Teen threatens suicide in online game, gets arrested

[Zyenet]

Here's a hint for online gamers: when talking to World of Warcraft customer service reps, threatening to kill yourself is not a productive way to get what you want.

That advice will come too late for one 17-year-old resident of Fairfield Township in Ohio, who is due in juvenile court this week charged with "inducing panic" (a misdemeanor) after he told a Blizzard rep that World of Warcraft was the only thing he had to live for and that he was suicidal, the Middletown Journal reports.

The quick-thinking rep called 911, and the young man earned a handcuffing and a trip in a police car courtesy of local law enforcement officers. According to their reports, the teen told police he was just trying to "get what he wanted for the game".

It's not the first time massively-multiplayer games have been linked to suicides. In 2001, a Wisconsin man shot himself in a tragedy his mother blamed on his addiction to then-popular online role-playing game Everquest.

Crazy, eh? Some people will do the weirdest things to get what they want.

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[inpaqt]

Crazy person. ~neutral~

I would never put a game before my life or anyone elses.
I guess he was a loser.

 

[Ste]

To be honest I am getting sick of things like this happening on the internet, not so long ago someone posted that someone had killed themself on a live streaming website.

What a strange thing to do though by this person and they are very stupid for even doing it.

 

[Cloverfield]

Idiot shouldn't make jokes like that.

 

[LinkinParkFan71]

Wow it's a game, get over it.

 

[CyberFreak]

Lots of people take WoW way to seriously.

 

[LinkinParkFan71]

I think i know now why they call it Wow. -lol-

Just wow.....

 

[Presty Willow]

Maybe he really was that passionate about the game. If he was, I bet he was placed in a behavioral hospital of some kind.

I pity him.

 

[El Vlado]

Quite crazy, sometimes games can really get people addicted like in this case World Of Warcraft, I don't play games like these anyway.

-n-

 

[froggyboy604]

This is poorly planned joke. I feel bad for him. I think it is not the games fault for being addicted to it. It is his fault for having poor judgement skills.