Warcraft 3 Trash Talk Leads to Broken Fingers
You don't have to be a FPS gamer to get a good butt-whooping after spouting trash talk.
If you thought that trash talk and a real-world butt-kicking were only byproducts of first-person shooter gaming, then think again. As one Warcraft III gamer has discovered, RTS fans can be just as passionate and aggressive.
The Vancouver Sun reports that secondary school student Eric Hamber was confronted and beaten down during lunch by a group of boys. They forced him to kiss their feet, and then broke his fingers by bashing his hand with batons.
Vancouver police constable Lindsey Houghton confirmed on Thursday that the group of assailants had tracked down Hamber after playing against the victim and his friends during a round of Defense of the Ancients for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos the night before. Hamber’s group won the round and proceeded to taunt the losers.
Houghton said that the losing opposition didn’t care for the trash talk. "It's very unusual," Houghton said. "Something that is exceptionally rare, given the number of people who play video games. Most people can separate reality from online fiction."
"I guess some people take these things exceptionally seriously,” he added.
Currently there haven’t been any arrests, however the Vancouver police youth squad is investigating the assault. Hamber and witnesses said the group comprised of four or five assailants being in their late teens.
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Damn they broke his fingers! What the hell man!
in related news: the Mafia's youth recruitment seems to be yielding successful results through Battle.net
i sometimes wonder what police do..because sometimes i have lost hope in law enforcement..my bad experience i guess..
They were just preparing for the next battle. Kind of hard to lose when your opponent can't use his keyboard.
No arrests? WTF?! What do their police do? They already know someone got felony status assaulted ...they know the people, but they don't go get them?
Wow, Canada really are full of French.
The kid was from "Eric Hamber Secondary". Eric Hamber isn't his name.
This is kind of sad...
i sometimes wonder what police do..because sometimes i have lost hope in law enforcement..my bad experience i guess..
WTF does this have to do with this article exactly?
No arrests? WTF?! What do their police do? They already know someone got felony status assaulted ...they know the people, but they don't go get them? Wow, Canada really are full of French.
They said in the article the victim basically said it was a group of teens. How can the cops arrest someone if nobody can tell them who it was?
And don't spout off about getting IP addresses. Police need a warranty first, and then have to fight Blizzard's red tape to get IP addressses from Battle.net records. This all takes time.
It's no different then me taunting you in any sport. You don't take trash talk personally, especially if it's from the other team
I think the cop who made the statement was referring to Warcraft III as being online fiction. Not the trash talking part. I think the point was, "It's just a game. In real life, it doesn't really matter who is better at it."
Well at-least they didn't tea-bag him....
Wow, Canada really are full of French.
Herp Derp Stereotypes.
Vancouver is nowhere even close to Quebec. And if you associate the French Canadian population as being of the same baggage as the France French I suggest you spend a little more time learning about us. You'll see that despite the language we both speak we are very different.
In before massive downvotes.
teenagers nowadays don't understand reality from fiction anymore. It's all with the rise of the Teletubbies!
It's their fault I tell ya!
good to see a trash talker get beat up i support the kids the broke the other kids fingers
DOTA strikes again. DOTA and HoN probably have some of the worst communities out there, people hate on those games quite a bit.
DOTA = defense of the ancients
HoN = Heroes of Newerth (standalone dota clone)
sounds like the asian mafia lol. BC = lots of asians and pot heads no offence, just clearing up stereotypes from a ontarians perspective.
I go to that school
Nice !!! you talk crap because you feel safe behind the internet this is what happens 2 you . DONT TALK CRAP ON PPL UNLESS YOU WOULD OTHERWISE DO IT IN PERSON .
Police are investigating the beating of an Eric Hamber secondary school student after he was confronted by a group of assailants during lunch hour Monday.
Read the article much, Kevin? Seriously, how hard is it to report accurate news now days?
As far as I can see, this is a case of someone that hides behind their online persona and trash talks when they win, why can't people win with grace?
That is why I support real names being used online, if you have the guts to trash talk me then you should have the guts to say it to my face. I am sick of wussy little pips having power trips just because they are better at a game, but couldn't beat up a fly in real life.
And Blizzard wanted to force RealID on everybody why?
"If there was RealID, he wouldn't have trash talked."
"Because of RealID, he got tracked and beat."
Now there's a circular argument that would ensue...
ROFL
First of all, good for the police chief to finally not place the blame on games. Maybe he's a gamer himself . . .
Secondly, these kids beat him with batons? Batons? Sounds like they deserved to be made fun of.
I have found the DOTA crowd to be rather aggressive. More so in fact than those who play WC3 TFT. I gave up trying to learn it due to the constant trash talking to be honest. Seeing as the people in question appear to come from the same school I would imagine that there is more to it than simply a game of DOTA.
Nothing like a keyboard Rambo that likes to trash talk to spice up life. I find it kind of funny personally.
Looks like somebody's been watching too much Jay and Silent Bob...
Real Id would force the little magets to stop talking shit on regular ppl . Maggots feel powerfull behind the internet because they know they will probably never be found out. U talk crap on the internet you better be ready to back it up. This kid wasnt and im sure he will never talk crap again unless he starts working out.
Wc3 != DotA
HON has way better behaving community. Because HON doesnt have that total randomnes, it has PSR rankink system. Imagine if your were playing starcraft 3x3 with 2 random nooobs. For the 10th time... or for the 100th time (how many matches sc2 player plays in a week?) - you'd naturaly get just a little bit angry, if you ware on drugs, and you;d get very angry if you were sober. youd get angry at the game random mechanics first, but you can only express your anger for the other players
WTF does this have to do with this article exactly?They said in the article the victim basically said it was a group of teens. How can the cops arrest someone if nobody can tell them who it was?And don't spout off about getting IP addresses. Police need a warranty first, and then have to fight Blizzard's red tape to get IP addressses from Battle.net records. This all takes time.
Well they simply need to run to Best Buy to pick up a warranty, then they can make their arrests.
Herp Derp Stereotypes.Vancouver is nowhere even close to Quebec. And if you associate the French Canadian population as being of the same baggage as the France French I suggest you spend a little more time learning about us. You'll see that despite the language we both speak we are very different.In before massive downvotes.
Why did that hit such a nerve for you? You know how much BS stereotypes of America exist? Let alone how many exists that no one even bothers to argue with? I don't even think it's okay for an American to defend themselves against a stereotype. As soon as it's someone else's country or some other races stereotype however, all guns are blazing and it's on like donkey kong. It's a bit hypocritical.
Execute the perps. In Canada it's done by clubbing, eh?