Videogames implicated in two separate crimes

It was reported by The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas that a woman, 36 year-old Mary Cordell, faces felony manslaughter charges after leaving her child in a locked, unventilated car for several hours while playing Everquest. A Springdale police detective was quoted as saying, "We believe that on the day in question, Ms. Cordell was playing an Internet game, EverQuest, for a period of time exceeding two hours, during which she had no knowledge concerning the whereabouts of her daughter."
Additionally, messages posted by Cordell at NWAOnline.net suggest that she finds the game Everquest extremely addictive and partly responsible for her divorce. Says Cordell "I feel sorry that people get wrapped up into this and destroy their relationships. I just hope that one day they will wake up before it\'s too late and realize they are alone with no real friends and their family is gone."
There is also a report by the Associated Press that two teens ages 13 and 16 claim that they were impersonating the hit Rockstar title Grand Theft Auto when they fired several 22 caliber rounds at passing traffic on Interstate 40 in Newport Tennesee. The two teens pled guilty to homicide, reckless endangerment and aggravated assault on June 25th and have been sentenced to juvenile detention.

Psx Extreme

So pathetic....

Grand theft auto doesnt make you shoot a gun into traffic.....

Don\'t know why they did that, maybe just messed up in the head or something.

Originally posted by SwifDi
So pathetic....

and stupid....

There are mental problems everywhere, with and without videogames.

Lol, it\'s just a frigging videogame for Christ\'s sake.

[videoholic]

Jesus, why do you have to bring Christ into this?

God, I don\'t know. Might be a character flaw.

.....and how many kids die from negligence cause thier parents are drunk off thier ass or on a crack binge


.....i wonder how many lawsuits rockstar games gets from ignorant parents wanted to blame someone for thier bad kid\'s behaviour

[GmanJoe]

Da int3ern3t is da debbil!!!1!!

[Kurt Angle]

The games are not to blame, these people are just retards.

I\'m sick of reading about how some kid killed 10 people with his dads gun,cause he played "Vice City" 30 mins earlier.

Kurt,I agree.

If the games company were responsible then they would take the game off the shelves,but who in their right minds thinks that someone sits there at say,Rockstar and says "lets make a violent game,where it will influence some punk ass 10 year old to murder his parents and stael their car and run over the family cat"

Its not the game,its the irresponsibilty of the people who play them.They think it\'s "cool" to kill a prostitute on Vice City or Steal A Car on The Getaway.

I love playing the GTA series,among other violent games,but I play them for the gameplay and the humor,but I\'m not sick and twisted for playing them.

A guy at where I used to work,calls people "Small Minded Pricks" cause they play games like The Getaway or GTA 3 etc.
His boss said he was the "Small Minded Prick" for saying that.

[Titan]

People like that give humanity a bad name. They are retarded for doing something like that. Its not the games that are forcing them to do it. Its their own freewill and theres no excuse for what these people did.

[GmanJoe]

All it takes is one weak minded and easily impressionable person to ruin the video game image.

What makes a 16-year-old start shooting at a highway?