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stella41b -> Arrested for killing her virtual husband (10/23/2008 7:35:01 PM)
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"Furious with the fact that she was being divorced by her virtual husband a Japanese woman logged into his account on the Internet game and killed the character belonging to him. She has been arrested and now faces up to five years in prison," announced a spokesperson for the Japanese police.
In the Internet game the character belonging to the woman, a 43 year old piano teacher, married the character belonging to a 33 year old office worker. When the man decided that his character should divorce her character the disappointed piano teacher logged into his account and killed his character. The office worker reported the matter to the police who arrested the woman.
"The divorce was too sudden, there wasn't any warning and it really pissed me off," explained the piano teacher. This virtual husband killer didn't make any plans for revenge in the real world.
The woman is suspected of breaking into a computer and manipulating electronic data. No formal charges were made but if she is charged and found guilty she faces up to 5 years imprisonment or a fine of up to $5,000.
In recent years a life of virtual reality has increasingly brought consequences in real life. Last August in the United States a woman was charged with planning the murder of a friend she got to know from the online game 'Second Life'. Additionally in Tokyo a teenager was accused of stealing the password of another online player to defraud him of virtual currency worth $360,000.
source: PAP/Wirtualna Polska www.wp.pl - translated into English by OP.
Online or real time? Do some people take being online just too far?
How much time do you spend online? Have you ever been caught up in virtual reality?
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