In alt.folklore.computers Joel Garry <joel-garry at nospam.cox.net> wrote:
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> stabbed a 12 year old girl to death without waking anybody else. So they
> arrested the middle class brother and his friends because they were into
> those violent video games, found a knife under the bed of one just like
> the one in the murder, and got them to confess.
"Got them to"? What, was there torture?
> A year later the kids were released because the defense had the schizo's
> clothes tested and found the girls blood on it. Now the boys are suing.
I hear stories like this and I just wonder what people are thinking when
they admit to heinous crimes that they (allegedly) didn't do.
Perhaps "they" are right -- video games do have a detrimental impact
on youth: it makes 'em stupid.
--
Flicker shouldn't be a problem, now that most people under the age of 30
have been conditioned to accept slow frame rates from watching hours of
Saturday-morning cartoons and automobile ads, most of which are done at
6 frames per second. :-p -Charlie Gibbs (1995)
