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A 43-year-old Japanese piano teacher's sudden divorce from her online husband in a virtual game world made her so angry that she logged on and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.
She used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in mid-May, a police official in northern Sapporo City said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.
"I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry," the official quoted her as telling investigators and admitting the allegations.
The woman was arrested Wednesday and was taken across the country, traveling 620 miles from her home in southern Miyazaki to be detained in Sappporo, where the man lives, the official said.
If you kill someone in the virtual world...should you be sentenced to virtual prison? Maybe every time you log on you have to look at bars on your screen or something?
I've heard of on-line weddings in Wow, Second Life and Maple Story...but c'mon....arrested for homicide? In a video game? lultz...don't tell the police, but I've fragged a few peeps myself
A 43-year-old Japanese piano teacher's sudden divorce from her online husband in a virtual game world made her so angry that she logged on and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.
She used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in mid-May, a police official in northern Sapporo City said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.
"I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry," the official quoted her as telling investigators and admitting the allegations.
The woman was arrested Wednesday and was taken across the country, traveling 620 miles from her home in southern Miyazaki to be detained in Sappporo, where the man lives, the official said.
If you kill someone in the virtual world...should you be sentenced to virtual prison? Maybe every time you log on you have to look at bars on your screen or something?
I've heard of on-line weddings in Wow, Second Life and Maple Story...but c'mon....arrested for homicide? In a video game? lultz...don't tell the police, but I've fragged a few peeps myself
