The newspapers love to run stories about someone who committed murder "because" they played too many videogames. How ironic then, that passive aggressive newspaper The Telegraph is running a story about someone who committed murder because the victim was playing too many games. You can't win either way!
62-year-old Malcolm Palmer killed the mother of his three children after she became addicted to Grand Theft Auto. Carol Cannom, 46, apparently drove her partner mad by dragging a 37-inch plasma TV into the main bedroom and spending the entire night on her PS3. Malcolm was forced onto the sofa in order to get any sleep.
The story of this Lincolnshire couple seems unbelievably messed up. The PS3 was bought for their ten-year-old son, who would be allowed to play until midnight each night. Once he'd finished, the mother would take over until five or six in the morning. Malcolm also believed that Carol somehow had time for an affair, and turned violent when he was ordered out of the house, and told he'd never see his kids again.
He inflicted 20 wounds with two knives, and the attack was overheard by their son, who dialed 999. Palmer grabbed the phone off the boy and said: "I'm sorry. I think I killed her."
Palmer's defense lawyer is clinging to the gaming as a means of justifying his client's attack, claiming that the "Genesis of the tragedy bizarrely lies with the purchase of a PlayStation."
So, not only does playing videogames make you violent, it makes you a victim of violence too. Sounds like you all better grab a gun before someone gets you first.
Contest:
10:20 AM on 03.31.2009
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They clearly had marital problems that went far beyond late night game stints.
Apparently Video Games ARE the bane of humanity.
Exactly what I thought!
The wife was 46. The husband was 62. If anyone has a geriatric fetish, it was her.
Because the thought of video games just as a form of entertainment scares them for some reason.
The guy killed his wife because she was playing games... and she was having an affair (he thought)... but of those two reasons, which one is more UNusual? Right.. the gaming angle.
Every anti-gaming legislation that has ever been proposed, even in Utah of all places, has been stricken down. Australia and Germany have the harshest restrictions I think, and they've blocked the release of two, maybe three games over the past two years?
No clear thinking person believes the PS3 caused this woman's death. Jesus, you think classic car restorers flip out everytime someone is killed in a classic car?
The childish need to defend your favorite toy makes us all look bad, and is yet ANOTHER reason, very very few of us mention video-gaming as a hobby of ours in mixed company unless someone else admits it first. It's just damned embarrassing.
Only if you are overly fond of her.
If you were to murder her for any of these things, which is the least likely?
The article says Grand Theft Auto, and the tag under the photo says Grand Theft Auto. I'm going to assume it's LittleBigPlanet.
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I'm sure the pun was intended, after all, if he had said "The Mega Drive of the situation" it wouldn't have made any sense. =P
You do know this is a british news story right? Surely that should give you a hint as to why it's 999.
@Rosseh: for sure, no one cares that this child was up until midnight EVERY night? That's dumb. Midnight is when adults should be enjoying themselves and all good little boys and girls should asleep.