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   Wait till acid attacks

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 7th, 2003 @ 11:11am

   
   

   Asian sensibilities would say the incident was mostly the 20-year-old daughter's fault. (And the family will get kicked out of the apartment complex, in all likelihood; they'll be persona non grata everywhere, and might end up immigrating here.)
   
   When online video games become popular in South Asia, we can expect to see a wave of acid attacks by people who felt insulted online. When acid attack victims are allowed to vent their feelings online, look out....
   
   
   
   

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   Er...

   

   Joe Scmoe, Jul 7th, 2003 @ 11:36am

   
   

   My question is how long until someone takes this story and uses it to prove how "dangerous" online video games are?
   
   Er, make that dangerous offline video game...

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   the real culprit

   

   aNonMooseCowherd, Jul 7th, 2003 @ 7:52pm

   
   

   The obvious solution is to ban computers. Throwing a quill pen out the window wouldn't have injured anyone.

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   it must be an asian thing..

   

   me, Jul 8th, 2003 @ 12:53am

   
   

   here in HK they actually have adverts on TV reminding people not to throw their TV's out of the windows of high-rise buildings.
   
   

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   Re: the real culprit

   

   Mike, Jul 8th, 2003 @ 6:51am

   
   

   Bring back D&D. No one would be injured by a half-dozen twenty-sided dice and a pewter hobbit.

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