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!]
Contest:
12:39 PM on 11.20.2007
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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.
how would he feel if i had done that to his grandmother.
i was born sideways
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.
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.
Priceless wordsmithing there, as usual
no...no you didn't
Sorry.
Signed,
American
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
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.
One hundred thousand dongs for only six bucks.
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."
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.
In other news Koreans already did this like years ago right?
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.