Teenage Boy Murders Mother Over PlayStation

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[citation][nom]graphicsgriffin[/nom]I am a 31 old gamer.........[/citation] I was expecting to read......and still live with my mom.

Then I would have recommended therapy asap.
 
Cmon, as fellow games we all know that the proper way to kill someone is to dismember their body before putting them in the oven. Clearly video games are not to blame or else this detail would not have been missed.
 
Must say I think the mom got arround to having this arguement several years too late.
Discipline is imperative for children.

Here's to hoping this kid gets the needle. The most important thing he can do with his life now is show other kids that this kind of action is terminal.
 
"Dive deeper into the incident and ask all questions, was the mother partly to blame?"

Seriously? I'm not sure I can even express how stupid this statement is. I guess it's a sign of our current society. The hate, rage, and evil that must have been coursing through this boy's body to do what he did to another human being... let alone his own mother... it's beyond disgusting.

and you want to know if the victim is "partly" to blame? If someone shoots another person, I'd certainly want to know what happened... was he threatened, was it self defense, was it an accident... but this? No. I don't even want to hear the excuses.
 
"....possession of an instrument of crime..."? What exactly does that mean? Just about anything can fall under that catagory, why could they just not say use of a claw hammer to kill. What is wrong with kids these days?!!!
 
To tell you the truth some of these people get overwrought over nothing & start to chuck fits & also violence...After all he was in his own mothers house,so he should of shown respect & kept quite...I do not know what made him do it,but it seemed that he was in some sort of a hypnotised thought process of violence & maybe hearing his fellow school friends pretend to be big & tuff explaining how they deal with their own situations spured him on to act like a mad man...
 
the only thing that is really poor here is some of the comments

the kid is a sicko, its not his Mum's fault, neither it is a video games' fault

sick of the blame culture - we all MUST take responsibility for our own actions

in this case I hope he rots in jail, or better still - fries for his actions, don't see why sickos like this should be kept at taxpayers expense
 
"He hit her with a claw hammer 20 times. The hammer attack didn't kill her, so Kendall dragged his mother down to the kitchen and tried to cremate her using the oven. When that plan failed, he beat her head with a chair leg and then hid her body under some debris in an alley behind the house."

WOW!!!
That's f*cking brutal!!! I don't care how pissed you are normal people do not do this. I hope they show him no mercy and give him the death penalty. People like this should not be able to pass on thier genes. If there is a genetic trait that allows people to be capable of something like this I say snuff them out so that we may evolve beyond the likes of this primate.

This may sound odd to some people (others will completely agree) but I think it could have been prevented if he had smoked a joint after the arguement instead of pacing around. I'm not saying he had any weed on hand or anything but multiple federal studies have found that it makes you relaxed, more calm and for lack of a better phrase more peaceful. And yet the federal government still keeps it outlawed. Why? ... I have no idea, it really makes no sense at all. If anything it should at least be allowed to help the sick and people like this guy who are in a fit of rage.

Some people claim:
It kills brain cells:
The only study that was done, was done on monkeys they gave the monkeys so much smoke that they died. When autopsied they showed brain damage but that was due to the LACK OF OXYGEN. They gave the monkeys pure smoke and did not mix any oxygen into it so they got brain damage from the lack of oxygen not from the smoke.
In contrast studies have showen that alcohol can cause brain cells to actually burst.
Unlike alcohol you can't overdose. I heard that a lethal dose was super high like 5,000 joints in 1 hour which no person could possibly do.

Anyway, sorry I got off on a little rant. I just get tired of the US keeping it outlawed FOR NO GOOD REASON. I see something like this were it may have been useful but society does not see it in same light because they been coaxed to believe lies.
 
This kid has got to be a sociopath. I can't imagine that anyone without a severe mental health issue could even imagine something like this. If he doesn't have a severe mental health issue then he has got to be one of the most callous, evil people around. Seriously, because you couldn't play your friggin video game you killed your mom? Most people couldn't even imagine hitting their mom, for things much worse than taking your playstation away.
 
Anyone that is defending him by saying it was because he was abused needs to have a psychiatric evaluation. Nothing makes this ok, or understandable. People have to take responsibility for their actions, regardless of whatever negative things happened in their life.
 
@dingo_d

Parents not caring for their kids? Are you a retarded psychopath too? You don't brutally murder your own mother, then say, i wouldn't do it again and that you miss her! WTF. WTF is wrong with you, that kid was insanely messed up in the head, and if you blame the mother, school, or video games for that then so are you!
 
[citation][nom]anacandor[/nom]Maybe this just proves that video games promote violence...[/citation]

No, this just proves that a junkie will kill to get a fix.
 
It sounds to me like the kid was a spoiled brat since he was very little. This goes on to show that just like that show with the dog trainer Cesar, if you don't use discipline on kids, they will grow to be monsters or at the very least, the regular local asshole.
 
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