Kid kills his mother for taking his PlayStation

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/116241209.html?c=r

Fuck... The fact that he used THREE different methods to kill his mother left me speechless.

 

That is some sick shit, they should give him the death penalty.

 

PS1, PS2, PS3? Limited Edition? In the end no PlayStation for him anyway so pointless act.

You have to wonder why he didn't do it in the heat of the moment though and did so later in a calculated manner. I know they say revenge is a dish better served cold but his actions were clearly disproportional to retributive justice in the common/binary perspective.

 

Behold, the power of PlayStation.

 

It'll play your BluRay discs, too.

 

He trained on Doom. Calling it.

 

I just can't believe it.
It sounds too grotesque to be real...and it's somehow sad and sick.

 

Thats wrong and creepy but at the same time, it sounds like this person has other issues that were contributing factors. Still thats creepy as hell. I mean come on, I like my video games but in the end its just a game, the people in my life are worth more to me than those games . . . period . . .

-Disjaukifa

 

The playStation is just another "games mess up your kids" angle. This kid had issues in the first place. No one in their right mind would do anything close to what this sick fuck did. He probably would have killed her or someone else for any number of reasons.

The death penalty is too good for a sicko. Once your dead, thats is, nothing. He should be made to suffer for his crime. And saying I miss my mum is a load of shit as well. He probably only said that to ease his sentence. Sounds like the sort of pathetic excuse a little kid would use.

Yakumo

 

:crying:

 

I'd disagree with you somewhat: generally people who do thing like this physically don't have a mind that is 'normal' (ie unable to hold together some sense of common social morality consistently etc), sometimes it is because they are simply born like that, and it takes some minor incident to spark a horrible incident like that in this example. I don't think it is right to punish people who have such psychological problems: once they are discovered and isolated the only repercussion is that they themselves suffer. What would be better is if their conditions are identified earlier before said circumstances occur and they get help.

Some people are consciously cruel though, and the above may not apply in this case, but I know several people with psychological problems (both inherited through birth and other factors like drugs) and sometimes they don't act as they would if they were 'themselves'.

 

Wow... well when you kill someone, there is no way you wouldn't understand what your doing, especially when you hear about all these cases where these people actually doing it! You can't just blame it on some stupid shit ( I mean, a PS2? Not even an SNES... shameful), because I don't care how crazy you are, if your killing your own mom because of something that only a baby would cry about, then I wouldn't trust them not to kill in the future. So I agree with the death penalty for this person.

Picture it, do you want to be buying the last kit-kat bar out of a vending machine with this maniac right behind you eying that delicious treat? No... Cuz you know what he is thinking?
"I wanted to break into that kit-kat bar!"

And you know what else? He is trained in Socom as well as Syphon Filter and some Virtua Fighter 4 Evo, so all of these could be a cause!


I am so tired of video games getting blamed when everyone has a different life, some for better and most for worse sadly, but oh well. Video games are said to "desensitize people of violence", but I think it's the exact opposite. When I am playing a video game... Hmmm, let's see, I think its a... video game! Exactly, its programmed by some group of developers somewhere, and if it has killing in it? Well, who cares? Its all fake, nobody is getting harmed. And when I shoot someone in any FPS shooter do I cry about it? No, but when I see how they die and sure there may be blood every where, its fake!

If you see someone get shot in front of you in reality and they are just gushing blood everywhere, you will see how grotesque it is compared to any game. It is a different thing and I would still feel queasy as fuck seeing someone just lose huge volumes of blood with me as opposed to me feeling completely normal to Rip apart/Curb Stomp space monsters in Dead Space, or kill tons of people in Vice City, it doesn't change how I would perceive real violence, and it wouldn't for anyone else unless they have problems to begin with.
:Rock:

 

The kid's 16...more than likely will be tried as an adult.

 

That was oli_lar's whole point.

None of us know what caused this kid to act so viciously. I think we can all agree that he needs not to be left to mingle with the rest of society. It's another thing entirely to say he should be killed, though.

 

what if his death would entertain millions? that's fair and fun. Oldschool justice for the masses.

From the way the news was written though I was almost ready to blame Sony..but the games aren't that good on it either.

For the record, I think they refer to a PS3. She probably updated the machine and he lost Linux or something.

 

I think situations like this are very strange. I'm sure most of you have heard of the teen in the marimtimes whose Xbox 360 was taken from him by his mother. Sometime in winter '09, this 17 year old ran from home after his 360 was taken away. He (or his body) has yet to be found. It was a pretty big story here.

What I'm trying to get at is how are people so connected/dependant on their video games that they are willing to go to such extremes if their 'playtime' (for lack of better word) is interrupted? It doesn't make much sense.

I assume that they may become dependent on a false reality, but most of the time people may experience depression, not irrationality/violence. Maybe people in these cases become overdramatic, and try to solve it like Videogame (I think this idea is a little far-fetched)?

 

I'm getting tired of hearing headlines like, "Kid kills his mother for taking his PlayStation." In this case, it's obvious that it wasn't just because she took his PlayStation. It was probably more related to a deep-seated emotional problem that built over time.

There was another similar one posted in off-topic a while ago, something like "Mother drowns child because she was playing Farmville." Again, there were probably other factors, even if we're not aware of them. By no means am I saying that these crimes are acceptable. I'm just saying that you shouldn't exaggerate the causes of something just because it's more exciting or interesting - especially when a lot of the details of the case have been omitted.

Also, I agree with everyone who said that videogames don't cause murder (big surprise there). There's no hard evidence to suggest that this is the case, and anyway it's just stupid. Even if you took away every kind of media that depicts violence, you could still kill someone in your own mind.

 

PS3 - it only does everything.

 

I honestly don't think anyone will take the whole "videogames are a bad influence" excuse anymore over shit like this. Not to disrespect the mother, but what kind of parenting leads to a child so addicted to this machine that he would kill just on principal? The kid that hung himself over his parents taking his Xbox? These are probably all parents that preferred the convenience of their children staying in their rooms playing games over actually interacting with them. These kids don't know "real life." As we've all known for most of our gaming lives, bad parents will use anything as a scapegoat.

That being said, nowhere does the article blame video games in anyway. It's just stating the facts. I think at the age of 16, you must have some sort of mental illness to do those things anyway. I guess I'm not really making any points here; I just had a few and I felt like venting.

 

I think crailtapper is right. I'm sure none of us here or anyone we know have ever lashed out in such a way because of losing our videogames. Most of us *might* be upset, or finding something else to do... This is just an extreme case...