

That translation is surprisingly quite accurate, although it sounds a lot more silly in English than in Swedish.

 

[Del-Toro]

Oh, for Christ sake. Why do we get these morons who constantly have to give the naysayers ammunition.

It really is very simple, most of the people who do these stupid things are teenagers, who, even without electric media, are morons to begin with, kids don't need the internet or video games to be internally and externally destructive, we'll always have something to make us do it.

 

[Valate_v1legacy]

At least he wasn't from Wisconsin. What?

 

[GamingAwesome1]

I go into rage when my internet connection drops when I'm playing a game, sure, it's annoying as all fuck but stabbing someone repeateadly?

I thought I flew into a blind rage.

 

[Sporky111]

its sort of sad that I see horrible things like this all the t9me and think "ell gee, thats terrible." but can't really evoke any other response. Too much of humanities bad side is shown through news that I've become desensitized to it. Not that im not saying it isn't bad, its jsut that its become commonplace.

I have the same problem. Any news site or channel or paper will have the headlines exclusively for sad, disgusting, slanderous, or depressing news. It just doesn't affect anybody anymore. They need to put more victorious stories in the news to keep the balance.

 

[Simon Hadow]

And so begins the gamer armageddon, the masses shall rise against us, the already oppressed minority, and the heavens shall tremble! First shall be the Wii owners, being that they are all 6 year olds, and grandparents. Then shall go the X-Box 360 gamers, who will try to put up a fight, but realize that you cannot, in real life, summon an uzi by pressing left, left, b, x, a, left bumper, right bumper, left trigger. And the PS3 gamers shall mount an admiral resistance, but be too afraid of the sunlight to step outside their mothers houses, and they shall eventually die of hunger once the cheetos and doritos run out. The PC gamers will try to run, but their leg muscles shan't function from lack of use, they shall strike at their oppressors with a +2 dagger, for a time, but eventually they will fall too... the retro gamers, theirs will be the most sad death of all... made to go through a fair trial, and put to death by pixelation... and so begins the end of our proud empire... dark days ahead my brothers and sisters... dark days ahead...

 

[Crystalgate]

Attemped Manslaughter?

I said that once, as a joke. No such thing.

Attempting to accidently murder someone?

That's not what the article says. What you're seeing is a result of translation hiccup.

There is the Swedish "mord" which would translate to murder. In Sweden this means the killing was planned. Then we have "dråp" which I don't know how to translate. "Dråp" is used when the killing was intentional, but not planned. The court choose to classify the incident as "dråpförsök" which roughly means he attempted to kill someone, but the attempt wasn't planned (or at least not for long.)

We also have "vållande till annans död" which is what I'd translate as manslaughter. This is however not what the Swedish article said.

While I'm at it, this article will not be a problem in Sweden. The witch-hunt against video games is near nonexistent in Sweden and the article wasn't worded as to blame video games. It made very clear that the defendant was troubled and unstable before he lost his connection and is worded as to imply the lost connection was just the final push. Of course, in other countries the writers may choose to reword the article to something more unpleasant towards gamers.

 

[Kelethor]

this is why we should all play WoW. no one ever goes crazy over that >.>

OT: its a tragic thing to happen to anyone, anywhere. and while im sure this is just giving Jack "machine gun" thompson more reason to get his knickers in a twist, this could have happended to anyone.

 

[MikeOfThunder]

Attemped Manslaughter?

I said that once, as a joke. No such thing.

Attempting to accidently murder someone?

That's not what the article says. What you're seeing is a result of translation hiccup.

There is the Swedish "mord" which would translate to murder. In Sweden this means the killing was planned. Then we have "dråp" which I don't know how to translate. "Dråp" is used when the killing was intentional, but not planned. The court choose to classify the incident as "dråpförsök" which roughly means he attempted to kill someone, but the attempt wasn't planned (or at least not for long.)

We also have "vållande till annans död" which is what I'd translate as manslaughter. This is however not what the Swedish article said.

Ahhh okay, thanks for clearing that up. So it was like a rage murder.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Is it me or are a lot of these reports coming down to Blizzard games? The Korean deaths from DVT were on that, the murder today, WoW's addiction clinic?

I wonder what the media talks about when perfectly normal psychopaths stab someone on the street though?

 

[stonkingjonas]

We do, but it is not mandatory from age 5.
We also learn that the proper way to resolve conflict is through person-to-person communication.
Not through therapist-to parents-to lawyer-to other persons parents-to THEIR therapist- and then to the other person.
And also that "minor traumas" such as getting a splinter or discovering your dead goldfish does in fact NOT require 16,3 years of therapy.
As most countries in the western world seem to think is the proper way to handle things.
Can't really fathom how so many remain unemployed these days when the need for therapists and lawyers is so great.

.....

Aaaanyway.. Horrible thing, that. Poor girl.

 

[Crystalgate]

Attemped Manslaughter?

I said that once, as a joke. No such thing.

Attempting to accidently murder someone?

That's not what the article says. What you're seeing is a result of translation hiccup.

There is the Swedish "mord" which would translate to murder. In Sweden this means the killing was planned. Then we have "dråp" which I don't know how to translate. "Dråp" is used when the killing was intentional, but not planned. The court choose to classify the incident as "dråpförsök" which roughly means he attempted to kill someone, but the attempt wasn't planned (or at least not for long.)

We also have "vållande till annans död" which is what I'd translate as manslaughter. This is however not what the Swedish article said.

Ahhh okay, thanks for clearing that up. So it was like a rage murder.

Yes, more or less.