EPTI found a small article on metro today about a game addict who went bonkers and tried to murder a girl when he couldn't get his Internet connection to work. Oh and his favorite game was Starcraft.
Imo the article is just another one in the ever ongoing discussion about “Games are evil”.
Yes games (and computers in general) can make you behave violently when things aren't working but unless you are already mad they are quite harmless.
I know the question has been raised before on the forum but still what are your thoughts?
Translated article:
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Computer game malfunctioned
-Made boy want to kill
The computer game addicted 18 year old suddenly couldn't get his Internet connection to work.
Dark thoughts grew about how it would feel to murder someone which made him grab a kitchen knife and go out in the residential area late on a Saturday night.
Seconds later he had tried to murder a complete stranger, a bypassing 15 year old girl.
The 18 year old is now convicted by Nacka district court of attempted homocide and sent to psychiatric care.
One of this years many unusual acts of violence with teenagers took place the night of 9 august this summer.
The 18-year-old felt unwell and his thoughts became even darker when his internet connection malfunctioned and he could not continue to play the war game "Starcraft".
That a 15 year old girl on her way back home from a party would be his victim was never planned. She just happened to be nearby laughing loudly with a friend.
Despite multiple stabs the girl managed to survive without any life threatening wounds. The crime was notified the next day by the 18 year olds dad who found a bent bloodstained knife in the home.
Prosecutor Jennie Soderberg had been indicted for attempted murder.
The district court however chose to classify the knife attack as attempted manslaughter because of his mental health condition, and that no intent to kill the 15-year-old girl existed.
-Made boy want to kill
The computer game addicted 18 year old suddenly couldn't get his Internet connection to work.
Dark thoughts grew about how it would feel to murder someone which made him grab a kitchen knife and go out in the residential area late on a Saturday night.
Seconds later he had tried to murder a complete stranger, a bypassing 15 year old girl.
The 18 year old is now convicted by Nacka district court of attempted homocide and sent to psychiatric care.
One of this years many unusual acts of violence with teenagers took place the night of 9 august this summer.
The 18-year-old felt unwell and his thoughts became even darker when his internet connection malfunctioned and he could not continue to play the war game "Starcraft".
That a 15 year old girl on her way back home from a party would be his victim was never planned. She just happened to be nearby laughing loudly with a friend.
Despite multiple stabs the girl managed to survive without any life threatening wounds. The crime was notified the next day by the 18 year olds dad who found a bent bloodstained knife in the home.
Prosecutor Jennie Soderberg had been indicted for attempted murder.
The district court however chose to classify the knife attack as attempted manslaughter because of his mental health condition, and that no intent to kill the 15-year-old girl existed.
Source(in swedish):
http://www.metro.se/2009/10/08/79624/dataspelet-kranglade-da-ville-pojken-/
