Kid kills his Parents over Halo 3...

[Who Dares Wins]

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/blogs/sidebar/909182374/26745240/so-called-halo-3-killer-convicted-of-murdering-mom.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;6

Most often, the media takes great pains to tie games to crime. Robberies of game retailers are given sensational treatment by local news outlets, while larceny involving other forms of entertainment--televisions, music players, and so on--are dismissed as routine. Often, even gruesome crimes are exploited if they have a game angle, as were the so-called "Xbox Murders" in 2004, when four Floridians were brutally slain by an ex-con who wanted to retrieve his console. (If he had wanted to get his toaster back, would it have been called the "Toaster Murders"?)

Unfortunately, though, sometimes games are central to a heinous crime. That was the case in October 2007, when then-16-year-old Daniel Petric (pictured) fatally shot his mother because she was limiting his Halo 3 playing time. Defense attorneys claimed the teenager was "obsessed" with the sci-fi shooter, growing irrational and aggressive when he could not play it. After being cut off by his parents, he retrieved his father's 9mm pistol and shot both of them, killing his mother and leaving his father with a major headwound. (The father survived, forgave his son, and even came to court to support him.) The younger Petric then went on the run, taking his copy of Halo 3 with him.

According to the Associated Press, Petric's lawyers argued that, after being psychically incapacitated for months following an injury, he was suffering from a full-blown addiction to Halo 3 and asked that he be ruled not guilty by reason of insanity. Today, though, an Ohio judge ruled that the juvenile was guilty of murder, even though he agreed that the youth was mentally unbalanced.

"I firmly believe that Daniel Petric had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents they would be dead forever," Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said in his ruling, according to the AP. However, evidence that Petric planned the murder for weeks led Burge to convict him in the non-jury-based proceedings. The judge will levy a sentence, potentially as severe as life imprisonment, at a later date.

For its part, Halo 3 publisher Microsoft gave a brief statement to the AP, saying only, "We are aware of the situation and it is a tragic case."



I think Jack Thomson just came...

[Leni]

Lordy .-. that's aweful. That's like the kid who commtied suicide in moscow o.o;;

[KingArthur]

I really think if your going to kill you family, your going to do it with or without videogames- You cant be mental stable if you kill them thinking they will respawn :D!

[Plunger]

I really think if your going to kill you family, your going to do it with or without videogames- You cant be mental stable if you kill them thinking they will respawn :D!

For being such a silly situation that was pretty damn funny.

[Silver Knight]

Or the japanese kid who jumped out the window...

[Leni]

Or the japanese kid who jumped out the window...

wasn't there a russian kid who did that?

[Silver Knight]

or the guy who commited suicide on justin.tv

[Judas]

The American kid who hung himself with his Wii- Remote because his paents told him his sister got to watch a movie before he could play...

[Silver Knight]

Wii play, great for "hanging" out with your "friends"

[Plague]

Faggggs.

[Fluffy]

Wow, people are just becoming more insecure and more unstable these days

He seems as crazy as this kid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBVmfIUR1DA

[Locke]

This is ._________.

[mrd]

Judge: What do you have to say for yourself?!
Kid: Dude, come the fuck on! I thought the server title said "Instant Respawn"

[Locke]

Judge: What do you have to say for yourself?!
Kid: Dude, come the fuck on! I thought the server title said "Instant Respawn"

I lol'd so hard

[Silver Knight]

Judge: So you think the game told you to kill your parents?
Kid: I had just got the gun pickup, when i saw that bitch had my halo, so i fuckin fragged her!

[Creeding]

*ahem*  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_addiction

[Adamant]

Judge: What do you have to say for yourself?!
Kid: Dude, come the fuck on! I thought the server title said "Instant Respawn"

I didn't lol.

Judge: 15 year sentence to prison (laoslx)
Sp@rt3n K1ll3r: Who the fuck set the respawn limit that high?

This is retarded.

[Lone Soldier]

Thats sad.

[jihun612]

Judge: What do you have to say for yourself?!
Kid: Dude, come the fuck on! I thought the server title said "Instant Respawn"

I lol'd so hard

lol i rofled too. prob like 90 year respawn time though. see them in heaven.... or the other place..

[Impure Reality]

Judge: What do you have to say for yourself?!
Kid: Dude, come the fuck on! I thought the server title said "Instant Respawn"

I lol'd so hard

lol i rofled too.  prob like 90 year respawn time though. see them in heaven.... or the other place..

There's no respawn in real life if you die it means you have been banned and your currently living at bantown enjoy your stay.

[Silver Knight]

The Godly BanHammer !

[Plunger]

Sounds like this kids parents were spending the money on games and movies over his happy pills.