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Boy Hired Hit Man to Kill Parents for Playstation Punishment

timesonline.co.uk — Like many middle-class, suburban American parents, Shannan and Joey Troiano worried about their son ’s behaviour and his bad grades at high school. And like many wayward teenagers, Cory Ryder was grounded for weeks at a time, had a PlayStation confiscated and was banned from watching TV.

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  • b33b3s, on 11/08/2007, -7/+318In less than a week the face punching Halo 3 kid has already been upstaged. What next, genocide over a confiscated Wii?
    • Gonz037, on 11/08/2007, -7/+248Oh noes! Halo caust?
      • SocialPoison, on 11/08/2007, -2/+33pun... causing irreversible... brain... damage...
        will... vote... for... reform party... in next... election...

        / I loled, +1
        //futurama ftw
      • mickcn, on 11/08/2007, -3/+31You, my friend, are why I read digg comments.
    • DarkSamus, on 11/08/2007, -3/+55HOUSE SET ON FIRE FOR NOT LETTING TEEN PLAY GALAXY

      Tonight at 10 after the season finale of 24 on fox
      do you know where your ***** up child is?
      • Cyber_Akuma, on 11/06/2007, -0/+11Probably being given extra dessert to cope with his "stress" while the parents with the help of fox sue the game companies, the school, his friends, and anything else they can blame other than themselves for corrupting their perfect little angel....
    • KibibyteBrain, on 11/06/2007, -2/+45You may be onto something. Hitler was quite upset over getting banned from XBL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYvZnTFpip0
      • TitanX13, on 11/06/2007, -2/+18not to mention not making it into art school
        • dondara, on 11/06/2007, -9/+1And only one testicle. So he really was half off his nut. FTW
      • rz8472, on 11/06/2007, -1/+5Der Untergang was a great movie; I never thought a German actor would have the guts to play Hitler.
        It got 8.8/10 on IMDB, a very rare achievement.
      • EntangledPhysx, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3That was a good laugh. Thank you.
    • krets, on 11/06/2007, -1/+16WiiWII
    • banmaster, on 11/06/2007, -24/+3"What next, genocide over a confiscated Wii?"

      I didn't know GW Bush had a Wii.
      • Cyber_Akuma, on 11/06/2007, -0/+8Well, we know he has a DS and a copy of Brain Age, Nintendo mailed him a set a few months ago.
    • Drahkar, on 11/07/2007, -3/+59This is plain stupid. Buried as inaccurate. The whole thing has nothing to do with a playstation. He was hiring a hitman because she kicked him out of the house.
      • Cyber_Akuma, on 11/06/2007, -2/+16Still dosent change the fact how screwed up it is that a child is trying to call a hit on his PARENTS.
        • vertinox, on 11/08/2007, -2/+4Quick question, if the kid is under 18 aren't the parents legally required to take care of him rather than disowning them? I'm sure the state would be happy to find legal guardians but his parents would legally responsible for his behavior.

          Seriously... In all appearances his parents didn't give a ***** and probaly only had him because a condom broke and didn't want to deal with raising a child proprerly.
          • Drahkar, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3I agree completely that the parents play a big role in the problem here. My statement was just that people need to stop trying to blame video games and game systems for these things. I'm tired of Jack Thompson and the Jack Thompson wannabes. And when people blatantly fabricate reasons like the poster does then they are just helping to perpetuate a falsehood that just needs to go away.
          • EvilFerret, on 11/07/2007, -2/+2Agreed. HIs parents don't seem to care much about him~ Kicking him out of the house when he's only 16? I'm pretty sure that's illegal, they should be getting charged for child endangerment. I also find it odd how his mom wanted to have him charged as an adult so he would be locked away even longer.
      • tonich03, on 11/06/2007, -1/+5I can't digg you enough. Stupid sensationalism. Without the PSone, it's just another case of family violence.
    • smasho, on 11/08/2007, -2/+23World War Wii
      • Herostratos, on 11/08/2007, -0/+4When it comes to stupid puns I don't know whether to laugh or cry...
      • Herostratos, on 11/08/2007, -2/+2[double]
    • thebaron2, on 11/06/2007, -1/+2Did they change the title of the article, because now it reads "Mother’s sting catches son, Cory Ryder, ‘hiring hitman to kill her’" ?
    • nvisi0n, on 11/06/2007, -1/+2If someone took my Wii I would absolutely, positively have to kill every ***** in the room
    • tmslak, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5You don't ***** with a man's Wii. Don't you ever joke about that again.
      • Ryosen, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1"Never rub another man's rhubarb" - Jack Napier
    • stackered, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4I did this a couple years ago. I can play Playstation all day now.
    • rappermas, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Was it modded?
    • mllawso, on 11/08/2007, -2/+1Not going to happen. A Wii owner would just cut theirself.
      • Volcanite, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1omg - ur completely right- people who play the wii are hopeless emos
  • ahnonamis, on 11/07/2007, -9/+112Too bad the positive things gamers do never get as much publicity. Oh well, that's the way the media works.
    • Bakkster, on 11/06/2007, -1/+19Child's Play just started up again for this year. We should see some positive press out again.
    • dudefather, on 11/06/2007, -0/+20Too bad the positive things (any social group, organization, object, sentient being) do never get as much publicity. Oh well, that's the way the media works. fixed
    • DangerMouse9, on 11/07/2007, -4/+75If you read the ***** article it said he was pissed that he was kicked out of the house for stealing $45 from his sister. It didn't really say anything about the playstation punishment. The ***** douche that wrote the title was just trying to get it dugg to the front page by assholes that can't read more than the headline.

      To all those posting sensationalistic headlines to try to garner front page stories "Knock it the ***** off, we get enough of that ***** crap everywhere else."
      • TexTurboesq, on 11/06/2007, -8/+3Hey now you know how it feels to be a police officer....
        • TitanX13, on 11/05/2007, -2/+1agreed
        • Cyber_Akuma, on 11/06/2007, -2/+2Don't taze m-*zzzzz*-OW!
          • troye, on 11/06/2007, -2/+2No, I think that would be more like crying than just "OW", "buahahaaaawWWWaAAAAAAaHOW*sob**whimpers**whimpers**more whimpering*AAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaNOOOOOOOAAAHHHhh." I'm neutral on cops.
      • TitanX13, on 11/06/2007, -3/+4either way i was kicked out my parents house till 4am like a week ago, but i am no way in hell going to call a hitman on parents.
        • sgtpppr, on 11/06/2007, -1/+5Did you just reply to Tex's comment about being a police officer and agree with him implying you were also an officer...then post about your parents kicking you out of the house last week? Well, then again, this is digg. The basement IS part of the house.
          • TitanX13, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1no i was saying that being kicked out of the house is no cause to hire a hitman to kill your parents. also i dont live in my parents basement this california their are no basement. also its my first year in college so i am stay where its cheap
    • oldhick, on 11/06/2007, -3/+11What are some of the great things gamers do? I'm not being sarcastic, I really wasn't aware that the gamer community was known for its philanthropy.
      • clothmonkey, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4Go google "child's play" - that's a good start...
      • sgtpppr, on 11/07/2007, -2/+11What have the 'people who water their lawn' or 'people who do crossword puzzles' communities done lately? I don't see how a hobby requires a community that does charity work.
        • harrv, on 11/06/2007, -4/+3Well, people who water their lawn are increasing their property value and not dragging their neighbor's down.
        • Harq, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1They are also usually wasting water since most of it probably runs off...
        • bingobongony, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2And you don't see news progrmas talking about the good things that people watering their lawns do either. Seriously...do you know anything about CONTEXT? This thread is about media mentioning only the bad things. and sgtpppr correctly pointed out that ti is not like there are newsworthy stories about gamers doing great things. With this context in mind, your comment implies that you think that there are all sorts of news stories about lawn waterers.
      • BlackCow, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Well the Nor'Easter LAN party in Massachusetts donates all precedes to the Shriners children's hospital.
    • ltchimpo, on 11/08/2007, -2/+2When did "gamers" become a group. I always thought that people that played video games represented a nice cross section of society....'s virgins.
      • bingobongony, on 11/07/2007, -2/+2True...trying to call a bunch of anti-social outcasts a group is pretty funny. (And no, morons, talking to people via a headset while playing a game does NOT make you social.)
        • bagboyrebel, on 11/06/2007, -2/+2If only I was as cool as you. /sarcasm
        • Ryosen, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1You're trolling around message forums and you call gamers anti-social?
        • stevedclarke, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Define social.
    • skyfire1, on 11/08/2007, -0/+4PS3 player cures cancer. Scientists everywhere are amazed. More at 11.
    • smek2, on 11/08/2007, -1/+1Positive things? Like what? Stop playing the "media is biased" card, that kid just tried to hire a HITMAN TO KILL HIS PARENTS because they confiscated his ***** Playstation. There's no better proof that excessive entertainment and limitless capitalism turning society into a pile of *****. Seriously, i hate guys like Jack Thompson like the next guy, and that kid here is (yet) an exception but please stop over-protecting your beloved videogames, fanboy. Playing, let's say FPS games hours on end DOES have effects on your brain, whether you like it or not.
  • chocobomog, on 11/07/2007, -2/+365Title is a little misleading. He was mad about many things, the biggest being kicked out of his parents house after getting in a fight with his parents for dropping out of school. The Playstation was only mentioned once and was in a list of "typical" punishments the parents tried before kicking him out.
    • norman619, on 11/06/2007, -1/+113How dare you actually READ the article! You must be new.
      • falkonv7l, on 11/06/2007, -1/+16A true "Digger" will get the whole story from the posts below LOL
    • linkthewarrior, on 11/07/2007, -0/+18The sad part about this is people looking to blame this violence over video games (Jack Thompson) see this as proof as to why video games are corrupting the youth. When in fact there are plenty of other signs as to why this had happened. Take his parents getting a divorce, a new step father. This kid obviously had other problems than his mother grounding him for a few weeks.
      • dondara, on 11/06/2007, -1/+17Did they ever just sit down with the kid, turn off the tv, get off the phone and hit him?
      • Mayhew, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1Yes, it's the divorce's fault. That's why 50% of all kids are hiring hitmen to kill their parents.
    • BestJaxx, on 11/06/2007, -1/+3I doubt that the kid did all of this simply because of video games. He did several delinquent things before the PlayStation was taken away, and all of this is going to blamed on the video games. Wait . . . Damn. I'm to late. Someone else already typed it.
    • mightyzug, on 11/06/2007, -4/+3who cares!?!? so it wasn't JUST coz of the playstation, so what?? there still wasn't one legit reason for doing what he did in his long list of stupid BS to whine about. he is still a pathetic whiny little bitch and that's all that matters. put this worthless little ***** to death.
    • gerbco, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1How about talking to the kid about the hit??? I mean why would anyone put their kids away? Perhaps a mental institution would have been better.
    • rush378, on 11/06/2007, -1/+2This kid almost seems like a sociopath based on that letter to his mom. Sucking up to your parents after trying to put a hit on them? Evil.
    • dukeochutney, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1must be poor people who cares about a playstation
  • atomicpoet, on 11/07/2007, -9/+52VIDEO GAMES ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!
    • Cyber_Akuma, on 11/06/2007, -5/+2... if you live in China or Korea
  • imacommi, on 11/08/2007, -9/+22kids these days...
    • OMGWTFROFLMAOx2, on 11/08/2007, -3/+31parents these days...
      • TitanX13, on 11/08/2007, -1/+14people these days
      • izzybomb, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4Bravo to these parents, actually continually punishing and trying to help their son instead of just ignoring him and letting him do what he wanted. They even wanted him to be tried in adult court so the punishment would be more fitting and he would really feel the consequences of his actions.
      • Cyber_Akuma, on 11/08/2007, -0/+10Diggers these days...
    • slipkn0tz23, on 11/06/2007, -13/+3If the parents had just let the kid play his Playstation, none of this would've happened!
    • deadmann, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1Boys will be boys
  • loganhid, on 11/06/2007, -27/+10this is the reason why white parents should beat up their kids - gone on, give them a good old fashion ass whopping!
    • toxicshok, on 11/06/2007, -3/+13b/c it totally worked great for black parents.
      • Zeonix, on 11/06/2007, -8/+1I haven't heard too many stories of black kids beating up their parents, or hiring mercs to kill them.
        • DangerMouse9, on 11/06/2007, -2/+4What other stories besides this one have you heard of white kids doing that?
        • SwampFox012, on 11/06/2007, -2/+9Haven't heard too many stories about white ones either....
        • Zeonix, on 11/06/2007, -3/+2I've seen white kids attempt to fight their parents, yell at their parents, curse at their parents, and generally act like little ***** without their parents taking a stand, or trying to be an authority figure. All they do is try to reason with the kid and hope the onslaught stops.
          That's not how you raise a child.
          • Iconoclast25, on 11/05/2007, -0/+3"That's not how you raise a child."
            ABSOLUTELY !!!
            In my "Baby Boomer" generation, parents and teachers would apply corporal punishment when it was warranted and I've yet to meet someone who was "warped" by this. The touchy-feely "time-outs," etc., do NOTHING to modify behavior. This particular little bastid would have been straightened out when he was a LOT younger.
            What we have now, by and large, are spineless hedonists producing even more hedonistic offspring who believe themselves "entitled" to all manner of goods and services. There is little or no personal responsibility, little or no work ethic . . . it is really frightening to contemplate where this country will be in another fifty years.
        • moush, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1you just threaten force and back it up, u really should only have to hit your kids a few times
      • norman619, on 11/07/2007, -6/+2Black parents? You really that retarded?
      • ericrous, on 11/07/2007, -17/+7"Black parents"

        Wow, never heard that used in the plural before.
    • neodorian, on 11/06/2007, -2/+3Yeah, let's treat violence and aggression with more of the same.

    • loganhid, on 11/06/2007, -2/+3it's a joke people but all kids need the feel of the cane
    • androothebear, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1i, too, enjoy maddox
    • deadmann, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1I'm White and I got the ***** beat out of me. Stereotypes -1. I think you mean hippy liberal douche parents.
  • Onion575, on 11/06/2007, -23/+10I don't see anything wrong with the kid... I mean they took away his playstation. That's worse than any death I know.
  • webcure, on 11/06/2007, -5/+88Something is fishy. Ok, the kid was having some serious problems. But this statement is too weird.
    "He has also been writing to his mother, saying: “You know I love you with all my heart mom!” Mrs Troiano fears that he is being manipulative. She wanted him tried in an adult court where he would have faced a much longer sentence.He needs to understand what he did was wrong”.
    I don't know, it doesn't sound like a normal family to me.
    • InuX, on 11/06/2007, -9/+1Mother son relationship? You rarely hear mention of the dad.
      • DangerMouse9, on 11/08/2007, -3/+6His father left the picture when he was 1.
        • positron, on 11/06/2007, -0/+11The MOTHER left the father when the boy was young.
    • Ravie, on 11/06/2007, -3/+3Sometimes psycho's turn up in the general population, and no-one really knows why.
      • Xondar, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1It's because people are rarely screened for mental disease unless they start showing symptoms of something. Psychopaths also tend to do well and blend in in certain job areas like politics or business.
    • jxfallout, on 11/06/2007, -1/+18Wait, so now something's wrong in that a mother is terrified of her kid after he attempted to have her killed? What would you do if your child was caught in the act of hiring someone to kill you?
      • toast1226, on 11/06/2007, -1/+16I had a situation with my sister where she got into a huge rage and was pounding on my door with a knife and sliding the knife under it. At the time I was terrified and thought she was trying to kill me so I called the cops and they arrested her -- for a long time I didn't even want to see her or vice versa. But when I had to give my statement to my attorney about what I thought of the situation I told them I didn't want her to get a felony record from the incident. I didn't want it to happen again but I felt her life would be ruined if she had the maximum punishment.

        From my experience, I can easily understand why the mother would want him sentenced for a long time.
    • Xondar, on 11/06/2007, -0/+26Psychopaths often feign emotion to get the better of people.
      • mightyzug, on 11/06/2007, -8/+2sociopath /= psychopath. improve your vocabulary. moron.
        • Hobofuzz, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4They mean the same thing.
          • stevedclarke, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1*Nothing to see here, move along*

            Itchy submit-finger today. Sorry.
        • Xondar, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1When I took criminology in college we used the term "psychopath." When I took psychology, we used the term "sociopath." But, I was told in both classes that both terms were correct.

          I tend to use psychopath because I took more criminology than psychology in college.
      • tektalk, on 11/09/2007, -0/+2So I guess good call on mom's part eh?
    • moush, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1stepparents..
  • Shrubber, on 11/06/2007, -3/+29Wait...did the kid just start hunting around and looking for a hitman, and THEN the police arranged a sting operation? Because it sounds to me like the police almost baited him into this. He knew full well what he was doing, but it does sound to me like they might have prodded him a little to much. For that reason, I think they should charge him as a juvenile. Five years is enough time to smack some sense into him if they get him the right help.
    • Frei, on 11/06/2007, -0/+20I agree that it doesn't seem to add up. The kid and parent don't get along and fight, got it. But then the mother and a neighbor call the police, bring the kid to a hotel and ask him if he'd (a 16 year old) would like to HIRE a hitman. I hope I'm missing something here. Would this kid have gone this far without those two pushing him into the hotel room.
      • dezman2003, on 11/08/2007, -2/+6The point is he did go that far, its unacceptable regardless of the circumstances.
        • Syntaxis, on 11/08/2007, -3/+4No, the circumstances were simulated so that he was forced to make a decision he wouldn't have made otherwise. Tell me, faced with a hitman asking you if you want to hire him - while he gently strokes his revolver - would you say "sure" or "hell no"? I'd go with "sure" and later on turn the bastard in.

          Entrapment is wrong.
          • dezman2003, on 11/08/2007, -2/+2I wouldn't have went to meet the hitman in the first place. It really shows the kind of person you are, you'd be willing to endanger someone elses life (what happens if the hitman gets to the target before the cops get to him?) because you made a rash decision and now you're a chicken ***** who can't say no to the scary man.
      • vulapine, on 11/09/2007, -4/+5Wow! You got all that from the story?
        I must have missed something, because the story never said anything about "the mother and a neighbor call the police". It never says that the friend's mom did any more than take him to the hotel. It doesn't say how the pretend hitman was contacted initially at all.
        It's quite possible that "the kid" made contact first and the parents were told about it.
        But we can ride the supposition train all night and get nowhere.
        • LoungeActx, on 11/06/2007, -3/+1The article did say that the kid "Felt pressured, and even contemplated calling the police while in the hotel room."
          • vulapine, on 11/06/2007, -2/+4Actually the article said that that's what the kid said. And if you can't trust a vandal and thief with no respect for authority to tell the truth when he's facing potentially serious punishment, who can you trust?
        • scrimaxinc, on 11/08/2007, -0/+2Ummm did you not get the part of my comment that said...

          "I was trying to figure out how it could have gone down too. The only scenario I can think of is..."

          Did I claim anything as fact? I was simply trying to come up with a scenario that made a little sense. Ass.
      • scrimaxinc, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6I was trying to figure out how it could have gone down too. The only scenario I can think of is that he brought it up with his friends mother (the one he "trusted"), who then told his mom what her son was saying. The kid's mom wanted to find out whether he was being serious about it or not, so the two mom's brought in the police and set up a "test". She was probably hoping that her son would pass the test, and that he was just all talk (which could be fixed with a little counseling).
        • Frei, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1That sounds more liekly than the other guys ideas about the 16 year old with the hitman contacts.
    • zachshmack, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Maybe Joey is short for Jocasta?
    • vulapine, on 11/05/2007, -1/+3"Five years is enough time to smack some sense into him if they get him the right help."
      If 16 years wasn't long enough, five will be much better. No, but I know what you mean. He does need some counseling for sure. A very angry young man that is probably angry that he didn't have a dad.
  • footfwd, on 11/07/2007, -1/+95Damn, with a name like Joey Troiano your bound to have someone hire a hit man on you some day...
  • whatthefu, on 11/07/2007, -6/+32He should've gotten Agent 47 to help him out.
    • DangerMouse9, on 11/06/2007, -19/+2And Mighty Mouse should have swallowed your father's testicles when he was 8.

      Your joke is about as funny as a burn ward.
    • TripcodeMel, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1I don't think the 45 bucks he stole from the piggy bank would cover 47's fee.
    • TheFraction, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2He's busy with his movie.
  • blackmage439, on 11/08/2007, -7/+32That is one sick and disturbed person. Kudos for the mom for finally getting her head out of her ass and turning the kid in to the proper authorities.
    • ptxyz, on 11/08/2007, -9/+6"Kudos to the mom"? "Mom" should be sharing a cell with the son for raising him the way she did.
      • vulapine, on 11/06/2007, -1/+9No doubt. It seems that she has been waiting for "the system" to fix the him.
    • vertinox, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4I agree with ptxyz, people don't just up and decide its ok to murder people unless they are a certified sociopath or haven't already learned some life leasons about the value of life. The mother kicked her son out without trying to deal with a situation she had 18 years to deal with. Now she's going to throw her failure into the hands of the state and cost society god knows how much money to keep her son in jail.

      This is why some people should not have kids. Don't want to raise a kid properly? Fine! Don't have one. No one is forcing you to be a parent... Much less a bad one who is going to burden everyone else.
    • Herostratos, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1She ought to have been the proper authority. Since she wasn't, I really must assume she fails at being a mother.
  • badassninja, on 11/07/2007, -0/+70The playstation had nothing to do with this. Any kid that would hire a hit man is too ***** up. And you have to at lest some what blame mom and dad for doing a piss poor job of raising him.
    • DangerMouse9, on 11/06/2007, -4/+2It was a single parent home. Let's see you raise a kid alone on your income and do a good job raising it. It's not easy, especially if you have no one to turn to for help.
      • vulapine, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5That's not a very good excuse, but I guess when you make bad choices, bad excuses are all you have to fall back on.
      • mightyzug, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5boo. *****. hoo. dangermouse being a single parent home is no excuse for not doing a good job raising kids. you're a stupid ***** you know that? i don't give a ***** if it's fair or if they have anyone to help them out... even doing a piss poor job of parenting one can raise ***** up little kids that would never attempt to kill you. the parenting in any case like this is far worse than piss poor because it simply is not happening at all.
        • Promantarius, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1While that's the initial reaction, does anyone actually know what causes a child to become a sociopath? If the child was unhinged, it is entirely possible that outside influences could have caused it and he could've been acting around his parents. Perhaps it wasn't so in this case, but it's still possible and you shouldn't condemn every parent that raises a murderer without having evidence that it was directly their fault (aside from the fact it's their kid).
      • imitokay, on 11/08/2007, -1/+0Since I was raised more or less by a single parent I have to agree based on my experiences. Its NOT at all easy trying to raise a kid (2 in my mother's case) while putting a nice roof over there head, giving them a good education, and feeding them. I remember she was ALWAYS stressed out, I have a great deal of sympathy for parents put in this position.
        Mightyzug must have miss something in psych 101, because like prom mentioned, its not always parenting that causes people to go off the deep end. ... or maybe he/she is just ignorant and wants to sound like gods gift to the world.
    • vulapine, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3Maybe he played Hitman and that's where he got the idea?
    • drizzlelicious, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Blame it on Halo 3.
    • DavidGX, on 11/08/2007, -0/+2Actually the playstation had EVERYTHING to do with it. Now, if it had been a Wii or an Xbox 360 he would have been busy playing games instead of plotting to have his mom murdered. PS3, it could kill you.
  • hoax689, on 11/06/2007, -25/+9should of killed them himself
    • Lennox24, on 11/06/2007, -5/+0Why is this comment getting dugg up?
    • DangerMouse9, on 11/05/2007, -1/+1Why don't you try that with your parents? Then tell your lawyer to let us know how it worked out.
  • Damian91, on 11/06/2007, -2/+12"Off to the orphanage we goooo"
  • TheRemoteViewer, on 11/07/2007, -18/+14His mom is 35, and he's...16? Maybe if she had waited to have kids like a normal person instead of trying to raise a kid while still maturing herself this might not have happened.
    • objectcode, on 11/06/2007, -3/+519 is bad age to have kids?
      • SquigglyP, on 11/07/2007, -1/+13yes.
        • potterboy, on 11/05/2007, -3/+1Tell that to Eve.
        • wolfofwar, on 11/05/2007, -0/+2And didn't one of Eve's children murder the other?
          • SquigglyP, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1assuming that eve actually existed...

            (and she didn't)
      • TheRemoteViewer, on 11/05/2007, -0/+8YES. A 19 year old is still learning how to live without mommy and daddy. Think about how your average 19 year old acts at college.
    • sam10685, on 11/06/2007, -1/+11I'm 22 and mom is 40 and i don't attempt murder over a punishment.
      • mightyzug, on 11/08/2007, -4/+2whooooopie *****!!! my mom had me at age 15 and niether do i... .think you're ***** special or somethin???
      • gasin, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1MILFs for life!!!
    • confusednazgul, on 11/06/2007, -3/+3It's not like she had him at 12. Nineteen is a relatively normal age to start having children, and I seriously doubt it had anything at all to do with how he turned out. There are plenty of psychopaths born to older parents.
      • vertinox, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1Normal only because contraception hasn't been used. How are you going to go to college and have kids? It can be done but its tough. If you really want to be a good parent, wait until you graduated and/or have a good job to support them. Otherwise you are just preptuating the cycle.
    • Midvicious, on 11/06/2007, -4/+319 is a normal age if you're working on a farm in Belgium or if you're wealthy in America. That's about it.
      • Khendroc, on 11/06/2007, -2/+0ROFL yeah only the wealthy have kids THAT early here in the states.

        So, ever been to the big city, farm boy?
      • Midvicious, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2You misheard me. It's normal meaning you can get along without problems having a child at that age. And I'm a New Yorker, by the way, so go ***** yourself.
    • mightyzug, on 11/06/2007, -5/+519 is not normal for anyone to have kids. you're a stupid ***** at age 19, i don't care who you are, you don't deserve the right to have a child at that age.
      • slingr, on 11/06/2007, -5/+0reading your comments, I would say that you have down syndrome, but people with down syndrome have more sense and logic than you. This kid should have hired a hitman to kill you.
    • atlantocide, on 11/06/2007, -2/+1Riiight, she should have had an abortion. That would have fixed everything!
      /sarcasm
      • JudgeMonkey, on 11/08/2007, -0/+2Sarcasm? It seems to me like stabbing his little developing heart with a coat hanger WOULD have solved all of this... wouldn't it?
  • reapergun9, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6That's sad. Truly, truly sad.
  • RubberBand, on 11/07/2007, -11/+14He could afford a hitman?
    • fdw2006, on 11/08/2007, -7/+9His allowance is either WAY too high or he his one hell of a bargain shopper.
      • vulapine, on 11/06/2007, -1/+11Or maybe he was going to give the hitman his stepdad's truck like it says in the article?
        • ladyarcher85, on 11/15/2007, -2/+1Too many comment but don't bother to read the article.
        • bagboyrebel, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2no that can't be right, it's too obvious.
    • SquigglyP, on 11/06/2007, -2/+24neither of you *****, nor the assholes digging you up, read the ***** article, did you?
    • renagadex2, on 11/06/2007, -1/+7Or neither of you read the article LOL
    • DimitriVetra, on 11/06/2007, -1/+8RTFA
    • Syntaxis, on 11/06/2007, -1/+4He offered a car. Obviously, every hitman needs a car or wants to sell a stolen car. That's what they typically do, besides killing people and escaping justice, of course.

      The kid should've just moved out and go live on his own or something. But of course the no-good pansy went out to a hotel with someone else's mom to get trapped. Ah well. At least he'll learn the proper way to kill someone in the penal system.

      /sarcasm (Meaning: jailtime isn't necessarily a good thing here..)
  • RobLiefeld, on 11/06/2007, -36/+2This is another reason why videogames should be banned. This is why our country is falling so far behind. Our kids today are becoming more violent and unproductive with their time. They should at the very least be reading a comic book or something else than spending time with machines that promote violence and isolation. It sickens me to hear stories like this. 'Nuff said
    • BobaFettTDG, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5/sarcasm?
    • Lasereth, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5Keep watching Jeopardy grandpa
    • Nougat, on 11/06/2007, -0/+14And a couple generations ago, people like you used to talk about how horrible comic books were.
    • yaryarhumphump, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5hey read the article.... the comments above you that have some brains to em, the Playstation was mentioned in passing.... the submitter of this article made a bad choice of words to raise a debate. This kid has been ***** up for a long time... go back to slobbering all over Jack Thompsons "joystick"

      'Nuff said
    • ubergeek09, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5You are living proof that ignorance is truly bliss.
    • john2kx, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6ohhh, so our country is falling behind NOT because our government prioritizes the military-industrial complex over our education system, but because of violent videogames!! Of course!!
    • sonaboy, on 11/06/2007, -0/+9You're gonna regret you said that. It'd be a shame if you got hurt or sumthin. You got a nice comment box here. It'd be a shame if somethin happened to it. Know what I mean?
    • SquigglyP, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5plugging comics as an alternative so people will go out and buy your sub-par comics Mr. Liefeld? Learn to draw.
    • positron, on 11/05/2007, -0/+2Go take an anatomy class and learn proper perspective as well.
    • RobLiefeld, on 11/06/2007, -7/+0Anyone here ever heard of stylization? No? All my figures are stylized ideal forms - they are not met to be realistic. Any artist can make photo realistic figures, but that would be boring and not very creative. I'm not plugging my many comics, I was just using as an example. Anyways, for the amount of critics I've had in the past,I must have some fans because my bank account says otherwise. If you can't say anything constructive, you should keep it to yourselves. It's getting old. Really.
      • Webler707, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4This coming from the guy that purposely attacked the video gamers(a group of people)? That didn't seem constructive to me. So why didn't you keep that to yourself? Hypocrite.
      • heinousjay, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4And yet you have nothing constructive to say... interesting.
      • SquigglyP, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Stylization is one thing, but even a stylized ideal figure shouldn't have 3,000 teeth. You have muscle groups where they don't exist, you have people's spines curving at occasionally alarming angles, faces that are not angled in the same direction as the head, and various other flaws. You use the same basic poses in just about every panel, as well as facial expressions. You retired for some time - close to a decade wasn't it? - and then you came back, and your art had not improved in the slightest. I just find it odd how it is that you DO earn so much money when you can't write and can't draw. I guess it just goes to show how utterly valueless the superhero comics market is. The people buying those things are all nearly brain dead. I wouldn't be so critical if you showed a certain degree of improvement over time, or were able to take the criticism you get and work to improve, but you always throw out the "stylization" BS instead of maybe doing some studies and trying to improve yourself. You're like the Uwe Boll of comics.
  • petebert, on 11/09/2007, -2/+125where does a 16 year old find a hitman? I'm 29 and I'm not sure where to find one at.
    • handsoffme, on 11/06/2007, -2/+19learn to use google bro.
    • dondara, on 11/06/2007, -1/+24What hitman? Just call FBI and say you think so and so is a terrorist. Zip! Problem gone. No blood on your hands and they get a glow stick in the ass for pissing you off.
      • Typhoon2009, on 11/06/2007, -3/+4I prefer mailing the mayor, chief of police, or FBI impersonating the person. Use all-caps and poor spelling like the UNABOMBER and say ***** like "FORE GROSS VIOLATIN OF THE CONSTITUSHUN, I DEMAND FULL CLENMENNCYY FORE MY CRIMES AND FORE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLARS. IF YOU DO NOT MEET MY DEMANDS, PEPOEL WILL BEGIN TOO DIE. THIS IS NOTT A JOKE.. YOO CAN CONTAT ME AT THIS ADDRES - INSERT NAME HERE" Be creative about it, and read some of the UNABOMBER, Manson, and McVeigh's twisted *****. That will undoubtedly get your worst enemy at the very least under the eye of the government.
      • vulapine, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4You have the FBI confused with the CIA.
        • vertinox, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4The only difference between the FBI and CIA, is that the FBI has to get a rubber stamp warrant to put the glow stick in your ass.
    • vulapine, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5You just don't want one bad enough.
    • dasid, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6highschool's changed since we were kids
    • ImTheChaz, on 11/06/2007, -3/+4http://www.blackwaterusa.com
      • whatsgoodike, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1No way in hell am i clicking that link at work, on a government computer...
    • deadmann, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1It was entrapment. 'Hey I'm a hitman, did you say you wanted to murder someone?'
  • zachshmack, on 11/06/2007, -1/+30Video games don't cause people to be sociopaths. Have you considered that sociopaths like video games because it means they don't have to deal with people?
  • FLLawLibrarian, on 11/06/2007, -1/+7What in the world do video games have to do with this? Its clear the kid is just a nutcase. I hardly think video games would change this child in one way or the other. Maybe instead of blaming the video games we should be shaking our fists at the parents, who clearly are not doing a good job of raising their son.
  • SirTheGuy, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3I bet Jack Thompson comes in blaming games and saying that they're the cause of this, not the fact the kid is screwed up...
  • Lasereth, on 11/07/2007, -0/+67Buried as inaccurate -- the playstation had nothing to do with the hiring of the hitman, sensationalism 1000x
    • amgamer23, on 11/06/2007, -1/+8It is clear that Jack Thompson posted this story.
  • TrojanGuy, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2As others have pointed out, the hiring of the hitman wasn't strictly because of them taking away his Playstation so the title of this article is a little misleading. Also, reading through the story it's obvious this kid has some major emotional/chemical problems that don't have anything to do with video games.
  • davidemm, on 11/06/2007, -2/+11Boys will be boys
  • BobaFettTDG, on 11/07/2007, -0/+20I don't know who's crazier, the kid for trying to hire a hitman or the mom for getting a cop to pose as one. I have a sneaking feeling that we're not getting the whole story here.
  • Rob223, on 11/06/2007, -2/+4People like this, honestly, are a waste of life.
  • Highen, on 11/06/2007, -3/+6As Hank Hill would say "what a bitch"
  • Sifl, on 11/06/2007, -0/+15Sounds like something Cartman would do.
    • Syntaxis, on 11/06/2007, -1/+4Or Stewie. But at least he had the guts to follow his mom onto a cruise-ship and put some bullets in her chest with an automatic rifle. And he's a friggin' 1-year old! That 16-year old should've watched more Family Guy..
    • kingvik, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1No, Cartman would just ask his friends to do it while he is in a public place.
    • bethebryant, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Cartman isn't real
  • PintOfGuinness, on 11/06/2007, -3/+1Would someone please think of the children!
  • ubergeek09, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3Uh oh, Jack Thompson is going to come and overhype this. Blaming Hitman for inspiring the kid to hire a hitman.
  • yaryarhumphump, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5What a pussy, if you want someone dead kill them your self....
    • evildeadguy, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Damned kids nowadays.
      None of them value the joy of doing something yourself, and doing it well at that.
  • rodted2, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5is it me or does the article not mention games at all other then in the title and an obscure reference in the first paragraph. What does this have to do with gaming? This is a sick kid who should be locked up for more then three months
  • superm4n, on 11/07/2007, -3/+1(stewie voice) damn you LOIS!!
  • had3l, on 11/06/2007, -4/+6Wait, his mother set him up to get arrested and now wants to lock him up for life? What happened to trying to talk with your son, maybe giving him psychological help or something? No wonder the kid is screwed up with the kind of parents he has.
  • Treoinmypocket, on 11/06/2007, -8/+2TAKE THE KID OUT IN THE STREET AND BLOW HIS HEAD OFF
    • Damian91, on 11/06/2007, -2/+1These comments cracking me up, haha.
  • flip, on 11/06/2007, -6/+19No matter what type of sugar coating they try to put on this.
    THE PARENTS (MOTHER) IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS KIDS BEHAVIOR.
    After reading this article there's all kinds of information pointing to her being an ill equipped and poor parent
    Her child's behavior is nothing more than the result of her past interactions with him.
    The heavy handed advise from law enforcement and her decision to go along with it
    - just is the icing on the cake that will leave this kid with a dead end for the rest of his life.

    in my opinion, the mother should have already served some time for mental and physical abuse on your young(er) son.
    • dondara, on 11/06/2007, -5/+7No bad dogs, just bad owners. That applies to kids as well.
      • heinousjay, on 11/06/2007, -1/+3Utter *****. In both cases. Children and dogs are independent entities, and things do go wrong, sometimes on a physical level. Your aphorism is too trite and general to cover reality.
      • Touchy610, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1If something's wrong with the bitch, something's going to be wrong with the pup. :-)
    • FreddieD, on 11/06/2007, -2/+7The article says that she left the father shortly after having the child. I'm sure the lack of a father figure played some role and I'm sure she made her fair share of mistakes, but are you REALLY saying it is the mother's fault that the kid tried to hire a hit man???
      • TheAbsintheHare, on 11/06/2007, -2/+3Yes. The child wasn't born wanting to kill his Mother... Obviously she did something to warrant him wanting to.
      • mightyzug, on 11/13/2007, -3/+4booo hoo he didn't have a father figure, that makes him totally justified now doesn't it??? freddie you are a ***** moron. go kill yourself.
    • donkevin, on 11/06/2007, -2/+8Honestly, this doesn't sound like the mother's fault at all. I really hope you guys are being sarcastic. The mother has tried various punishments of increasing severity to get her son to behave, and he just wasn't. The same thing happened to my brother. He went to a group home, got his GED, spent some time in jail, and now he's starting to get his life back on track. I think when this kid gets out he should seek therapy, or possibly while he's in the system. It's unfortunate that good parenting couldn't have done better, but he has some emotional and chemical problems that also need to be looked at.

      Now, it's possible that it was bad parenting, I'm not ruling that out, but my parents definitely raised my brother and I right, he agrees to this, and he turned out to have some problems that he's still working on fixing.
    • Syntaxis, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3As if all children are born the same and their parents are the sole people responsible for their behaviour.

      What about bad friends at school? What about secret abuse by teachers or preachers? What about just being a sociopath from the get-go? How about someone else betraying you? How about a father-figure never being in your life, and not accepting your stepfather? All those are the mother's fault?

      If only it was that easy...
      • TheAbsintheHare, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1Typically the hatred for typically comes from that person doing something to the child.
        He didn't want his teacher or preacher or stepfather dead... he wanted his mom dead.
  • Nekiruhs, on 11/06/2007, -7/+2That kid is sick! No game console in the world is worth killing your parents over. Disgusting.
  • Gillt, on 11/06/2007, -1/+4over reactive kid,
  • Typhoon2009, on 11/06/2007, -2/+5What's with kids snapping so much these days? First there's the boy who kills himself cause he can't play games, then the kid who hits his mom because he can't play Halo, and now this guy. I despise the restrictions my parents put on my gaming (none of it during the weekdays, I'm almost a senior too dammit) but ***** it, I still kill time listening to music and using Digg :)
    • yaryarhumphump, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1Again nothing to do with games.....
      • Typhoon2009, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1I'm not saying games influence the kids to do what they do, but the punishment that the parents give just happen to involve games or gaming.
      • mightyzug, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1no, it's the whiny little piece of ***** that can't cope with not getting EXACTLY what they want for every minute of every day. kid's that act out severely when the game gets taken away should NEVER get that ***** back.
    • tektalk, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1dude, you got it way easier, I can only play one hour PER week (and only in the weekends) . At least you get more freedom for the weekends. :(
  • wily6, on 11/06/2007, -2/+2whatever happened to kids just being plain CRAZY?!
  • jasonh1234, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1I blame bad parenting. Oh wait... nm.
  • BlackJackJester, on 11/06/2007, -0/+19I think, if I was a real hitman called by a 16 year old to rub out his parents, i'd have to sit down with him and have a little heart to heart.
    • kds405, on 11/07/2007, -2/+20Hit men have no hearts. That's why they are hit men and not guidance counselors.
      • gasin, on 11/06/2007, -4/+1yeah they do.... You need to read some of the hitman comics!
  • Bossakungen, on 11/06/2007, -6/+1Ouch, well that is going a bit into the extremes I think. http://www.mrimc.com/line-of-credit-rates.html
  • masterm1nd, on 11/06/2007, -4/+2This is funnier than it is sad.
  • mojonandha, on 11/06/2007, -5/+3when i was 16 i woudnt talk back when my parents yell at me for something i did wrong. My dad would kick my ass often for scoring bad grades. It hurts , yes it really hurts. My parents once heated up a spoon and just placed it on my thigh for 10 seconds. I used to have that scar until i was 20 and it yes it really hurts. Even after all this i never ever thought that what my parents did was wrong eventhough sometimes it was extreme. I was a very bad kid growing up.
    • Ravie, on 11/06/2007, -2/+5Now see, that would have been a legitimate reason for hiring a hitman to kill your parents.
    • Jedwards32, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3man a heated spoon, that sucks, that makes my switching seem like a nun slap...
    • Syntaxis, on 11/06/2007, -2/+4Wow. The worst I had to face was a slap on the ass, no dinner and no tv for the night. Worst case scenario: I'd miss out my favourite tv-show. Best case scenario: I was expecting it and padded my pants and setup the tape recorder. Of course all that changed when I turned 3 and went out living on my own. The freedom really is bliss!
    • TypeEE, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6dude, even US military won't torture our terrorists like that, at least that's what Rice claimed.
    • ltchimpo, on 11/06/2007, -2/+1Man, living with my parents was torture. They would make the joke that they didn't offer me room and board, but rather a room for waterboarding! (did you see what I did there?)
  • Maciula, on 11/06/2007, -2/+5Looks like the only game system the kid will be playing for the next few years is Ass to Mouth. Don't drop the soap!
  • Typhoon2009, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1And to actually add to this discussion: Should he serve time? Maybe. If anything he should be thrown in the madhouse and get some professional help, not get thrown in the clink. The first description of him just makes him sound like a bad seed (dropping out of school, etc) who needed to be smacked into place. But planning a hit on your parents? I'm no psychiatrist but that sure as heck sounds like a serious mental issue to me.
  • daizaru, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4Something is weird with the whole Hitman thing, mainly the way he found one. It's not like he was actively searching for one. They took him to one, they baited him somehow. If they knew he was doing this they should have gotten him help, not arrested. Juvy won't fix this kid, in all likelyhood it will make him a better criminal... help him figure out how to really contact a REAL hitman.

    The kids messed up, but playstation wasn't the cause. I don't think the punishment is going to make him better.
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