" Man Poisons His Family Over MMO Addiction"

[RikusGaurdian]

"According to the Shanghai Daily, a 22 year old man poisoned his family over the online game Legend. It seems that Hu Ange was struggling with mental illness, and played Legend excessively. His family gave him 50,000 yuan (over $7,000) in March of 2007 to support his seafood business, but Ange spent that money on the game instead. Though facts are somewhat unclear, it appears likely he spent the money on in-game micro-transactions, buying weapons and other items.

In June of 2007, Ange poisoned his father over his online addiction. The father received medical help and survived. One month later, in July of 2007, Ange made his parents lunch, which he again poisoned. He went into another room to play Legend, ignoring his mother’s cries for help. He was sentenced to death by a Chinese court. He’s appealing based on the officially recognized mental illness “online addiction”, and may receive a mitigated sentence as a result."
- mmohub.org

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[Ordeith]

It's just so awful how immersed people these days are in media and games. This man should be locked away in an asylum or clinic.

 

[Deleted member 36435]

Wow, that's really pathetic.
I mean it's one thing to get into the game but to poison your family over it is just terrible.

 

[D]

It's just so awful how immersed people these days are in media and games. This man should be locked away in an asylum or clinic.

Well it doesn't say that, it says he's been sentenced to death.

 

[Daniel Faraday]

Uhh, I fail to see how he 'poisoned them over his addiction'.

 

[Massive Attack]

I read the title and thought that the guy put absinthe in everyone's cereal or something :/

 

[Daniel Faraday]

i would've lol'd

but no where in the article does it imply that he did this because of his addiction. it's implied that he's a crazy little fucker, but that's it.

 

[chaywa]

I read the title and thought that the guy put absinthe in everyone's cereal or something :/

I did that once
That was one brilliant waste of a day...

tl;dr no one really cares any more, these stories just seem to get suckier and suckier over time.

 

[Stavvy]

HOLY SHIT VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES CAUSE FAMILY POISONING.

Media needs to kick itself in the ass, lol.

 

[marlousmiracle]

Must be a very addicting game. Sad story

 

[blinkboy211]

It is stories like this that end up causing all the blame for violence of the world to be blamed on video games. I mean come on if your going to poison over a game at least play a better MMO.

 

[Zen]

Wow, that's all I can say.

Who seriously does that? I wish I had that money though, that way I could feed the poor and then make them my slaves.

 

[Stavvy]

I could buy a good TV with it. And I would.

And then poisen the poor, just to spite you and your slaves.

 

[Shadow Soldier]

I chukled bcuz teh parentz got pwnt!

 

[Aucune Raison]

This is a bit like that girl that killed herself because her ex-friend's parents harassed her over a myspace page.

They were both already suffering with a deep mental disorder, so they would have done something else bad regardless. You can't blame the internet/video games. Sure they're addicting, but no normal sane person would do what they did.

 

[Zen]

*gasps* You wouldn't dare to make that move Stavvy.

Even if you might, it won't happen unless I get the money first.

^ lol

 

[shrekdog]

the parent's fault for being retarded enough to eat lunch made by the son who tried to poison them previously

 

[Dogenzaka]

Well, there's the possibility the son had built their trust up again and acted normal.
And then as soon as they trusted him enough to eat his meal, he would succeed in killing them. A whole Light Yagami complex.

But this is just sickening. He ignored his mother's cries for help as he played Legend? Wtf? That's no longer addiction. That's just being a murderer. He had no reason to kill them, in fact, their money was used to fund his freaking game. He didn't have a viable reason to even be angry with them and kill them because of his addiction. He just flat out murdered them, and I hope the courts see it as not a symptom of online addiction, but just a sign of first-degree murder.

 

[RTP49]

It's just so awful how immersed people these days are in media and games. This man should be locked away in an asylum or clinic.

you know maybe instead of helping people we should just lock them away

or better yet, kill them! that would be very splendid.

 

[Salty the Hero]

Wow, that`s messed up.