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Unpaid Internet Bill Leads To Game-Blamed Stabbing

11:30AM January 19, 2010 | Owen Good

Game-blame news from Romania: a 15-year-old boy said to be “dependent” on video games stabbed to death his adoptive mother, after she refused to pay the internet bill in hopes the disconnection would put an end to his Counter-Strike addiction.

In the narrative of the attack the boy, Ionut Savin (pictured), stabbed his mother (on her 16th wedding anniversary, no less), then looted the home of its money and went to an internet cafe to get his Counter-Strike fix. The woman’s lifeless body was found by her husband, and Savin turned himself in to authorities quickly thereafter. He’s now under armed guard at a psychiatric hospital.

This naturally has mobilised the Romanian media, because there’s nothing worse than a kid with 200 absences from school and no friends snapping in such an unpredictable way. It doesn’t justify a murder, but by their own reporting, the warning signs were plenty.

Game Addict Stabs Mother Over Internet Bill

Comments

  • Vell

    January 19, 2010 at 11:38 AM

    He obviously has bigger problems than games.

    • El Phantasmogoro

      January 19, 2010 at 11:57 AM

      Yeah, like not having games!

      But seriously, the poor guy finding not only his wife brutally murdered, but that his adopted son killed her.

      Of course video games, the devil, etc. Someone get Hugo Chavez in here!

  • Gobbo

    January 19, 2010 at 11:49 AM

    A true CS addict woulda used a deagle…

  • Ben Ford

    January 19, 2010 at 11:57 AM

    This is very sad to see. My heart goes out to the victims of this event.
    The other problem is that now media will have more to hold against video games, probably for good ratings.

    • WiseHacker

      January 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM

      True that. It does not matter that this outcome is generic to any addiction (alcohol, drugs, etc.), its always the games that get the attention.

  • Ben!!

    January 19, 2010 at 12:06 PM

    I get the same feelings towards Telstra..AND I PAY MY BILLS!

  • ColinJ

    January 19, 2010 at 12:07 PM

    Why do complete lunatics insist on glomming onto wonderful forms of entertainment like video games and/or heavy metal music.

    Why, for once, can’t some murderous psycho admit that they stabbed someone 138 times because they turned off his HANNAH MONTANA DVD.

    • Sean Orr

      January 19, 2010 at 3:06 PM

      I know this wil sound pretty bad, but that’s something I’d love to see in the news.

      • ColinJ

        January 19, 2010 at 3:32 PM

        Fucking hell!!

        I remember as a lad feeling intense rage at never being able to win the ‘Log Rolling’ game of WORLD GAMES.

        I never stabbed anyone over it.

    • Braaains

      January 19, 2010 at 6:29 PM

      Ever hear of a thing called “religion”? Way more crazy people killing others over that than over videogames and heavy metal combined. But god help any media outlet that suggests kids not be allowed access to religion.

      • Dousatsu

        January 20, 2010 at 2:05 PM

        True that. “War on Terror”? Nay. War on Islam.

  • James Mac

    January 19, 2010 at 12:16 PM

    Should probably have a look at some kind of knife control laws too.

  • boo goose

    January 19, 2010 at 12:53 PM

    Lucky he wasn’t a WOW addict. They would have slaughtered an entire village and then made the mother sow them a new outfit!!

  • Jason

    January 19, 2010 at 1:01 PM

    Yeah kind of a sad story, normally i’d laugh, but on their anniversary, thats just harsh.

    Still people should realise that the best way to treat an addiction is NOT to force them to go cold turkey.

    • garfunky

      January 20, 2010 at 7:26 PM

      so you’re saying you would find this funny if it happened on any other day other than their anniversary…?

  • Kyle Nash

    January 19, 2010 at 2:58 PM

    COMMANDO PRO PERK + NO FALL DAMAGE

  • Fracture

    January 19, 2010 at 10:02 PM

    LOL kyle … umm LETS MAKE THIS ABOUT HOW MUCH Telstra SUCKS! …

    STEADY AIM PRO + LONGER STEADY AIM DURATION.

    KIDS GOT ISSUES!

    I HOPE NOBODY ELSE DIES.

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