Ka-dead.

So, about 3 weeks ago (I know, I'm a little behind) a 15 year old boy named Brandon Crisp ran away from home. His parents took away his xbox 360, which they felt he was obsessed with (I believe they watched that Doctor Phil episode). In all truth, this kid probably was quite obsessed, although the reasons most people give are crap.

Most people -> "He was part of a cult [aka a guild] that required him to be on every day, or he would be kicked out". (1) I doubt it was that drastic. (2) a lot of people are part of different guilds, its like a social circle. (3) so... something that means you have to be there every day, or get kicked off.... that sounds like.... a football team.

Truth -> he was part of said guild (don't remember the name). However this kid was also missing school, to play CoD4 (Its a good game yeah... but come on... next to no one is on during school times anyway), his parents would often find that he woke up in the middle of the night and started playing. Most days he would play for about 6 hours (these are weekdays), some would be 12 hours.

That is obsession. However the media (and most ignorant people - so the majority of everyone) have made it sound like everyone with an xbox 360 is obsessed. Actually scratch that; everyone with any video-game interaction. That's what I hate, stereotypes because of people like this. Like how everyone thinks WoW is bad because "everyone is obsessed"; there are 11 million players, about 1/16th of those may be obsessed - in most cases its just "nothing better to do", or "its fun". Or how D&D is evil, because of those kids that killed themselves - what most people don't realize is: those kids had mental disabilities in the first place.

His parents originally posted a $25, 000 reward for finding him, then Microsoft (see? they do have a heart) added to that, bringing the total up to $50, 000 (they could just buy a new kid for cheaper).

ANYWAY! This kid was missing for 3 weeks, and it was assumed that he ran away and was hiding at one of his CoD4 friend's houses. Well usually (in most runaway/amber alert cases) after 48 hours, they think the kid is dead. Well.... he was. Infact I would say he was "very dead". I'm probably being offensive His body was found today, not too far from his house infact, in an area police had "generally searched" because it was close to his house.

I wonder if they still get the reward for finding his body.....