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Teenager Killed His Father After Being Banned from Myspace

kpho.com — A teenager who confessed to killing his father last month told police he hated his dad for taking away his Internet access, according to a police report released Wednesday. He told police that his father had taken away his Internet access after seeing suicide threats the teen had posted on social networking Web site MySpace.com.

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  • imacommi, on 03/25/2008, -30/+128I'm not condoning what this kid did, but don't you think his father could have thought of some better sort of way to parent his child if the kid is threatening to kill himself? It seems to me that if you have a suicidal child the last thing you want to do is punish them for expressing these ideas and trying to communicate them-- even if that communication is through the Internet.
    • BikeRanger, on 03/25/2008, -12/+125And not to blame the victim, but leaving firearms laying around the house when you know your son is suicidal isn't good parenting either.
      • cdahlkvist, on 03/25/2008, -19/+23Except the rotten brat wasn't suicidal. He was obviously homocidal.

        Ans while we can get into issues of parenting here I think all of you are doing exactly what you say you aren't...blaming the victim.

        The kid may have had no real outward signs of being depressed. In fact, he may have acted perfectly normal usually and just "vented" on MySpace.

        He probably told his dad he was just saying things to be cool.

        The kid is a *****. The only remedy for these brats (because parenting will fail most of them too) is the death penalty.
        • redfox2600, on 03/25/2008, -4/+10"Schlicker told police his father had taken away his Internet access after seeing suicide threats the teen had posted on social networking Web site MySpace.com."
          • MacParrot, on 03/25/2008, -2/+12Except that's not what the story says. Friends saw the notes, informed his mother (who presumably told the father) and they took away internet access completely (which would also mean no MySpace). I'm guessing the parents aren't real web-savvy and couldn't just block their browser from going to MySpace.
            Guns weren't the problem, bad parenting (which none of us can really say was the case here since none of us know the kid or his parents) wasn't the problem. The problem was a ***** crazy kid who instead of admitting he had a problem and asking for help, decided to kill his father instead.
            How people deal with their kids isn't a black and white issue. As a father myself, each situation is different, each child is different, and you can't apply a one-size-fits-all solution to every problem. However unless the child was being physically or emotionally abused (and no, taking away the internet does not constitute emotional abuse), he had no reason to do what he did and I hope he enjoys spending a lot of time bonding with his new roomate "Bubba"
          • Onyxblaze, on 03/25/2008, -2/+3@MacParrot
            I agree with you. Depressed people do not usually exhibit homicidal tendencies. Most often, they exhibit self-destructive tendencies.
          • MWeather, on 03/25/2008, -3/+5"The problem was a ***** crazy kid who instead of admitting he had a problem and asking for help, decided to kill his father instead"

            Uh, he did ask for help. That's generally what suicide threats are. If he didn't want help, he'd have done it.
        • blackinthmiddle, on 03/25/2008, -4/+15As a father of two, I won't blame the parents. However, there are things I would have done differently. If my kid is expressing suicidal thoughts, I would *probably* get them some psychiatric help for starters. To me, it seems weird to punish a kid who's basically telling you he's having a hard time coping. "Dad, I'm having a hard time dealing with life." "Okay, son. Here's your punishment..." Crazy!

          Second, for crying out loud, I'd get rid of ALL guns in the house!!!
          • CoolWind, on 03/25/2008, -1/+9Guns should be kept locked up anyway.
          • duke3k, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4Yeah they could have beat this little bastard's ass a little more, that probably would have had them in a far different situation by now
        • Zong, on 03/25/2008, -2/+1the kid is not the victim he waited all day to commit the murder suicide.. as most parents the farther only ever hears negative things about that Myspace so he did what most parents think is logical which is take away that "problem". Unfortunately he wasn't smart enough to remove the guns from the house... and probably didn't have too much dialog with his son about it since most parents tend to ignore the bad an imagine that all things are fine... I don't know what else was going on in this kids life to make him want to kill himself but to me this is the type of mentality you find in the kids responsible for the school shootings... where your life is ***** so you want to take those who you perceive are agianst you and off your self... I'm agianst the death penalty epically in this case since it's a reward to the kid not a punishment
        • vertinox, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3@"The kid is a *****. The only remedy for these brats (because parenting will fail most of them too) is the death penalty."

          Wouldn't it have saved everyone a great deal of trouble if they just had an abortion or used a condom? I'm just saying...
        • TeCuervo, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1cdahlk, Man... I dugg you before I read your entire posting... I agreed with what you had to say until death penalty came up.
      • ucg1, on 03/25/2008, -7/+4Too bad he didn't kill himself too, this family of geniuses needs to have their genes removed from society. Hopefully the kid never reproduces, but if he does, he'll probably get shot in the head by his offspring.
      • vertinox, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1Leaving guns around the house without proper locks is just bad parenting in general. I grew up in the South in a poor community and knew more than one kid who died because they were playing with loaded guns. There is nothing wrong with having kids and owning a gun, but you need to leave the gun unchambered and either a lock on the gun itself to prevent ammunition being put into it or in a cabinet that is locked.
    • jemka, on 03/25/2008, -4/+31If it wasn't MySpace, it would probably have been something else. Warning signs are just that. If you don't take advantage of them, your kids will kill you.
    • minnymoo, on 03/25/2008, -8/+27a close friend of mine committed suicide just this Friday, and i feel horrible for not looking into it... *sigh, just felt like getting that out =(
      • NoCt1, on 03/25/2008, -14/+8Did he/she also have myspace woes?
      • Lyph5, on 03/25/2008, -15/+7Did he/she have their iPod stolen?
      • geezor, on 03/25/2008, -15/+7If they're not using their iPod anymore, can I have it? Dibbs!!!
      • blackinthmiddle, on 03/25/2008, -1/+15Sorry for your loss.

        My wife works as a guidance counselor in a high school. She says every week they'll discuss the suicidal kids and the ones that could come in and shoot up the entire school. It's always funny when people say things like, "Didn't the teachers see this coming?" Sure they did! There's just nothing legally that can be done about it!

        Other than being the best friend you can be, if someone wants to kill themselves, there's really only so much you can do.
        • senatorpjt, on 03/25/2008, -0/+12If they started locking up every depressed teenager the schools would look like Auschwitz.
          • CoolWind, on 03/25/2008, -4/+4If they locked up all the guns so kids couldn't get them it would help.
          • MacParrot, on 03/25/2008, -1/+7I'm not a big fan of guns myself, but blanket statements like "lock up all the guns" would do little to really prevent a tradegy like this. Unless you believe that banning kids from drinking, smoking, or having sex has really made any difference. We as human beings are entirely too fragile to prevent someone from killing us if we aren't aware of the danger even without guns.
          • PAStheLoD, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1And then they could've this huge party .. .like Housewitz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_DKR3Wc4ns
      • jamesdew, on 03/25/2008, -6/+1e
      • RadioDaze, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1Im sorry to hear that bro, that's a horrible thing for anyone to have to be involved in, take care of yourself during this time ok?
    • indigit4l, on 03/25/2008, -9/+3you *****' nimcum-*****'-poop
    • j0ker666, on 03/25/2008, -3/+9No I disagree, because a lot of people do stuff like this just for attention. They should learn that they don't deserve that attention or it can cause further problems down the line. A lack of good discipline is where the problem often is.
    • aladrin, on 03/25/2008, -0/+16Yeah, because we all know the whole situation. We -know- he didn't do anything else to try to correct the situation.

      Obviously, the kid was extremely messed up. He went from suicide to homicide pretty doggone quickly. Loss of internet access is not a good reason to kill someone.
    • Dragular, on 03/25/2008, -6/+10Stretching it a bit, isn't it? "Kid kills dad because of MySpace" sells more than "Suicidal teenager kills Father" I guess.
    • roomforpanic, on 03/25/2008, -1/+23I doubt this kid was ever truly suicidal.
    • Klarth, on 03/25/2008, -1/+10I'm not sure the medium through which the kid communicated his feelings - Myspace - was a wise choice. Doing something like that results in people perceiving you as another one of those endlessly generic 'frustrated' teens, and I can understand why the father wouldn't have taken the threats seriously.

      And besides, hey, look - he didn't go ahead with his plan in the end after all. He wanted attention. His father denied him his main route of getting that attention, so he took matters into his own hands. What an immature and selfish outcome.
    • jamesdew, on 03/25/2008, -1/+14I came home the other day and my daughter was scribbling a suicide note but I managed to stop her just in time. It's ok now though i've made sure there are no pens in the house, problem solved.
    • phre3k187, on 03/25/2008, -7/+5I'd be suicidal too if my last name was Schlicker and I lived in AZ.
      • BigLLamasHouse, on 03/25/2008, -2/+1arizona gets like 400 sunny days a year fool.
    • BigLLamasHouse, on 03/25/2008, -1/+11this never would have happened had the kid discovered the wonderful world of high-grade marijuana
      • pgreen0420, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2agree dugg up
        • BigLLamasHouse, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2but then god help us all if they tried to take his xbox away
    • omgwhereami, on 03/25/2008, -1/+0This is an example, though extreme, of the consequences of horrible/nonexistent parenting. It may be hard for many people to understand, but if you crawl outside your monkey sphere for a minute you'll realize that people that do this ***** are human beings. They don't just suddenly say, "hey I'm going to kill some people today." Time and pressure wear them down. Then murder/suicide seems like the only way out of a hopeless situation. Sometimes the signs are too subtle for most people to notice, sometimes there are no outward signs. In this case there were signs and this is the price that is paid when you choose to ignore them.
    • picsectionpleez, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Simply a tragedy. I mean this is NOT funny you giys. I have a friend who has been saying he thinks of suicide every single morning when he wakes up- and his family, anf friends are worried sick. We can't get him to a counselor, and he has a gun...
  • jowep55, on 03/25/2008, -33/+70This kid deserves the worst. Killing your father because he took away internet access? Wow.
    • theaceoffire, on 03/25/2008, -20/+12Only taking away internet access when your kid posts suicide notes?
      Wow.
      • jowep55, on 03/25/2008, -2/+33Probably not the whole story. I'm sure the parent did some other actions also.
        • ucg1, on 03/25/2008, -3/+4Like leave a shotgun sitting on the counter? Brilliant.
          • DarKnight90, on 03/25/2008, -1/+7Stopping picking up for a murder you retards. If the kid wanted to kill himself he would of done just that, but he killed his father. He's a *****.
          • Onyxblaze, on 03/25/2008, -3/+2Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know ***** were murderers. Go to hell.
    • daxsymbiont, on 03/25/2008, -11/+4the usual blood thirsty comment. zzz..

      he may be clinically mentally deranged.
    • starblink, on 03/25/2008, -6/+4He should get some psychatric help and some strong meds.
    • thedavidmartin, on 03/25/2008, -3/+4I can think of many others that deserve worse. This is just terribly sad.
    • diggzoid, on 03/25/2008, -8/+3This is so sad. I really feel for the kid, obviously he's messed up but I'm sure the Myspace angle is partly media hype. Why oh why would you leave a shotgun and ammo lying around Dad? Gun control anyone?
      • talonstriker, on 03/25/2008, -3/+3Heh, you'll (and probly me as well) get buried for just mentioning gun control.
      • Quag7, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Or car keys, or alcohol, or knives, or cigarettes, or huffable household chemicals, or pools, or small puddles of water, or easy-to-choke-on dice....

        Basically what we need, is to lock up all of our possessions in giant vaults, and sit around nude (maybe with some sort of lockable chastity device) in padded rooms. (One could potentially strangle oneself with Levis), never leave the house, stop playing violent video games and watching movies with violence and ***** and MAYBE, just MAYBE, we could have a society that isn't embroiled in anarchy and chaos, like now.
    • delose, on 03/25/2008, -2/+1I don't think so. You don't kill someone for having myspace taken away. In my mind it had to be an accumulation of stress, misguided parenting, abuse, mental illness, etc
      the kid obviously didn't have the capacity to deal with it.
    • Tetraca, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1That's not a kid. That's a psychopath.
    • sixgun, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1@delose. I agree, cause taking the internet away solves nothing, in this situation. It is just sweeping the issue under the rug. The real issue wasn't the internet. The internet was just his medium of expression.
  • ipek, on 03/25/2008, -11/+74Obviously this kid's a psycho. No matter how bad your dad is, you don't do something like this. Mental hospital for you!
    • trispear, on 03/25/2008, -6/+5"No matter how bad your dad is, you don't do something like this."

      So if he's raping you or beating you nearly to death, you still take it without self-defense? Otherwise, ***** argument.
      • DarKnight90, on 03/25/2008, -2/+3But the Father wasn't.
        • trispear, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1I said "if...." not that this father deserved it. Do you understand what an if statement is? Or what conjecture and speculation is? ***** for brains.
  • LUCCHINA, on 03/25/2008, -26/+7omg !
  • freedomwv, on 03/25/2008, -7/+16This is a very complex case. Family matter can get real personal sometimes and even lead to someone getting killed. It is sad that it had to come to the father loosing his life. The child should be treated harshly in the eyes of the law. I still contend that a jury should decided what will happen to him. In family matters it is very important that the law does not have the final say. The people should have a change to take a look at all of the evidence and see what is best for this situation. Maybe the kid is just a monster and should get the chair for what he did. Maybe he is very disturbed young man who is better to be in a mental home for the majority of this life.
    • Stonedonkey, on 03/25/2008, -5/+1For the majority of his life? Nope, he's a juvenile. In most states, you can't keep a juvenile incarcerated when they turn 18, no matter what they've done. At that point, the only way to keep him behind bars or in a room with padded walls is to prove in court that he's a danger to public safety. And that's a tough hill to climb, even for murder. And as a juvenile, he would never get a death sentence. He's probably going to be back on the streets in a few years.
      • Monarch818, on 03/25/2008, -1/+6Most juveniles are held till they are 21, not 18. And.., if you read the article, you would know they are trying him as an adult. However, he may have a chance at parole before he turns 40. By then, if he is in prison and not a mental hospital, he will probably be a master crook.
        • cdahlkvist, on 03/25/2008, -0/+6The only thing this kid will ever be master of is taking some ***** in the ass.
          • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/25/2008, -0/+6And he still won't have any internet access. I guess he really didn't think this through.
    • moxley, on 03/25/2008, -4/+2He's 15. What he did was really ***** up - but he should not be "treated harshly in the eyes of the law," and BTW Stonedonkey, in many states (in California for sure as I have seen it happen to someone I knew who killed another kid at the age of 12) if you commit murder before the age of 18 you can be remanded to the CYA until age 25. In cases like this where it's fairly clear that the kid has mental health issues that is likely the sort of thing that will happen.
      • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/25/2008, -1/+4And if he gets out at 25 and kills his Mom for refusing to give him internet access back? He's a piece of ***** murderer. His father didn't get a trial, his father was killed in cold blood. This kid deserves to suffer.
        • ElAssoWipo, on 03/25/2008, -3/+4"This kid deserves to suffer."

          That was his father's mistake.
      • ucg1, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2People like this should be removed from the gene pool, regardless of age. I wish there was a voluntary death option for long prison sentences (you have the option of being put to the death, voluntary suicide basically). So instead of spending time in jail the kid could just take the death option and do what he wanted to do anyway and do society a favor.
    • zyryx, on 03/25/2008, -3/+2with people ***** out babies by the dozens, this little ***** won't be missed, fry him
    • moxley, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2I'm not saying he shouldn't be punished severly - my point is that this is not a simple case.

      The kid is going to suffer just based on what he has done for the rest of his life...will probably be hated by his family, etc.

      He's going to be tried as an adult and charged with 1st degree murder, which likely (for a juvenile) means life in prison. He's not going to get the death penalty - they don't execute juveniles....at least, not yet...
  • CryRightardCry, on 03/25/2008, -48/+13Sigh.
    And more innocent people die in gun violence.
    I'm sure glad the NRA says more guns is better.
    • Lutremi, on 03/25/2008, -5/+54Thanks for that random liberal BS. If it wasn't a gun it would've been a knife, or hammer, or axe, or something sharp. The problem is the kid, not guns.
      • skio84, on 03/25/2008, -4/+7the problem is the kid was mentally/chemically imbalanced and his dad thought that was because of myspace.
      • Matt2k, on 03/25/2008, -10/+3Is killing someone by bludgeoning them to death with a hammer as easy as pulling a trigger from a distance-- almost as an afterthought? I'm not convinced that it is, and data would suggest it is not.
        • senatorpjt, on 03/25/2008, -1/+7A knife is faster than a gun. Besides, according to the article, it wasn't "at a distance", the kid shot him in the back of the head point-blank with a shotgun. I'd think that would be harder than just stabbing someone, especially if you had to clean up the mess.
        • nonymous666, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3Um, yeah. It's just as easy. The article says he *walked up behind* his father as he entered the kitchen and shot him. He could have just as easily walked up behind him and bashed a hammer into his skull.
    • SHv2, on 03/25/2008, -6/+26It's generally not the responsible licensed people with guns that kill people, it's those that obtain them illegally that kill people
    • cdahlkvist, on 03/25/2008, -5/+20If there wasn't a gun available it would have been a knife or a fire.

      Shut your liberal trap and look at the big picture. You might as well start banning butter knives and matches too.
    • doctorfungi, on 03/25/2008, -2/+11Blame the method rather than the cause...
    • Nanite, on 03/25/2008, -2/+5It's people like you that give left-leaning individuals a bad name. Stop harping on the gun thing, you are never going to make them go away, so just learn to use and be safe with them like everybody else, crybaby.
    • RuffRidr, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2Damn, you truly are stupid. It's not like the kid couldn't have used a bat, a steel pipe, a knife, or a million other objects to do the deed. No, it must be because of that evil, evil gun. Ya, that's it, the gun made him do it.
  • rallythanks, on 03/25/2008, -20/+10It's very important to be defenceless in one's own home. Because, after all, if you ban guns, no criminals breaking into your house will ever have one.
    • Myonosken, on 03/25/2008, -2/+3???

      If you mean the fact people are criticising the dad for leav9ing guns around, his kid had just made it clear he wanted to kill himself! I seriously did not expect there to be people dumb enough to argue the dad needed to have guns around at that present moment. ***** hide them somewhere!
    • ausoff2, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1i really hope youre being sarcastic.
  • rallythanks, on 03/25/2008, -22/+6It's very important to be defenceless in one's own home. Because, after all, if you ban guns, no criminals breaking into your house will ever have one.
  • HiKevinRose, on 03/25/2008, -5/+13The reality is that this kid clearly had some Daddy issues and his father didn't handle the situation properly. the internet is a luxury and people seem to forget that, kids especially. Losing a luxury hardly warrants moping about, let alone killing your *father*. That said, if your kid is posting suicide threats you shouldn't try to stop him from threatening suicide, it's not the threats that are the issue, it's his thought-process. The kid should have been allowed to keep posting and should have gone to some intense therapy. Then his posts could have been monitored and evaluated. I hate hearing about these stories; they're depressing and they add to the negative news about the internet.
    • Quag7, on 03/25/2008, -1/+0What this ***** kid needs is the proverbial Holiday in Cambodia to know what a world of hurt is really like.

      On a side note, has anyone considered taking a year off from the internet? Just like, shutting down, and seeing what it would be like to go a full year without using a computer for anything other than work/school? I'm considering it because I always sit down in a good mood, and leave in a bad one.
  • Carmilla07, on 03/25/2008, -5/+95You know where else you're banned from get on myspace? Jail.
    • jamesov89, on 03/25/2008, -10/+16Yet, here on digg you seem to have banned yourself from using proper grammar.
    • LiThiuMElectro, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4Lobgrammatik Nazi!
    • chuckDontSurf, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4Although you also get "friend requests" in jail.
  • SHv2, on 03/25/2008, -2/+17Turning down a friend request, the wrong way...
  • umbriago, on 03/25/2008, -3/+43Thank God he didn't play video games.
    • Bob24, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5I'm sure we'd have heard from Jack Thompson by now if he did.
    • JointVenture, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2Im gonna guess he did play video games, how do you know he didnt?

      Not that I would ever blame anything on video games, but seriously how do you know?
    • DiggMasterJ, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4It will be revealed that violent java games on myspace made him kill his father.
  • neocognitism, on 03/25/2008, -16/+44MORE COMPLETELY INCIDENTAL ALARMIST CRAP

    What color socks did he have on? Ban that color before more homocides are caused by it!
    • Bob24, on 03/25/2008, -2/+18Even though alot of people have dugg you down you do kinda have a point
    • redfox2600, on 03/25/2008, -2/+5So you mean myspace is not full of psychotic emo kids looking to kill themselves or the people around them? Wow you just shattered my views of the world. I don't even know who I am anymore. I think I'll have a seat over there.
    • smoger, on 03/25/2008, -1/+6normally i'd agree with you, except he admitted the reason he did it. besides, noone is "blaming" the internet or saying ban the internet.. they're saying that by the kids own admittance, he couldn't cope with the loss of it. that means the kid has deep mental problems. nothing else.
      • Nanite, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3I think he was trying to make a reference to banning guns
    • murf1000, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1If the kid didn't have a keyboard, he wouldn't have written those things. That's why I think we should ban keyboards.
  • lickmylovepump, on 03/25/2008, -11/+3I'm guessing this kid played alot of WoW.
    • spanglegluppet, on 03/25/2008, -1/+15Nah, he obviously got off the computer for at least twenty seconds to shoot his father, so not a WoW player.
      • Drehmini, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5That's ***** up... but yet so true.
    • hellotyler, on 03/25/2008, -6/+4haha, it's funny cause it's true
      • etsboy1, on 03/25/2008, -3/+2What? Did you read it? It said MYSPACE not WoW.
  • DeskFlyer, on 03/25/2008, -25/+13BOOM HEADSHOT
    • cloak419, on 03/25/2008, -9/+2Should have bunny hopped.
    • Jus7in, on 03/25/2008, -4/+13After seeing your comment on the tornado story (National Geographic) and now on this, you have got to be, in all seriousness, the biggest idiot I've seen on Digg to date. Everything you post is either a totally overused saying or a movie quote. Then you have the gall to post something as mindless as 'BOOM HEADSHOT' on a story about a ***** up kid shooting his dad? You're an idiot, truly.
    • datastorageguy, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Don't worry, someday something tragic will happen to him and he will understand the seriousness of what he is making fun of. Too bad it has to be a lesson learned the hard way with him.
  • DeskFlyer, on 03/25/2008, -18/+8Crap, bury everything I post today...I am a ***** moron.
  • telepheedian, on 03/25/2008, -3/+8Yikes, he sounds like he belongs in a padded room... no mental stability whatsoever.
  • fr3ddie, on 03/25/2008, -15/+5Im glad this happened, parents are just plain idiots when it comes to unstable children.
    • astrnomic, on 03/25/2008, -0/+7You're *glad* someone was killed?
      I can't understand how someone can feel that way...
    • munna80, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5Parents are plain idiots? How old are you?
      What an *****...

      Kidz....Digg should have some minimum age required...
    • Myonosken, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3Dad doesn't understand its no gay to kiss other men. Why do my parents hate me so much?

      /emofag
  • usingpond, on 03/25/2008, -1/+6Seems to me that if his Dad let him keep using it, the whole suicide deal would have taken care of itself!
  • Beforedawn, on 03/25/2008, -5/+11poor kid ruined the rest of his life over a such a stupid thing
    • tommy3678, on 03/25/2008, -0/+13poor kid??? poor dad!!
    • zyryx, on 03/25/2008, -2/+3yeah, now he'll never grow up to be a manager at McD's and have hellspawn of his very own!
  • hadak, on 03/25/2008, -4/+4lockemup.
  • slippiefist, on 03/25/2008, -4/+34Ha! THE stereotypical pimply-faced teen MySpace user. If you have a MySpace, you will break out in acne and eventually kill your parents. It are a fact.
  • nevpayne, on 03/25/2008, -4/+3Lets hope he gets his acne sorted out...maybe then he'll have a chance in life. Oh wait...
  • Kisama, on 03/25/2008, -2/+10Couldn't he just go hang himself in a closet?
    • astrnomic, on 03/25/2008, -1/+0It's more difficult to actually carry out, you get many more chances to not do it. With a gun it's waaay too simple for comfort.
      • etsboy1, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3Why do you know that?
        • astrnomic, on 03/25/2008, -0/+0Hanging yourself you have to get something like a rope, tie it in a loop, rig it up, etc. There's a lot of steps before killing yourself, giving many chances to change your mind. There is none of that once you get out a gun, it's just simple.
  • jamesov89, on 03/25/2008, -4/+9Now "myspace" will be the place he goes when his cellmate feels like sending a "friend request" his way.
    • cdahlkvist, on 03/25/2008, -0/+6MyCell. You have an Anal Entry Request!
  • rapincandy, on 03/25/2008, -10/+8If my kid was this much of a pussy, I'd beat the ***** out of him. He's an attention-whore. Just ***** kill yourself! If you really wanted to, you would search for attention from Myspace or keep pussying out of it. Man up, and just ***** do it you spoiled little bitch.
    • shotmenot, on 03/25/2008, -5/+1such a pussy he killed his dad?

      riiiiight
      • rapincandy, on 03/25/2008, -4/+1Yeh, hes a big man. Should be commended.

        ***** you. You'd prob do the same "shotmenot" if your parents banned you from Digg.com
        • shotmenot, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2All this from the kid getting defensive over a digg comment, picking up the gun if you get buried?
      • geodescent, on 03/25/2008, -3/+1he divided by zero
      • senatorpjt, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4In the back of the head, yeah, he's a pussy. In my day, the way you settled this sort of thing was by punching your dad in the face. When you're finally able to take him on you have become a man, and afterwards you have beers and laugh about it.
      • SpacePoet, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1He snuck up behind him and shot him, that screams pussy to me.
    • zantos420, on 03/25/2008, -5/+1damn man who ***** in your cereal this morning
    • vertinox, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1Both Stalin and Hitler were both beaten regularly by their dads. They turned out well.
    • Kzoo, on 03/25/2008, -0/+0Well, I can't speak for this kid. I don't know anything about his motives.

      I have dealt with a young man who was clearly messing with me, trying to get me to talk him out of it, then after letting me sweat a while (I REALLY suck with words under pressure, which were my only choice, up until then I kind of liked the guy, plus he had also in the past expressed similar desires to other people), he told me he wasn't going to do anything anyway.

      On the other side, there are those of us who just feel so ***** bad that it seems like the only way to stop the pain. We don't necessarily want to die, we just don't know what else we can possibly do. Sometimes threats are a way to say "can somebody -please- tell me how I can make this hurt stop and be normal again?" (I use a different tactic, given my experience, but the feeling is the same.) Sometimes hurting oneself (cutting is the most often mentioned, but it takes different forms) is a way of. . . converting. . . the pain from something we don't know how to handle to something that we do.

      Some people really do just want to die. They just do it.
    • andersonwill, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1serenity now
  • tossayo, on 03/25/2008, -2/+79"What does MySpace mean to you?"
    "EVERYTHING, BITCH"
    • leerayIG88, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2lol.
    • PolishLogic, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1Sadly this is true for WAY to many people.
    • LyleWarren, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1I was at college listening to a fellow classmate present when I read that comment. I LOL'd, got a couple nasty looks :P
  • daxsymbiont, on 03/25/2008, -7/+5he may be clinically mentally deranged.

    but of course the digg comment page will be filled again with blood thirsty idiots calling for his death.
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/25/2008, -1/+4Where was his father's trial? Oh wait. He didn't get one. Victims' rights > Criminal Rights.
    • zyryx, on 03/25/2008, -2/+4mentally deranged? you'd have to be to want to spend any time at all on myspace. facebook, any of those ***** sites
    • Tuto, on 03/25/2008, -4/+2Many diggers claim to behave rationally, but these kinds of cases always bring their emotional side out and make them post irrational comments.
      • daxsymbiont, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1with no evidence he deserves to die?

        where is that justice learned from? the spanish inquisition?
    • SpacePoet, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1The kid killed his father, we don't know if there was abuse in the family, that might come out in the trial. So for the time being, with the evidence present, yea, the kid does deserve to fry. Would you feel safe with this kid in your child's' class? And what's worse at this point, the kid being killed or the years of ass raping he's going to get in prison?
  • InspectorGadget, on 03/25/2008, -4/+21If my name was Hughstan Schlicker I'd ***** kill the people that named me too.
    • fhernand, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4Huge Stench Licker?
    • omgsideburns, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1i came here to say the same thing... if my parents gave me that name i'd probably kill them too.
      • chuckDontSurf, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1Only someone else already said it, making your post kind of pointless.
  • skio84, on 03/25/2008, -4/+1this kid is a clinical psychotic, to say "what a dumb move on his part" is oversimplistic and a bit ignorant.

    if there hadn't been a damn shotgun in the garage, this would have been a fistfight that maybe would have led to treatment...
    • moxley, on 03/25/2008, -3/+5You cannot blame this on a gun. a gun is a tool, like any other tool. He would have found another way to do it - but I do agree that there should have been more secure storage, especially with a kid like this around. They had to know that this kid was hot tempered.
    • zyryx, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3no blame his idiot father for leaving a gun AND ammo out in the open with a suicidal teen in the house, not locked up in a gun safe...
  • dygel, on 03/25/2008, -2/+24Say it with me now: "Tried as an adult".
  • freedombob, on 03/25/2008, -3/+4yea, thats why myspace sucks so much dick, ***** so dumb
  • doughnu7, on 03/25/2008, -2/+18"After the shooting, Schlicker said, he called a female friend and told her ..."

    Pfft... We all know he blogged it on MySpace before calling anyone.
  • Philistine13, on 03/25/2008, -3/+4Slip this psycho the green needle.
  • NecroDigg, on 03/25/2008, -1/+11When I read the article title the first thing I thought was "Oh *****, that myspace addict kid from a while back, finally snapped."
  • darthludi, on 03/25/2008, -3/+6http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Crazy_kid_obsessed_with_ ...
  • Murple, on 03/25/2008, -3/+2This is sad, just sad.
  • DYMongoose, on 03/25/2008, -1/+4lock'm up!
  • WoundedCow, on 03/25/2008, -0/+11I believe a lawsuit is in order...the gun manufacturer, myspace, the relatives in Florida, the police....anyone but the kid...

    (I'm sorry, did that sound sarcastic? Quick find a lawyer and sue me!)
  • tommy3678, on 03/25/2008, -3/+4Two points. 1) This kid is wrong for what he did, no matter what the cause was (clinical or not). 2) Gun control may not have stopped the murder, it could have been any weapon. Now, any proper parent would have his guns locked away safe and sound, and the ammo locked away separately. Stop coming up with excuses or blaming something else other than who is truly responsible.
  • bianchi22, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2I hope my dad doesn't ban me from digg!!
  • dinkydarko, on 03/25/2008, -3/+4only in america? hmmm.
    would he have done this if there were a complete gun ban?
    it brings plenty of gun issues up that aren't seen in UK politics but it will be interesting to see if this story brings up guns as a political issue in the coming US elections.
    All that said you got to feel sorry for everyone involved with this. pretty awful thing to happen.
    • opticwind, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Might've stabbed him?
    • sandman979, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Hey jackass guns don't ***** kill people by themselves. A complete gun ban besides begin unconstitutional is plain stupid. Some stoned ***** armed with a knife or gun enters your home at night and what he sees? Let me tell you what he sees. Tons of valuables, your ***** hot wife in underwear, a getaway car and an useless man that can do absolutely nothing to protect his family. Total gun ban means that only crooks and the police are armed. I'm sorry man but that's ***** up. It is your duty to protect your family, unless of course you're cool having another man being your family's protector.
      • dinkydarko, on 03/25/2008, -1/+0I'm rather lucky that I dont have to worry about a gun ban or not as fortunately i don't live in a country with very many guns per head of population.
        My point was wither on or this story will cause the issue to be brought up in the presidential race.
        That aside maybe you should look at some of the stats on this website?
        http://www.gun-control-network.org/GF01.htm
        I know many will look at it simply as anti gun propaganda, but as i say its not an issue where i am so i am indifferent to the argument in america. it just seems like common sense to me looking at the numbers.
        • Quag7, on 03/25/2008, -0/+0Without going off on a long angry rant about self-defense, tyrannical governments, criminals, mob violence, and so on (which is my reflex here), I would point out that whatever one thinks about the issue of gun control, one thing that must be taken into account is there are by some estimates 300 million guns in circulation in the United States, many or most of them "unaccounted for" in the sense that many jurisdictions do not have any kind of centralized "gun registry." (As an opponent of gun control for historical reasons, this is something I am happy about.) If a federal gun ban were to occur in the United States, it would likely have no effect on violence, owing to this fact alone. Guns are durable goods; they can last hundreds of years, and can be buried, stockpiled, and cached, along with ammunition.

          In the United States, gun owners tend to not recognize the authority of government to ban guns anyway, seeing it as a serious violation of basic civil liberties, so resistance to any such a ban would be considerable.

          Whether or not gun control is a good or bad idea, in my opinion, it is completely impractical in any case.

          One thing I have long noticed about advocates of gun control, is they tend to view gun ownership as an extravagance or "hobby" with no redeeming qualities. So banning guns would only seem to be a net positive (if their arguments had merit - less gun accidents, less innocent people caught in crossfire killed, less school massacres, and so on). What advocates of gun control do not understand is that firearm ownership (by responsible individuals) does have many benefits, and negative consequences, were that right to be systematically destroyed by gun control - *especially* in US society.

          Something is rotten in the United States right now, some kind of creeping social disease. I don't know exactly what is at the heart of it but I have my suspicions and theories. On the most basic level, I have no faith or trust in my own government - where the government is not cruel and authoritarian (Iraq), it is incompetent and impotent (New Orleans/Katrina). As a result of this fact, I want to own weapons safely, privately, and anonymously, for my own protection and the protection of my family, should some kind of disaster occur - a disaster which becomes more likely with each passing year (environmental devastation, terrorism/"dirty bombs", etc.)

          Some would label this paranoia. I do not sit trembling each night hugging my gun, waiting for the End. I calmly and rationally keep my modest weapons cleaned and oiled in the same way I keep extra water, rice, and beans on hands, just in case.

          OK I guess in a sense I lied about "not going off on a rant." The lack of faith many in the United States have in their government - in fact, the way many of us fear our own government - will, in the end, be what saves us, and maybe others outside the borders of this rotting republic.
          • dinkydarko, on 03/25/2008, -0/+0does sound like a sticky situation.
            as i said, its not really my place to argue either way. If this guy hadnt found a shotgun in his house he would have found it much harder to shot his dad the way he did. not saying it couldnt have happened.
            but i see your point to, just not being in the same country and never having been means i dont get the full balance of the debate.
            Nice rant btw, i do like to read things like this, interesting.
        • linuxpenguin, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1I just have to ask. . . how do you know how many guns people own in your country?
          Officially, maybe you're right - but in reality, there's no way of knowing someone owns a gun unless you see it.
  • whytey, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5Blame Tom
  • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5Schlicker? Well, we all know what his prison nickname is going to be, and his specialty will be tossed salad... And not because he's working in the kitchen.
  • jm4847, on 03/25/2008, -7/+2You guys suck so much sometimes. Always crying "ZOMG GUN CONTROL!!!1" when the bodies aren't even cold yet and then the Internet tough guys going all "He deserves the worst".
    If I was that kid, I would have told my dad to go ***** himself and left the house.
    The kid's an idiot, and his father sounds like he was a real jerk. No real loss here.
    • zyryx, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3well if his ***** father would have used a little "gun control" and locked the gun up... so yeah, I'm think a little gun control might have helped
    • senatorpjt, on 03/25/2008, -1/+4Kid was obviously lazy, if your parents cut off your internet access, just go to the ***** library or a friend's house like a sane person.
  • davharrington, on 03/25/2008, -2/+6Anyone willing to put money on the possibility this asshat was a 911 truther?
    • opticwind, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3Ha...can't wait for that to get out in jail. "Here's a truth kid, don't drop the soap."
  • momsshizzle, on 03/25/2008, -6/+2Pwnd!
  • xDynaBlade, on 03/25/2008, -1/+4Clearly, this means Facebook is definitively better than MySpace. Never heard of any crazy ***** committing unspeakably violent and horrible acts because of something related to Facebook.
  • PwnisherX, on 03/25/2008, -3/+2http://emoorangesmovie.ytmnd.com/
  • jayscot, on 03/25/2008, -3/+5People will give up their freedom so quickly. Gun control is a placebo for the wealthy left.

    • senatorpjt, on 03/25/2008, -1/+4Not really, all the wealthy left have bodyguards to carry guns for them.
    • JedicodeWarrior, on 03/25/2008, -2/+3Thank you , Mr. Limbaugh for the "right-wing nutjob" quote of the day.
      • linuxpenguin, on 03/26/2008, -2/+1I just have to wonder. . . why do you listen to Rush Limbaugh?
        • JedicodeWarrior, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1I don't. His soundbites are played on some of the polical podcasts I listen to.
    • solidcube, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1If a placebo is needed, it's because of policies enacted by radical conservative politicians. Gun control does, however, stink. This citizenry needs to be armed.
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