Re: Student arrested over Counter Strike map

["Kurt Grutzmacher" <grutz () jingojango net>]

Everyone who had a creative mind and played a lot of FPSers has done
or attempted to do this. This kid just did it too well it seems. Back
when Duke Nukem was fun my ex-wife made a map of our apartment. Having
a pole dancer in our kitchen was cool! I'd hate to be a kid in America
today.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/13245974/detail.html

"Because of the violent nature of the game -- people killing people.
The setting of the game was an exact replica of Clements High School,"
said Mary Ann Simpson, the Fort Bend Independent School District
spokeswoman.

"I think removing him was probably a good thing to do because we have
no idea if he was actually going to come to school with a gun or
something," student Maggie Berado said.

"It doesn't sound like a joke to me. It sounds like he was into this
fantasy of killing people in the school," parent Debbie Myers said.


And this is in Texas, my home state, where they kill the mentally
disabled. Don't all kids have gun racks in their trucks? I thought it
was a new state law.


On 5/3/07, Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:
> It appears that the image gallery of the pictures has been posted to
> http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/03/images-of-the-clements-high-students-terroristic-maps/
>
> - Juha-Matti
>
>
> Jim Murray <jim () digitaldaemons co uk> wrote:
> > Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:
> > > "An American student who made a Counter Strike map of Clements High
> > > School has been arrested and sent to an "Alternative Education Center".
> >
> > Perhaps one of the American's on the list could explain just what law,
> > exactly, this guy is supposed to have broken. I know the US is somewhat
> > different (well, a little different and getting less by the day!) than
> > the UK but don't you still have to actually *break the law* to get
> > arrested there?
> >
> > > Local authorities acted immediately after they received a phone call
> > > from a concerned parent whose child had been playing a game that
> > > "involved killing" and took place in a virtual representation of the
> > > school."
> >
> > I can see it now... 'My son's been watching Tom & Jerry.. all that
> > violence. I want Mr Disney arrested at once!'.
> >
> > Ludicrous.
> >
> > Jim.
> >
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