Stupid people, and video games.

Like I said in a previous post (turned rant, then turned amusing Maple Story story) stupid people play video games, stupid people do stupid things, stupid people blame it on video games. Now those stupid people don't all have to be the same person, but oh well.

Stupid person number 1: Daniel Petric.

This kid is probably my hero... kinda. Since this 17 year old had a snowboarding accident last year, he has been housebound... with an infection. What that means is: "He was homebound for a year with nothing to do but watch television and play video games" [Daniel's attorney]. Now to me, that personally sounds like a blast, "oh no, poor me, all I can do is play video games all day and not do anything else" bite me.

Well apparently he owned an xbox 360, and for some reason didn't own Halo 3. Well, not "some reason", his parents wouldn't let him have it. So what do you do when your parents are stupid and won't let you get a game? virtually murder their Maple Story characters? you sneak out and buy it. When his parents caught him returning from the store they took the game from him, and also his xbox 360. Now, how thick are you to do that? not even a month (?) after Brandon Crisp... thats...thats just asking for it.

So where did they put the xbox and game? In a lockbox, with a gun. See this seems kind of silly to me, but this is what actually happened. Anyway so Daniel broke into the lockbox, removed his xbox, halo, and the gun. Then he went into the living room and asked his parents to sit down, because he had a surprise for them. Well that surprise was a couple rounds to the head (and im sure they were expecting macaroni necklaces). The mother died instantly, however he (having not had a chance to play halo, and get some experience shooting) didn't kill the father.

The boy was arrested, and is standing trial. Maybe he can plead insanity.

More Reading: [here] and [here]

Stupid Person(s) Number 2: [underage identity protection law]^2

The best kind of crime happens in a trailer park. Since this is a "somber" story, I guess I should be more serious. However since it was committed by two children (6 years old, and 7 years old) there aren't a whole lot of details.

Pretty much what went down: these 2 kids, after playing Grand Theft Auto (one of them, 3 I think), decided to go out and find one of the local stray cats. This wasn't to go on drive by shootings with the cat... well... not exactly. The cat seemed to have been the target; they stoned the cat, then caught it and hung it in a tree... with a PS2 controller.

Now see, if the parents hadn't been cheap bastards and bought them at least a PS3, they couldn't have hung anything with the wireless controllers. Anyway the whole crime has outrage the trailer park community. The whole thing has been blamed on GTA, and the kids only get psychological reprimand.

Everyone is happy... except that cat... which I'm sure isn't too happy about the situation...

Full Article: [here]