14 DAY TRIAL // It's not the first time video games or gaming systems are blamed for, or connected to fatal accidents or murders. This week, Daily Mail (Briton's favorite tabloid) brings another unfortunate case to readers attention, concerning a probably disturbed teenager who set his own house on fire after the family sold hios Xbox 360, ending up in the death of his younger brother. The full story, as posted on 360 gamer, below.
"According to Britain's 'favorite' middleclass tabloid, the teenager stole ?5000 from an older brother, prompting his mother and older sibling to sell some of his stuff, including his Xbox, to recoup the losses," the site reports. Here we go again. For Christ's sake is it Xbox or Xbox 360? All of them make this confusion.
"This then prompted the boy to, so it is alleged, pour white spirit in the hallway of the family home and setting fire to it before leaving the scene.
While two of the boy's older brothers, his sister, mother and the pregnant girlfriend of one of the brothers were able to escape with burns and broken bones (having leapt from the first floor), another one of the boy's brothers died of smoke inhalation."
As you can see, the story is kind of complicated, the reason why I didn't try rephrasing it (I might have missed something or added extra facts by mistake). However, the Daily Mail doesn't really blame the console issue, but actually focuses more on the boy's troubled personal life as the main reason for his attack.
Of course, those who feed on these kinds of news (no names or anything like that) won't hesitate to say a few inappropriate things in regards to the tragic case, blaming video games for it all and how the troubled guy couldn't live with the idea of never getting to play Halo 3 in September. After all, a kid died, and the fact that the teenager had an Xbox 360 as an expensive possession doesn't mean that this is news connected to the Xbox 360 from Microsoft.