This story is so ill I don't even know where to begin, so I guess I'll spit the facts out first and hopefully the fog in my brain will clear by then. The Vietnamese police have arrested a 13 year old Thai boy for strangling an 81 year old woman and burying her in a pile of sand in front of his house (surely no one would notice a big lump of grave-sized dirt there.) The reason? He needed money to play online games. Bad, right? The killer detail, however, is that he stole 100,000 dong from her ($6.2 dollars.)
He killed an old woman for SIX BUCKS.
The boy is too young to go to prison, but he will be sent to a reeducation camp, which would release him after he shows enough "good behavior." This is boggling to me. How does one behave well enough to make up for strangling someone and burying them in your yard?
The connection between online addiction and Asia seems to be getting stronger by the moment, as just yesterday we reported on Korean Boot Camps designed to rehabilitate addicted gamers. These kids are obsessed enough to actually die before they peel themselves away from the computer. Americans definitely have exhibited signs of online addiction, but I think we're gluttonous enough to get up to eat. Speaking of, if you don't get up from the computer for days at a time, do you just say hell with it and crap yourself when you need to go, or do you start wearing Pampers to your raid sessions?
[Via Earthtimes, thanks Aerox!]
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I guess his online life became more important\valued than the real one....
HA! Vietnamese currency is called dong!!! Also, I'll bet that the "reeducation camp" is no happy funtime land.
Did she drop anything else or just gold?
this is news? who hasn't done that. How do you guys think I got call of duty?
hmm, i was hoping it would say in the article which game is turning all these kids in vietnam into psychopaths... (the linked article also mentions a 15 year old that extorted $300 from a businessman last year by threatening to throw acid on the guy's daughter's face. also to play games.)
please note, i am aware that the game didn't change anything, these kids were messed up to begin with.
also, I can't believe vietnam allows people to access the internet anyway.
I want me some Mmassaman Curry and a Green Tea Boba....
that son of a ....
how would he feel if i had done that to his grandmother.
i was born sideways
Wow that is terrible.
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1. Their dongs are very little in Vietnameseland. 6 bucks is like a jillion dollars to them.
2. I thought "re-education" camp said "reduction" camp, and for the life of me, I couldn't figure out what they wanted to reduce.
OMG little vietnamese kid.. tell me, was it really worth it? it's a old lady for god sake... it's like not even 50 exp :/
What a dick.
Maybe she smelled of Jolt Cola and hot pockets...MMO'ers can't resist.
maammm..!! where're mY HoT POCKETS!!!
Rule # 1: Never let a mentally retarded kid that has ragefull emotions & ADHD play videogames.
People are soooooooooooooooooooo dumb. The kid has alot of mental issues to kill for 6 bucks. What in the fuck can you buy with 6 bucks lol.
He he he he he he you said dong.
Dudes, he thought the old woman was a rare elite spawn and killed her for the phat purples
It's all because of the US invasion in Vietnam ofcourse ;)
Thai boy for strangling an 81 year old woman and burying her in a pile of sand in front of his house (surely no one would notice a big lump of grave-sized dirt there.)
Priceless wordsmithing there, as usual
Yes.. for this one, we.. Europeans ;) ... blame America :P
@ Wiisucks
no...no you didn't
Shocked
Dear Europe,
Sorry.
Signed,
American
Dear AltDelete,
You don't have to apologize. You aren't the one who lets their children get away with three counts on larceny because they could do no wrong.
Signed,
Excel-2007
cereally Wiisucks...you are creepy.
The title says Vietnamese kid, but the post says he's Thai. So which is it?
Another thing is Vietnamese Re-education is no picnic. That's basically a cleaner way of say communist re-education and released only when the boy is old enough to work for the state. He's basically owned by the Government for the rest of his life.
Remember crapping in your Diapers is for SMART ppl!
Wow, definitely going to avoid this game, whatever it is... Possibly WoW...
Yeah, pairs of women never walk the streets together ever.
Obviously this kid was pissed off that his grandmother was hangin out with DJ Duffy and so he killed her......for six dong......actually Up in "THE VALLEY" woman are getting killed by six dong as we speak!
*Sigh* These morons make video gamers look bad. He deserves whatever kind of hell they provide in the “re-education” [read: concentration] camps.
That country sounds like paradise for a homosexual.
One hundred thousand dongs for only six bucks.
Noob, elderly women don't drop very good loot. He should check out the mobs in the higher level areas.
I must admit i laughed at a lot of these jokes. But then i felt bad
Come on, has life decreased it price to 6 bucks?
I am sure that kid had this on his mind while killng the elder: "Rogues stangle form behind."
People shouldn't compare the dongs to the dollar. (lol)
I don't know much about dongs, (lol) it may be $6 to Americans, but over there it's probably the equivalent of $100,000.
Also, that kid's a little messed up.
STRIKE HER DOWN YOUNG SKYWALKER WITH ALL OF YOUR HATRED AND YOUR JOURNEY TO THE DARK SIDE WILL BE COMPLETE.
In other news Koreans already did this like years ago right?
To bad this kid wasn't one of the ones to die of MMO addiction himself, before he could take out this poor old lady. What a dumb fuck, seriously.
As a Vietnamese person myself, that sucks.
I know it seems like such a backwater country, but the Internet does exist out there, believe it or not. In fact, you can walk into any Internet Cafe there and you'll find a bunch of kids as young as 13 sitting around smoking (yes kids are allowed to smoke in Nam), playing online games like GAIAonline and Gunbound for hours.
And yes, the dong has very little value. Any American with money would live like a millionaire in Vietnam.
Okay why would you identify with this woman any more because she's vietnamese. I'm pretty sure everyone thinks it sucks, you being vietnamese has no bearing on this article whatsoever.
This is so bad. I hope that kid gets some sense shook into him. :o(
At least he soloed it. It'd be even more of a travesty if he went with his whole raid group.
BlackbeardonGuitar: Well duh, of course everyone thinks it sucks. It's obvious and has been mentioned throughout the comments. But where did I ever mentioned that I "identified" more with this woman? My mentioning my nationality was meant to point out that this story had a bit more impact on me personally because of the fact that the victims were Vietnamese. So yeah, you had absolutely no right to say that me being Viet had no "bearing" to this article, because it did. Douche.