Sometimes you stumble upon those news pieces that really shouldn't be funny, but make one laugh anyway. I feel like a real ass for snickering here, but this past Tuesday in Brazil, a gang known as La Firma kidnapped the highest scorer in the online game Gunbound, forced him under threat of death into an Internet cafe' and then had him give up his point-laden account for sale on the online black market. The plan was genius in its simplicity -- they set up the anonymous gamer on a date with what he believed would be a real life female. As we all know, such treasures are irresistable to gamers. We wouldn't stop playing The Haloz if the house was on fire, but present us with a chance to get laid and we'd break our own fingers.
Instead of a quick trip to Burger King and an awkward back alley fumble however, the hapless gamer was instead faced with a gun wielding gang member who forced him to fork over his account. Without so much as a lovebite, the now-pointless player was released back into the wild like so many unwanted Pokemans, while La Firma put the points up for purchase online -- a purchase worth $8,000 to any idiot willing to pay.
According to Xinhua News, Brazilian police were able to arrest the gang, which consisted of Tamires Rodrigues Vieira, 19, Anderson Faquini, 19; Alexsander Kaiser Pereira, 27; and Igor da Silva Carvalho, 27, as well as claim all manner of electronic swag. While this story has a happy ending, I presume, there is still the horrifying reality that people are willing to pay thousands of dollars just to have high Gunbound scores, making these kinds of crimes possible. We truly live in a warped and desecrated world.
[Via GameRush Entertainment and a little nudge from The Burling]
Contest:
11:12 AM on 07.18.2007
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But I still have to laugh at the absurdity of the situation, and at the fact that there are gangs out there mugging people for their game accounts.
On a side note, Jim Sterling has given away his dating procedure - a trip down Burger King and an awkward back alley fumble - could be interpreted in so many ways, but which ever way you interpret it, that date is grim.
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Really?
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You're serious?
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Gunbound?
like, oh, say... scorched fucking earth.
Its really fun on a fast network.
-Izaak, Lord of the Lotus Clan.
On a completely unrelated manner; does anyone know any WoW players I can steal an accoun... er... I mean, heart from?
At this point, I'd like to forward bluemeep's comment.
GUNBOUND?
This was posted by Jim? Nope, I don't think so. I think the real Jim Sterling was forced (RE: willingly skipped) into an alley and raped (RE: asked for "more cocks") until he handed over his Dtoid username and password.
This gang of dastards (RE: Jim's new boyfriends) then posted this story here with the intention of fooling us into believing that Jim had become sensitive to the feelings of others.
That, or he's drunk.
But my comment here do more because: I AM BRAZILIAN. And, by freaking god, how can people say so much crap in just few lines? I have separated some that maade me laugh for sometime:
- "games there are expansive so they have gangs"
Yeah, like it's totally normal to do that. Like in England, where food is extremelly expensive, they form "food gang", isnt it? ROFL
- "internet cafe are frequently robbed by criminals in Brazil"
I'd be surprised if they were not criminal... but anyway, this happen around the world and no, it's not that often here. The neighbors that have these cases have more than just internet cafes robbed.
I really do think that this news is fun (come on, it's Gunbound and a bunch of nerds IN A GANG!) but saying stuff in the wind about my country is just ignorancy. Learn to tell, don't just create stuff throughout your mind.
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