20 year-old Julien Barreaux, from Cambrai, had his Counter-Strike character “knifed” in a game late last year against another man, known only as “Mikhael”. Enraged at this blight against his talents, Barreaux spent six months tracking him down in the real world.
When he eventually found the victim, Barreaux knocked on the guy’s front door, then “plunged a kitchen knife into his chest” when Mikhael opened it to greet him. He missed his heart by an inch.
A local police officer told the courts “Barreaux was arrested within the hour and told us he had wanted to see his rival wiped out for killing off his character.”
The judge, who locked him up for two years on a charge of causing grievous bodily harm, says of Barreaux, “You are a menace to society. I am frankly terrified of the disproportionate reaction you could have if someone looked at you the wrong way in the street.”
Video game fanatic hunts down and stabs rival player who killed character online [The Telegraph]
Laurie
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 4:49 PMHe should’ve been locked up in an insane asylum instead (or whatever is more PC these days). What kind of psycho takes a game that seriously? Give him a padded cell, a straight jacket, and a DS with a bunch of shovalware (he can play it with his toes :D ).
Aaron
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 5:27 PMIdiot, doesn’t he know it takes 2 rightclicks to kill someone if your going via the front ?
Tim
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 4:57 PMLOL that was a flawless comment. In CS you only get a single hit knife kill when you stab the back.
Jay
Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 1:45 PMThanks for that, Tim.
Devin Freiman
Monday, May 31, 2010 at 11:44 AMWin.
Bruno Domingues
Monday, May 31, 2010 at 12:18 PMBack of the neck does 485 damage
AWade
Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 6:33 PM^ That’s what I said! Hahaha! No but seriously, two years?! “…grievous bodily harm”? That psychopath should be locked up for longer than that! That was attempted murder!
Cerzel
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 5:27 PMTwo years? Are you freakin’ kidding me?
And what happened to the other guy?
Shawn
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 5:27 PMi wonder if there will be a call to ban games in France?
lcb
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 10:26 PMNah, people kill over anything. The problem is people not the product.
Hips
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 5:37 PMI think I have like 485 (Nearly at the Plat!) knife kills on bad company 2, should I be worried about this kinda thing?
Peter Richards
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 5:37 PMTwo years??? Why only two years?
Mind you, it is a french prison, I guess that is worth about 4 years anywhere else.
pdaddy
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 5:38 PMThis Mikhael is gonna be scared out of his brains in 2 years time when this guys gets out.. I mean, if he can hold a grudge like that for 6 months, how peeved is he gonna be for getting sent to prison for 2 yars and Mikhael survived…
Another reason why its so easy for non-gamers to see online gaming as a bad thing, when you hear stories like this..
Paul
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 5:45 PMTwo years doesn’t seem like enough… surely this qualifies as attempted murder?
BrendanJB
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 5:50 PMThere have been so many deaths/injuries directly related to Counter Strike matches.
It’s fucking scary.
Michael Barnes
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 6:16 PMThats BS! How can someone get THAT worked up over it, god damn. That blows my mind.
Michael Barnes
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 6:18 PMOnly two years? HE JUST TRIED TO F***ING KILL SOMEONE!!
NoiR
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 6:31 PMWow talk about being passionate about a game .___.
Im scared to play as cs ninja now D:
Doug Sherry
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 6:54 PMSeriously – 6 months and tried to kill the guy?
That’s very different from punching the guy next to you in response to him kicking your virtual arse in multiplayer.
boo goose
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 7:31 PMI gotten knifed about three times a week since I stated playing multi player shooters on the Internet. At six months planing each its going to take me ages to get revenge on all of them. Maybe I could just invite them to a facebook party and blow up the building??
Xavier Ekkel
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 8:03 PMtwo years is a bit light for a psychotic threat to society…
Jared Lorz
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 10:25 PMHoly Hell!! He attempts to murder someone and gets two years! What the heck is wrong with you Australians?
David Wildgoose
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 10:34 PMIt happened in France.
Andrew Cruise
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 3:36 AM*facepalm
NotoriousR
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 2:29 PM*Picard facepalm* seems more appropiate
None
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 10:26 PMI support the loony bin idea, it’s people like this who give gamers a bad name.
Olah Canady
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 3:10 AMhe’s not insane he’s a mostly typical misguided youth.
Adam Ruch
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 1:14 PMThere is nothing typical about a person who stabs another in the chest, misguided, youth, or otherwise.
Thompsongun
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 12:21 PMHonestly, no that’s not typical. Maybe a bit misguided youth, but barely typical. Obviously has issues if he wants to take 6 months to find this guy and kill him. He should get attempted(premeditated) murder for crap like that.
John Taylor
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 3:26 AMI wonder how he’d take losing the first fight to to Krauser in Resident Evil 4?
R
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 3:47 AMThat’s silly. Doesn’t he know that he’d just respawn after the round ends?
Kizaru
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 7:00 AMThere’s only one thing that comes to mind right now:
“TERRORISTS WIN”
Jay
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 12:00 PMSo it IS possible for someone elses law system to be for effed up than Australia’s…. i dunno if thats good to know or frightening.
drawnn
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 1:32 PMPft* haha What are you talking about Jay? What do you know about Australian law?
rpgplayer83
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 5:04 PMIs anyone surprised that it was a Counterstrike player? They are almost always quite unhinged people.
John Burlingame
Monday, May 31, 2010 at 4:34 AMI know a similar story..some guy assassinated another guy in halo. So the guy found him and stabbed him with a plasma sword….too soon?
rpgplayer83
Monday, May 31, 2010 at 11:39 AMA while back some guy got owned in a game of Pong. So the guy found him and beat him to death with a Table Tennis Paddle.