[News] Role-player decapitated (drug addicts arrested)

[ninthcouncil]

How widely has this been reported outside Sweden? The British press have got their own home-grown dismemberment murder story to play with at the moment (remind me to stay out of Camden - it seems to be a popular pastime round there), so nothing here. Has it been picked up in the States at all?

 

[Zappo]

It hasn't picked up here AFAIK.

 

[Frostmarrow]

Hallandsposten, the local newspaper where the murder occurred reports that there haven't been an organised Vampire live game in Halmstad for more than a year. The tabloids fail to report this. We can probably sound the "all clear" signal now.

 

[King_Stannis]

I hear East St. Louis is the worst city in the states

Possibly, but I've driven through Gary, Indiana. Hell-on-Earth.

 

[Ziggy]

How widely has this been reported outside Sweden?

It's been splashed on the first page of all major newspapers in Norway, including allegations that the murder is somehow connected to his RPG/LARP role.

.Ziggy

 

[blackshirt5]

Even in college towns, where one would expect a little bit more enlightened thought, we're still considered to be the gateway to Satanism and debauchery.

I always thought that was the fraternities. Huh. LEarn something new every day.

Sux about that kid dying. Poor guy.

 

[Sixchan]

It's very sad that this would happen, but the idea of his friend decapitating him and placing the Head of Vecna on him can't help but make me smile.

Pity ressurection doesn't work in real life...

 

[JRRNeiklot]

This kind of thing pisses me off to no end.

Suppose this guy had been a preacher. Would they blame Christianity?

Blame football if he'd been an avid football fan?

Blame retail chains if he worked at Wal Mart?


Only rpgs catch this kind of crap.

 

[tleilaxu]

Only rpgs catch this kind of crap.

har har... cry me a river

 

[Mark Chance]

Yes, "They" would...

Suppose this guy had been a preacher. Would they blame Christianity?

If by "they" you mean the mainstream American media, I guarantee it would happen. You think gamers have a hard time with the media. Try reading the NYT or the Boston Globe for information about Christianity.