WoW GM Gets Teen Arrested
The World of Warcraft GMs are watching and listening to you on their servers to help maintain fair and quality play, but in a recent incident the GM’s role went above and beyond. As learned from Loot Ninja today, a teenager was chatting with a WoW GM online recently and the teen made suicidal comments in an effort to play on the GM’s sympathies hoping to get some loot.
A 17-year-old Fairfield Twp. teen pretended to be suicidal when he became frustrated with an online video game, Fairfield Twp. police reported.
The teen…typed that "he was suicidal and that the game is the only thing he has to live for," according to the report.
The company representative called 911.
The GM did the smart thing and called the cops in the off-chance the kid was truly suicidal, so of course the police and paramedics show up at the young man’s home.
The juvenile told police it was a joke "to try to get what he wanted for the game," according to the report. He was then handcuffed and placed in a patrol car.
Isn’t this just sad?
Let’s hope the young man has learned his lesson that you have to work and invest something of yourself to get ahead in the world, that part of growing up is trying and failing, learning from your errors and growing from it. But it really seems that this teen’s attempt at ‘pity loot’ is a classic symptom of the typical "Trophy Kids" (aka "Generation Y") that have been raised to think everyone is a winner and even losers deserve a trophy.
Well, the loser of this story has won himself a minor criminal record.
The news article originates from the Middletown Journal and has the full story.
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I dont thinks its the problem of WOW. Where is the young man’s father and mother?
We’re in agreement, the Blizzard employee did what I would expect them to do in this situation and should be commended. The parents are somewhat responsible for how a child behaves and learns how to interact with society.
I agree that it was a stupid thing for the kid to do, and the GM was in the right to call the cops, but was it really necessary to arrest the kid? It’s not like he made a prank call to the police on his own.
Good question Sean, now that you bring it up I think taking him to the hospital for a quick psyche eval to be on the safe side probably makes more sense.
Well committing suicide is a serious crime (yes it is illegal), and by telling the blizzard employee he was going to do so, he leaves the employee with no other choice than to contact the authorities, so basicly this brat wastes resources, and I think it is important to signal you can’t just joke around with that serious matters.
Cool article, thanks for the lesson pops. It was so obviously not real but now, thanks to some idiot admin on a game that thinks WoW is serious business, he has a criminal record. Nice work Sherlock, you solved the case yet again!
Your complaint about Generation Y is that we have a sense of humour and don’t take computer games and what is said on them that seriously?
wyjyn you just dont get it
has got nothing to do with a game being serious business or not
he has every right to report someone who jokes/ is real about something like that because he doesnt know if its real or not and there are plenty of people who killed them self over a game
so it is you who is the idiot