The Article: An incompetent Lieutenant tries to pin even more crimes on videogames, while admitting that it is "just one of his personal theories, as in not fact."
The Real Issue: Ever since the dawn of competitive internet gaming, this has been a tactic used by pedophiles to score pictures of their victims. It basically is internet prostitution.
What.... the.... hell?
Orlando's Channel Six news is reporting that pedophiles are offering "game points" in exchange for nude images of children sent through video games.
Well reporting is a bit of an overstatement, they declare that in their headline and the first sentence of their "story" but never really explain what the hell they're going on about. In fact the entire story is a mess of quotes, misstatements and supposition that never gets around to actually explaining what the story is about.
There is, for instance, this quote:
"Kids are playing games, and they are being asked to take photos of themselves naked in order to get game points," state attorney Cybercrime Detective Lt. David Maurer said. "There is not only the chatting version of the games but also a webcam involved."
So this lieutenant with some unnamed police department (one can assume Orlando) apparently thinks that some games (video games?) involve taking photo and sending them to some people (pedophiles?).
But then the lieutenant returns to the story a graph later to say that this is actually just one of his personal theories, as in not fact.
The story then mentions that the most popular games are Halo 3, Call Of Duty, Final Fantasy and Grand Theft Auto. Wait does that mean you get points for sending naked pictures of yourself to pedophiles while playing Call of Duty or Halo 3?
Who knows, but the news channel quotes two parents who are "worried, scared." Don't worry, I'm right with you. I'm worried that whatever idiot who wrote this story might have actually broadcast it and I'm scared that this "reporter" might strike again.
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Retards these days
Now you keep yours......
The paedophile is all like
"You give picky and I give goldy now, now, yes, yes?"
SLANDER AND LIES!!!!!!
Every episode I've ever seen is about Rape. It's disturbing.
But we digress.
Granted, between L&O, SVU, and CI (criminal intent), SVU is the one I can't watch for hours on end because it does get pretty "wtf." Some research showed that quite a few of the original and CI's episodes are based on real life events (explaining why they have a disclaimer in front of every episode to say otherwise, avoiding liability)... I hope SVU isn't the same way because it can get pretty freaking sick....
Like, I can watch a Saw movie, and have stuff that violent/gory hardly effect me at all, but the day they put a rape scene in a Saw movie is the day I stop watching them. The subject just disturbs me.
The only movie I've ever been able to like that includes a "rape scene" is Kill Bill Vol. 1. There's a part that alludes to the main character being raped while she was in a coma, which is pretty extreme(in a bad way) for me. The movie's just so great, though, I have to look past that part.
Tough love is the best love there is!
It didn't show them putting it out but they leaned in and then it did a shot of the house and the kid screamed.