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Topic: Video Games Cause Heroism?
DM
Posts: 385
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
shamlessly ripped from kotaku . com

"Seeing how the mainstream press reacts when someone who might have played Counter-Strike pulls a gun on somebody, how would they react when one takes a bullet trying to stop a crime?

This past Sunday twenty-four year old Adam Mapleson rushed to the aid of a female security guard outside a railway station in Essex England, who was being robbed at gunpoint by two mask-wearing thugs, taking a bullet to the chest in the process. Now in stable condition at a local hospital, police are calling the young man a hero.

Combine his passion for black metal music with the gaming favorites (Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike, GTA) found on his MySpace (courtesy of GamePolitics) and you've got a school shooting waiting to happen according to some people I could mention, and here he is trying to save the day.

Of course one could argue that playing computer games might have dulled that little voice in his head that would normally tell him to sit his happy ass down and not rush men with guns while unarmed, but taking a page from anti-gaming press coverage of the past I'll ignore that possibility and simply add, "Go team!"

a dumb thing to do yeah but good on him i say

EDIT - Better link to the story, yeah i suck at linking since i dont know html code for s***
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007240298,00.html
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whoop
Posts: 11368
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
pfft stupid news what do they know, I bet he was trying to steal that gun so he could go on a shooting spree.
Persay
Posts: 4520
Location: Other International
i find these kinds of heroes funny, just let them have the cash and let the insurance take care of it
infi
Posts: 6068
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
um why did he jump in and take a bullet, wouldn't a flashbang have been better???

last edited by infi at 10:20:00 30/May/07
Superform
Posts: 4376
Location: Japan
no wonder he gets pwned at cs
JigZie
Posts: 2881
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
The sun is the biggest joke in england.
parabol
Posts: 3322
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
wouldn't a flashbang have been better???

Not possible, eco round.
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