Warcraft player chokes mother after refusing to quiet down

[Bmen30]

http://gamingbolt.com/2010/02/18/warcraft-player-chokes-mother-after-refusing-to-quiet-down/

February 18th, 2010 at 12:11 pm -

27-year old James Swan was so incensed after his mother told him to quiet down his World of Warcraft playing that he choked her, before ramming his own head through a wall.

According to Kotaku, Swan, of Manatee, Florida, was playing World of Warcraft while drinking on the 11th February, when his 50-year old mother interrupted his play session to tell him to hush up because her three grandchildren were sleeping. Police say that after Swan ignored the simple request, his mother put a hand on his shoulder, at which point he stood up, grabbed his mother by the hair and threw her across the room.

WTF

 

[DameGreyWulf]

Ah, WoW players.
This rather reminds me of my cousin, who doesn't play WoW but throws the same ****fits whenever he's told to do something.

Guy needs castrated. Will make him more benign.

 

[Radalan]

Swan then ripped the phone off the wall, and plunged his head into the hole where it had been.

What the ****?

 

[Revilo]

Meh, I still prefer the improvised T.V remote dildo fit thrown by a WoW player.

 

[Elisianthus]

Revilo: what!?

 

[DameGreyWulf]

True, the only person hurt there was the traumatized remote control.

 

[Swadius 2.0]

Revilo: what!?

Remote sodomy

Both interpretations are equally entertaining, you have nothing to lose by clicking on it.

 

[Revilo]

Makes me chuckle every time. I don't see how it can be that addicting, it's not even a particularly good game.

Edit: Oh Swadius, that's why you needed to post a second link!

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

It's not about being a good game.
It's about being an endless grindfest.
Always something more to achieve. Always some new goal.
Kind of like real life in that respect. Just that the latter requires effort.

 

[tommylaw]

Swan then ripped the phone off the wall, and plunged his head into the hole where it had been.

What the ****?

I know its wrong but I'm struggling to contain my laughter.

 

[Corndawg]

I swear, they get worse every time.

A thought just struck me, fanatical Warcraft players in a conversation with fanatical Twilight fans. Both naturally hate the other game and books/movies respectively, so it would end up being the battle of the century and all fanatics would be wiped out.

 

[AWdeV]

Hurray! Corn is on to something! Someone give him a cigar and those fanatics chainsaws and grenades!

 

[bugman]

Wait a second! We've had this before!

 

[Adviser]

No one was seriously injured.

Oh really.

grabbed his mother by the hair and threw her across the room.

plunged his head into the hole where it had been.

He then threw his mother to the ground and started choking her.

Swan’s grandfather took a gun into the room, where, still holstered, the gun misfired, grazing James Swan’s ear.

Yes no one got injured  .

Of course, it is impossible to shift the blame entirely on the game

Finally some justice to video gamers
Then again,

but it is certainly part of the issue.

 

[gamerwiz09]

What the slippery sausage is wrong with people?

I like all these pseudo-news topics, Temijiun Cmen. They provide the easy-to-come-by evidence that fuels my misanthropy.

My opinion in one word: Idiots.

Also: http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted.html

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

No one was seriously injured.

Oh really.

Reread that, Adviser.

 

[vadermath]

If all WoW players choked their mother and committed suicide afterwards, the world would be a better place. Kinda sad this one wasn't seen through to the end.

 

[gamerwiz09]

No one was seriously injured.

Oh really.

Reread that, Adviser.

Physical injuries are second place here. Why doesn't someone take a look at what's wrong with the kid's ****ing head?

 

[Szentgyörgyi]

If all WoW players half of all the idiots in the world choked their mother   the other half and committed suicide afterwards, the world would be a better place.

More like that.

 

[fisheye]

I've heard that WoW was addictive as crack, but this is the first time I've heard of it driving one bat**** crazy like PCP.