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Video game battle leads to assault of Hamber secondary student

Teen allegedly beaten with batons

By NEAL HALL, Vancouver Sun October 21, 2010

The world of online video games may seem like fun and games, but it turned ugly for a Vancouver high school student this week.

Police are investigating the beating of an Eric Hamber secondary school student after he was confronted by a group of assailants during lunch hour Monday.

The boy was apparently beaten because he had been playing an online video game with a group of friends who were beating their opponents and lording it over the losers, who were insulted by the “trash talk.”

The players allegedly tracked down the student to Hamber, located at 5025 Willow on the west side of Vancouver, and made him kiss their feet before hitting him with batons, breaking his fingers.

Vancouver police Const. Lindsey Houghton confirmed Thursday the attack stemmed from the student taking part in an online role-playing game called Defence of the Ancients, a “custom scenario” for the real-time strategy video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.

It is part of the Warcraft universe of games, which has 12 million online subscribers.

“It’s very unusual,” Houghton said of an assault arising from an online game. “I guess some people take these things exceptionally seriously.

“It’s something that is exceptionally rare, given the number of people who play video games,” Houghton said. “Most people can separate reality from online fiction.”

No arrests had been made and the Vancouver police youth squad was investigating the assault, he said.

There were four and possibly five assailants, who were described by witnesses as being in their late teens.

Richard Rosenberg, a computer science professor emeritus at the University of B.C., said he wasn’t surprised by the Vancouver assault.

“It’s hard enough being a teenager,” he said, adding that a growing number of serious real-life incidents stem from the online world.

“There are some emotions that seem to be amplified in the online world,” Rosenberg said. “It’s one of the byproducts of the online world.”

Many gamers act out emotions online, which gives them a certain status and online notoriety, he said.

“Things that happen on the Internet that affect your status can be very serious,” Rosenberg said, pointing out there have been suicides of young people whose status has been affected by postings on the Internet.

But there is a trend to teach teens in high school that while you can be insulting online, that behaviour is not acceptable in the real world, Rosenberg said.

In China three years ago, a man was given a suspended death sentence after he killed his friend over a dispute that arose from the popular online game Legend of Mir 3.

Qiu Chengwei had won a virtual sword in the game and had loaned it to his friend, Zhu Caoyuan.

He stabbed his friend to death after finding out the friend had sold the imaginary sword online, where there is a booming market for virtual property in the game-playing world.

There have also been lawsuits about theft of virtual property by gamers. One Chinese man sued a video game company after it allegedly “stole” the arsenal of weapons he had built up over two years.

The company argued the weapons were digital computer data owned by the game maker, but a Chinese court ordered the maker of Red Moon to return the imaginary arms to the gamer.

nhall@vancouversun.com

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Vid...#ixzz138ifcNzi

:rofl: poor kid got ganked

ahhahahah rushed:rofl:

wtf kids cant take a "gg noobs" thrown at them anymore?

indeed it is srs bznz

Regardless of what a douche the guy was online, that is no justification to take it out in the real world.

They should add batons in the next update.

His teammates should have called MIA for him.

Wow....

I wonder how they got this kid's info?

Lol his teammates should of pinged the map :troll:

the assailants are guna look real hard when they brag about beating up one kid who pwnd them in a videogame.

I remember in hs some kids were so cocky online eg. cs, sc... like serious cocky fag trash talkers, always wondered what would happen to them when people found out who they really were... Now I know =)

damn breaking the fingers part did it for me... i mean its bad enough to beat the kid up.. as the saying go "dont hate the player, hate the game"

damn man.. can you imagine your doctor tellin you that you are not "fit" to drive anymore ... shit son.. =.= what a douche bag move to do to break some gamer's fingers

^^
That one kid at Bubble Net was dragged along Kingsway on the back of a car, attached to some rope.

It victim wasn't even the one trash talking.

From what I remember, this guy was talking shit to the Nammers, and he left before they started looking for him. The victim sat down to play a game, and before he had the chance to change his name, (round end) he was dragged out, tied to a back of a (Integra?) and was dragged along Kingsway. I think he died.

This was.. YEARS ago.
I don't remember what happened to the guy who was actually doing it.

haha wtf.. kids think they're so "hard" these days. e-thuggin' taken to the real world...

sure, i've wanted to smack my friends around when playing in the same room but damn, i'd never take it so seriously that i'd beat them with batons and break their fingers.

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Originally Posted by spoon.ek9 (Post 7156539)

It isn't really e-thuggin' when you take it to the real world.

It is when you don't take it to the real world that you're an e-thug.

Incredible.. I'm seriously out of word..

This is why you buy fucking wards

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Originally Posted by The7even (Post 7156566)

Incredible.. I'm seriously out of word..

This is why you buy fucking wards

You could just look at the mini map and see that all heroes are MIA.

That would give you the hint to go back.

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Originally Posted by HSK (Post 7156549)

It isn't really e-thuggin' when you take it to the real world.

It is when you don't take it to the real world that you're an e-thug.

reading comprehension fail :facepalm:

Reminds me of back in 2007 or 08 when the kid was shot at a netcafe over CS

this is what I thought of :lol

LOL Call the cops! it was these guys

http://i.imgur.com/pNREC.gif

lol.. e-thug got pwned by crazy noobs who need to chill.. ? I wonder what the guy said to piss them off enough to find him and break his fingers.. that's pretty harsh..

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Originally Posted by Qmx323 (Post 7156138)

wtf kids cant take a "gg noobs" thrown at them anymore?

indeed it is srs bznz

:noob: