Teen Set on Fire Over Video Game Debt

[Marcus Yam]

Heinous.

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[sparky13]

Tragic and disgusting.

 

[ubernoobie]

People are such assholes these days

 

[pharge]

Sad sad story... 🙁

Hope this is not going to be another gamer hater news...

But seriously, no matter what reason or what causes it... violence done by under age people on/off campus is just getting way too crazy.

Since when setting a person on fire or shootting somebody becames something that teen age people laugh about.

 

[Guest]

Laughing about it? Charge those brats as adults and see if they laugh about it then.

 

[tayb]

Give the kids two options.

1. Burn 80% of their bodies.

2. Go to jail for 15+ years with no option for parole.

I'm pretty certain which punishment they'll take and I'm certain they deserve both. That kid who was burned is never going to be the same again. Not only is he going to spend five months in the hospital but he'll spend YEARS recovering and then he still won't be able to function normally in society as he could before he was burned. Heinous crime. I sincerely hope these kids don't get off easily.

 

[Guest]

I've said it once, and i'll say it countless more times: Tomato shoes, mango buffer, and a flaming teenager = Great way to kill an afternoon.

 

[superblahman123]

I vote that Toms sets up a charity for this kid!

 

[ColMirage]

... Jesus christ.

 

[brendano257]

Truly sad and pathetic. They should honestly be tried for stupidity on an epic scale (and as adults.) 40$ = worth nearly killing for? WTF is wrong with them?

 

[Montezuma]

Jail? They should put them to death and save the taxpayers a lot of money.

 

[Icylobster]

Since when would you do something like this to someone because of a $40 debt? This is pretty sad, I'm sure we don't see all of the details but obviously this was wrong. I hope those kids don't do anything like this to anyone again.

 

[tessalynd]

"One of them arrested today seems genuinely sorry about it."

No, one of them is genuinely sorry about being caught. If the kid was genuinely sorry, he would have turned himself in. And if he had half a soul, he would have stopped it in the first place.

 

[Guest]

the victim was white, kids who set the fire were black. weird how jesse jackson isnt around calling this a racist act.

 

[ant1-b0dy]

Wow. Watch this kid get off with 2 months jail and 2 yrs probation.

 

[Guest]

I would tackle them while on fire, and enjoy the fact that after they die and are reborn, they too will be set on fire and know the pain. This is just horrible, and I hope they go to jail for attempted murder. As a 15 year old, I have seen similar things, but NEVER this horrible. It just blows me away that ANYONE can live with themselves and LAUGH after catching someone on fire over 40$. My friend broke my 50$ headphones, and do you see me doing something that bad? Other kids need to learn to be civil and behave like sane human beings.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

I can see why people think the apocalypse is coming in 2012.

People just keep getting more and more foolish and have no sympathy.

Seems as though now a days the only emotion is hate.

 

[Kelavarus]

Goddamnit. Will you stop linking this shit to video games?

Problem: He had a debt.

Freaky solution: Obviously psychotic 'juveniles' set him on fire.

Okay, so the debt was for video games. Why is this supposed to mean that video games are the problem?

 

[scurvywombat]

@ Kelavarus
No one is saying video games are the problem.

Brewer "reported somebody for stealing his dad's bike," the sheriff said. "That's what this comes down to. It's retaliation."

 

[ghazgull]

The perpetrators need to be put down like dogs!

+1 for the charity