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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 02:53 PM
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Boy kills dad with sledgehammer after he refuses to let him play computer game
Source: Raw Story

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy in southern Russia has been charged with killing his father with a sledgehammer after his parents tried to stop him from playing computer games.

The unnamed boy in the coastal town of Tuapse, located by the Black Sea in Russia's southern Krasnodar region, bludgeoned his father to death while he lay sleeping, regional investigators said.

"At around 1am (local time) on April 12, the suspect dealt his sleeping father at least two blows on the head with a sledgehammer," the region's investigative committee said.

"The man died on the spot from a head injury.



Read more: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0416/boy-kills-dad-sledgehammer-refuses-play-computer-game/
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 02:57 PM
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1. Perhaps he thought his dad would simply get another life.
Although unlike in a computer game, in real life when you are dead you are dead for good.
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Ishoutandscream2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-10 01:27 PM
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34. Yep, I always think that about some video games as well
Totally takes you away from the reality of life and death.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 02:59 PM
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2. I'm going to Hell.
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:17 PM
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14. Oh, Stop!
Hammertime!
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:21 PM
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15. Yes, Yes, you are.
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Fla_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:26 PM
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18. Right there with ya
http://timstvshowcase.com/sledgehammer.html

:evilgrin:
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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 02:59 PM
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3. If only his father had been armed...
he could have defended himself.
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Rage Inc. Donating Member (429 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:16 PM
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13. Indeed
Those poor Russians suffer under the tyranny of restrictive gun laws! :cry:
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 02:59 PM
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4. Isn't it interesting how the immediate precipitant event is always
blamed for this sort of thing?

I guarantee, if there was not a whole lot going on BEFORE being restricted from the computer this kid would not have done this.

But no, it gets blamed on THIS game, at THIS time.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:03 PM
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7. Beat me to it.
And who knows if the event immediately preceded it, or was played up for "newsworthiness".

These prurient-interest stories are worthless.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:15 PM
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11. 100% Agreed
There's a lot more to this story than the taking away of a video game.
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 08:44 PM
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27. Exactly.
Edited on Fri Apr-16-10 08:47 PM by BreweryYardRat
I suspect an authoritarian/abusive parent who yanked the kid's only remaining means of self-comfort away from him.

Mind you, it's not impossible that the kid was just a spoiled brat, but it's not exactly likely.
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 08:45 PM
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28. good point.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:01 PM
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5. Several years ago, my friend decided to remove the television from his 12 year old son's bedroom.
The kid confided in his mother he would go after his father with a baseball bat as revenge.

It never happened, the TV was eventually returned, and father & son are fine. But it goes to show you how kids come to think of TV, computer games as life support.
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:13 PM
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8. I never threatened to attack my father with a baseball bat.
Nor anyone else. Ever. Hard to see how someone who does so is later "fine" with the intended victim. But hey, whatever, I guess.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:32 PM
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20. I removed the TVs from my kids bedrooms also. It was isolating them.
After the homework was done, if they wanted to watch TV they came into the TV room. Sunday nights I ruled the remote with "Masterpiece Theater" and sure enough, they were almost addicted to it.
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blueamy66 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-10 01:56 PM
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36. How could father and son be fine
after this?

Really?
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:01 PM
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6. Modern Warfare
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:13 PM
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9. 1-up !!!
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:22 PM
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16. boo doo doo doo doo!
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:14 PM
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10. That embargo on adoptions to USA might be a good thing
Self-made orphans might be trouble

In all seriousness though, anybody know if parental alcohol abuse contributes to lack of empathy and self-regulation in their off-spring? I know fetal alcohol syndrome comes from maternal consumptions, but could it have impact on genetics from the male contributor too?

Or is this violent children thing all about failure to of basic parenting? It speaks ill of our species.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:16 PM
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12. Children shouldn't be playing with sledgehammers.
Something must be done.
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:57 PM
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23. Agreed.
Register them and require handle-locks, at a minimum.

Of course, you'd have to ban the "assault hammers", with menacing paint jobs or rubber-padded handles.

And automatic hammers--"jackhammers"--would necessarily be reserved for government use.
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John1956PA Donating Member (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:23 PM
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17. There was an attack similar to this one in Italy a few months ago.
Also, a few years ago, I saw a television news segment showing how some adolescent males turn violent when parents restrict their use of video games. I think some male adolescents have strong video-game addictions which evolve into psychoses.
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:32 PM
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19. yep, boys who have mental probs find games as an outlet into freedom, and if you remove that freedom
world from them, they can get ugly fast...

scary story. disgusting if you really picture it happening in your room right now, ya know? How sick the kid would do that to his dad over some RPG or shootemup game!
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:49 PM
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22. An "outlet into freedom?"
:shrug:
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:45 PM
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21. I blame it on Sophocles
damn irresponsible playwrights
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beevul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 06:34 PM
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24. Ban them. Ban them all.
Ban ALL hammers!!!


For the good of the children...and perhaps the fathers...


:sarcasm:
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Fla_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 06:46 PM
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25. Ban may be a little much, why not
have a 7 day waiting list on hammer purchases, a back ground check, and for Pete's sake, close down the yard sale loophole.

Oh, wait, can we get hammer locks for those things? :smoke:
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beevul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 09:34 PM
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29. Hey!!!
I'm just asking for "reasonable" hammer control...
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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-10 11:47 AM
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31. Thank God we have the right to bear arms and hammers
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Paladin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-10 01:54 PM
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35. And There You Have It, Folks.

The full extent of the wit and wisdom of the gun rights movement.......
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BoWanZi Donating Member (502 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 06:53 PM
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26. So does he get to play the games now? (nt)
sx
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Still Blue in PDX Donating Member (633 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 11:38 PM
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30. Lizzie Borden redux.
All kidding aside, it seems like we are living in a pressure cooker. Add to that the inherent emotional lability of being 14 and who knows what really precipitated this. Probably not just a video game, as others have said, but it doesn't have to be the result of poor parenting.
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-10 12:47 PM
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32. This is what the bush family has done to the world.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-10 01:25 PM
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33. And we were all getting worked up about Modern Warfare 2...
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-10 01:59 PM
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37. I don't blame video games for this.
I blame sledge hammers.
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-10 02:25 PM
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38. I want to adopt him
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