This is one of the most ridiculous, disgusting things I've read about in a while.
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Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
This is just disgusting. At the risk of displaying my atavistic impulses, I have to admit that I'm envisioning various means of torture for someone who would abuse anyone because they interrupted their gameplay.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
"Breakfast schmekfast. Look at the score for god's sake. I'm only in the middle of the second and I'm winning 12-2. Breakfasts come and go, Renee. But Hartford. The Whale. Hey, they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime."
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Yuck.
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
No words. That was terrible.
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
Okay... I'm a gamer. I love video games. But they have a pause button. This is sickening, and that guy is a disgrace to gamers, fathers, and the human race in general. I hope he finds out about "True Crime" from a very large cellmate whose never heard of lubricant.
--Enigmatic
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
That's a joke, right? One of those sick spoof articles?
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
That is what I'm truly hoping...
Posted by PUNJABEE (Member # 7359) on :
quote:Originally posted by Frisco: "Breakfast schmekfast. Look at the score for god's sake. I'm only in the middle of the second and I'm winning 12-2. Breakfasts come and go, Renee. But Hartford. The Whale. Hey, they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime."
Nice.
Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
Hold on just a second. This guy didn't kill his kid because he interrupted a video game. He killed his kid [WORD REMOVED], and then ALSO, BY THE WAY, he's a jerk when you interrupt his video games. That's ALL the article says! But the headline is what ... BLAMING the games for the killing?
What the crap?
[ July 07, 2005, 02:19 PM: Message edited by: Puppy ]
Posted by scottneb (Member # 676) on :
Cool off Geoff! I'm sure he wasn't playing Samauri Jack.
Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
This just happens WAY too often, especially in the UK press ...
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Well, it doesn't sound to me like it was really negligence. Sounds like the kids were abused, and I can't imagine that he accidentally sat on the kid and then fell asleep.
But yeah, it doesn't say anything about the video games making him do it. In fact, it was sort of a confusing article. What was the point of the suffocation/CPR bit in the middle? It sounded like they were trying to imply that the kid hadn't really suffocated, but then they never really go anywhere with that.
Ugh. I hate journalistic writing.
Posted by scottneb (Member # 676) on :
Speaking of which, I really need to rent your game Geoff.
Posted by scottneb (Member # 676) on :
CPR is extremely rough on the body. Perhaps he nailed the kid in the chest and tried to explain away by being the hero.
Posted by aragorn64 (Member # 4204) on :
The guy was sick, but why did they even mention video games in the article at all? They make it seem like his playing video games are what caused the kids death.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
I didn't get that they blamed the video games at all. They just made the guy look like he had a big issue with violence, not made better by his video game addiction.
I mean, I'm a pretty gentle guy, but get on front of me while I'm playing Tetris and you're gonna get yelled at. Just think what something like that could do to someone with an already violent temper.
The article may have jumped to conclusions when it gave the video game interruption as the reason for him abusing the children, but then again, I felt like they knew more about the case than the article could outright suggest.
Posted by BotaLadyG (Member # 7053) on :
OMG!!!! This guy sounds like my husband, as far as the game addiction goes... Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
"He killed his kid negligently"
quote:...four-month Byron poking out from beneath sleeping James Tuffs...had a fractured skull and two fractured ribs. His brother Tyrese - who was sleeping on the floor - had fractures to his skull, ribs, arm and legs.
Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
I used the wrong word, sorry. I was just pissed off that this "news" source is implicitly attributing the death of this child to my industry, on the grounds of an extremely tenuous correlation, rather than placing the blame on the father where it belongs. The child died because he had an abusive father who apparently didn't care about his survival and suffocated him by falling asleep on him after beating him half to death. The child was not killed by a video game. I know that's obvious to everyone here, but articles like this put exactly that idea into a lot of people's minds.
[ July 07, 2005, 03:28 AM: Message edited by: Puppy ]
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
What is that a Chasing Amy reference?
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Mallrats, I believe.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
I knew I shouldn't have clicked on this thread. And Geoff, thou dost protest too much. I'm inclined to think this article is sensationalistic garbage anyway.
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
The child given CPR wasn't the one that died. That was Bryon.
quote:Byron had a fractured skull and two fractured ribs. His brother Tyrese - who was sleeping on the floor - had fractures to his skull, ribs arm and legs
The kid that survived (was given CPR in a separate incident before his brother's death) was Tyrese, who had fractures to skull, ribs, arm and legs. That sounds a bit extensive for CPR injuries. (no medical training here, just trying to apply common sense)
What I get out of this is that there is a game-obsessed person who puts that above everything else. I've seen a person who would yell at family members and not cook food for minor children because he's "in a game" and couldn't take the time to cook.
And that's not even console games. This person is a major Internet addict and has been for years. I haven't seen violence, though.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
quote:"Breakfast schmekfast. Look at the score for god's sake. I'm only in the middle of the second and I'm winning 12-2. Breakfasts come and go, Renee. But Hartford. The Whale. Hey, they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime."
I have a Hartford Whalers t-shirt.
...and I can't even address the dad.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
My God. I'm sorry, but you can't sit on a baby through negligence. Oh, I didn't notice that baby under me. He killed that baby. The bastard deserves to be castrated painfully.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
The fact that he's been like this for quite some time and she left twins with him is something that I find amazing. Why would you leave twins with someone who you know can't/won't take care of them?
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
No, he wasn't killed by the video game, but it could be argued that he was killed by an addict parent. And the actions of addicts are often blamed on the "drug".
Same thing that happened when those Vampire rpg nutjobs killed their parents. It wasn't the game that did it, but the kids addiction to it and obsession with that idea/world.
The wife should have had some sort of intervention long ago, or simply left. But, Geoff, I think the implication in the article that the game is somehow at fault stems from that "blame the drug, not the addict" sort of mentality.
It's also similar to the "blame the gun not the shooter" mentality.
Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
quote:My God. I'm sorry, but you can't sit on a baby through negligence.
As I said, I very much regret having typed the wrong word while very tired late at night. I'm starting to think I should edit my original post.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
Puppy, sorry. I really just skimmed the responses.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I would not have left my children with him. And why didn't their health visitors notice that something was wrong? I'm sorry, but even fractures that are "not visible" do have effects; children being fussy, not moving right, etc.
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
Oh right right. 'Your dyke-courting ass just got me scored on!' It all comes back to me now.
(Not commenting on the actual topic at hand except to say: Sad.)
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