Posted on 07/22/2007 11:06:12 PM PDT by Schnucki
An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world's top RPG gamers after one criminal's girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google's social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim's head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000. And yes, the story gets even better.
Surprisingly enough, after five hours the hostage wasn't talking. The group leader had a gun against his head all that time but the guy didn't say a word. At that point, the crooks gave up and decided to let him go. The brazilian police then caught the four suspects, aged 19 to 27.
According to the police, the captive is the world leader in GunBound, a turn-based RPG-style multiplayer online game. Developed in South Korea, in this artillery game you get more experience points, offensive and defensive capabilities depending on your skills during battle, as well as money to buy more weapons, armor and all kinds of gear for your multiple avatars. You can only play with one of your avatars each time, but all of them belong to a single account.
The game looks to be quite popular, so the four gangsters decided they could make some quick cash if they kidnapped him to steal his user. Their plan: use one of the criminal's girlfriends, called Tamires, to get him into a date using Google's online social network Orkut, which is also extremely popular in Brazil. After contacting and seducing him, she told the GunBound wizard to meet her in a shopping mall.
But she never appeared. Instead, Igor the boyfriend did. Gun in hand, he abducted and held the player prisoner, planning to rely the password to his mates using a cellphone. Against all odds, our hero (or very stupid guy) resisted. Probably using some Stamina +357 spell. Or a Big Cojones +577 mana potion.
Whatever he did to resist the torture for a stupid game password, boys and girls, there's a moral to this story: if you live in Brazil, keep playing Tetris.
Nerds Without Borders.
Nerds Without Borders.
Bosco.
Spoilers had leaked on the internet (shocker), and people took megaphones and read the spoilers to the people standing in line. All while filming it and then posted on youtube.
Go search Harry Potter 7 spoilers on youtube, it's a great 45 min of fun.
Some of them do drivebys with the megaphone, others went in the stores and did fake inerviews where they read spoilers off.
This really puts all the Virtua Tennis tournaments we used to have when my brother had a Sega Dreamcast into a ton of perspective.
Gunbound IS NOT an RPG.
What incentive does a kidnapper have to kill someone for a password that the hostage can’t divulge when dead
That young feller can come off with one thing assured - he will never be laid in his life.
I watch it every day...the Chinese are certifiably insane!!
Looks like ol' Dungeon Master's got some game.
I swear that the pun wasn't intended.
LOL. Too true!
I sincerely hope that these a-holes got the crap beaten out of them.
These are Harry Potter fans dude.
Humans are so very strange.
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
—Puck
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