GameLife Host Arrested For Sending Threatening Messages
The Virginia Tech massacre was a horrendous punctuation mark in the history of youth violence. It was so needless, and 32 people had to pay the price of one individual’s hate-filled vision of his surroundings.
That same day, Andrew Rosenblum, founder and host of online video game review show, GameLife allegedly threatened to kill a female acquaintance after seeing the coverage of the shootings at Virginia Tech. She claims that he sent several threatening messages to her via instant messenger which she then saved and printed out to report the situation to the police. The two had been on three dates when she decided to call it quits and broke up with him. He then allegedly became obsessed and started to harass her.
The Boston Herald picked up the story and reported the following as one of Rosenblum’s messages:
“(I)’m gonna (expletive) bring a gun to your school and kill you and K (another female student) and everybody you love. It’s gonna be VT all over again,” 20-year-old Andrew Rosenblum allegedly wrote in an e-mail to the victim just hours after 32 people were gunned at Virginia Tech.
“Seriously I’m just that demented,” Rosenblum wrote, according to a BPD report. He ended the message with a threat to commit homicide and suicide: “killing people can change people’s lives forever. (T)he best is in the end when I pull the trigger on myself, too.”
He was arrested at his parents’ house on Tuesday, and taken to a hospital for observation. A warrant was then issued for his arrest, which may be carried out today, for threatening to do bodily harm to another individual. Boston police detectives also obtained restraining orders, restricting Rosenblum from contacting the girl or her friend who was implicated in the instant messages.
My two cents:
First off, three dates do no constitute a relationship. They went on a few dates, he probably wasn’t right for her, he got offended and became obsessed. That's barely dating, it's more like a trial run or a sample. Rosenblum needs to learn a hard lesson about failure. If something doesn’t work, you learn from it, move on, and let that failure inform your future decisions. Let the negativity go. Vengeance and hatred will get you nowhere in life, do not let them cloud your judgment of appropriate behavior.
Toots
Posted to Miscellany, Video Games on 18 April 2007
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Perhaps its just me, but that guy looks like he'd smell like onions.
He should be grateful he got a date in the first place! The next two dates happened just because she's not a good liar imo.
Don't strike out the possibility that he said something she didn't like over IM, causing her to fabricate the emails/logs as a way to get back to him.
You'd be amazed what kind of retarded things people will do to get back at those they don't like!
What i'm curious of?
What the hell was happening to the right to get his attention.
I'm of course looking for the traditional "oh god it's video games all over again!" because.... [sarcasm] No one ever gets obsessive and stalks people or becomes freakishly enamored with other people, ever. Thank the heavens for our perfectly utopian society. *nods sagely* [/sarcasm]
sigh, I feel great sympathy for him. Since being sentence to jail is very frightening ordeal. And this is really common when your a young boy feeling so different and rejected over being youself.
Kotaku posted up a message from the female, and she said the one thing that I do hope the best of this is "I hope he gets the help he needs."
Uh...sending death threats because one feels "different" is common? Wow...have I lost touch.
i think he reached a new level of stupidity
He's kind of cute in a retarded sort of way.
Well whoever constructed the alleged IMs, they need to seriously consider why they think "killing people can change people’s lives forever" is a profound statement. I mean seriously - isnt that a Bushism or something?