Video games that inspired gamers for real crimes

By themselves, video games are harmless, they are an excellent hobby and pastime. But sometimes they get out of the virtual world and go to reality, as a result of which terrible crimes happen.

A series of games GTA - theft, kidnapping, robbery

Given the many characters with a huge variety of weapons, the constant normalization of inadequate behavior, and the fact that the name of the series of games literally translates as stealing a vehicle, the GTA is not an example of virtue. However, it definitely is not cruel enough to turn an ordinary average guy into a crime. Or is it enough? It turns out that more than enough, and 20-year-old Zachary Burgess is the brightest example.

In 2013, when he played in the GTA, it seemed to him that the game was not realistic enough and interactive, so he decided to correct this flaw. Instead of just giving up the game that he did not like, he decided to do something much more realistic. Trying to feel like a character in the game, he stole the truck while there was another girl in it, crashed into nine cars, trying to leave the crime scene. Burgess justified his behavior by saying that he just wanted to feel what it's like to be a GTA character, decorate the car and crash into other cars at high speed.

Fortunately, the unwitting hostage of the situation did not suffer, although Burgess did not let her go for an indefinite period of time. Burgess was released on bail in the amount of 80 thousand dollars.

World of Warcraft - Stabbing Wounds

This massively multiplayer role-playing game can cause a serious dependence, and for one gamer it has passed all the boundaries. In 2012, a Canadian fan of World of Warcraft, Justin Williams entered into a heated verbal skirmish with another gamer. This quarrel was so loud that Justin's neighbor tried to intervene. He came to Justin and said that you do not need to react that way, so it's just a game. This comment was the last straw for Justin, he shouted that it was not just a game, it's his life, then he grabbed a neighbor by the throat, struck him in the face, and then thrust a knife into his chest.

Williams was charged with aggravated assault and armed attack. The neighbor, fortunately, survived.

Lineage II - murder

Lineage II is also a massive multiplayer game that turned out to be in an unattractive light in 2008, when two warring factions moved the showdown to the street. After one Russian player killed the other in the game, they agreed that they would sort it out in real life. However, this was not a civilized meeting for conversation and clarification of relations, rather, it was a full-fledged beating.

A 22-year-old man, whose name is not called, beat his opponent so much that he died on his way to the hospital.

Grand Theft Auto IV - murder

In another attempt to transfer the GTA game into real life, a 19-year-old student Polvat Chino stabbed and killed a taxi driver in Bangkok (Thailand).

Thai police reported that Chino wanted to find out whether robbery and theft in real life are as simple as they are shown in GTA 4.

Mortal Kombat - murder

One of the longest series of fighting games Mortal Kombat has acquired an unconventional reputation because of the huge number of methods of killing the enemy, which are described in the smallest detail. But although the "fatalities" of these games are very brutal and are accompanied by a liter of blood, they look too unrealistic (for example, you can wrest the opponent's backbone). However, for one pair of teenagers, the line between fantasy and reality was obliterated when they tried to reproduce one of the scenes in the game. The 16-year-old Heather Trujillo and the 17-year-old Lamar Roberts did not want to hurt each other, so they started practicing their favorite tricks from Mortal Kombat at 7-year-old sister Heather Zoe in December 2007.

The investigators reported that Trujillo confessed that they had beaten Zoya with her hands and feet, as a result of which her wrist was broken, her skin was ripped off, and also caused internal bleeding in the muscles of her neck.

Grand Theft Auto III - violence, murder

The GTA series began to be released in the nineties, but is still one of the most popular in the world and is gaining more and more fans with every successive part. Unfortunately, this also leads to the fact that very often various crimes occur because of these games. In 2003, two brothers, aged 14 and 16, inspired by the third part of the game, published in 2001, took assault rifles from his father's room and began to shell out cars that were traveling along the road.

Two people suffered: one of them was killed, another seriously injured.

Halo 3 - attempted murder

Even with the emphasis of the game on constant shooting, there is no way to say that it could provoke what the 16-year-old Daniel Petrich did. After he suffered after falling from a snowboard, Petrich spent a huge number of days playing Halo 3. When his father forbade him to play this game, Daniel planned a horrific revenge. He got the key from the box where the disc with the game was stored, and also got a gun. When his parents came home from work, he asked them to close their eyes, because he had a surprise for them, and then shot them in the head. After that he disappeared from the crime scene, taking his disc with the game, but only after he tried to stage a murder and suicide.

The father of the teenager survived the attempt, but the mother died on the spot.

Counter-Strike - stab wounds

The history of the French fan Counter-Strike Julien Barro is a warning for everyone. Do not lead up to obsession with the game, behave adequately in case of defeat and never try to "bury the hatchet of the war" with the enemy in real life. Barro did not remember any of this when his character was killed by a knife. The 20-year-old spent more than six months tracking down the killer of his character. When he found him, Julien made his way to his house with a knife and hit him in the chest.

The victim survived the attack, but if Julien's attack fell slightly to the left, the knife would have pierced the victim's heart.

WinBack: Covert Operation - killing

Two small boys were carried away by an imaginary picture, on which they were inspired by the given game, as a result there was an accident. When a 12-year-old boy and his brother reproduced scenes from their favorite game, where the main character kills hundreds of terrorists, an unforeseen happened. The younger brother grabbed the gun to even more immersed in what was happening. The elder brother, knowing what could happen if he accidentally pulled the trigger, tried to take his weapon away from him. However, as a result, he shot directly into his chest, after which the younger brother instantly died on the spot.

A series of games GTA - theft, murder

The last crime in this list is perhaps the most horrific. This triple murder, which committed 18-year-old Devin Moore. The teenager gave real-life time in between sessions in GTA 3, periodically plunging into the game for several days in a row. In 2003, Moore tried to reproduce the events in the game outside his room, hijacking the car. When he was detained and brought to the police station, he suddenly rushed to one of the officers, snatched his weapon and killed three employees, then took the keys and hijacked the police car. When Moore was arrested, he said a cold phrase: "Life is just like a game. Either way, you'll have to die. "

Moore pleaded not guilty, but was convicted and executed in 2005.