According to news reports, an Italian teen stabbed his dad in the neck with a 15-inch kitchen knife after an argument over FIFA 09. The ironic thing is the family gave him FIFA 09 because they didn't want the boy playing other violent games. Who said soccer was a peaceful game? Just kidding! Anywho, here's the article: Mon Jan 25, 12:23 pm ET ROME (Reuters) An Italian man who argued with his son over Sony PlayStation tactics was recovering in hospital on Monday after the teenager stabbed him in the neck with a 15-inch kitchen knife, police and hospital officials said. The man, identified as Fabrizio R., suffered a deep cut to the throat after his 16-year-old son, Mario, attacked him during an argument on Sunday over the soccer video game FIFA 2009. Police said the argument broke out when the 46-year-old storekeeper offered his son advice on tactics to improve his play, and then turned the television off in response to his son's behavior. Fetching a knife from the kitchen, Mario stabbed his father in the neck before returning to clean the weapon at the kitchen sink in front of his mother and leaving it to dry on the draining-board. Forty-six year-old housewife Monica B,. told Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera that she had no idea what had happened until her husband stumbled into the room, clutching his throat. "I saw Mario come back into the room, he seemed calm, he went to the sink and I noticed him washing a knife," Monica told the newspaper. "Then my husband came into the room with a hand round his neck, dripping blood." The teenager shut himself in his bedroom after the attack and made no attempt to resist arrest, police said. The game had been given to Mario a few days earlier, as a birthday present. "Mario is obsessed. He's forever playing on his PlayStation, and we bought him FIFA 2009 because we didn't want him playing violent games," his mother told Il Corriere. Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100125/od_nm/us_italy_stabbing PS: Mods, if we're not allowed to copy & paste the entire article, please delete the article. Thanks.
Gotta wonder what the parents are like if the kid'll stab them with a knife and calmly go back to his room after washing it. With a 15-inch knife, though, that would've almost definitely killed the guy. A quick cut in the jugular...
Things like this and most game reviews (mostly iTunes) are the reason most people believe gamers are absolute retards.
Sorry. I just get sick of seeing all the stupid new threads every day like "check outz dis hapy cat!", but harp player, kijib, and this new catt*something* guy, being the trolls they are, reflect anger. Then some of it gets deflected to others. I'll probably take a chill pill and take a couple weeks off the forum pretty soon.
