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http://allaboutthegames.co.uk/feature_story.php?headline=Gaming-addict-kills-mother-then-plays-Counter-Strike-News&article_id=10101
"A 15-year-old Romanian boy has killed his adoptive mother after she refused to pay the Internet bills. Ionut Silviu Savin, who is known to be dependant on video games, stabbed his adoptive parent 17 times before leaving to play Counter-Strike at a local internet cafe.
She had considered that the only solution for Ionut to no longer spend much time in front of the computer was to no longer pay Internet fees. This decision would result in her death.
The tragedy happened on Wednesday. Only three hours after stabbing the woman, Ionut was seen at his favourite internet cafe, where he played the violent shooter Counter-Strike for four hours. The cops later discovered Ionut had taken all the money he had found at his house.
The woman's dead body was discovered by her husband, as he returned home from work. Immediately he called the police. However, Ionut turned himself in to the police of his own accord, calmly saying "I think I'm the one you're looking for."
The boy was addicted to gaming and the internet. Ultimately his addiction led to him staying at home and not going out with friends. He clocked up over 200 absences from school.
The supervisor of the internet cafe noted that Ionut would come in all the time and play Counter-Strike quietly alone, with a hood over his head. She noted that he wouldn't swear like most players when he was losing, and never got angry. He would rarely speak.
His teacher called him "quiet" and "introverted".
However, his actions surrounding this tragedy have shocked everybody close to him.
Ionut discarded the murder weapon in a garbage container. Police later found the weapon at a nearby landfill.
Ionut is currently hospitalised under guard in a psychiatric clinic. Psychiatric examinations will reveal if Ionut was fully competent at the time of the crime. If he is found guilty of murder he faces 12 years in prison. Experts have commented that the nature of the crime (17 stabs) is indicative of mental health problems."
U DONT FUCK WITH ROMANIANS - RET irrc?
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goddamn, the shitstorm this might cause...
On the one hand I hope theyll find out that hes mentally ill, on the other hand I want him to rot in prison for a long time for this.
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jack thompson's gonna eat this up like a cupcake
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It's tough to have clear opinions about this since the kid obviously is mentally unstable, which isn't necessarily the result of playing counter strike.
Sick stuff...but not the sickest. 
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I think this kid was just addicted to the point where he will do anything just to continue playing Counterstrike. Computer game addictions and drug addictions are not too different if you ask me.
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200 absences from school tells me this kid is trying to run away from something in his life. This is a kid that's crying out for help, but no one heard him. It's sad that things end up this way, but you'd think that 200 absences from school is not something that you fix by cutting the internet off.
/edit - Just wanted to say that video games had nothing to do with this. If it wasn't video games, it would be drugs, gangs, robberies - video games are a symptom of his problem and not a cause.
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Why would he give a fuck about internet connection at home when he was playing at an internet cafe most of the time?
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It's pretty obvious that counterstrike didn't cause him to go crazy. It wasn't the root cause, to be sure.
Still, people are going to use this to say games are bad.
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Kid with mental illness stabs parent, idiots blame counter strike, news at 11
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This is why I don't fuck with quiet guy sitting in the corner....
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On February 06 2010 10:12 lazz wrote:
Kid with mental illness stabs parent, idiots blame counter strike, news at 11
I know a certain disbarred Florida ex-lawyer who is going to be hoping to be interviewed on Fox after this.
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this would never have happened if he played starcraft
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i blame sasuke and his fucking Mangekyō Sharingan
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he should know that 17stabs from a knife is overkill
she can't possibly have that much hp; costing him a few seconds time better spent playing cs.
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On February 06 2010 10:18 sassy wrote:
i blame sasuke and his fucking Mangekyō Sharingan
wrong thread. rofl.
But yeah. Kids like that don't kill parents just cause of counterstrike, usually some bigger underlying problem.
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Now if the C and the S and switched around, he would of been much better with a chance of getting a job that can pay 200k a year if he gets god at it.
But seriously, they think he had mental problems because he stabbed her 17 times? Did he stab her 7 times too many?? So if I kill someone and stab them 40 something times after they are dead, does my punishment become lighter because I wasn't in my proper state of mind?
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On February 06 2010 10:17 prototype. wrote:
this would never have happened if he played starcraft
Cause if he did he'd go DT and never show again. 
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On February 06 2010 10:10 DefMatrixUltra wrote:
200 absences from school tells me this kid is trying to run away from something in his life. This is a kid that's crying out for help, but no one heard him. It's sad that things end up this way, but you'd think that 200 absences from school is not something that you fix by cutting the internet off.
/edit - Just wanted to say that video games had nothing to do with this. If it wasn't video games, it would be drugs, gangs, robberies - video games are a symptom of his problem and not a cause.
This. Of course I'm sure we will only hear more about how 'good' his family life was, and how CS was the real cause (with a minor mention of death metal or something).
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He was obviously noob. Only takes 2 hits with secondary attack.
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