Game Over: Boy Commits Suicide After Parents Ban Gaming
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 22, 2009 21:39 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Monster Parents, Schoolboys, Suicide, Thailand
A 12-year-old schoolboy leapt from a sixth floor veranda after his parents decreed that he could no longer play computer games.
The boy, who lived near Bangkok, Thailand, was apparently an avid gamer, and was distraught that his parents had banned him from gaming.
Police searching his mobile found that he had sent numerous mails to friends complaining of the ban, and saying “tomorrow is my last day.”
According to classmates the boy arrived at school Thailand normally, but after placing his bag at his desk headed straight out onto a sixth floor veranda, with a grim expression on his face, and there immediately jumped to his doom.
Just which game or games prompted this unfortunate case is not mentioned.
Thailand’s Ministry of Health criticised the parents for their handling of the case saying “For children addicted to gaming, the most effective approach is not to ban games but to regulate the time spent gaming.”
Via the Bangkok Shuho.
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Ban game+no games to play=Suicide
"Just which game or games prompted this unfortunate case is not mentioned."
Definitely not Rapelay.
Maple Story
dang, the history just happened again, b4 there was a kid who died of Counter Strike... I dun find those game so addictive... in fact boring, that really was a waste of his life, he could enjoy tons of climax when he reach adult age like me :p
@ KoHG: YOU wouldn't do that, but you're not that boy. Its hard enough to except common reason from people, dont even start with projecting your likes and likes-not on other people, as they are... different people.
Better yet, it makes you wonder how much time the kid spent gaming and how long it took the parents to find out.
in thailand probably starcraft they LOVE there RTS in asia
This is not the first time and the last that crap like this happens
Huh what. That's some spoiled kid right there...
Perhaps, but I think that would require a rethinking of my definition of 'spoiled'.
Okay "rotten" fits better... i think
You damn right he was a spoiled kid!
But what i would have done is to let him play as much video games as he wanted that is after breaking both of his hands.
Both hands broken? That's nothing -- if he's a truly hard-core gamer, he still can play!
http://megatokyo.com/strip/25
I had a psychiatric patient once, a 10 years old boy, who would steal anything from anyone, just to play another hour of "Winning Eleven" at the PS2 rental. That's no longer addiction I say.. that's obsession. scary shit..
whoa no comments yet... hmm i guess the minister is right about all of it though seriously there is no way banning help this get done like banning eroge
Well, he was a gamer, you know. He had a lot of lives to spare.
Was just trying to send the message.
really, I wonder if too much gaming makes kids don't realize that there's no "reset" button on life..
A new "AN HERO". Fuck yeah Bangkok!
If people get any pictures of you after the actual accident, you'll be warrantedly one.
Sadly, you're right. This isn't "an hero".
Darwin Award, should be.
this should be double darwin awards cause the retard parent remove their genes from the pool (assume they have only 1 child) and the kid gene too.
if I didnt have my PS2 + computer for Anime and gaming I would /wrists as well.
One could only hope.
Please tell us more about yourself. We'll want to identify you in the coming news...
and tell our friends, " oh we've had that guy on our forum before.. absolute nutjob, you can totally see it coming.."
lol
Then those fucking "groups for a certian cause" would blame it to computer games!
As always. But the real responsibiles are the parents. They mind their child, don't they?
Game : Afterlife 2
i lol'd.
Leapt 2 Dead was better.
Afterlife 2: it's a stand-up arcade game, but once you cross the river, you've got no coins with which to play... the ferryman took them!
"Game over"
please insert(s) coin
He missed out on the real game.
agreed..
He lost the game.
And what will you win when you die old and ugly?
Loads of experience points to share with the newbies.
Touché!
lolis of course. What else?
"Victory IS You"?
maybe he was playing eroge games that's why he got banned lol..
still, so sad though.
gg
kids shouldn't get a computer until they turn at least 12-13, cus they're so easily influenced.. and if the parents don't regulate the time spent on gaming, stuff like this can happen.
Uhhmm.. he IS 12 actually..
but he was playing games before he was even twelve.
damn it, my first gaming console is the ps2, and that was in 2005 when i was 16
That old? The first time I played Doom was when I was 4. I wonder what that says about me?
Doesn't say anything about you. I played Doom and Wolfenstein a lot younger than 12. I have no desire to kill or be killed.
yes, but i meant my OWN gaming console.
had a desktop though at 13. all it had was solitaire lol.
blackpepper has a sad life
donate to blackpepper foundation.. he needs a new pc
or a new game.
What age you start to play doesn't matter. Moderation is key.
Pffft.
It's all about responsible parenting really.
I've been gaming since age 5, and I'm past the big 30 already and I'm a well adjusted member of society.
Regular job (am a civil servant), pay my taxes, own my own home (with mortgage granted) etc etc etc.
Regular Gamer guy?! Your own home? Have to say it, You win at Life!!
Must have been playing the old VH song to cheer him on!
Hardcore.
Influenced by Yume Nikki.
wow i was just about to say that! man that game was crazy, i love it
Omg, why you know that game!?
is that famaous internationally?
Yes it is. Hell, it even famous here, in Romania.
Convenience store!!
Parental Fail. The parents fails in Raise Sims.
next time, remember to switch on GOD MODE
LMAO!!!! hahahhahaha
Another Gamer bites the dust :P
Ban hentai in Thailand... mass suicide...
Oh shi-
i wonder what you will do if your parents ban you from surfing net
Its already banned long~ ago.
On the positive side, his death somewhat made people especially parents realize that banning videogames isn't the right way..
his moronic sacrifice went to a good cause
He just lost the game, and so did you
Stupid parents should never ban kids from gaming...
as a parent,
TOTALLY AGREED
In Thailand game and manga is always blamed for Violence and suicide. one time children robbed the store and they blamed it on GTA. but i think he's playing online game or something.
Sorry for the bad English. I'm Thai.
Worst ending is death?
Not capable of playing games ever anymore.
Why didn't he think that?
Who knows, maybe there is a respawn and the ones who believe in reincarnation were right.
What he can see after death:
Continue?
Insert Coin
Our allied hero has fallen
LOL WC3
Thank sankaku i still have some truth to read about...
They reported that the father "complained" and "scolded" the son led to this suicide.. which sounds ridiculous and speaks that gaming violence caused this... lol
Poor bastard, if you can't play games anymore you instead have to get a life, that's just the way it is.
Maybe he thought he had another life left...
Not everyone wants a life of that kind.
And these parents probably learned their lesson from that. Talking about problems and trying to understand each other is the way to go, banning things is not. It is sad that such an act was necessary to make them understand it. Well, he could have done something better to make them understand, but still better than not doing anything and accepting such evil.
Yes.
I had just been banned by parent for gaming ...
I hated my life...I hated myself to be born...
I shall be dead, but I hate pain...
I have no idea how to be dead without any pain...
and now you travel the internet forums expressing yourself with dark poetry... thats pretty deep :[
Though killing yourself because you're not allowed to play video games is a little too much for me, I'm not very shocked or surprised if somebody in this world would decide to really do it. Maybe for this boy video games are really all that he's got. We don't know. Anyway, game sales in Thailand are going to drop for a while, as the Ministry of Health's advices are always given great importance no matter how nonsense their argument is.
As a Thailander, I can tell that this is due to the fact the boy's father is a warrant police officer so he thought he can apply heavy pressure on his son as he wishes until he has learnt that he is going to pay heavy price.
BTW, this case of suicidal jump happened at 7:30 AM of 22 May 2009 at Siri Witthaya Paknam School in downtown Samut Prakarn, Bangkok southern suburb.
The pick of the dead boy who made suicidal jump is here:
http://ads.dailynews.co.th/news/images/2009/crime/5/22/199853_title2.jpg
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Game over! GAME OVER!!!!
Damn it is SH** like this that gives trouble for gamers and video games around the world :\
i sooo wish people, Kids,retards,idiots, parents and god would think before they act :\ that why they get banned to begin whit.
Another case of bad parenting.
sigh~
reminds me the time my parents ban me from gaming but i refused and just kept on playing whenever i want!! then worse happened...
when i was out and came back home i can smell a mass stench of burning plastic,i rushed and checked my room it was all messed up..the broken cd's on the floor,ripped out anime posters and magazines all scattered out..
but then i realized that 80% of my stuff is still missing..i followed the smoke and found out my stuff is being burned slowly.......
ughhhh i can still imagine my eva dvds being burned in front of me and i cant do single thing to save them....
"That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over..."
We should be heading back soon. It's getting dark, and they mostly come at night. Mostly...
I bet he thought that he could game in the afterlife with titles like Duke Nukem Forever...
yeah considering how Duke Nukem is dead. 3D realms shut down
That makes sense. You dont fuck with gamer's soul
He was a maryter for our cause. Seeing our freedoms sripped, one by one, he decided to become an example to the world. Death is the only absolute freedom.
that kid is awesome.
he really understands life, i think.
I'd do the same thing.
He was playing LMS no re spawns allowed haha but all jokes aside "Just which game or games prompted this unfortunate case" if thats not pointing the finger idk what is
boy not thinking straight, most probably retarded or just plain dumb. he could still play at an arcade or a friend's house or even at a computer rental place.
what i would think is suicide inducing, gaming-related incident would be if the parents deleted all his save data in front of his eyes and then proceded to smash his consoles and games.
sad thing is, someone'll probably find some way to turn this around and blame this on the games again. all gaming related accidents always have this conclusion...
Again, it's the same story as all "Games causes (fill the blank)" story.
The boy commited suicide, yes.
But gaming was HARDLY the reason.
Absent parents, parents that were too strict, social relations limited to the game only, lack of parent counceling, lonelyness, depression, mental issues, poor self esteem... those can all be part of the problem.
Blaming the gaming ban alone for his suicide is stupidity.
Also, ignoring all the other problems only leads to more ignorance.
When I watch and read news blaming games for school shootings, crimes and suicides, I can't help but think to myself "Are they this stupid?".
Blaming games only delay people from finding out the REAL reasons and taking action to avoid cases like those.
Because I'm shure baning games will solve nothing. If it doesn't get things even worse.
Thailand ministry of health says it's your fault grieving parents.
Actually... well played. Any US organization wouldn't have the balls to come out and say that.
Serious business!
Used to be that people would say "momma didnt raise no fool". Now its just "momma raised a fool".
He was an hero
No iPod needed here.
What'll Gamer's Hell look like? Oh yeah, this boy will spend eternity playing Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing while being supervised by Duke Nukem Forever.
Parents should never ban the kids under say 15 years of age from the games instead they should have supervised or send him to conselling for his game addicition. Their fragile young minds are just to tied in the matrix.
"No one has ever made their first jump" ~Tank
Another tragedy perpetrated by World of Warcraft. Some guild is gonna one man short in raids...
imagine if sex was banned. I'd lol
Almost reminds me of the kid in Ontario, Canada that ran away from home and turned up dead.
Parents and children have had a large disconnect problem... and in some cases results in these types of incidences...
one less wasted resource in this world.
Why didn't he just listen to Linkin Park and MCR just like other kids his age?
If he do he won't be no sankaku!
Game over YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftFVlBaC7hU
LMAO..sega rally rite? lol
what a dumb ass (;_;)
Parents failed at raising kid... Kid failed surpressing the depression of not playing games...
This kind of news is too common sometimes in some places. Honestly, I love gaming too but I damn won't commit suicide for it. My life is more important than that, hahaha.
>>schoolboy leapt from a sixth floor veranda
one has to wonder wtf is he snorting..
Shrooms maybe?
Why do people only automatically assume he commited suicide because he couldn't play games anymore?
Wouldn't it be more likely if it were the other way around: The boy's life sucked and he was probably thinking about suicide long before this stuff happened, but games were his only escape from reality?
It's clear that the boy was addicted, but you don't get addicted to games for no reason. It's when you prefer your virtual life over your real life (e.g.: your real life sucks) that you get addicted, much like it happens with other addictions (most famously, alcohol).
If the boy was pretty suicidal in the first place, and you take away what little enjoyment he does have in his life, it doesn't seem too bizarre for him to commit suicide.
You'd be surprised how many kids are addicted to online gaming, or fill a large part of their lives with it. It's not always the escape from reality that they're addicted to and it's not always to escape. It's just that it's their place to play with and socialize with their friends. Most kids would rather spend all their time with their friends than even a second with their parents, even at home. They work hard to get somewhere in those games because of their friends and online societies, to impress them, compete with them, etc. A kid doesn't have to be suicidal before you ban their gaming, it's just true that the online environment can get so important for them that they'd rather die than loose it. It's like telling your kid "you can't play with any of your friends anymore, even sports. All the experience and skills you gained from playing sports with them is pointless now". Kids don't play sports for the health benefits.
9 times out of 10 stories like these are related to online games. All my acquaintances and my cousins that are half my age play online and I'd wager all I have that they have gamed more in their lives than I have in mine. Hell, they're probably games more in a year than I have in my whole life. And most of those guys used to play sports outside before online gaming surfaced. I've never been into online games, I've always played console games, either single player or, less often, lan 2p or 4p, since as early as I can remember (childhood). Unfortunately I play multiplayer far less now that my gaming buddies are all addicted to playing online. They've asked me to join them but I've always politely declined.
online games are more than games, for many people they're their virtual playgrounds. It's where they socialize, play with others, and have all their fun. Online has made games a far more social thing than games in the past. I beleive that is what online gaming addicts are addicted to, the social settings. Parents need to consider, depending on the kid, that if they ban their games they could be banning their lives... well the part of their lives they care about, the social parts. I know, because all the parents come to me with their game-hating stories. I got all my relatives into gaming initially, and the parents used to blame me for their addictions until they realized I was different.
I'm the only one I know that's ever beaten a single player game that wasn't pokemon. So I'm addicted to talking with like minded people online rather than offline :P thankfully online chatting is not as demanding as playing an online game.
I JUST WANNA PLAY VIDEO GAMES
JUST WANNA PLAY VIDEO GAMES
JUST WANNA PLAY VIDEO GAMES
ALL THE TIME AND EVERY DAY
Thailand mass media always blame only the game. They don't think that there are other reasons that make the boy jump. Thai gamers always think that it isn't fair to only balme the game.
Now there're people want the government to consider the law that limit playing game time for under 18 people to 3 hours per day.
Thai was popular with their Online Addict just like Korea
To better think maybe it's those MMO like GE, or Maple Story, or maybe RF?
HE WAS PUSHED
Who said that gamers don't get exercise? xDDD
*ends non-P.C. statement*
Really, suicide is not the answer for this.
ESTO ES UNA MIERDA
umm im voteing for world of warcraft since im HOOKD on that shit
I hope he respawns in a better level, near a power up.
LOL this reminds me of Brandon Crisp AKA Fallout Tree boy
Thailand’s Ministry of Health criticised the parents for their handling of the case saying “For children addicted to gaming, the most effective approach is not to ban games but to regulate the time spent gaming.”
They really should have just regulated his game time but I hardly think anyone would have expected him to commit suicide with his games being banned.....
Its WOW obliviously
Parents always doom people's future