Teenager dead after video game turns to violence

[yuiyoshida]

Taipei Taiwan-

A New Taipei City teenager is dead and his father is in police custody after a video game session turned violent yesterday.

A man surnamed Liu was being questioned by police in Bali District on suspicion of attacking and killing his 16-year-old son with a knife.

The teenager was rushed to hospital, but died despite emergency treatment.

An investigating police officer said Liu, 36, was at home playing the video game Dynasty Warriors on a Nintendo Wii console with his son.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/07/31/2003596341

[moriah]

1. Talk about taking the game out of the game...

Sad.

[Bonobo]

2. That would be like saying "Hamburger leads to violence"

if they happened to be eating hamburgers when they had a fight and the murder happened.

[Javaman]

3. I have an itching suspicion that the game was just a symptom and not the cause. nt

[TIMETOCHANGE]

4. So something is wrong with the father.

NT