Cyber World Calamity
(Modesto Califorinia) 42 year old Marcus Manfred was arrested yesterday for felony vandalism after he diverted 200 feet of railroad track through his neighbor’s back yard. He allegedly accomplished this while his neighbor was gone on vacation for 4 weeks.
Neighbor, Alfred Midelsten returned home after his vacation to find all of his back windows of his house broken out and all of his pictures and nick knacks laying on the floor. Mr. Midelsten was concerned his house had been burglarized and called the police immediately. While he was on the phone the 12:45 freight train passed his house so close that it threw debris into his home. “I was talking to the police when the train passed my house and the noise was so loud I could no longer hear the person on the other end of the call.” Said Mr. Midelsten, “the policeman I was talking to was yelling at me asking me what the noise was and I couldn’t answer him because he couldn’t hear me over the sound of the train.”
Perplexed by what happened Mr Midelsten asked his neighbor when this happened and Marcus started laughing so hard he passed out. By the time he regained consciousness the police were there and he told them he was bored one day and decided he would divert the train so he could hear the funny wah wah wah noise people make when they got mad.
Nobody on the scene understood what he meant by this but it was apparent that Mr. Manfred was the culprit and was immediately arrested. Police investigators started talking to family and friends to understand what motivated Mr. Manfred. When they interviewed his wife she told them that Mr. Manfred loved to play the game Railroad Tycoon. “Ever since he got that game I hardly ever see him. He comes home, runs to his office and locks the door and doesn’t come out until midnight or later. I can’t take it anymore,” explains Susan Manfred.
This has given groups that have tried to ban violent video games very little ammunition to use as they can’t understand how this happened anymore than anybody else can. “There is no violence in that game”, said a member of one organization. “Obviously this person has other issues that have nothing to do with the video games.
When asked whether that should be applied to all video games, the spokesman replied, “Absolutely not. Violent video games induce violent, real-life behaviors in people who play those games.“ When presented with this response, Mr. Midelsten said he had many possible responses spring to mind, including firing a rocket into the national headquarters of this particular group. Instead, he explained he would return his house to a more normal condition so he could, “play Postal 2 until my blood pressure falls to less than explosive levels.”
- SoonDead CLO SavetheDotCom.org
- edited by T'Pel
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