Britain's First "Web-Rage" Attack 399
brown-eyed slug writes "The BBC is reporting what is claimed to be Britain's first "web-rage" attack. A man drove seventy miles to assault his victim with a pick-axe handle after they exchanged insults in a Yahoo! chat room." From the article: "Det Cons Christopher Creagh, of the Metropolitan Police, said: 'This is the first instance of a web-rage attack.' Det Sgt Jean-Marc Bazzoni, of Essex Police, added the case demonstrates the importance of protecting one's identity on the internet. 'Mr Jones had posted pictures of his family on the web and had chatted to Gibbons on an audio link,' he said. 'It demonstrates how easily other users can put two and two together and also shows how children could also find themselves in danger.'"
In other news ... (Score:3, Funny)
That is why..... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:That is why..... (Score:5, Funny)
Think you're a smart guy, eh? Why I oughtta.... never mind... don't know where you live...
70 miles (Score:5, Funny)
You've got to hand to the guy for travelling 70 miles just to beat someone up.
I can't wait for news about someone travelling to the other side of the globe just to beat someone up because they kept fragging them / stealing their gold / beat them double perfect in Street Fighter...
I have mixed feelings about this... (Score:5, Funny)
On the other hand, I am happy that my TCP-enabled pickaxe handle may have a market.
Re:That is why..... (Score:4, Funny)
of 89 Newstraat,
De Bildt
NL 3732DJ
You never know what kind of freaks and stalkers and lunatics are roaming the net these days...
Ax-handle control NOW! (Score:5, Funny)
Effective ax-handle control legislation is long overdue! Think of the children!
Re:70 miles (Score:3, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sanity (Score:2, Funny)
So does the highway.
Except blaming the highway is ridiculous.
Re:That is why..... (Score:1, Funny)
It's creepy how easy it is to pierce Internet anonymity.
Re:Sanity (Score:2, Funny)
Well, actually, it was a pick-axe _handle_ not an axe.
He was just going to throw the guy an unnecessarily savage beating, not chop him up. Chopping him up would have been a little overboard. . .
Re:Ax-handle control NOW! (Score:5, Funny)
Effective ax-handle control legislation is long overdue! Think of the children!
Look, nobody wants to take away axe handles from legitimate, country-side axe users. It's only the urban areas that don't need them. We just need to close all the loopholes at the farm shows and flea markets. The real problem, though, is the glorification of axe handle swinging in popular media. Because once people think it's OK to inappropriately use just one piece of wood, then our Home Depots and other lumber yards are no better than arms markets.
Re:Ax-handle control NOW! (Score:2, Funny)
How many children are beaten to death by their parents every day? If those kids had guns, they'd still be alive today!
(Expecting a visit by a pickaxe-handle-wielding Web-raging gun control activist any minute now. Good thing I carry a gun.)
Re:Sanity (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That is why..... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That is why..... (Score:5, Funny)
New urban FACT (Score:3, Funny)
Let's legitimize it (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sanity (Score:1, Funny)
No, no, no. The moral of the story is to always login as AC BEFORE you insult a complete stranger over internet... dumbass.
-Grym
I blame violent video game legislation (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sanity (Score:3, Funny)
Crap.
-Grym
Re:Sanity (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ax-handle control NOW! (Score:3, Funny)
Ni!
Re:Ax-handle control NOW! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:That is why..... (Score:3, Funny)