Teen Kills Own Grandmother After Scolding - Update
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Well they didn't include a crime-scene photo of the corpse this time. It's an improvement at least.Fasckira said:
Fair points but you have to consider, there are a ton of kids without a proper mom and dad -- even without homes -- that don't do this. It's a shame his parents dumped him on his grandma, but at least he had her. If she was an evil woman, the boy could have run off or pack up and leave. He is 17-years old, after all. Lots of factors not at play here, but a game triggering someone (or being scolded and his game time being interrupted) as the reason for killing someone is unforgivable.Karadalis said:
I do agree that it seems he is showing remorse, though. If he was being abused, he could have lived with his aunt, no? Sadly, things like this are brushed aside and some people will blame video games as the culprit. Me? I blame the boy's parents...he wouldn't be in that mental state if it wasn't for them.
You are telling me a disturbed kid from a dysfunctional family flipped out and got violent over something trivial?
Holy shit! This is something that never has happened before in the history of the world! And this must surely have happened solely because of video games!
Holy shit! This is something that never has happened before in the history of the world! And this must surely have happened solely because of video games!
It's just as people before me said: it's all taken out of context and sensationalised.
I mean, come on. How did he kill her for interrupting the game if he clearly snapped at a different time, in a different place and only when she scolded him?
I expected better form the Escapist.
I mean, come on. How did he kill her for interrupting the game if he clearly snapped at a different time, in a different place and only when she scolded him?
I expected better form the Escapist.
Well.. its allways the exception or else it wouldnt be so shocking.Alex Co said:
Also he lives in a 3rd world country.. who knows what challanges he had to go through in his live before this happened. Also we have no info about the grandma and how she treated him. Maybe she was abusive.. maybe she treated him like crap for years.. or maybe the rest of the famaly treated him like crap and abused him. As i said there is so much we dont know yet the kid is painted as being evil.
And then there is the completly useless info that the kid played a game prior to the incident.. without even telling us how much time passed between him getting interrupted, them ariving home.. him getting scolded and in the end loosing it and killing his grandma.
To come to the conclusion that the game was the reason is as i said before comming from the same school of thought that he drank a glass of water before the incident so clearly the glass of water must be the reason.
Maybe he was scolded because he didnt do his homework or other chores.. maybe he had a agressive mental disorder beforehand.. remember 3rd world country.. you wont find any help for your issues around there if you dont happen to be rich.. in wich case you wont have that kind of issues in the first place anyways, so not comparable to our western standards.
How many cases of manslaughter/murder do you think the philipines has every year? And just because this time the person who did it happened to play a video game before the incident it somehow is related?
The kid is not evil. Him trying to take responsibility for his actions clearly shows that. He will have to deal with this the rest of his entire live and will face judgement by the proper authorities. But hes not "evil scum"... he didnt do it because he took enjoyment out of it.. from the description it was an act of the moment when he lost control and no one here knows what the actual trigger was.
Like other have said, I doubt DOTA had any kind of influence over this. He was picked up, was taken home by his grandmother, got scolded, got angry, and THEN killed her.
There's much more to this story than "OMGZVIDYAGAEMS".
There's much more to this story than "OMGZVIDYAGAEMS".
I don't have enough facts, so I won't guess at what the reason was for this boy to go crazy. Don't know if I believe the whole blacked out thing though. Sounds like a bad excuse. Can anyone with more knowledge indulge me on facts surrounding this psychological phenomenon? There must be a proper medical term for it.
It also has exponentially more schools and more kids going to said schools then the Philippines... OH SNAP!saltyanon said:
Seriously thought the number of violent crimes has been getting lower and lower for years now despite EVERYTHING.
The news coverages of these extreme incidents however make it seem that they happen all the time....
Anger, mental health or obsessed/addicted to that game. People get that way when driving and get cut off. I think everyone has got annoyed when their mum has told us to get off our console or got frustrated when we died the 10th time on a jump as kids. But 17 is way to old to have a hissy fit over a game and react that over the top. Before blaming the games, hopefully they will find out what the real problem was.
It's possible the old lady was a horrible person, maybe? Still doesn't justify it. Unless the rage-induced blackout was one of self defense/fight or flight. [/blahblahblah]
Still... this makes me sad
Still... this makes me sad
DotA you say? Enough objective facts in fact screw objective facts, I could not care less, video games clearly must be to blame... What?
No seriously, does anyone ever notice how it's always these games which create an obsessive and compulsive need to play all the freaking time, not to mention complain like an imbecile at other players who aren't like that? No? Yeah I'd ignore that too actually.
Tragic and of course it has nothing to do with video games, any particular one anyway, no this was always going to be about culture and like it or not video games have to fit in somewhere no matter how much it might seem like they don't or nobody wants them to.
That is if anyone wants to be able to continue enjoying them in any kind of civilised fashion that doesn't go out the window the moment anything bad, ie like this story or a new one comes up.
No seriously, does anyone ever notice how it's always these games which create an obsessive and compulsive need to play all the freaking time, not to mention complain like an imbecile at other players who aren't like that? No? Yeah I'd ignore that too actually.
Tragic and of course it has nothing to do with video games, any particular one anyway, no this was always going to be about culture and like it or not video games have to fit in somewhere no matter how much it might seem like they don't or nobody wants them to.
That is if anyone wants to be able to continue enjoying them in any kind of civilised fashion that doesn't go out the window the moment anything bad, ie like this story or a new one comes up.
Yeah, I have to agree. They got all the way home before it happened, there's not really anything linking the manslaughter(/murder?) to DOTA right now. You know, other than the headline.Fasckira said:
Jaime de Jesus, dude, what kind of horrible awful outlook do you have that allows for anyone to "deserve" being beaten to death?Adam Jensen said:
Sounds like the kid had some serious issues brewing that finally boiled over. Could have been anything that set him off, but it happened to be DOTA.
And now we prepare for fox news to ignore the real problems. I'm going to go watch adventure time and try to forget this world exists.
And now we prepare for fox news to ignore the real problems. I'm going to go watch adventure time and try to forget this world exists.
You know, my grandma used to** drive me up the wall with her nagging. But to kill someone ... you have got to be a psychopath.
Of course the kid's lawyers will try to blame this and that, among of which would be the easy target that is the game.
** She passed away from cancer at 98 if you are wondering.
Of course the kid's lawyers will try to blame this and that, among of which would be the easy target that is the game.
** She passed away from cancer at 98 if you are wondering.