Teen rampages over computer privileges

chitoryu12 · Post by **chitoryu12** » 2008-08-26 05:46pm

PALM BAY, Fla. -- A 15-year-old was taken into custody after police said he chased his mother with a knife and beat his brother with a sugar cane over a change in computer privileges.

The teen was charged with aggravated assault and battery after police were called to a home on the 200 block of Silver Oak Road to investigate a disturbance, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported. The teen was arrested Sunday and taken to the Juvenile Detention Center in Sharpes.

Police said the boy was on the home computer when he grew angry over changes to the system. Police said the teen then threw several objects and picked up a knife and a stick of sugar cane.

The older brother and mother told police the teen pushed his mother several times while clutching the knife. He also struck the brother with the sugar cane, police said.

The teen told police he felt threatened by his mother and sibling.

He was arrested by police and taken into custody.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

Well now. I'm waiting to see a politician use this in a rant about the Internet and gaming.

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2008-08-26 06:15pm

I'm waiting for the sawing-Florida-loose animation.

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2008-08-26 06:30pm

chitoryu12 wrote:Well now. I'm waiting to see a politician use this in a rant about the Internet and gaming.

Eh, it could have been "rampages over driving privileges" or "curfew" or "grades" or whatever else. The issue is that the kid seems to have real anger issues. Assuming there isn't some other detail that hasn't come to light to set him off.

Aratech · Post by **Aratech** » 2008-08-26 06:30pm

There must be something in the water of my state...

chitoryu12 · Post by **chitoryu12** » 2008-08-26 06:56pm

FSTargetDrone wrote:
chitoryu12 wrote:Well now. I'm waiting to see a politician use this in a rant about the Internet and gaming.
Eh, it could have been "rampages over driving privileges" or "curfew" or "grades" or whatever else. The issue is that the kid seems to have real anger issues. Assuming there isn't some other detail that hasn't come to light to set him off.

He could be bipolar. I have a friend who's bipolar and she can go from the sweetest girl you've ever met to nearly throttling people. Combined with anger issues, you've got a hell of a hot pot.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2008-08-26 07:01pm

Wonder if it was this kid

sketerpot · Post by **sketerpot** » 2008-08-26 08:35pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Wonder if it was this kid

What the hell was that? That was just too over the top to be real. I mean, that whiny voice? On the other hand, the VoIP artifacts sounded pretty realistic.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2008-08-26 08:55pm

chitoryu12 wrote:
FSTargetDrone wrote:
chitoryu12 wrote:Well now. I'm waiting to see a politician use this in a rant about the Internet and gaming.
Eh, it could have been "rampages over driving privileges" or "curfew" or "grades" or whatever else. The issue is that the kid seems to have real anger issues. Assuming there isn't some other detail that hasn't come to light to set him off.
He could be bipolar. I have a friend who's bipolar and she can go from the sweetest girl you've ever met to nearly throttling people. Combined with anger issues, you've got a hell of a hot pot.

That would depend on the details of his anger... I mean, if he had delusions of persecution yeah that could definitely be a factor...

chitoryu12 · Post by **chitoryu12** » 2008-08-26 09:17pm

Alyrium Denryle wrote:
chitoryu12 wrote:
FSTargetDrone wrote: Eh, it could have been "rampages over driving privileges" or "curfew" or "grades" or whatever else. The issue is that the kid seems to have real anger issues. Assuming there isn't some other detail that hasn't come to light to set him off.
He could be bipolar. I have a friend who's bipolar and she can go from the sweetest girl you've ever met to nearly throttling people. Combined with anger issues, you've got a hell of a hot pot.
That would depend on the details of his anger... I mean, if he had delusions of persecution yeah that could definitely be a factor...

Definitely, though if he was in fact bipolar, it could be more that he was merely on the side where he was very easy to set off and having his computer privaleges restricted just pushed him over the edge.

Darth Lucifer · Post by **Darth Lucifer** » 2008-08-26 09:39pm

Police said the boy was on the home computer when he grew angry over changes to the system.

Methinks someone installed Net Nanny or some other porn filter.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2008-08-26 09:57pm

That or it's a Vista box and somebody cut on the 'only use this account at these times on these days' thingus.

Death from the Sea · Post by **Death from the Sea** » 2008-08-27 02:47am

Darth Lucifer wrote:
Police said the boy was on the home computer when he grew angry over changes to the system.
Methinks someone installed Net Nanny or some other porn filter.

it would be really fucking stupid (or more so than it already is), if the changes were something trivial like the desktop arrangement or picture...

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-08-27 10:04am

Hey, don't discount it; I had two friends who lived together that once got into a pretty big blue over something that trivial.

Post by **Coyote** » 2008-08-27 12:49pm

No, I think Kanasterous is right-- a kid flipping out over driving or dating or whatever would be waved off as 'asshole teenager", but because it has to do with computers, it'll be "t3h eeeevil Internets!"

Rock music, Dungeons & Dragons, Comic Books... the Internet is just one more useful scapegoat, waiting to be dragged out for regular beatings.

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2008-08-27 01:07pm

I think you're crediting me for someone else's observation...

Post by **Coyote** » 2008-08-27 03:47pm

Kanastrous wrote:I think you're crediting me for someone else's observation...

FST Target Drone, yup-- whoops, dammit...

Well... uh... it seemed like something you'd say!

Prometheus Unbound · Post by **Prometheus Unbound** » 2008-08-27 04:30pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Wonder if it was this kid

Lawl.

*goes back to Eve Online*

No mom to turn off MY PC when I ring in sick or miss RL events so I can make more isk.

Not that I have a problem. But if I did, I could quit any time I wanted.

Any time.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2008-08-27 04:46pm

I used to live in Palm Bay... Less than a mile from where this happened. Not a shock, there were always some real fucking dipshits in that area.

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