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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45825

A 10-year-old school boy committed suicide by jumping from his 19th floor apartment here after his parents banned him from playing computer games:

Andrei Smirnov, a class three student, jumped to his death yesterday after receiving the wrath of his parents due to bad conduct in school and a poor performance in s

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miglaugh · Elite Member Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 362

I sure he would've become an important cog of society.

If people want to kill themselves thats fine, at least he didn't take anybody out with him.

Only feel bad for the parents.

darknothing · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:03 am Post subject:

10 years old.... didnt know what he was doing... lol.. well hes in hell now.. Twisted Evil

Sabot · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:07 pm Post subject:

Wow, in my day we would have had a tantrum in the bedroom -thrown around a few 'Action Men' for eg Laughing

"Hey, i know how to get my own back at my parents i'll kill myself, That'll teach them!!"

tongue7

Kids nowadays put games ahead of REAL life.....sigh what a mess.

nb411 · Elite Member Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 497

How do we know his parents didn't beat the living shit out of him? How do we know he didn't have an undiagnosed mental condition?

That article is an utterly vague piece of writing. Plenty of people do dumb shit for all sorts of reasons. This is just one of them.

djRom · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject:

I'm sure Jack Thompson will be around any moment now to clarify exactly why he did it. Violent video games. Yup... Any moment now.

Sabot · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:03 pm Post subject:

Safer · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:50 pm Post subject:

truly an hero (TM)