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Britain's First "Web-Rage" Attack
brown-eyed slug writes "The BBC is reporting what is claimed to be Britain's first "web-rage" attack. A man drove seventy miles to assault his victim with a pick-axe handle after they exchanged insults in a Yahoo! chat room." From the article: "Det Cons Christopher Creagh, of the Metropolitan Police, said: 'This is the first instance of a web-rage attack.' Det Sgt Jean-Marc Bazzoni, of Essex Police, added the case demonstrates the importance of protecting one's identity on the internet. 'Mr Jones had posted pictures of his family on the web and had chatted to Gibbons on an audio link,' he said. 'It demonstrates how easily other users can put two and two together and also shows how children could also find themselves in danger.'"
I remember a story of someone killing another person because the victim sold a virtual sword of the killer.
God spoke to me.
these kinds of "rage" attacks are definitely on the increases p
t ml
WRONG
http://www.crimestatistics.org.uk/output/Page63.a
(And thats before taking Victorian London into account)
with binge drinking also increasing
LOL ! Getting shitfaced is obviously a new phenominon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Lane
Even take violence at football games - yes, it's decreased here in the past 20 years but only because there are so many police
Nothing to do with the rise of MDMA in the late 80's & early 90's then?
http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v04n1/04122mdm.h
Stop reading the News of the Screws / Daily Hate and get a grip.
Anyone quoted by a reporter knows how little they understand
Don't believe what you read is the truth.
As someone who suffers from Psychosis, you are off on your terminology. The word you are looking for is not Psychotic, which describes Psychosis, but Psychopathic. Psychopathy is the condition that can be generally described as a lack of a conscience. A Psychopath doesn't care if they hurt other people. They have a lack of ability to empathise with the pain of others.
As a Psychotic person, myself, I know what is right and wrong. And I do care about whether my actions hurt people. It's just sometimes one can become rather extremely disconnected from reality.
For more information, check out Wikipedia.
Also of note is that Psychopathic behaviour is very often part of the condition known as Antisocial Personality Disorder, which, if memory serves, is commonly called Sociopathy.
Wikipedia Article on Psychosis
Wikipedia Article on Psychopathy
Wikipedia Article on Antisocial Personality Disorder
Edward@Tomato - /home/Edward/ man woman
man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
Here wire fruad is a *huge* deal ( http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/u sc_sec_18_00001343----000-.html )--like up to twenty years. If you defraud a bank, it goes up to thirty. On the other hand, you can beat the living hell out of someone and get probation. Usually because it's a local (not federal) charge and there are no empty slots in the prisons due to mandatory sentencing for minor drug offenses.
Road miles. There's a different limit for each mode of travel, based roughly on how far you can go in an hour. The 50 mile limit is averaged to account for highway vs. smaller roads.
As far as the crow flies, I don't think that the crow is going to be able to carry you and your axe handle very far in an hour. The physics involved are just stacked against you. So if you are travelling by crow, you are essentially limited to swinging distance.
Now if you were planning on doing the assault with a coconut, and there were a couple of swallows chirping away nearby, and you had some string...
-m
Whoever modded that as offtopic didn't RTFA!
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
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