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"Manhunt made my son a killer", Says the Mother

The parents of Britain's most violent teenager has spilled to News of the world that the computer game Manhunt turned their son into a killer. The killer was supposedly a 'quiet and reserved' boy with a 'promising future' but every night he'd turn into some kind of twisted murderer as he used Manhunt to practice his potential murders. His mom claims that he never did anything to make her worry in the past and implies that his casual Playstation addiction was the sole cause for the murders that her twisted killer of a son conducted.

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1 TheMART-sucksdick | 877 days 18 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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Texas GMR - 877 days 15 hours ago

1.1 - Kid?

Looks like we found Britain's worst parent.

Trying to blame video games for her lack of parenting skills. HAHAHA

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Alvadr - 877 days 9 hours ago

1.2 -

I agree, Britain has gone down the pan! Get me outta here.

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Chexd - 877 days 7 hours ago

1.3 -

take me too!

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The Swordsman - 877 days 6 hours ago

1.4 - Ya..

With things like tabloid newspapers and a pompus royal family in today's modern, mostly democratic world, Britain has become a joke, while, somewhat ironicly, neighbouring Ireland(my country), is gaining political power in this world and becoming richer. Still, I would prefer to live in Britain than live in the USA, where the world's dumbest primate is President.

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nice_cuppa - 877 days 2 hours ago

1.5 - i think i should play some manhunt.

as i'm thinking about killing the local gang of criminal chav cunts.

it gives me an excuse !

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Skizelli - 876 days 22 hours ago

1.6 - @The Lone Swordsman

As I was reading the first few posts, I was waiting for someone to take a shot at the US. Didn't take very long. Dumbest primate, yes, but he's out of here come next election. Still, while our lame president may make us look bad, that's a biased assessment you just made. Furthermore, why do people have such a hard-on for the US? It's amusing to read posts from Europeans complaining about their own country, then all of the sudden the US is brought up for no good reason other than to take a cheap shot at us. It's getting old. What's so hard about getting along on a personal level? Every country has morons and the country they're from isn't to blame.

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hfaze - 876 days 19 hours ago

1.7 -

Eh, I was going to go off on a political tyrate on why non-americans tend to go off on the USA, but it doesn't take much to figure that one out...

Yet another example of bad parenting. It sounds like the parents in this case let the kid go on autopilot, not giving their child enough guidance, and certainly not communicating with their kid enough...

It's parents that go out and buy their 11 year old's games that are rated M that causes this kind of uproar about video games in general. Would you go out and buy your child a movie that's rated NC-17, then let them watch it un-supervised? Same principal as buying the kid an M rated game and letting them go off to their room to play it.

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The Swordsman - 876 days 7 hours ago

1.8 - @ Skizelli

Well, it's that that primate is screwing your country and ruining your country's reputation on the global front. And even though he will be going next year, he's screwed the country on so many levels, I don't think that his successor(possibly Hilary Clinton) will be able to fix. I'm actually going to America next week, so I'll finally see if he's ruining the country as badly as I hear he is. Also, my bias against America might have been caused by one American(he may have been Canadian, but his mention of Mississippi would imply that he is American) user here, Kevin, who called my country a joke. That and, despite that fact that I called Britain a joke, before the likes of really stupid tabloid newspapers, idiotic royal family members and stupid reality television such as Big Brother, the country was good and respected.

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mbmonk - 876 days 5 hours ago

1.9 - It's a good thing...

It's a good thing you put a lot of stock in the 1 person out of an estimated 302 MILLION Americans that you met on the INTERNET, of all places, to influence you enough to have a negative bias against the people of the US.

What exactly are you expecting to see when you come here? Our country is relatively fine internally. With your attitude I hope you miss the flight to the US.

PS: Obama will win in 2008 not Mrs. Clinton

I should make a generalization about all the people where you come from based on your INTERNET posts, but I think I will hold off.

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GoLeafsGo - 877 days 18 hours ago

2 - What the hell.

People need to stop *****ing about video games.

Video games DO NOT create killers. If anything, they keep the killers IN THE GAME.

****, parents REALLY need to understand that its THEIR fault their kids act out.

And now, N4G will be run over with Jack Dumbass Thompson news claiming he was right.

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ngoniko - 877 days 17 hours ago

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yea that's like saying guns kill people, using that as an excuse to get rid of guns, now if you did get rid of guns, people going to use their fist and fight, so you want to get rid of their fist too????

NO

PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE

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sjappie - 877 days 17 hours ago

2.2 - @ 2.1 Yes, people kill people.

But it sure helps a lot if they have guns lying around. Your comparison with fists is not very good since a fist isn't as deadly a weapon as a gun is.
Also facts prove that in places were there are more guns, and easier acces to them , relatively more people get murdered than in places with no or less guns and acces.
So do I think videogames are to blame for violence? No.
Do I think that legalisation and easy acces to weapons gets more people killed? Hell jeah! So in a way, guns do kill people.

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Percy - 877 days 10 hours ago

2.3 - a fist isn't as deadly a weapon as a gun is

"a fist isn't as deadly a weapon as a gun"

you must not know of a man by the name of chuck norris.

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Daishi - 877 days 9 hours ago

2.4 -

Well sjappie you must have never heard of prison. With virtualy no access to guns people get killed there all the time. I'm not totaly disagreeing with you because it takes a lot more to kill someone with fists than the pull of a trigger. But that's another subject for another time.

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deep - 877 days 9 hours ago

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Do not compare this with guns. A game may have an affect on an already disturbed psychology....but a gun can frigging kill someone! Get the guns out of your country! No ifs, or buts. YOU DO NOT NEED THEM.

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sjappie - 877 days 7 hours ago

2.6 - @2.4 Are you kidding me?

Don't you think there are more murders in prison because maybe, I don't know, I'ts FULL OF MURDERERS AND CRIMINALS that kill people for breakfast, guns or no guns.

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Floxnard - 877 days 2 hours ago

2.7 - @2.1, 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6

You can say, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." But, "People don't kill people, chronic blood loss and organ failure kills people." But then, " Chronic blood loss and organ failure doesn't kill people, death kills people." Try that at a murder trial.

Anyways, the gun makes it a hell of a lot easier to kill someone. Most murders are NOT premeditated. They mostly go something like this: 2 people get into a verbal fight. They get really really angry. One storms off into the other room, grabs a gun, and kills the other person.

So, the guns really do help a lot. Also, a fist fight is a lot more fair than a gun fight. If someone robs you with his fists, he's not quite as deadly as with a gun. A gun makes for a pretty unfair fight. And a potentially lethal one.

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2.8 dantesparda | 877 days ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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Kokoro - 877 days 18 hours ago

3 - Ah

the whole trick is back on full force. While yes, Games like these get people on edge, but they do not make someone a killer. A killer is a killer no matter what made him do it. You can drop a feather and a person can find a reason to kill you for that. These people are crazy from the day they were born. And from what I know, they werent born with a controller in there hands.

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unbiased - 877 days 8 hours ago

3.1 - a knife will work fine

get rid of guns and someone will stab you in the liver.
yes people kill people and guns should be kept locked away.

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MK_Red - 877 days 18 hours ago

4 -

Our world and societies today have lots of problems (Emotional, parental, ...) but people dont want to talk aout or address them so the go for the easiest and most defenseless of them, video games instead.

Games like Manhunt have ratings and its up to parents to see wether the game is suitable for their children or not. I'm not saying that this mother is to be blamed for the tragedy but she blaming games for the murder is as stupid as gamers blaming her IMO.

Games have good and bad effects and while Manhunt may or may not have affected that boy but I'm sure there are a whole lot more important and depressing reasons behind this murder.
And, Oh my God. This will become new toy for mass media and losers like JAck Thompson.

Im sorry for the loss of the mother and victims but this is NOT the solution.

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Lyberator - 877 days 18 hours ago

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They spelled PRACTICED wrong. lol

"I knew he was playing the video games but we didn't really know what went on in them, how brutal and graphic they were."
- Then you know what, his parents should have been more vigilant. The game was rated that way for a good reason.

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timmyp53 - 877 days 18 hours ago

6 - jack thompson propraganda

the kid was already a sicko just like the vtech kid.. videogames dont create killers but they help them... i guess

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Crazyglues - 877 days 17 hours ago

6.1 - You see that's a good point timmyp53.... What I was thinking is this.

Maybe the kid was sick already, and if so, did video games push him over the edge, because maybe then you can say he would have been a little crazy but would never have harmed anyone.

But because of the violence in the game he twisted it in his mind and became a lot worst and became a killer where if he never played the game he would just been sick but kept it to himself.

See I have a real hard time with this one, because in a way I want to blame the parent for not being their to see her son needs special supervision but parents can't be their 24/7 so do we blame the game.

This is a tough call, but I do blame the Parents. That game should have never been in his hands.

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johnnywit - 877 days 5 hours ago

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Crazy Glue

I'm a parent of a 2 year old and I take full responsibility of anything she were to do. You say parents can't be there 24/7 but that is the biggest excuse I have ever heard. When your kid goes off on there own they are a little version of your self. They are suppose to act the way you had raised them to act, as if it was you standing right there in their shoes. Now this only implies to normal kids. This kid on the other hand was sick and his parents should have noticed it and said something. But you will learn once you have kids, the hardest thing is admitting there is something wrong with them. Parents should take full responsibility for anything there kids do. That is why they are called kids and we(parents) are called adults.
This is the parents fault.

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BBsin - 877 days 17 hours ago

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no, your awful parenting made him a killer.

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ngoniko - 877 days 17 hours ago

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what? wtf? the only people she can blame is herself and her parenting skills.

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Wile - 877 days 17 hours ago

9 - Sorry lady

your kid is a psycho and a you fail him as a parent.

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sevenout - 877 days 17 hours ago

10 - sooner or later

Kids don't turn into cold-blooded killers because of videogames or music. This bastard kid would have killed someone sooner or later. There is a world of difference between bashing someones head in with a lead pipe in real life and killing someone in a videogame. To go to that next level and kill someone, especially for no reason, requires a pure evil heart.

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Whoooop - 877 days 17 hours ago

11 - hmmmmmmmmm

I think Jack Thompson is giving people some money... :)

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Daishi - 877 days 9 hours ago

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I find the most compeling part to be this "The trial was told how police discovered that, before the murder, Harling spent days on the internet talking to paedophiles and researching serial killers such as the infamous Dennis Nielsen." but hey I'm no psychologist it could be all the playstation's fault...

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bIadestar - 877 days 17 hours ago

13 - sure blame the games

meh blame the perants for buying it for him coz he cant go and buy it in uk we got the age check shyt.

and if he was bright enuf to get 10 GCSE'S i think he would of know whats right or wrong,there just using the game as an excuse to get his sentence lowerd

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13.1 BIadestarX | 877 days 4 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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schabeugen04 - 877 days 17 hours ago

14 - Moment of silence

Umm .. I don't know about you guys but this is just sad. I want to have a moment of silence for the victim, her Family. The little boy that did the murder and his parents for what they are going through. This is sad no matter how you look at it. We lost a human life which is never a good thing.

The persons involved in this situation has my sincerest condolences.

That is all I'm not hear to pass judgement on her theory to blame video games. I think anyone would look for a reason,given the same situation, as to why there child is a murderer.

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utendoof - 877 days 17 hours ago

15 - Its nice to see everbody agree in the comment section for once.

Maybe xbox people and playstation people can agree on something. ngoniko's comparision to video games and guns was very accurate in my opinion.

P.S. Jack Thompson = Jackass

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Bloodmask - 877 days 17 hours ago

16 - This is BS

Children are shaped by their environment.

And parents are supposed to instill a good moral foundation for their kids to follow. Not to mention the parents probably bought this game for the kid.

Everybody is always looking for a scapegoat.

Face it you are a bad parent.

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Whoooop - 877 days 17 hours ago

17 - Hey guess what???

Soon after I played GTA, I had the urge to go outside open somebody's car door, grab him, throw him in the street and take the car..

HEYY I also played Darkness, but F*CK is been so difficult to get those demonic snakes out of my @ss so I can kill people where I live.. "Those voices are driving me insaneee".

Hey GUESS WHAT

I also played MOTORSTORM, I just booked me a fly to the grand canyon, now I just need the money to buy me an OFF-road vehicle.. I just have an itchy desire of racing in the mud with 10 more maniacs.... you know what I mean?? don't know why this is happening.. must be the games :(

I saw LAIR footage too.. MAN it's been almost 5 months now that I'm trying to get fire out of my mouth... ain't happening. imma have to forget about this one.

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PlayStation360 - 877 days 17 hours ago

17.1 - Aw Whoooop...

you made a mistake bro. YOUR not to spew out fire from your mouth...you have to get your DRAGON to do that. I got my dragon a few months ago, had to take out a loan though. And I STILL can't get him to fly right. Burn my house a few times. lol Naw seriously, I hate it when people blame others for their own problems. Parents of the killer should be ashamed of themselves. Take reponsiblity for your own actions and your childrens actions.

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tonsoffun - 877 days 17 hours ago

18 - UTTER SENSATIONALIST P!SH

First off, the boy should not have been playing it at all, second where was the parents?

The fault of that idiot does not lye with the games manufacturers - it is with the obviously lacking parenting skills the boys parents have showed.

People are quick to assign blame elsewhere, rather than look at themselves in the mirror.

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the greatest - 877 days 17 hours ago

19 - please

you made your son a killer letting him
watch 2 much bugys bunny

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Dogswithguns - 877 days 17 hours ago

20 - When someone become a killer

will be a killer anyway, not becuz of videogames. So stop your nonsense.

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Marty8370 - 877 days 17 hours ago

21 - Bullsh*t...........

This is complete bull.

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MC_KOOL_K - 877 days 17 hours ago

22 - ITS LUCKY THIS GUY WAS CAUGHT

he donned a long dark wig, sunglasses and jacket from the ‘killing kit' he had spent 10 months amassing on eBay. He then headed out with a large hunting knife.

NO SIGNS HERE PLEASE MOVE ALONG

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sjappie - 877 days 16 hours ago

23 - You never hear about the

hundreds of millions of gamers that never kill people. Next time someone causes a lethal car accident, they'll be saying, "Every night he went to his darkened room and played Burnout all night, now look what he did"

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Auto426 - 877 days 16 hours ago

24 - Excuses, excuses

Why is it that every time there is a tragedy, people always have to find something or someone to blame. Her kid went out and murdered someone in cold blood, but it wasn't the kids fault. He didn't want to do it. The game forced him to do it. It literally held a gun to his head, and told him to go stab this woman...[/sarcasm]

Seriously. Why don't these people just own up to their actions. The kid had to be sick in the first place to do what he did. Millions of people have played Manhunt, and it's been out for 3 years now, yet only her kid snapped. That alone shows that it's not the game's fault.

I'm sure we will also see another lawsuit against Take Two now, since people love to sue in the face of tragedy.

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jay3 - 877 days 13 hours ago

24.1 - actually...

theres been quite a few of these killings are supposedly the cause of Manhunt.

Bad parenting? The kid was playing the game for a reason, no?

Sure maybe the parents didn't know what he was playing but so what? The kid was playing the game because he thought it was cool, we kill people in games because we think it's cool, this kid got bored of the same old stuff so decided to take it to the next level. Do you think if the parents said "we dont want you playing this anymore" it would have stopped him? Hell no.

Either way, like someone else said, 2 people are traumatized, 1 person jailed for life, and another dead. Stop the fvcking blame game and be glad you weren't involved.

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Kyur4ThePain - 877 days 16 hours ago

25 - Fu(k you

says the anonymous guy on a forum.

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Auron - 877 days 16 hours ago

26 - more like bad parenting

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