Thread: French kid takes CS knife fight into RL

Kids these days are crazy.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...character.html

Watch out who you kill in the virtual world, it may inspire someone to attack you in the real one.

That's what happened to one Frenchman, who was stabbed and nearly killed by a fellow "Counter-Strike" player, according to London's Telegraph.

Julien Barreaux reportedly spent six months looking for the person who killed his online character in a virtual knife fight, and eventually found the foe living only a few miles away in Cambrai, a town about 2 hours north of Paris.

The 20-year-old, armed with a real-life kitchen knife, went to the man's house and brutally stabbed him in the chest. The victim, identified only as Mikhael, survived the assault after the blade missed his heart by less than an inch.

"Barreaux was arrested within the hour and told us he had wanted to see his rival wiped out for killing off his character," a police officer testified at the trial, the Telegraph reported.

The overzealous video gamer will spend two years behind bars, and receive anger management therapy.

"You are a menace to society," Judge Alexiane Potel said. "I am frankly terrified of the disproportionate reaction you could have if someone looked at you the wrong way in the street."

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He spent 6 months trying to hunt down the person who knifed him?

Well it appears as though the French can really hold a grudge. If you are playing with a Frenchman and he says "knife?" pop him in the head with a deagle.

Ahaha, crazy kid. Although I can see different parental groups being all 'IT'S THE VIDEO GAMES!' instead of the kid just has issues.

Should have gotten life in prison. Instead he's getting 2 years and some bullshit therapy that doesn't work so he can go back into society and kill someone.

I would have been more shocked by this if his kill attempt was more original. It's only been like 2 months since that kid was stabbed in the head outside of a Chinese LAN for wall hacking. Although the hunting him down for 6 months is crazy O_O