WoW IRL Beat Down

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 2, 2007, 4:10 pm

This article is too entertaining for just the WoW forums:

WoW player harrasses woman in-game, gets beat up by woman's husband IRL

Bronco Carson, a World of Warcraft player from Mexico, reported to police on Saturday that three men broke into his home and beat his arms with clubs and totalled his computer. The reason? Carson had been repeatedly ganking the WoW character of the wife of one of his assailants.

Carson reportedly told police that he had been "making it hard for her to get far in the game." The woman had already threatened Carson online, and Carson said that he had already been constantly harassed in-game two weeks prior to the attack.

And then Carson made the mistake of giving the woman his address, telling the woman that "if her husband was man enough to just come meet me to settle this."

The result? Carson got two broken fingers and a fractured wrist during the assault. His computer and entertainment center were also totalled by his three attackers before they left. "I knew that I might be messed with in the game but I didn't really expect her husband to come looking for me," said Carson. "I couldn't have been more wrong."

Now let this be a lesson to everybody. Taunting people behind the relative safety of the Internet may be fun, but don't be stupid enough to give out your real home address. If you do, then it's a whole new ballgame.

I'm curious if it was just general PvP harrassment or if he was doing something else. If he was just killing her character, isn't that what it's all about on a PvP server?

Post by **Sylvus** » May 2, 2007, 4:19 pm

Shouldn't a guy named "Bronco Carson" be a badass? I feel like he should be. That and him giving out his home address leaves me feeling unsympathetic toward him.

If you're going to be a douche online and don't want to get your ass kicked, don't give out your rl infoz. If you're a douche and give out your rl infoz, don't be surprised when someone kicks your ass.

noel · Post by **noel** » May 2, 2007, 4:21 pm

Sylvus wrote:If you're going to be a douche online and don't want to get your ass kicked, don't give out your rl infoz. If you're a douche and give out your rl infoz, don't be surprised when someone kicks your ass Funkmasterr.

Fixed.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » May 2, 2007, 4:37 pm

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » May 2, 2007, 4:40 pm

Oh Noel, your little displays of affection are so flattering.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » May 2, 2007, 5:39 pm

Those three are the kind of men that Kylere ~~wishes he could be~~ is.

noel · Post by **noel** » May 2, 2007, 6:23 pm

Funkmasterr wrote:Oh Noel, your little displays of affection are so flattering.

Oh Funk, you used to be so much easier to hook.

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » May 2, 2007, 6:50 pm

Only in Mexico (and Korea and Japan)

iandaina · Post by **iandaina** » May 3, 2007, 10:17 pm

That made me ROFL IRL

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » May 4, 2007, 12:05 am

FAKE!

http://www.gamerevolution.com/manifesto/view.php?id=264

I posted this in the Video Game forum a momment ago. Guess I should've read the other forums first. Goddamn I hate myself.

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » May 4, 2007, 2:09 am

Good thing it was fake imho!

Still hope for mankind!

rhyae · Post by **rhyae** » May 4, 2007, 9:36 am

The Sword of a Thousand Truths would have solved it anyway.