Posted by ketyung
on Jan/10/2008
at 8:32 am
Being a father, you’re definitely concerned about your kids. Especially when they’re too addicted in playing video games, you’d wanna stop them and get them to get back to their home work. Unfortunately, a father who was trying to stop the son from continuously playing the video game, was almost strangled by the son.
An 18-year-old was arrested by police and is to be judged for a domestic violence crime. According to the police, the teenager was fully immersed playing the video game, and the father had been warning him for a while to stop playing. But the son just ignored the father and kept playing to finish his game. The father got little pissed off and unplugged the power cable, making the son lose all his precious progress in the game.
The son then furiously jumped off the sofa and extremely angered by the fact that he lost all his game progress and tried to strangle the father with the cable of the gamepad, and he almost achieved it. Fortunately, the wife heard the struggle and helped the husband to break from his aggressor. After all this, the father was brought to the hospital and the son was arrested by police.
Most of us sitting in front of the game consoles and computers, will mostly get furiously angry while you’ve lost progress in a long game or a document, because someone accidentally steps on or unplugs a power cable. It’s somehow uncontrollable that you wanna jump off and smack the culprit. Warning to parents. While you wanna stop your kids from playing video games, be sure not to be too harsh, such as sabotaging the progress or else you’ll be the next one hitting the headlines for getting strangled by your son using gamepad cable.
Source [Gizmodo]
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January 10th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Good for the kid! Serves that old bastard right, I say!
January 10th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Well if “kids” can make a living playing games, then maybe the father was wrong…I doubt it.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
How nice if can make living by playing game
Of coz, we can’t … but the father mayb was too harsh in this case.. you know, it’s somehow really pissing you off for what you’ve done so far in a long game or a long document is completely gone. I think the father will also go mad, lets say the kid pulls the plug while the father is working on a long document on his computer. But, I think father should have better control for his emotion instead of being too angered till the stage wanting to kill the son.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Both should’ve handled it better, but the kid is much much much more in the wrong. Whatever it is, it’s just a game; nothing is worth more than life, not even the billion dollars the kid probably lost from the cut off game.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
That is really sad to hear, long live video games!