Xbox Murder -- Front page news on cnn.com!!!!

[arefx]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/08/08/bodies.found/index.html

heriff: 4 charged in Florida killings over Xbox

Sunday, August 8, 2004 Posted: 10:27 AM EDT (1427 GMT)

Investigators surround the house in Deltona, Florida, on Saturday.

DELTONA, Florida (CNN) -- Authorities in Deltona, Florida, have arrested and charged four people in the killings of six people in a rental home, Volusia County's sheriff said Sunday.

Sheriff Ben Johnson said the murder was organized by a man who was angry because he believed his Xbox video game system and some clothes had been stolen.

theres more, thats just a little snippit of it.

[BigEasyWhoDats]

wow...... thats sick. 6 lives lost for a xbox? Damn you Microsoft!

[Tulare]

hmm, odd, but not a surprise

The Raven has told me all about people in Florida.

[MusicFan]

wow...... thats sick. 6 lives lost for a xbox? Damn you Microsoft!I definitely have to agree.

[DeadMan]

I just saw that as the top news story, that is nuts! Killing six people because you thought they stole your Xbox...
They weren't just killed, these six people were brutally beaten to death with bats and knives, sick.

[Arandar]

You know for now on they should start giving IQ tests to people before they are allowed to buy a video game or system. No stupid people and no dumbass fanboys. Sales for both will plummet into almost obscurity, but at least then we won't have stupid things like this happening. Yet another mark against video games though. Heh on a semi plus side you have never seen anyone kill or even hurt someone over a Nintendo game or system. So I suppose it is somewhat true when you say PS2 and X-Box fans are obsessed with violence.

[Raghnall]

i hope they enjoy life in prison, over a stupid ass video game system.

[SaNkOn-TeSsOu]

it wasnt over just an xbox..........

"Sheriff Ben Johnson said the murder was organized by a man who was angry because he believed his Xbox video game system and some clothes had been stolen."

[MalcolmBrass]

People do stupid things! Over here in the Pacific Northwest, some guy was kidnapped (he got away) and it turned out because the woman mastermind behind it wanted a leather jacket the guy had signed by some NASCAR guy. Sheesh.

[Ichiban]

i hope they enjoy life in prison, over a stupid ass video game system.

They might get the Death Penalty (hopefully) for what they did to those poor people.

[The_Raven]

Never get in the way of a man and his XBOX, especially when Halo2 and Fable are so close to release. Dumb mistake by the woman if you ask me. :)

[arefx]

Never get in the way of a man and his XBOX, especially when Halo2 and Fable are so close to release. Dumb mistake by the woman if you ask me. :)

It is dumb for all of them, dumb to steal, dumb to kill.

[True]

Wow, I was just coming here to post about this cause I just got home and saw a clip of it on the up coming news, they mention something about video games and a killing. I haven't read what you guys said yet so I don't know what happened in Florida. SO, I'll respond once I know a bit more.

[True]

It is dumb for all of them, dumb to steal, dumb to kill.
I agree.

[kirkg]

If they get the death penalty, they should pile up XBOX's on the dudes chest until he cant breath anymore from the crushing weight.

It should take about 3 XBOX's.

[Halo Master Chief]

" I worked hard to get that Bikini for my DOA girls! You bastards!"

[RUcOs]

Theres no power greater than X.

[Komposit]

That is just sick...

[Spartan-117]

Why would someone kill 6 people for an Xbox and clothes?

[Komposit]

Why would someone kill 6 people for an Xbox and clothes?

That's just how gangsters/thugs are...They kill people over anything.

[True]

That's just how gangsters/thugs are...They kill people over anything.


I would say ex-convicts instead of "gangster/Thugs" ( I don't like them either but). This guy was an idiot who was let out of jail and recuited other young idiots, didn't look much like gangsters to me.

[Arandar]

I usually find that the only people who call other people thugs are the one who think they are better then everyone else, aka Bill O'Reilly. You know like how he is calling the Iraqs rising up against the U.S. troops in Ira thugs, even though they are doing the same type of things the minutement did in the Revolutionary War. Then again thats the Republican Christian logic for you: "Do as I say, not as I do".

[Arkitan]

It was also about them being evicted and not being allowed to go back in and get thier stuff or something like that.

[AliasOfWestgate]

After actually reading about it, and not just snippits...here's the deal

Erin Belanger was staying with 5 friends there (her grandparent's house I believe) when they came upon these squatters. She had them kicked out, but they threatened her.

Joe Abshire, Belanger’s brother-in-law, said Erin had talked to him recently about heading to the vacant house to go swimming one day and finding about six people living there. The squatters were kicked out, but they left behind the Xbox and clothes.

Over the next days, deputies were called to the grandparents’ house six times. The victims also reported a tire-slashing at their home and a threat.

The squatters warned Belanger that “they were going to come back there and beat her with a baseball bat when she was sleeping,” Abshire told The Sun of Lowell, Mass., for Sunday editions.

MSNBC Link (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5652302/)

[arefx]

more on the case: http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/09/fla.killing.probation/index.html

Probation Officers fired, 'they could have prevented the murders'

*EDIT* in reply t the post above this, if you were threated saying you were ging ot get killed with baseball bats in your sleep, why would you stay there? ecspecially after allt eh threats and tire slashing? Idiots on both halfs

[Kahmelion]

Eh, they are idiots...and it wasn't just an XBox...it was clothes too...oh well, not that I'm defending them or anything, but it's not just Microsoft's fault lol.

~Kahmelion

[Tom the First]

Yesterday, my friends and I got one of our good friends an Xbox for his birthday, and we had a printed article of that in front of the Xbox when he opened it up. We said tell your sister not to steal your Xbox.

[Noobtastic!]

Those guys need to get a life instead of take one.

[ChangWang2K3]

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