Dec 13
Student arrested for making threats in Call of Duty 4
People will shout out anything on Xbox Live, believing they are anonymous. Anyone who’s played online has heard numerous unprovoked slurs and gratuitous swearing, and people will say some pretty disturbing things for the sole sake of saying disturbing things. Something you probably haven’t heard though is someone threatening to shoot up a school - but recently, someone made that threat over Xbox Live and now has two misdemeanor counts filed against him as a result:
Two misdemeanor counts of disrupting a school operation have been filed against a Frostburg State University student who allegedly made an Internet threat of “shooting up the school,” according to district court documents.
Apparently he made the threat and even gave details on how he was going to do while playing Call of Duty 4 on Xbox Live (which, contrary to what the Cumberland Times-News claims, is not a “gaming system.” That would be the Xbox 360). Upon hearing this unsettling threat, another player in the match from Oregon contacted the Frostburg Police Department and told them what he had heard. They immediately started an investigation, and schools in Frostburg were ordered to be in “lock-in” status when they opened in the morning on Tuesday. Various state troopers and police from different counties came, and there were 40 officials patrolling the school at one point.
With the help of Microsoft, they tracked the IP address to his room and he was taken into custody and led hand-cuffed out at about 2 p.m. Tuesday. He could face up to a year in jail or a $5,000 fine, or both. However, according to the court documents he said “he was joking and had no intention of following through with the threats,” which seems plausible since when they searched his room no weapons or evidence was found.
[Via Kotaku]
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Now if only they would arrest the people who incessantly call me a jew fag, on account of them being complete tools, XBox Live would be a better place.
Uh, are we approacing “thought policing”? This is kinda scary.
Yeah, but imagine if they ignored the call and it ended up being true. That would be a lot worse.
That’s the logic that has gotten us in trouble. Remember, “For the Greater Good”, isn’t always worth it.
Hmmmm, kind of scary on both counts…