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Chinese Teen Burns Classmate, Blames World Of Warcraft

blog.wired.com — After losing a schoolyard fight, a 17-year-old boy in Beijing recently covered a classmate with gasoline and lit him on fire, claiming he was a fire mage in World of Warcraft.

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 23, 2007

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  • n3xu5, on 12/23/2007, -5/+243Did he drop any good loot?
  • absinth1977, on 12/23/2007, -7/+235Oh those crazy Chinese kids.
    The court should have let a hungry bear loose on him. That way he could claim he was 'attacked by a Druid'.
  • JohnDavis730, on 12/23/2007, -2/+211i want to know how it got that far in the first place
    "Fine! Pour gas all over me I don't care! Hey, what are you doing with that match...?"
  • MurphyWatson, on 12/23/2007, -8/+171If he was a real fire mage he wouldn't have needed gasoline. -_-
  • TehSwat, on 12/23/2007, -2/+149Reminds me of the kid who ran around his classroom screaming "Hammer of justice" and punching people in the face.
  • spunalot, on 12/23/2007, -2/+120If the Chinese can waste gas like that we are in trouble.
  • Kardde, on 12/23/2007, -2/+100Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!
  • silentphoenix, on 12/23/2007, -3/+101what kind of loser doesnt get suspicious when someone starts pouring gasoline on you
  • Luigi5454, on 12/23/2007, -5/+90DON'T BLAZE ME BRO!!
  • GetUthunized, on 12/23/2007, -3/+75Thank God he wasn't a Warlock...
  • likwidfuzion, on 12/23/2007, -2/+69Was his name Lee Roy Zhangqin?
  • Cint, on 12/23/2007, -1/+66AIDS
  • Chompy, on 12/23/2007, -2/+60The real criminal in all of this is the healer in the victim's party. What the hell man, *need heals*!
  • porterfield, on 12/23/2007, -1/+56Jack Thompson field day incoming
  • Anub1s, on 12/23/2007, -1/+46Thank God their government knows how to deal with idiots like this. I'm SO glad it wasn't here in the U.S., I don't think I could stand seeing the headline "Parents of Burn Victim Sue Maker of Popular Video Game" on the front page of digg a million times.
  • xxA7XxaDdiCtxx, on 12/23/2007, -4/+47Let's see Mr. T's Mohawk character top this off.
  • coolmanmax2000, on 12/23/2007, -1/+43I wonder what drain soul looks like in RL...
  • inactive, on 12/23/2007, -3/+43He probably disoriented him with dragon's breath before he hit for the CRITICAL IGNITE.
  • DukeMojo, on 12/23/2007, -1/+32"This water smells funny"
  • inactive, on 12/23/2007, -13/+42Gasorine?
  • afdlips, on 12/23/2007, -0/+27There are so many of them. Its more likely to happen.
  • cap11235, on 12/23/2007, -1/+28I'm guessing you didn't go to high school in China.
  • inactive, on 12/23/2007, -2/+28What more could he have done? His firewall was up to date!
  • Salanmon, on 12/23/2007, -3/+28lowest form of fail
  • cyrix, on 12/23/2007, -5/+29No I'm sorry but can I be the first person to say "OH FOR ***** SAKE."
    This is absurd. Not your comment, but the fact that this is being blamed on WoW.
  • Bullore, on 12/23/2007, -0/+24http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4310/wow4twiw3a ...
  • slowmo, on 12/23/2007, -1/+24Yeah, I ran a red light once and blamed it on Leeroy Jenkins. The cop was like "It's cool, I understand....Nub!"
  • Garbagio, on 12/23/2007, -0/+22Undecided.
  • Junkey, on 12/23/2007, -1/+21pff, now this just sterotypes us pyros as wow players. This won't improve our image.
  • otakushark, on 12/23/2007, -1/+21The first thing people do when they get caught is look for someone or something to blame their actions on. This simple fact seems to elude people too often, especially when the scapegoat is video games.
  • Anub1s, on 12/23/2007, -5/+25No....Really?!
  • bjornski, on 12/23/2007, -1/+19That sentiment was mentioned in the article, but remember, as it states, China doesn't put up with that *****.

    This kid is *****.
  • Chordinator, on 12/23/2007, -4/+20He must have used PoM Pyro because any decent player would have interrupted that *****.
  • inactive, on 12/23/2007, -1/+16Damn PvP servers...
  • Easyoffbam, on 12/23/2007, -3/+18A South Korean man dies after playing Starcraft for 50 hours straight. An online gamer from Shanghai kills another gamer for selling his sword he won in Legend of Mir 3. An infant daughter dies after her South Korean parents leave her unattended to play World Of Warcraft. A Chinese man dies after playing games on the internet for three days straight. And now this. What is it with Asians and this sort of stuff?
  • sirloin, on 12/23/2007, -5/+19You know if we had nothing but the bible to read and nothing but religous tv, you could still find plenty of violence to place blame. Heck they forcible circumcised a bunch of grown men in the bible.
    Not trying to dis the bible, just saying even in our most holy and good books, you can find violence and hence,faux blame.
  • lime148, on 12/23/2007, -1/+15You are a perfect example of why buzzwords shouldn't be introduced to teenagers.
  • canthraxp, on 12/23/2007, -3/+17In communist China, games control you!
  • calibration, on 12/23/2007, -3/+17No.
  • Chompy, on 12/23/2007, -0/+14Just vendor trash.. unless you still need haunches?
  • HeaveN, on 12/23/2007, -0/+14Too bad his classmate wasn't a Paladin, he could of bubble hearthed.
  • LilJimmyNordin, on 12/23/2007, -4/+17Not this time they don't.
  • MeThePeople, on 12/23/2007, -0/+13you would think being able to kick his ass the first time he would have been able to kick his ass when he was poring gas on him
  • vonskippy, on 12/23/2007, -1/+13Probably used Leaded Gasoline too.
  • quomen, on 12/23/2007, -2/+14Yes.
  • inactive, on 12/23/2007, -0/+12You're a bad fire mage, fyi
  • DukeMojo, on 12/23/2007, -0/+11I'll blame stupid people and/or bad parenting before I blame a video game. Especially a game like WoW.
  • guy6600crazy, on 12/23/2007, -1/+12Its really stupid to blame the makers of the game for the actions of the 17 year old. After all he's 17, not 7.
    "Had this occurred here in the United States, the blame would have landed squarely on Blizzard, and a multi-million dollar lawsuit followed by a governmental inquiry into the evils of World of Warcraft (possibly helmed by Tipper Gore) wouldn't be at all surprising"
  • athenius22, on 12/23/2007, -0/+11Presence of Mind
    Instant 3 min cooldown
    When activated, your next Mage spell with a casting time less than 10 sec becomes an instant cast spell.

    Pyroblast (Rank 9)
    460 Mana 35 yd range
    6 sec cast
    Hurls an immense fiery boulder that causes 846 to 1074 Fire damage and an additional 312 Fire damage over 12 sec.



    Made sense to me....
  • muniak, on 12/23/2007, -0/+11Psst. He isn't a real fire mage.
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