Tag: youngster

Video games are just like the internet

And if you combine the two, the results could potentially be deadly. After a fourteen-year-old boy’s cell phone gaming site membership was canceled, he decided to get even: by threatening to murder people.

That’s not an unusual reaction at all, nope.

The boy belonged to popular cell phone gaming site “Mobage Town”, but lost his membership after making comments like “die” to a fellow player while playing “Kaitou Royal.” Mobage-Town is incredibly popular in Japan with new titles like Shenmue Town bound for the social gaming service.

Between May and June, the junior high schooler sent the site’s company emails over approximately twenty occasions. “I wanted my membership back at any cost so that I could play games on the site again,” he told police. That includes making death threats.

“I really want to have my membership back,” he apparently wrote in one email. “If I’m not allowed to, I will kill five people by the day after tomorrow.”

Hey Junior, are you sure that’s not a bit of an overreaction? Most people at the very least feign humility when they get banned from something. You’re now accused of forcible obstruction of business. We can only assume that’s bad and not a type of move made in bridge.

But could she even reach the ballot box?

In the wacky world of politics, sometimes mishaps happen with elections. Like letting old people vote down in Florida or letting the dead vote in Chicago. But what about letting 11-year-olds?

We wouldn’t suggest it if it didn’t happen.

The girl in question was handed a ballot and allowed to vote in the election when she accompanied her Dad to the polling station. They didn’t realize she was underage until she had already cast the ballot, thus making it impossible to discern hers from all the other votes cast, so they had no choice but to accept the ballot.

Of course, the thousand dollar question is: did they just hand her the ballot, without even bothering to ask for ID or confirmation that she’s a voter? Now, in their defense, the poll operators did say that she was exceptionally tall for her age and looked like an adult. This is totally understandable and an incredibly valid line of reasoning. Not a successful line of reasoning, mind you, given the number of pedophiles in prisons.