Proving that the GameFAQs community members can always get stupider, a teenage boy bragged on the gaming advice site's message board about burning down a Pamyra church, adding that he was "LOLing" over the arson attack.
Jediknight12345 posted on GamesFAQs' Current Events board Wednesday night asking the rest of the community if they felt he should burn down a church and a school. Despite moderators removing the post, by Thursday the poster was already telling his fellow GameFAQs members that he'd gone ahead and done it. He made light of the fire, which spread through Mission Hill Baptist Church, even posting camera phone pictures to prove to the skeptics that it did in fact, happen. He added that the best bit was how quickly the fire spread, and explained he started "three little fires" on computers, bibles and some towels put in an oven.
One's first thought would reasonably be that the kid was bragging up something he hadn't done in a misguided attempt to look cool, but a number of GameFAQs members, the ones who weren't praising him, forwarded the details on, and eventually it turned out that there was enough evidence to link Jediknight12345 with the fire.The boy was identified and arrested. He is now in the custody of juvenile authorities on charges of arson and burglary.
I'm just glad Alone in the Dark isn't released yet. The last thing anyone needs is people blaming this on a game where you set fire to half of New York.
[Thanks to Brian Szabelski.]
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6:38 AM on 02.09.2008
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way to live my dreams buddy, gl in prison.
wait... i know who we can blame this on... George Lucas!
He's made millions of the Star Ballz trilogies, and it's destroying the children. THE CHILDERNS DAMMIT DO YOU NOT FEEL EMPATHY AT SUCH A TIME AS THIS?
Seriously, it's like their of a different species.
I wonder why such a story is being treated the way it is here. A few of you are making idiotic jokes about it (let me guess, still in High School right?), while others are bringing up the issue of video games being blamed. Am I the only one that sees something wrong with that?
A church was burned down. I could give a fuck less if games are going to be blamed or not. There are a lot of things more important than Video Games.
How disrespectful can you get? Even if you aren't Christian, I'm willing to bet you'd have a family member or friend who is. How can you poke fun at people's lives in such a way? Even those that are close to you, that you know personally? Worst of all is insulting God and Christ, not even paying attention and even denying everything they've done for you in your life.
...And this is why we are on Destructoid, as opposed to the incestuous fanboy cesspool that is GamesFAQs
"Thank you for not breeding."
Stupid comment is stupid.
way to live my dreams buddy, gl in prison."
i really hope this was meant in jest and even so, the joke isn't funny.
@matlox,sourgr8pes: couldn't agree more.
I laughed.
One day these kids are going to grow up, struggle to afford and pay for property of their own, and will fully understand that stunts like this are uncalled for.
I say try him as an adult. That should teach him not to play with fire.
Lol! I said "Thank god"! *giggles*
(inb4 christians yelling at me in walls of texts because I'm not crying over this)
That is the funniest thing I've read on here in a while.
Major Lulz to Sir James.
Coincidence of not, it's funny how this is happening in order to the websites listed in the Cnet Network (Gamespot, GameFAQs, MP3.com, TV.com, MovieTome). I wonder what MP3.com has in store for the upcoming months.
PS- It happened on Current Events huh. I thought the LUE board was supposedly the source of GameFAQs' "cancer".
Also, Matlox, get off the internet. If you think church is more important than games, go to a church forum and talk about how you sucked off Jesus in a revelation you once had.
Games being blamed for things they shouldn't be is important to gamers. I agree there are things more important than games. However, I applaud the destruction of religious property.
No one was killed, and now that community will unite under a cause of hatred and slay the young retard who did it.
You should look for the silver lining in the cloud, silly.
I feel really bad for the churchgoers that now have no place to worship, but on the bright side at least the little bastard got caught, not that its a surprise really. Brag about a crime on a message board able to be read by anyone in the world, what did he honestly expect to happen? But hey maybe its a good thing he got caught now, who knows what he could have done later on.