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Rosenblum of GameLife arrested over VT-like threat

12:14 PM on 04.18.2007, World Famous 86 comments

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Some of you may have been fans of GameLife and would certainly recognize who Andrew Rosenblum is. If you're familiar with Rosenblum and the show, then this news may come as somewhat of a shock. According to Boston police reports, the GameLife host was picked up as a result of "an e-mail threatening to kill an ex-girlfriend and recreate the Virginia Tech bloodshed at her school."

Rosenblum allegedly wrote these words to the 19-year-old female target:

“(I)’m gonna (expletive) bring a gun to your school and kill you and K (another female student) and everybody you love. It’s gonna be VT all over again,” 20-year-old Andrew Rosenblum allegedly wrote in an e-mail to the victim just hours after 32 people were gunned at Virginia Tech.

“Seriously I’m just that demented,” Rosenblum wrote, according to a BPD report. He ended the message with a threat to commit homicide and suicide: “killing people can change people’s lives forever. (T)he best is in the end when I pull the trigger on myself, too."

Allegedly, the girl had gone out with Rosenblum on three separate occasions and once that had ended the harassment began. From the Boston Herald:

The 19-year-old woman told cops she went on three dates with Rosenblum at the beginning of the school year, but had broken up with him. Rosenblum then allegedly harassed her, she said, according to the police report.

The victim began receiving the disturbing instant e-mail messages just before midnight Monday - the day of the Virginia Tech massacre - which she saved and printed, according to the report. 

Bad timing, bad taste, and poor judgement all around, Andrew.

[Thanks to Craig from ScrewAttack for the tip] 


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Hipple's Avatar
Hipple at 04/18/2007 12:15
Damn, people are fucked up. Fucked up and stupid as hell...
Stuttering Craig's Avatar
Stuttering Craig at 04/18/2007 12:16
i was shocked this morning when i saw this. never would of thought he would say or do anything like this. shocked.
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deaddays at 04/18/2007 12:17
Moron moron moron. Moron.
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witthaus at 04/18/2007 12:18
fuck this dude and fuck guns...this should never happen, EVER!
Niero's Avatar
Niero at 04/18/2007 12:20
I know Andrew personally. I'm having a hard time believing that this is actually happening.
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Rockvillian at 04/18/2007 12:21
"Seriously I’m just that demented" is not an excuse for anything Rosenblum. Use your head.
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Aaron Linde at 04/18/2007 12:27
Fuck, Andrew. Unless there's some sort of awesome explanation for this, like you were kidnapped and brainwashed by mind-sucking aliens that live in your shoes, I'd like to thank you for setting back gaming's image ten years.
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Philonious at 04/18/2007 12:27

If this is true, dude is clearly and obviously fucked up. He also isn't doing us any favours since he has close ties with gaming. Could all the crazies please stop gaming? It'll only make things worse and ruin the fun for the rest of us.
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Oxybeles at 04/18/2007 12:32
Idiot!
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OutrageousToob at 04/18/2007 12:37
What an idiot.
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Danzuke at 04/18/2007 12:38
Is it possible at all that someone had it out for him and hacked his accounts? It does seem WAY out there.
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Aaron Linde at 04/18/2007 12:44
Danzuke, if what this girl says is true, he had been harassing her for quite some time for breaking up with him. It seems likely that this, too, was him.
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Joe Burling at 04/18/2007 12:45
Women really know how to bring out the best/worst in all of us.

I'd blame this on women before I blamed it on video games.
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JamesSorensen at 04/18/2007 12:47
wow, at first seemed like could have been a joke...


but turns out he is obsessed and fucked up....
arrest him and check him into some head clinic
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mad cow at 04/18/2007 12:51

It is both funny and wrong that this article is filed under 'Pew pew pew!'
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Kryptinite at 04/18/2007 12:54
what the hell is an instant email message?
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Snaileb at 04/18/2007 13:08
Sorry that drama has hit you guys so hard and so close to home, Linde, Niero, and Craig... I know what that's like...

This is an unacceptable portrayal of gamers in general...
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DryvBy at 04/18/2007 13:15
Nice, more fuel for the Jack Thompson fire.
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tazarthayoot at 04/18/2007 13:16
Can the people who are in the proverbial spotlight of this industry please do us fans a favor and NOT SHOOT YOURSELVES IN THE GOD DAMN FOOT.

I need a drink, who's fucking buying?
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 04/18/2007 13:17
Never would have thought this guy would be capable something like this. Poor judgment indeed, not even two days later.
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RICHARD BLOCKER at 04/18/2007 13:28
That's it, It's all over boys. I'm going to go sell my box to Gamestop before the government takes it away. I guess I'll go outside and see what excersize feels like.
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tazarthayoot at 04/18/2007 13:29
They'll have to pry the controller out of my cold dead hands.

They can take my Wii, though.
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World Famous at 04/18/2007 13:32
If this is true, then Andrew needs to be banned for life from the gaming industry. He just ruined whatever credibility all of us may have had.
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ChrisFurniss at 04/18/2007 13:35
That guy has a girlfriend? Where is he hiding her, in his second chin?
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bobthecat23 at 04/18/2007 13:44
fuck this retard omfg man evryone is blaming the VT crap on
the videogames i hate the fucking media not gaming media the media like fox cnn unvision cbs abc
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Your Mom at 04/18/2007 13:44
Wow...this in the city that locked itself down after the ATHF lights thing. What an idiot.
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RICHARD BLOCKER at 04/18/2007 13:45
@ ChrisFurniss

Bazing!
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tazarthayoot at 04/18/2007 13:46
Summa, any word on G4 letting you guys respond about this shit? Somebody has to, since no one else seems to want to.
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Danzuke at 04/18/2007 13:47
Summa, you're totally right. It's a shame but the kid is out. It's hard enough to get people to look at gamers in a normal light. We certainly don't need this shit.

Not to mention the fact that he's clearly fucked in the head and a danger to the people around him
World Famous's Avatar
World Famous at 04/18/2007 13:49
"Summa, any word on G4 letting you guys respond about this shit? Somebody has to, since no one else seems to want to."

No, nothing yet. It sucks too. We need to speak out.
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Stuttering Craig at 04/18/2007 13:55
I would LOVE to get the opportunity to speak about this on any platform I can... especially against someone just as openly crazy- Jack Thompson.
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RICHARD BLOCKER at 04/18/2007 13:55
Yeah, turned on AOTS last night expecting something to be said about the subject. Go forth Summa, and champion our cause!!!
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World Famous at 04/18/2007 14:07
Just talked to G4. I guess since Kevin is out they aren't able to do anything. Sorry guys, we're gonna get our ass kicked for the next week or so.
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908peruvian at 04/18/2007 14:15
i don't even see the point of stalking....
how do you get so low you start sending wacked out
insane love/hate messages, making calls while masturbating,
calling hanging up.

and to bring up the Virginia tech tragedy and threaten
to reenact it to sound "cool" or "tough" is more proof
of what a lowlife he is.
how old is he 10??

LOSER !!!!

he just kicked ALL MALE GAMERS in the nuts.

he shouldnt work in the videogame field again.



908peruvian's Avatar
908peruvian at 04/18/2007 14:17
damn !!

just saw his myspace page!!

HE LOOKS FUCKEN CRAZY!
RICHARD BLOCKER's Avatar
RICHARD BLOCKER at 04/18/2007 14:17
I think one of the SuperTroopers could pull it of, but I'd rather wait for the Portuguese opinion
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Lightthrower at 04/18/2007 14:18
Woah woah woah stop right there... In just a couple of days we had Jack Thompson and Dr. Phil jumping the gun on videogames as being the culprit for VT. Just today there was a bomb alert at G4 and now Andrew is accused of trying to kill people VT'like. Both G4 and Andrew are connected to videogames, it doesn't look like it is a coincidence, it's just too perfect. They have an agenda and they want the industry to suffer.
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AngelsDontBurn at 04/18/2007 14:34
Wow, I'm pretty shocked actually. One, because he actually had the nerve to type something like that and that he actually had a girlfriend.
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Heavy_Kevy at 04/18/2007 14:38
This is all too crazy. maybe yoga should be a mandatory class in elementary school.
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AngelsDontBurn at 04/18/2007 14:48
MSpaint @ work FTW.
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Cruds at 04/18/2007 14:49
«If this is true, then Andrew needs to be banned for life from the gaming industry.»

Since when is someone who talk/write about gaming – even if it is for a living – part of the gaming industry? Yeah he played games but anyone who have seen a episode of that show can tell those wires in his head are not properly connected.

Did they find any games at Cho Seung-Hui’s place? we all know he was into school plays, Jack Thompson should look into that a bit more deeply.
Phist's Avatar
Phist at 04/18/2007 14:51
People are acting stupid crazy lately. I blame women, climate change, Jack Thompson, Dubya Bush and food products like Kellogg's Yogos.

World Famous's Avatar
World Famous at 04/18/2007 14:53
"Since when is someone who talk/write about gaming – even if it is for a living – part of the gaming industry? Yeah he played games but anyone who have seen a episode of that show can tell those wires in his head are not properly connected."

The fact that MTV took it seriously enough to profile it is enough to count, in my book.
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Cruds at 04/18/2007 14:54
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Geoff at 04/18/2007 14:56
Everyone stop fucking harassing me on this subject.
Stop emailing me, stop calling me, go fuck yourself.

-Geoff Mendicino, Andrew's friend.
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 04/18/2007 14:56
At first glance, I thought this was talking about the blog Game|Life run by Chris Kohler at Wired and that the picture at the top was a very bad picture of Kohler. Guess I should differentiate the two names better.
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World Famous at 04/18/2007 14:56
$2 says it was Geoff's idea.
Geoff's Avatar
Geoff at 04/18/2007 15:00
I'm going to go masturbate with a brick.
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