A number of deaths have been pinned on Counter-Strike over the years, but never has the venerable online shooter ever been directly involved. That is, until a certain argument in a Novosibirsk Internet café ended on very violent terms, resulting in the death of a Russian teenager.
It has recently been revealed by Russian courts that in May of last year, two teenage boys got into a heated debate at the aforementioned café, as the two pals quarreled over a game of Counter-Strike. Consumed by their nerd rage, the boys partook in not one but two fistfights.
When one of the boys finally left the establishment, the other set upon him for a third encounter, beating him in the head and torso violently enough to kill him at the scene of incident. The attacker has since been found guilty of grievous bodily harm and is sentenced to four years in a juvenile detention center.
What was the boy thinking? Everybody knows that Counter-Strike encourages gun violence, not fist violence. He's doing it wrong.
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1:20 PM on 05.06.2009
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The kid should be locked much longer than that! He killed someone!
Wow, what tasteless, awful joke at the demise of a misguided young man. ...but i love that phrase. "doing it wrong." I laughed. I'm so ashamed...
Seriously though, I can't understand getting this angry about a video game.
Poor kid, I feel sorry for his family, nobody should have to die over something so idiotic.
If you want understanding and caring, take your ass to kotaku. This is Dtoid.
This is madness!
Madness..?
THIS IS 4CHANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTOID.
@harrmonica
Any game with a crouch button allows teabagging.
You are going to be ass-rapped even by the officials there...
god damn i hate stupid people
I saw this on CSNation. My question is why the hell did they keep playing, and drinking for that matter, while while just getting angrier at each other? Did no one see this coming? Not even the cafe people, who broke them up several times? Geezus...
He was obviously doing it wrong, how else could he have built up the rage to kill somebody over a stupid bunny-hopping team deathmatch game?
"This is madness!
THIS IS 4CHANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTOID."
Dear god...
Oh dear god...
That is a scary thought...
@DaedHead8
"You know what's funny, every time there is a fight in a Hockey game or Football game, people cheer and have a great time until the refs break it up. Nobody ever talks about banning sports though. I get the bad feeling that this will lead to more bullshit legislation against video games."
That's actually a really good point...
I'm surprised that corelation has never been brought up before...
Sports aren't violent in nature. By that I mean, you aren't meant to kill someone to win.
Games, CS in particular, requires death in some avenue or another.
A really good point...
Ask the Podtoid people...
As for the kids fighting over CS...
Shit, everyone has times of pure rage oozing from their bodies when they play that game...
Least they didn't break their keyboards or anything...
Death by keyboard...
That has to get some more years on top of the four...