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WoW Gamer Earns Federal Investigation Achievement

Posted by Soulskill on from the jack-thompson-jumps-for-joy dept.

barnyjr writes "A teenager could face federal charges after investigators say he made online threats to kill Americans on a plane from Indianapolis to Chicago. According to investigators, a monitor of the online interactive game World of Warcraft saw the alleged threats in an on-line chat and called Johnson County authorities. She told investigators the chatter didn't seem like a game." I'm not sure who's crazier, this guy or the guy who just became the first World of Warcraft player to rack up 10,000 achievement points.

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  1. From TFA by Skippy_kangaroo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think the most amazing part of the story is this:
    "According to the report, the teen told investigators he'd heard if you make threats online against a plane, the police would show up at your doorstep. The teen told investigators he was only testing that theory."

    Test successful! Big Brother is watching.

  2. Re:No second chances... by MindlessAutomata · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The teachers and school administration are actually bullies themselves, and are run by bullies. That's why they never seriously stop bullying (their own progeny!) and always crack down HARD on the bullied.

  3. Re:Had to read the whole damn thing! by Xest · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There was some talk in the news a year or so back about how security services were afraid of terrorists using online chat in games and such to organise.

    Who wants a bet the "monitor" was actually another NSA (or similar) program data mining chat logs rather than just someone seeing it on the off chance?

    I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories, but if the actions of security services in various countries across the world have taught us anything this last 5 or so years, it's that the measures they'll go to are suprising - from the Russian FSB murdering Litvinenko in London, to the NSA warantless wiretaps program, to the shooting of Menezes on the tube in London and the subsequent "dissapearance" of the CCTV tapes, to the use of torture by the CIA, and now it appears almost certainly MI5 too.