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Tragic students may have died for games consoles

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THE victims of a sadistic double murder might have died for the sake of two hand-held games consoles, police said yesterday. French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were bound, gagged and stabbed to death in a bedsit in south London on Sunday night.

Detectives, who believe the pair may have been the victims of a savage robbery, said two Sony PSP consoles, costing £130 each, were stolen from Mr Bonomo's rented flat.
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GutZ31 - 540 days 4 hours ago
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This article is complete flame bait.
Come on, because some PSP's were stolen it HAS to be gamer related?
How about every other person that gets shot and robbed, and just happens to have a game boy, or a DS, or a NES on them.
Is that news worthy?
Or is it just another piece of hardware you can get some quick cash for at a pawnshop?

Read this sh$t straight from the site.

"They fear a set of keys, which were stolen six days earlier, enabled the attacker to surprise his victims.

Officers are also hunting a black Packard Bell laptop taken in the previous burglary while Mr Bonomo was in the shower."

Yea, thats right, it wasnt all about some PSP's being stolen.

What about this jewel?

"He said they were still trying to establish whether the victims’ bank cards were also stolen."

Hmm, not sure what PSP game needs you to use a bank card to operate it...

Maybe he needs it to buy more games!

This is complete bull, title is misleading, and just another depressing event no one wants to hear when its this blatantly false.
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yankeespawn - 540 days 3 hours ago
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The cuplrit where black it said it on the news.

Stay away from theives, especially black guys with knives.
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NO_PUDding - 540 days 1 hour ago
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I am not black, but that is such a generalisation.

You should stay away from anyone with a knife. And you don't know when people carry knives, and you don't know when they're theives. It's the whole reason there is crime.

But it's nothing to do with being black. I know black crime is higher, but you never hear of white crimes, and believe me, there are more than enoguh crimes that go untelevised.
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White-Sharingan - 540 days 1 hour ago
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ROFL WTF
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kazuma - 539 days 23 hours ago
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hahaha so true =DDDD
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AllroundGamer - 539 days 23 hours ago
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so if a black guy is cutting carrots in the kitchen with a knife, i should quickly leave the house as possible? ;) but maybe if he would stab me, they would blame the game Cooking Mama for that :D
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Fanboy Slaughter - 539 days 23 hours ago
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More bullsh!t from the UK press

They make it seem like the PSP was the only thing they were after, but they also stole a laptop.

Those are pretty common items for ANY robbery, I mean, here in the US, you get shot and killed for wearing a wrong color shirt.

I used to trust the UK media over the sensationalist American super-tard media, but now the UK papers are getting worse.
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alex87 - 539 days 22 hours ago
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I think it really depends on what paper you read. You're always going to have the tabloids such as the Daily Mail/Sun bending the truth or just printing out-right lies, but there are still reputable papers which you can trust. I've never heard of this Press and Journal, it seems to be a Scottish paper.

As for the deaths, the two of them had over 250 stab wounds between them, and then they were set on fire. That doesn't seem like a robbery gone wrong to me.
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BRACHATTACK - 539 days 21 hours ago
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this obviously is horrific, sad news, but i don't think articles like this should be shown on N4G, its not really games related.
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ChrisGTR1 - 539 days 20 hours ago
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i didnt know the UK was such a violent place.
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bourner - 539 days 18 hours ago
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one incident . if one person gets stabbed in england its all over the news for days . amaerica its more to do with shootings
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Freayr - 539 days 20 hours ago
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Certain parts are lawless >_>
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