'Cool' to be a serial killer, court told

[xenoviper]

"A US teenager said it would be "cool" to be a serial killer years before he went on trial for killing a class mate in a school bathroom, a former friend testified.

Throughout middle school, Michael Hernandez idolised the villains from the Halloween and Friday the 13th horror films, Andre Martin, now an 18-year-old college freshman told a court in Orange County."

https://www.smh.com.au/news/world/b...-played-to-jury/2008/09/18/1221331001319.html

 

[CelticPredator]

Yeah well, I love all those dudes, The Joker, everything. But I wouldnt ^^^^ing kill anyone....

I know this ^^^^ is totally going to turn on us fans...

 

[uscmhicks]

someone kills someone and movies get blamed. It is a tragedy but not the movies fault.
It was the same when someone was murdered by someone playing grand theft auto , immediately the game was blamed.
Its not the game or the movie , its the retarded people playing and watching who haven't got the brains to realize its not real.
Wouldn't if hes seen the Shawshank Redemption and what happens to Andy in there , that parts probably the most realistic thing.....

 

[Darklord Dave]

Then there was the Chinese kid who set a classmate on fire because he was so wrapped up in World of Warcraft that he was trying to be a real fire-mage.

 

[Malice]

i don't get it what would drive someone that age to kill? i mean back in the days when you had beef with someone, we would one on one. now these kids are so scared of an old school ass kicking that they have to pull a gun. F"N punks!

 

[usswanker]

Then there was the Chinese kid who set a classmate on fire because he was so wrapped up in World of Warcraft that he was trying to be a real fire-mage.

Wow.....I mean wow not World of Warcraft Wow but dang this just shows everyone how ^^^^ed up people can be.

 

[King Darkness]

It may in fact be cool to be a serial killer, I really dont know. I am 110% sure of one thing though, prison WOULD suck. Therefore I will never know if it is in fact cool to be a serial killer.

 

[creecher]

People are always going to be the loose screw that, does indeedy, gets influenced by their surrounds. I know it sounds like, and probably is, blame being laid on the films, music, whatever, but they are, indeed, the catalyst that sparks these mental deficients off. To think that there is something inherently wrong with the movie, TV, etc is blinkering logic.

These people turn to fantasy, and the reason they do so, is the cause that needs to be investigated. They aren't capable of handling reality in the normal sense, so they certainly aren't capable of handling anything non real. Unless they are able to discern something being 'not right' in themselves, they, or a casual observer, aren't going to be able to take steps to get them some sort of help. Everything's okay till something goes wrong, Something, non related, triggers a psychotic episode and they probably seek refuge, as they have done in their normal reality, in their fantasy world, and so the game etc gets incorrectly blamed.

It grabs attention by reporting it as 'Batman begets Joker', or some such, so the media play it up. It's up to us to see through their twisted media hype. I think its sad that it sometimes gets to court, that these Studios have to defend themselves. It's totally preposterous.

It doesn't matter if he's unstable or insane. I don't think that's a valid plea if it lessens the impact of the sentence. It makes it understandable but not excuseable. He did the crime, he should get to do the time.

 

[Batty]

There were also people who went on killing sprees because of Natural Born Killers. The obviously missed the point of the movie.

 

[Mesa]

I blame PONG!!!

 

[The Tuggernaut]

Then there was the Chinese kid who set a classmate on fire because he was so wrapped up in World of Warcraft that he was trying to be a real fire-mage.

Jeez...
Well you're always gonna get that one person who i so obsessed with someone or something that they go too far.

 

[Zoolander]

but don't you have to kill more than one person to be a serial killer....looks like he ain't so cool after all

 

[The Craw]

sometimes i talk to my action figures.

 

[Bannister]

"Movies don't create psychos, movies make psychos more creative." I think that about sums it up.

 

[Darklord Dave]

sometimes i talk to my action figures.

No need to worry until they start talking back.

And Ted Bundy and Zodiac may have been cool - but Dahmer? Gein? Backwoods retard more like.

 

[Bannister]

No need to worry until they start talking back.

And Ted Bundy and Zodiac may have been cool - but Dahmer? Gein? Backwoods retard more like.

Ted Bundy was apparently one smooth mother^^^^er, Ed Gein was a creepy Mamma's boy.

 

[King Darkness]

Say what you will about Ed Gein, he inspired some of horrors greatest psychos. Norman Bates, Leatherface and Hannibal Lecter

 

[Bannister]

Say what you will about Ed Gein, he inspired some of horrors greatest psychos. Norman Bates, Leatherface and Hannibal Lecter

That was one seriously ^^^^ed up individual.

 

[King Darkness]

That was one seriously ^^^^ed up individual.

VERY VERY VERY ^^^^ed up!!!

 

[Darklord Dave]

VERY VERY VERY ^^^^ed up!!!

But not cool.