Teen Kills Own Grandmother After Scolding - Update

[x EvilErmine x]

What's this got to do with gaming? The report clearly says that he was picked up, went home, got a telling off and then flipped and went all Norman Bates on his nan. Nowhere is it even indicated that he went off on one because she interrupted his game.

Also the report on this site is almost word for word as it is in the source except for this little omission

"The aunt told police the boy was always scolded by his grandmother" Source [http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/03/09/14/teen-kills-grandma-interrupting-game]

When did the escapist turn into Fox News?

 

[Li Mu]

This is like a Fox News wet dream; Foreign teenager from a broken home kills grandma over videogames! They couldn't invent a better story to push their agenda.

Lets not forget that he's also not white. The only way that it could be a full house is if he was a Muslim.


Personally, I blame Obamacare. Or Putin.

 

[Someone Depressing]

"It's a night to celebrate when nobody dies on your block."

That's an old saying about the Phillipines. No pie or punch for them tonight; it's horrible that this happened. Many people say it's because the police are too aggresive, some people say they're not aggresive enough, it's to do with money, with drugs...

Perhaps the worst thing about this is that it happened to someone who's probably never touched a video game for an extended period; which pretty mcuh everyone this generation and the one before has.

I also imagine that Fox News'll jump at this like a jaguar would a young child, and milk it for all it's worth.

 

[Scorpid]

Correct title for article should be.
"Mentally disturbed person murders grandmother."

trigger relevant only to psychologists and fearmongers.

 

[Epicspoon]

Honestly I feel pretty bad for the boy. From what it sounds like he basically lost control of himself and couldn't do anything about it. I have a few relatives who have had the same thing happen to them (not the killing part, just the blackout followed by violence that they don't remember). I know that if I was the boy I would be devastated. It definitely seems like he feels guilty over this. It doesn't really excuse what he did but I can't help but feel bad for him.

 

[Glaice]

I hope he is punished appropriately, there is no excuse killing your grandmother over something as stupid as DOTA2.

 

[GAunderrated]

This is sensationalism at its finest. Its actually got nothing to do with Video games. The attack happened after he got home, where he doesnt have a computer to play since he played it at a computer shop in the neighborhood instead. So it didnt happen DURING the playing of the game, but after. If the interruption of said playtime was the trigger, it would have happened at the store or directly after, not when he got home and got scolded.

Which means the scolding was the trigger to it happening, we dont know what was said other than that scolding happened, it may as well have been about how he didnt brush his teeth. Its fair to assume he was pissed that he had to stop playing, but that doesnt mean he beat his Grandmother to death because of it.

Seriously stop trying to spin this into some gaming-related incident when games werent even part of the factors as it happened.

Pretty much sums up my feelings. This article is more to do with mental health disorders than video games.

 

[Agente L]

I mean, I guess if a murder takes a cup of coffee before going out and killing someone, it's obviously because of the cup of coffee.

It can barely even be connected at all this time around.

 

[verindae]

I gotta call bullshit on this headline too. You're not helping with the video game violence issue at all with sensationalist crap like that.

 

[Suncatcher]

Broken family, blacking out, turning himself in to the authorities after figuring out what happened... Sounds like genuine insanity to me. Damn tragic, but almost certainly unrelated to the game.

Edit: the house doesn't even have a computer in it, and this story is roughly 70% sensationalist bullshit. The kid needs help (and likely confinement, at least for a while), and the media needs to shut up about video games already.

 

[Sunrider]

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Philippines is a third-world country. Kids not having parents happens a lot. Also, grandma scolding him due to playing Dota is the most likely cause of his anger and blacking out.

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See above. Regardless of what triggered it, kid has issues. He could have run off, find a job and lived by himself...killing someone should never be a resort.

"Most likely cause" doesn't mean it's a fact. We don't know, and the article should reflect that. We have shit thrown at our hobby a lot, making it seem like we are all just waiting to snap because we like playing video games, and you're not helping by writing sensationalist articles. At least own up to that.

 

[Lilith]

In addition to this being only tenuously linked to video games, both uses of 'whom' in this article are incorrect. In each case, 'who' is correct.

I know this seems like a trivial and petty point but I still expect some minimal standard of journalism from the escapist; that includes the correct use of grammar and editing.

 

[Suncatcher]

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.

Psychopathy doesn't cause blackouts. A psychopath wouldn't stop in the middle of cleaning up, horrified, and go to the authorities, they would probably finish up and pretend nothing happened or start formulating a cover story. The kid's definitely crazy, maybe some sort of schizophrenia? There's not much info to go on here for specifics.

 

[Lyri]

This is sensationalism at its finest. Its actually got nothing to do with Video games. The attack happened after he got home, where he doesnt have a computer to play since he played it at a computer shop in the neighborhood instead. So it didnt happen DURING the playing of the game, but after. If the interruption of said playtime was the trigger, it would have happened at the store or directly after, not when he got home and got scolded.

Unless confirmed by police reports that the minor was angry at his grandma for interrupting his dota game at 6pm, then yes this is sensationalist.
Just because the boy attacked at home doesn't mean he didn't do it because of the game.

 

[Trillovinum]

I hope he is punished appropriately, there is no excuse killing your grandmother over something as stupid as DOTA2.

It didn't say DOTA2 anywhere you assbutt, it's DOTA.
Also, as has been stated, it's pretty clear the kid was already messed up. And it didn't even say he killed her because of DOTA, maybe she refused to give him a cookie or something.

Is the numeral truly worth the namecalling?
Just saying.
I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything.

OT:
This is indeed some sensationalist newswriting. There's hardly any information available so I'll not form an opinion about this as of yet.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

He wasn't even playing the game at the time? I thought maybe she walked in while he was playing, but he was nowhere near the game at the time. This kid has some serious anger issues.

 

[Nogin Bramsev]

Wow, now the title's got changed. This doesn't take away the incredibly poor job of journalism this article makes up.

Killing your own grandma whom raised you herself over a game? That's just a new level of low.

Since even the source article doesn't really assure the interruption of his game made the boy flip - apart from the title and the opening paragraph, the article fails to point out the significance of what the boy was doing before his grandmother fetched him - one cannot assume as a reasonable journalist what needs to be assumed to state the remark above.

Excluding one bit of, as some could argue, crucial information from the source article in the OP - I'm reffering to the line "The aunt told police the boy was always scolded by his grandmother." - might even imply an explicit intent of sensationalism rather than a just a bit too gullible journalist.

The source is too weak to make it into an article on here, as there is close to zero background information on what might have incited the boy to kill his grandmother. And in my opinion it is highly disrespectful to what happend to imply his doing was caused by trivialities.

I am appaled, Escapist.

 

[A-D.]

This is sensationalism at its finest. Its actually got nothing to do with Video games. The attack happened after he got home, where he doesnt have a computer to play since he played it at a computer shop in the neighborhood instead. So it didnt happen DURING the playing of the game, but after. If the interruption of said playtime was the trigger, it would have happened at the store or directly after, not when he got home and got scolded.

Unless confirmed by police reports that the minor was angry at his grandma for interrupting his dota game at 6pm, then yes this is sensationalist.
Just because the boy attacked at home doesn't mean he didn't do it because of the game.

Actually, its sort of implies it. The fact that he states he blacked out, which to be fair is a tenious defense as far as that goes since it cant be proven or disproven easily, and since the report goes further to say that when he realized what had happened that he went to get help and report what happened means that it was an affect-reaction rather than any kind of premeditated action.

He didnt plan it out on the way home, otherwise he wouldnt have said anything, even IF he realized after the fact that it was dumb you dont incriminate yourself. Therefore it is likely to assume that he wasnt happy on the way home, but the scolding, whatever it was about triggered the reaction and he flew into rage which by the way CAN cause black-outs because at some point, the higher brain functions just shut down and you revert to animalistic instincts.

In short no matter what, the game didnt cause it directly therefore it is false to imply that it did, regardless of how you spin this. I might get angry if somebody interrupts me in the middle of watching a movie, but that doesnt mean if i get angry later because i stubbed my toe that it was caused by the movie-interruption.

 

[Defeated Detective]

Dota

It's DotA, not Dota, Dota is the one that's trademarked by Valve.

That said, get your facts straight, ABS-CBN is the Philippine equivalent of Fox News Network.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Maybe the grandma deserved it.

Jaime de Jesus, dude, what kind of horrible awful outlook do you have that allows for anyone to "deserve" being beaten to death?

Personal experience. If you knew my grandmother (on my father's side) you'd know what I mean. I'm pretty sure my grandmother is a psychopath. And I seriously mean that. She is insane. She threw an axe at me once when I was 8 years old (luckily she missed) and she tried to poison my mother. I could go on and on about what she's capable of and what else she's done, but I think this paints a pretty good picture already. Evil people can grow old as well.