You don't often see Silent Hill at the center of a "games made me do it" controversy, but a thirty-five-year-old man claims that Konami's psychological horror series inspired him to break into a hospital basement and shut off the electricity. The man, identified only as Jan H., claims to have been in a state of psychosis and believed he was playing the game.
Jan infiltrated the basement of Sophia Hospital in the Netherlands last April, where he shut off the power and forced a blackout for forty-five minutes. People were trapped in elevators and doctors had to manually keep intensive care patients breathing. Fortunately, nobody was hurt.
Amazingly, he was found not guilty in a trial last week as the court ruled Jan had "no idea of the true consequences of his deed." Jan claims that, during his warped state of mind, he believed that shutting off the hospital power would allow him to acquire a toothbrush as part of some convoluted Silent Hill puzzle.
I don't even know what to say ...
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5:40 PM on 10.28.2009
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Oh how very, very, awesome! I want to hear more stories of this mans attempt to solve this puzzle! It can not go unsolved!
Appropriately enough, I guess Jan awoke to find out that he himself was the bad guy. TWIST!
No light attracts the monsters, so he was right rally to cut the power
In all seriousness, I'm happy to see that this has been resolved and for once games have not become the scapegoat again.
Maybe in the Netherlands but that shit would never fly in the US.
I'm glad none of the patients died. Then this story would have been sad, instead of funny.
Of course I'm joking I wouldn't take advantage of the mentally ill.
I could throw bricks on people and blame it on Tetris no?
beating the shit out of everyone and blaming it on bayonetta
THE HOSPITAL IS TO BLAME FOR THIS. BAN THE FKING HOSPITALS.
Word.
And that goes for ad bots like Fanqin1 as well. >:O(
Jury: "I hereby find the defendant, Jan H, innocent for not knowing the dangers of the crime." "Although, I hereby ban all Silent Hill games from this country, because this disgusting filth is the cause of all our problems!"
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One does not simply coerce Silent Hill. Already he is not worthy and is banished from the land of worm-headed dogs.