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Post by ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul on Jan 3, 2010 23:43:54 GMT -5
Prison will not be kind to that guy at all. The thing that is glossed over in most Crime centric media is how prison is in regards to families, I've known enough people who have been on the inside, and they have agreed that a lot of inmates (and the more flexible prison guards) all hold to the "we have family on the outside," that's generally why people who do crimes against children are in solitary their entire term, other people will find out what you did, and they will hurt you. |
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Post by nate5054 on Jan 4, 2010 0:35:39 GMT -5
I always love prison logic, and how that "we have family on the outside" never stopped them from killing/robbing/raping/etc. others.
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Post by nate5054 on Jan 4, 2010 0:37:03 GMT -5
It really depends. It could have been that he was pissed off at losing and that's what triggered it. If that was the case, he wouldn't stab him if they were reading a book. In that way, I'm not ready to say the game was incidental. Not at fault, yes, but having nothing to do with it? It's too early to tell. It's definitely incidental. If they were having a contest on who could toss the most socks thru a mini basketball hoop over a laundry bin and he went nuts over that, the dirty socks are also incidental. |
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Post by Silent Brad on Jan 4, 2010 2:26:07 GMT -5
Oh, this just tears me up. I have a brother about the same age. And too hear about something like this happening to this poor, innocent kid, just makes me sick. Kid had his whole life ahead of him, but that's all gone now. This is just horrible. Hope this guy gets whats coming to him in prison.
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Post by Red Impact on Jan 4, 2010 2:32:38 GMT -5
It really depends. It could have been that he was pissed off at losing and that's what triggered it. If that was the case, he wouldn't stab him if they were reading a book. In that way, I'm not ready to say the game was incidental. Not at fault, yes, but having nothing to do with it? It's too early to tell. It's definitely incidental. If they were having a contest on who could toss the most socks thru a mini basketball hoop over a laundry bin and he went nuts over that, the dirty socks are also incidental. Not really. Incidental would mean it would be completely unrelated to the incident, which is not something we can say yet. If he got pissed off because he lost the sock tossing game and went nuts over it, it's not incidental. That doesn't mean it's a scapegoat for it (and the story doesn't villainize the game), or that anyone could blame a skateboarding hero for it, or even that it was the main cause, but for it to be incidental would mean that, at that moment, regardless of what they were doing, he was going to stab him to death, and the game didn't set him off at all. That's not something we can really know yet. Put it this way, if you were walking across a crosswalk and I had to swerve my car to avoid hitting you, wherein I hit a light pole and died, you walking across it wouldn't be incidental. Now, are you to blame? Not at all, you were careful, the crosswalk sign was telling you to walk, and you were following the law. I was the one speeding down the road while talking on a cell phone, eating a meatball sub, reading The Economist, and getting a few personal favors from the woman in the passenger's seat. But you were a factor in it, so you weren't incidental, even though you were blameless. That's how I see this situation. We don't know if the game was incidental yet, even though the game wasn't the cause. |
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Post by Red Lion on Jan 4, 2010 5:55:59 GMT -5
Too early to actually confirm that he was "killed over a video game". From the article, everything related to motive is purely speculative at the moment, with the media obviously going for sensationalism with a headline like that. Having said that, still no excusable reason for that sort of murder to be committed. Exactly what I'm thinking. This is still awful awful awful  |
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Post by Grendel on Jan 4, 2010 10:54:31 GMT -5
I don't know what really set this guy off, but to knife a 9 year old kid? Shameful. I, like others, wonder what this kid was doing up at 3 in the morning with this thug, but my heart goes out to that family.
At least the game was Tony Hawk. You just know if it was GTA or a violent game like that the anti video game coalitions would be all over this.
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan on Jan 4, 2010 12:00:17 GMT -5
I always love prison logic, and how that "we have family on the outside" never stopped them from killing/robbing/raping/etc. others. I'd guess it's because people see a difference between harming a child and harming an adult. Just because you have no qualms about shooting a 33 year old man in the head to steal his watch doesn't mean you thinking shooting a 3 year old in the head is fine and dandy. Stuff like this angers people, regardless of whether they're in prison or not. Just look at some of the responses to threads like these for proof of that. And since people in prison are there because they've already shown a lack of reserve when it comes to doing bad things, doing bad things to someone they learn did an even worse thing isn't that huge a leap for them to make. I'm still not sure such things happen as often as people like to think they do, but it wouldn't really surprise me if it was true. |
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Post by Throwback on Jan 4, 2010 15:38:46 GMT -5
One thing I can say is. Once this guy ends up in jail and the other prisoners find out what he's in for. He'll get what's coming to him.
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