Man kills over his xbox!

[Dok Diamond]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/08/08/bodies.found/index.html

I dont think this has been posted but, here we go.

[bignick]

Damn. I would be pissed is someone took my xbox, but not that pissed.

[CheapyD]

Anyone else forsee the "GTA card" being played by the defense attorneys?

[AvidWriter]

:roll: Here we go again, blame something thats been happening for millennia on something only a few decades old :roll: (For those that might not get it :lol: killing being blamed on games).

[Dok Diamond]

well they used bats so, MVP Baseball 2004 might be getting blame :roll:

[RBM]

Unfortunately, GTA is the only game which comes to mind where you are asked to beat people to death with a baseball bat. (well, not counting Double Dragon from the old arcades) This is certainly going to look bad in the headlines. :(

Maybe they'll decide that he was brainwashed by watching The Untouchables once too many times and......well, probably not.

[Reality's Fringe]

Sounds kinda gang-related to me. I mean, you can't tell me 4 people committed murder over an xbox and some clothes.
"Hey man, that fuck stole my Box!"
"This shall not stand! Assemble the men; we shall attack at dawn!"

It looks like an excuse to take out a rival gang-member/leader without tipping authorities off to the bigger problem(the gang) and setting up an all-too-tried defense(but your honor, the vIDEOGAMES MADE ME DO IT). I could be wrong though, and those people could just be fuckin' nuts.

[Zenithian Legend]

I wonder what the clothes were, better hope it wasn't something like a CAG shirt

[GuilewasNK]

Those SOB's that did that should get the chair. If they are willing to kill over that then they are capable of anything.

[Reality's Fringe]

If someone stole my "T" shirt or my Jeff Goldblum shirt; I think I'd kill them.

[thingsfallnapart]

what if you had 200 game saves on your x box and it was stolen and you cant get them back, isnt that worth killing over.

[Wshakspear]

Wow...Microsoft is really getting eXtreme with thier advertisements...

[Reality's Fringe]

I believe the correct term is "XTREME". The "E" makes it sound like a real word, and that is a no-no in the world of LCD Marketing.

[Johnny Postman]

I wonder if the Microsoft marketing dept will get in on this. I suggest a campaign along the lines of the Klondike Bar - "What would you do for an Xbox System?"

[Reality's Fringe]

"would you kill a man?"
"Uhm...I-I guess, sure." <Family Guy.

[Wshakspear]

"would you kill a man?"
"Uhm...I-I guess, sure." <Family Guy.

...while Mentos would have saved lincoln.

"Must. Kill. Lincoln."

[Zenithian Legend]

I'm waiting for a "what games would you kill for" topic to show up now

[mario23air]

This is really, really sad. You have 10 lives destroyed over a $149 piece of plastic, and some clothes. I love videogames, but they are only a hobby, not life and death. I think most people have had something stolen from them. About a year and a half ago someone broke into my apartment and stole my XBOX, Gameboy Advance, 2 XBOX games (2 out of the 93 I had at the time), and 32 Playstation 2 games, (I had 127 at the time). For some strange reason they didn’t touch my Gamecube or any Gamecube games. I was livid, but I would never kill anyone over that stuff, I’d beat the shit out someone, but I wouldn’t kill anyone. In the end I replaced most of the stuff that was stolen (except Serious Sam for XBOX, that game sucked) and moved on. This will only give the people that say videogame cause violent behavior more ammo.

[PsyClerk]

Hey, he had like 300 hours of Morrowind saved on that thing.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Violent video games do not make people violent. And I'll kill anyone that disagrees with me.

/two recycled jokes for the price of none!

[Reality's Fringe]

GAMES.ARE.WAY.OF.LIFE.

[the_deej]

those guys deserved to die, I mean stealing an xbox... thats worse than murder!

[Graystone]

it is not about an xbox it is about the fact that his house was broken into and his stuff was stolen I would of not been that mad though.

[the_deej]

I think the real question is, did the poor man get his beloved xbox back?

[xdaTwiZtidWunX]

Seems liek the reason he went os drastc was that maybe he was part if some rganzed crime, and saw this as sort of an insult and didnt kill him over the actual crap, but that the victims would actually like steal or whatever. I could be wrong(proll am lol)

[Strell]

"This shall not stand! Assemble the men; we shall attack at dawn!"


I highly doubt they'd phrase it in such words, RF. :P

Anyway the thing is that lots of people suspect drugs were involved.

Meh.

[PawnTakesKing]

Seems liek the reason he went os drastc was that maybe he was part if some rganzed crime, and saw this as sort of an insult and didnt kill him over the actual crap, but that the victims would actually like steal or whatever. I could be wrong(proll am lol)

No offense or anything, but what did you just say? Seriously, I can't understand a word of that.

[Jaket]

LMFAO what a stupid ass!

[Duo_Maxwell]

How come the media always has to put it on video games? Why can't the headline just read "Four psychos charged in the brutal murder of six people"? I mean that's what happened, but they always feel the need to try and take a hit to video games at every turn.

[Tom]

How come the media always has to put it on video games? Why can't the headline just read "Four psychos charged in the brutal murder of six people"? I mean that's what happened, but they always feel the need to try and take a hit to video games at every turn.
Because for some reason the old bastard politicians and soccer moms want to take our precious video games away.

[sj41]

Seems liek the reason he went os drastc was that maybe he was part if some rganzed crime, and saw this as sort of an insult and didnt kill him over the actual crap, but that the victims would actually like steal or whatever. I could be wrong(proll am lol)

No offense or anything, but what did you just say? Seriously, I can't understand a word of that.I agree with you on that. How about typing correctly?

[swetooth9]

Seems liek the reason he went os drastc was that maybe he was part if some rganzed crime, and saw this as sort of an insult and didnt kill him over the actual crap, but that the victims would actually like steal or whatever. I could be wrong(proll am lol)

ummm......what?.... :?

[snotknocker]

Is it not great that we can poke fun at such a heartless tragedy. <sarcasm>

Some people just want to make me hurl.

[ElfAngel7]

GAMES.ARE.WAY.OF.LIFE.
And apparently a way of death for some. Jeez, why do all these nutcases have to be in florida :roll:

[ElfAngel7]

I think the real question is, did the poor man get his beloved xbox back?

I don't think so. Though he may get a nice comfy chair w/ a bit of a voltage problem.

[FriskyTanuki]

I gotta post this.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/CrashSpyro123/tetris2.jpg

[Tennisjon2002]

Ahh its on yahoo 2!!!! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040808/ap_on_re_us/bodies_found

[Mospeada_21]

How come the brands of baseball bats used weren't mentioned?

Anyways, killing six people over an XBox console that only allows four players (excluding Live and LAN) does not add up either. And what? No further details on the XBox, just name dropping?

Media bias and yellow journalism.

[Kaijufan]

Thats sad that somebody would do that because of an Xbox and some clothes.

[TheUnsane1]

This has to be a mob/gang hit masked by xbox. Look at these names and ages again the "ringleader" Troy Victorino is 27 gets a group of 18 year olds to come with him and he kills Francisco Roman, Anthony Vega, Roberto Gonzalez all of them 28+. I know that there are alot of older gamers out there but it seems unlikely to me this is a xbox killing. They should have weilded the xbox to defend themselves xbox would prob. kill some people when swung.

[fireball343]

About a year and a half ago someone broke into my apartment and stole my XBOX, Gameboy Advance, 2 XBOX games (2 out of the 93 I had at the time), and 32 Playstation 2 games, (I had 127 at the time). For some strange reason they didn’t touch my Gamecube or any Gamecube games.

i wouldn't touch them either.

this is some sort of gang set up most likely cuz their where 4 people ready to go kill people who they "assumed" took the xbox.
How do they know who stole their stuff?

it's another, videogames involved in a murder, so we must make massive basis news story about it.

[tubesock80]

GAMES.ARE.WAY.OF.LIFE.
And apparently a way of death for some. Jeez, why do all these nutcases have to be in florida :roll:

It could be worse than nutcases. In Georgia we have idiots who go to Wal-Mart with a $1,000,000 dollar bill and try to spend it; not to mention the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate and lowest SAT scores. Also, the state secretary of education proposed we ban the word "evolution" in schools.

[Dok Diamond]

"and one body was so badly mangled that it has not yet been officially identified, he said."

unnecessary

[mario23air]

"Sheriff: Four charged in Xbox killings"

"Authorities have arrested and charged four people in the killings in Deltona, Florida, of six people who were beaten with aluminum baseball bats while in their beds, Volusia County's sheriff said Sunday. The murder was organized by a man who was angry because he believed his Xbox video game system and some clothes had been stolen, said Sheriff Ben Johnson. All four are charged with first-degree murder and armed burglary."

[Dok Diamond]

mario you got alot of games

[Xevious]

You know whats more pathetic than killing a man over an Xbox?

Killing a man over a Gamecube.

[Reality's Fringe]

Damn you all for stealing my hypothesis of gang-murder! GIVE ME PROPS, OR I SWEAR TO CHRIST I WILL BREAKI INTO YOUR HOUSES AND FUCKIN' MURDER YO-uhm......heh, look, that's, you know, not nice and stuff. Gotta go play my NGC. Calm down. Deep Breaths.

[guardian_owl]

You know whats more pathetic than killing a man over an Xbox?

Killing a man over a Gamecube.

You know what's more pathetic than both of those together? Killing over an N-gage :twoguns:

[Reality's Fringe]

Pshaw, the new N-Gage has been REDESIGNED so that it has a new hotswap option, bigger buttons, uhm, taco shape, and......uhm.....gah.

[punqsux]

Pshaw, the new N-Gage has been REDESIGNED so that it has a new hotswap option, bigger buttons, uhm, taco shape, and......uhm.....gah.

i thought you quit gamestop?

[Reality's Fringe]

It gets burned in your head, the propoganda....THE PROPOGANDA!!!!!!!! Man, that reminds me of that song from the bar in Beyond Good and Evil. Damn catchy, it 'twas.

[FunkMachineX]

This sounds more like a mob hit, I don't think this was really caused by the xbox being stolen. It was probably just the fact that they stole shizznite, still that doesn't make any sense whatever.


This better not get brought up as violent video games influcicing.

[KillingMachine]

Microsoft will probably just use this to launch a new "X-TREME" marketing angle where they'll rephrase the motto to "Xbox. It's fun to slay together.".

[Moxio]

He killed over an Xbox? That's just super-CAG.

[coolsteel]

Those people got killed on the principle of the matter, i'm seriously doubting anyone would risk jail time just to avenge the loss of an xbox. The fact that the article mentions the xbox and not the brand of clothing shows this is jaded as hell.

[coolsteel]

Sounds kinda gang-related to me. I mean, you can't tell me 4 people committed murder over an xbox and some clothes.
"Hey man, that shaq-fu stole my Box!"
"This shall not stand! Assemble the men; we shall attack at dawn!"

It looks like an excuse to take out a rival gang-member/leader without tipping authorities off to the bigger problem(the gang) and setting up an all-too-tried defense(but your honor, the vIDEOGAMES MADE ME DO IT). I could be wrong though, and those people could just be shaq-fuin' nuts.


:lol:

[Xevious]

You know whats more pathetic than killing a man over an Xbox?

Killing a man over a Gamecube.

You know what's more pathetic than both of those together? Killing over an N-gage :twoguns:

You got me there!

[sblymnlcrymnl]

You have to admire that kind of dedication to the gaming arts.

[The Successful Dropout]

whats the big deal? i thought we've all killed over our xbox from time to time

[BLarR]

It'd be better if it were over a Gamecube, cause the cops would have no idea what to do with four 5 year olds.

[MrBadExample]

"The murder was organized by a man who was angry because he believed his Xbox video game system and some clothes had been stolen, said Sheriff Ben Johnson."

I think we're missing the big picture here. It was the clothes, People! He killed over the clothes.

We should put warning labels on clothes to alert and inform the parents and not let anyone under 18 wear clothes. Call your Congressmen.

[jshorr]

Stating the obvious, but this didn't really have anything to do with an Xbox. These heartless thugs would have killed over the loss of anything that made them feel disrespected I'm sure. The thing that surprises me the most when I see stuff like this is that the kids must have known they'd get caught quickly. I doubt he'll get much Xbox time from here on in....

[Dok Diamond]

well they got caught because one them comfessed, they might of got away.