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Xbox360/Halo3: Killing families -
12-17-2008, 05:47 PM
How many more stories like this must we read before something is done about banning xbox forever? It's bad enough that we have to worry about terrorists in our country, and yet we let those japs sell their kill-boxes to be used in houses across the country.
I'm going to stick with games where kids can learn lessons about life, like Monopoly.
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Daniel Petric killed mother, shot father because they took Halo 3 video game, prosecutors say
Posted by Michael Sangiacomo/Plain Dealer Reporter December 15, 2008 10:47AM
Mark Petric, who is a minister, cries during testimony in the trial of his son Daniel.
ELYRIA — Daniel Petric shot his parents -- killing his mother -- because they wouldn't allow him to play the violent video game Halo 3, prosecutors told a judge at the boy's murder trial Monday. The trial, on charges of murder and attempted murder, opened Monday for Petric, 17, of Brighton Township. He is being tried without a jury before Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge. (Update: The defense presents its case.)
Daniel Petric
Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty because of Petric's age. In their opening state ments, prosecutors outlined this version of events surrounding the shooting: In September 2007, Daniel, then 16, had sneaked out of his bedroom window to purchase the game at a store against his father's orders. When he returned home, his parents caught him with the game and took it from him. His father, Mark, a minister at New Life Assembly of God in Wellington, put the game in a lockbox in a closet where he also kept a 9mm handgun, according to prosecutors.About a month later, on Oct. 20, 2007, Daniel used his father's key to open the lockbox and remove the gun and the game. The boy shot his parents, killing his mother and gravely wounding his father. As his father lay wounded, Daniel tried to place the gun in his father's hand. Daniel fled after his sister and her husband arrived at the house, taking the Halo 3 game with him.
Mark and Susan Petric
Also on Monday, a tearful Mark Petric testified that his son came up behind him as he sat on the couch and said, "Would you guys close your eyes? I have a surprise for you." Petric, 45, said he "expected a pleasant surprise" and closed his eyes. Then his head went numb. As the blood poured from a bullet wound in his head, he realized his wife, Susan Petric, 43, was lying dead on a nearby loveseat, shot in the head, arms and chest. Petric said his son shoved the gun into his hand saying, "Hey Dad, here's your gun. Take it." Mark Petric broke down on the witness stand as he said he believes he survived the shooting only because his daughter and husband arrived at the house to watch an Indians game. He heard his son telling them they couldn't come inside. "You guys shouldn't come in," Mark Petric recalled his son saying. "Mom and Dad had a big argument." The couple, Heidi and Andrew Archer, testified they heard a moan - possibly their names being groaned - from inside the house, pushed their way in and found the elder Petric wounded and his wife dead. The elder Petric, through his shattered jaw, managed to say his son had shot him, while Daniel tried to blame his father.
Heidi Archer called 9-1-1 and then realized that Daniel had picked up the handgun that had been lying on the couch. Her husband took the gun from the boy, who gave it up without resistance. The boy ran out of the house and fled in the family van. He was caught by Wellington police a short time later, the Halo 3 game still on the front seat. Daniel showed little emotion throughout the trial except when his mother's autopsy photos were flashed on a large screen. He bowed his head and stared at his hands for about 20 minutes while the photos were discussed.
Petric was allowed to visit his son in jail over the past year. He said his son has apologized. "Dad, I'm so sorry for what I did to Mom, to you and to the family," Daniel said, according to his father. "I'm so glad you are alive." "You're my son," Petric responded. "You're my boy." He said his wife and their son had a very close relationship. "He was always her little boy," Petric told the judge. Heidi Archer said the family has forgiven her brother and want him to come home because the family cannot heal until they are all together.
Daniel's lawyer, James Kersey, gave a short opening statement. He said his client had been under great stress at the time of the shooting because of a snowboarding accident that resulted in a severe staph infection. It left Daniel with such severe spinal damage that the slightest injury could leave him paralyzed. Daniel was homebound for a year with nothing to do but watch television and play video games, Kersey said. It was during that time that he became fascinated with the Halo series and would play them for hours at friends' houses. His father forbade the games, saying that were too violent and sexually explicit.
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The father was obviously right. Video games are too violent. Thru them Satan is able to control the will of weaker children, corrupting them and causing them to do unspeakable things.
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Re: Xbox360/Halo3: Killing families -
12-18-2008, 09:10 AM
This story only proves that the problem of violent video games is grossly underreported. Thousands kill and millions turn queer every year because of Mario and the rest of those jap characters.
Here is a partial list from just a few scripture verses:
Hypocrites (Matthew 24:51), The Unforgiving (Mark 11:26), Homosexuals (Romans 1:26, 27), Fornicators (Romans 1:29), The Wicked (Romans 1:29), The Covetous (Romans 1:29), The Malicious (Romans 1:29), The Envious (Romans 1:29), Murderers (Romans 1:29), The Deceitful (Romans 1:29), Backbiters (Romans 1:30), Haters of God (Romans 1:30), The Despiteful (Romans 1:30), The Proud (Romans 1:30), Boasters (Romans 1:30), Inventors of evil (Romans 1:30), Disobedient to parents (Romans 1:30), Covenant breakers (Romans 1:31), The Unmerciful (Romans 1:31), The Implacable (Romans 1:31), The Unrighteous (1Corinthians 6:9), Idolaters (1Corinthians 6:9), Adulterers (1Corinthians 6:9), The Effeminate (1Corinthians 6:9), Thieves (1Corinthians 6:10), Drunkards (1Corinthians 6:10), Reviler (1Corinthians 6:10), Extortioners (1Corinthians 6:10), The Fearful (Revelation 21:8), The Unbelieving (Revelation 21:8), The Abominable (Revelation 21:8), Whoremongers (Revelation 21:8), Sorcerers (Revelation 21:8), All Liars (Revelation 21:8)
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Re: Xbox360/Halo3: Killing families -
12-18-2008, 10:52 AM
The X-box was developed during the Clinton era.
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Re: Xbox360/Halo3: Killing families -
02-20-2009, 04:10 PM
Here's another tale where one xBox has ruined the lives of two families: One family, an illiterate bunch of chavs won't see their son for eleven years (sentenced for murder), while the other unwed mother will never see her son again.
Desire in this case led to theft which lead to murder. An unholy chain of deadly sins.
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Teenager Conor Black died minutes after he was stabbed
An illiterate teenager who was convicted of stabbing a boy to death at a house party in Manchester has been given a life sentence.
Shane Boyd, 16, will serve at least 11 years for murdering Conor Black in an argument over a games console. Conor, also aged 16, collapsed and died minutes after being stabbed outside the house in Moston last August. Boyd, who boasted that he was "the man" after the attack, was found guilty at Manchester Crown Court last month. Judge Clement Goldstone QC sentenced him to life, to serve a minimum of 11 years before he can be considered for parole.
Boyd had admitted manslaughter but his plea was rejected by the court.
The court heard Boyd confronted Conor outside a house party in the early hours of 16 August over the alleged theft of an Xbox console. Your initial response was to gloat and to boast to anyone who would be impressed by what you had done
Judge Clement Goldstone QC
Boyd came out of the house and smashed his victim over the head with a can of lager, before stabbing him in the back as he turned to escape, the jury heard. Conor ran a short distance to a grassy area where he collapsed and died. The court heard Boyd then stood in the road shouting that he "was the best", he "was the man" - before threatening to kill anyone who mentioned his name to police.
Judge Goldstone said: "You had already armed yourself with a knife. "Having seen him you asked someone for a beer can with which you hit him over the head and after he was walking away from you in something of a daze, posing no threat to you, you stabbed him once in the back. "Your initial response was to gloat and to boast to anyone who would be impressed by what you had done."
After the sentencing Conor's family released a statement through Greater Manchester Police saying they were devastated by his death. "All the hopes and dreams of a family were crushed when Conor's life was stolen in that terrible, violent way," it said. "His mum lost her friend, her child, her life and that makes us so very sad and helpless." Det Ch Insp Serena Kennedy, of Greater Manchester Police, said Conor's death had shown the devastating impact knives could have. "One boy's family is grieving the loss of his life, and today the defendant, himself a boy, will start spending his life in prison," she said.
Boyd's cousin, John Boyd, 20, of the same address, was sentenced to three years in a young offenders' institution for assault and perverting the course of justice. The court heard that he threatened a 16-year-old witness he mistakenly believed had told police that Shane Boyd was a murderer.
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Shane Boyd will serve at least 11 years of his sentence
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02-20-2009, 04:48 PM
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02-20-2009, 08:07 PM
Here in Kansas City a nigra "popped a cap in de azz" of her cousin because he stole her X-Box. I really wish I were making that up.
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Re: Xbox360/Halo3: Killing families -
02-20-2009, 09:34 PM
Yes this is truly sad; these videos games are the root of evil in our children’s lives and need to be completely destroyed. There is no telling what hidden or subliminal messages there are encoded in these games to warrant such violent behavior, but in GTA (Grand Theft Auto) there is nothing subliminal about getting a lap dance after you just “Jacked a car” (I think is the popular term) and ran over innocent pedestrians and shot a law enforcement officer.
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11-07-2010, 04:04 PM
Forgive me for digging up an old topic, but I just had to say something here.
The man who killed those people was obviously unfit to be in public. Someone should have put him in a mental institute. Ever heard the saying "don't judge a book by its cover"? That's a metaphor for "don't judge an entire community for the actions of one person, no matter the media's spin on it".
In conclusion, you should not judge the GAME for what a PERSON did, even though it was because of a dispute over the game. It was a mentally unstable person who took it too far.
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Re: Xbox360/Halo3: Killing families -
11-07-2010, 05:39 PM
This is really overated. They blame a game instead of blaming the parent.
The father is crying right? Crying he would never dare to spank his son since birth. Imbalance between the father and mother role get a larger gap, so the kid get raised with more freedom. In his mind, he think he got more control over his parent then they have on him. Remove his freedom too late and that's what happen. He seek respect and if you don't give enough, he shoot you right between the eyes.
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01-07-2012, 03:43 PM
how...how do you ALL not see how unbearibly racist, stubborn, lame brained, mormonic, and ignorant I are!!?? and the sheer hypocracy of it all is just breathe taking how in your right mind do you not see how anything like this would happen REGARDLESS of the xbox's (EXTREMELY cleverly named the death-box) existance. It's the kids' faults, and if you want to BELIEVE that things like Catcher In The Rye, Xbox, etc. will REALLY change what a kid will do THAT much, then I will love and tollerate the S#@T out of you.
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01-07-2012, 04:39 PM
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how...how do you ALL not see how unbearibly racist, stubborn, lame brained, mormonic, and ignorant I are!!?? and the sheer hypocracy of it all is just breathe taking how in your right mind do you not see how anything like this would happen REGARDLESS of the xbox's (EXTREMELY cleverly named the death-box) existance. It's the kids' faults, and if you want to BELIEVE that things like Catcher In The Rye, Xbox, etc. will REALLY change what a kid will do THAT much, then I will love and tollerate the S#@T out of you.
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Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
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01-12-2012, 02:45 AM
You can hate on xbox, but y ya gotta be racist?! Seriously?WHAT is your problem with Japanese people?!
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You can hate on xbox, but y ya gotta be racist?! Seriously?WHAT is your problem with Japanese people?!
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09-30-2012, 02:56 AM
So, what you're saying is the same thing has never happened because of something said in the bible? what about the biggest holy war known to mankind? and plus you can find hundreds of murders on the mainstream media.
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I have looked around on this site, thanks to my cousin in Plymouth and, I have to say something. You men and, women are the most hateful people I've ever known. This reminds me of the Ghandi quote "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." God and Christ have been known for being loving no matter what you've done. You "Saved Believers" have not followed that teaching in any way. Bashing almost everything except yourself or your religion. Now reply and further prove my point.
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Re: Xbox360/Halo3: Killing families -
09-30-2012, 03:53 AM
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God and Christ have been known for being loving no matter what you've done.
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Yes, I particularly like how God will show His love for everyone who doesn't believe in Him or follow every one of His commands at Judgment.
You see, the Bible tells us that He will resurrect everyone (Revelation 20-22) from unknowing death (Ecclesiastes 9:5), into immortal bodies. Yay!
And then he will take all non-Christians, and all so-called Christians who did not follow ALL of God's Commands, and throw them into His Lake of Fire and burn them alive for all time. HURRAY!
The few of us who remain will spend eternity praising Him for His perfection and serving Him however He demands.
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Re: Xbox360/Halo3: Killing families -
09-30-2012, 04:02 AM
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I have looked around on this site, thanks to my cousin in Plymouth and, I have to say something. You men and, women are the most hateful people I've ever known. This reminds me of the Ghandi quote "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." God and Christ have been known for being loving no matter what you've done. You "Saved Believers" have not followed that teaching in any way. Bashing almost everything except yourself or your religion. Now reply and further prove my point.
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First of all, the opinions of an Injun are not relevant to me. He spits in the face of Jesus be choosing to worship elephants and women with 8 arms.
Are you familiar with John 3:16? It's a popular verse, especially around people who have read absolutely nothing else in the Bible. Here it is:
(John 3:16) "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
Isn't that sweet? God loves the world, and sent His Son here to (temporarily) die for our sins!
But guess what? Look at that part right in the middle, the part everyone seems to forget about :
" that whosoever believeth in him"
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that whosoever believeth in him"
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most religions if you look are just rehashed stories with different characters. so by only touching another holy book besides the bible at only book burning you wouldn't know that
Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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09-30-2012, 07:46 PM
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most religions if you look are just rehashed stories with different characters. so by only touching another holy book besides the bible at only book burning you wouldn't know that
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So stick with the original, friend!
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07-14-2013, 09:09 AM
fat chink? FAT piffleING CHINK? you need to keep that nasty ass tongue in your god awful mouth, you piss me the piffle off you rasist peice of shit! i hope you die a lonly and painful death, then wake up in hell! you are no better than piffleing hitler! japanese people are one of the nicest people you could meet! what happened to "all men are created equally" huh? what cause im catholic means your better than me? ha ha ha you make me laugh! oh and respect people like you? piffle no! go burn in hell!
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