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Australian Counter Strike Shooters
jaronc writes "News.com.au are reporting an Australian court has been told that two men dressed as characters from 'Counter Strike' shot and killed a man during a Sydney home invasion in 2002. Let the blaming begin......"
At least it wasn't a GTA re-enactment, that woulda been much uglier... unless of course the CTs didn't difuse the bomb.
You're nothing; like me.
Some guys dressed as the Mario Brothers come to fix the pipes.
Let the blaming begin.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Video games really are responsible for making the tiny majority of people without sufficient grip on reality to not go out and shoot people, go out and shoot people!
How the hell did they get weapons though? It's not like you can walk into a shop and press 'b', and i'm sure that l33t h4x0rz1ng the shopkeeper is gonna get you funny looks and nothing more.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
Except that the killers were dressed as Mario and Luigi.
So we all knew this was coming... TERRORISTS WIN!
I blame Satan. Granted I do blame him for most things. That guy's an asshat.
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Sig SG-550 Sniper. god damn campers
I didn't realise Counter Strike uniforms had those wide bimmed hats with the corks on strings.
In post Patriot Act America, the library books scan you.
Maybe it was just a rumor, but I do remember hearing reports of kids jumping on their cats and wondering why they didn't respawn after leaving and reentering the room....
Of course, these reports were back in the early 90s when there were fewer FPSs to blame everything on.
Rumor has it he was camping.
I heard that there's a bunch of people who after playing too much "America's Army", stormed through this country in the middle east, killing thousands of people for nothing more than oil!
Forget Video Games. The american military causes violence, let's ban that instead.
Well reports are coming in that the accused pressed B-4-1, followed by B-6 and B-8-2 immediately prior to the attack.
If they'd been running around naked, the claim would have simply been changed to "dressed in the manner of a Counter Strike mod".
This looks like the kind of situation in which it would be ridiculous to allow common sense to prevail over sensationalism.
Wow, perfect article. Everybody can righteously rant about how there is absolutely no evidence that violent games affect people or kids. Mod points for everyone!
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
A man who was dressed like Kerry killed someone. Now the government examines if the Democrats should be forbidden.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Let's cut books and Holywood movies, they promote this kind of outfit.
The world belongs to those who get up early. - I'm far from being the king of Earth then
After the incident, one of the men shot the other in the foot, at which point the second called him a "f**king n00b teamkiller" and tried to ban his IP.
In this world nothing is certain but death, taxes and flawed car analogies.
If they hadn't spray tagged the walls "Pwn3d by Sophear" :-)
If the accused had dressed up as characters from the Clue(TM) boardgame, would boardgames be blamed, and why or why not?
An unidentified man in his mid to late 50's was charged Tuesday with the bludgeoning death of another man. The man possessed no identification, and gave his name as only "Professor Plum."
After several hours of investigation, the police determined that Plum brutally attacked Mr. Body with a candlestick. They haven't determined whether the attack took place in the Billiard room, or the Dining room.
Mrs. Scarlet was present during the attack, but as she was armed with a revolver, police have ruled her out as a suspect.
In other news, a thimble has just purchased an upscale stretch of real estate along Boardwalk Ave.
So this means they were wearing either army fatigues or a shirt with glasses
OR they were dressed up like those little brain eating jumpy thingies. In that case, I would indeed blame the game.
Nonsense. People killed prior to 'civilized society' much like they do today: with knives, poison, their bare hands, guns. Nothing much has changed.
I will say, however, that there was more convention made in society for the pathologically deranged. I imagine that's what we've got politics for now.
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If they'd been running around naked, the claim would have simply been changed to "dressed in the manner of a Counter Strike mod".
You mean like this attempt of a naked guy to board a plane heading to Australia?
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
Some guys dressed up like characters from America's Army flew halfway around the world and killed several thousand Iraqi's.
Oh wait...
I often see video games come up in studies that find "evidence" that video games increase aggressive tendancies in children. What about football, soccer, and sports in general? People tend to get pretty worked up and violent over those things.
(Bart and Milhouse turn on game console)
(Hockey playing kid in video game scores a goal)
Dad 1: Your kid sucks!
Dad 2: Bring - it - on!
Hockey Game Voice: It's HOCKEY DAD! Nooo one's fiighting!
Bart: Hockey Dad rules! Feel the awesome wrath of Chuck Stadowski!
(Dads start fighting and each other)
Kid: Dad! Stop! It's only assault! Don't make it murder.
(Dad 1 kills Dad 2 and police arrest him while he celebrates)
Hockey Game Voice: You are a big man! BIG MAN!
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
If they ban Counterstrike, then the terrorists have won, literally!!
Jaysyn
There is a war going on for your mind.
Gawd-daymn. They must play a lot of CS over in the Middle East...
Let me give you an example. Suppose some japanese game had its screens translated to english with bad grammar. Would you have geeks start spouting that bad grammar? I don't think.....oh wait...
Actually, what tipped police off was the use of the word 'gay', in every sentence.
In a strange twist, it was reported that the man killed was dressed like Gordon Freeman.
... according to a recent (clearly ficitonal) report, over 90% of *all* of last year's crimes, including murder, rape, petty larceny, and letting your dog poop in the park were committed by people dressed up like those in the (not so) popular video game The Sims (tm)
On an odd side note, I shudder to ask, but is there a Sims Jail Edition coming out?
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I live in Australia and I'm not so sure about that...
two men dressed as characters from 'Counter Strike'
They're called Special Forces in some countries and Terrorists in others, unless they're talking about the Chickens, then thats just bizzar.
"What do you mean you have no ice? Do you expect me to drink this coffee hot?" - Random Customer, Clerks
In the police report, the victims family commented that one of the suspects started firing at the victim through a wall, as if they could see through it. while the other suspect just sat behind a crate in the living room.
Over here in the states, we refer to your PM as "Governor Howard" :)
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
"They are no more a medical doctor than your history prof or your CS prof."
True that, my Counter Strike professor was not even done with highschool yet, much less his medical degree.
==>Lazn
They banned EVERY firearm in the country. Even the olympic teams firearms were banned.