Teen Burns Classmate: WoW Made Me Do It
Meanwhile, in Beijing, a seventeen-year-old lost a fight with one of his classmates and decided to get some revenge. How, you ask? By pouring a water bottle filled with gasoline over his nemesis and then setting him ablaze. The victim wound up with severe burns on over half his body, while the assailant and his accomplice were given jail terms of eight and seven years, respectively, and ordered to pay the victim's family ~$100,000.
However, the most surprising thing about this story is the following information:
The perpetrator claimed he had lost himself in World of Warcraft and when he committed the crime he had transformed into a Fire Mage.
I'm getting a little sick of teenagers claiming they were brainwashed by a game into believing they were characters when they committed their criminal acts. Thankfully, the Twinkie Defense hasn't been developed over in China; if this had happened in the States, I'm pretty certain that a certain scum-sucking bottom feeder would already be convincing all the connected families to sue Blizzard...
Chinese Teen Plays World of Warcraft (魔兽世界) Fire Mage (火器法师) In Real Life, Seriously Burns Classmate [billsdue]
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Posted to Miscellany on 21 December 2007
· Comments (4)
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Atleast he wasn't a Hunter? (sorry i had to!)
And if he'd been a shadow priest, would he have thrown acid in the dude's face?
If I were that certain bottom-feeder you're referring to, I'd just pay kids to make up shit like that. If you can make people believe WoW made someone pour gasoline over somebody else to light them on fire because they thought they were a fire mage, bank robberies become pvp looting, rape becomes corpse humping and murderers will claim they felt like Mario at the time, jumping and stomping on goombas.
People = stupid
Hmm I dont have a mage but they dont have a throw gas move as far as I remember.
So basically this is his way of reducing responsibility upon himself.
Everybody knows that games are made from pure evil in the "Lets Kill Kids" factory on mount Anti-Christ.
So why not jump on the money train / band wagon? It seems to be the trend of late anyway.