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[twirlgrrl]

I find it interesting that this woman got arrested. In real life.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/23/international/i063235D45.DTL&tsp=1

Comments

[eac.livejournal.com]

I can't really imagine why she's being prosecuted for killing a character in an online game...

[slinksgirl.livejournal.com]

I think I have a very strange kind of stupidity, because this makes no sense to me. Why? Because in my mind, there are clear delineations between real and not and it is completely black and white. And my brain just shuts down at situations that bend those lines. I just...don't get it at all. So, like, they are married online? And do they have a real relationship or is it fake? Obviously, they aren't legally married, but how do these things cross over into real life? Shows like CSI where they do things like this totally confuse me.

[ninjalie.livejournal.com]

Good grief, I read the other day about someone who'd been arrested for stealing a Virtual amulet on some MMORPG.

[gen-here.livejournal.com]

First - what kind of wussy man calls the police because his computer guy is dead?

Second - she got the info FROM HIM while they were "married" - so how is this an issue?

I can't take the dumb.

[raw-julie.livejournal.com]

WTF?
Oy, I can't even follow the story. The stupid hurts.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

yeh. punishment seems extreme. as a commenter on the sfgate site said, they should have just arrested and tried her online persona.

[f1ymetothemoon.livejournal.com]

W. T. F?