Cold-blood murder for a high-demand item.

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Somebody waits outside Best Buy for Christmas in '06 to get an Xbox 360 for their child. They obviously don't arrive in time to get the console before it sells out, so they walk up to a customer leaving with one and shoots them in the face, proceeding to take it.

This hasn't happened to me, but it's a story that has been eating at me since then. I've been thinking about it a lot lately and it's killing me. I can't imagine what is going through this person's mind, especially during the moment your child is unwrapping the console, and you are thinking about how you murdered someone in cold blood for the toy that had just put a smile on your sons/daughter's face.

If the world is to end in 2012 (which I believe it won't literally "end"), I can't wait. Can you blame me?

It would be interesting to see what happens, in 2012.

I dont blame ya for wanting the world to end, since humanity is essentially some sort of unholy union of parasite and virus.

as for that whole 360 incident, people kill people and it will always be like that until there are no people left, so in turn the only way to ensure peace on earth is mutually assured destruction.

and for those thinking gun conrtol laws would help, they wouldnt because there is such a thing as a black market, plus people will just outright make their own as well as the fact that the law would be way too expensive to enforce. It might work for countries with a smaller population, but once the population gets above a certain point, it is my belief that the low really cant be enforced as well as some other things the extreme left wants pushed through. THis doesnt mean I agree with the extreme right either though. Lets just say the citizens should have the abilitiy to police themself. Lets just say if I had a gun and someone broke into my house while I was there, there would be lead in his skull, and if they want to arrest me for it, ill just bring up the reality of how our judicial system is nothing but a farce. I am a pragmatist to say the least. If someone threatens me, I should have the ability to remove the threat myself, regardless of the status of the other person involved, because either way it will be one less human being f*****g things up.

Do you have a link to an article about this story ?

Ill try digging it up I guess, I havent hear about the story for a few years, because like a day or so after it happened, nobody cared anymore.

I do believe it happened outside of a best buy.

I feel sorry for the guy who got popped for his x-box. I also feel sorry for anyone who thinks procuring an x-box is worth having a murder on his karma and conscience.

Another way to look at it is that, say, 30 million parents were going to buy their children a toy/console, and one of 30 million was evil enough to kill somebody else to get one.

A ratio of 1 in 30 million ought not to be high enough to condemn the whole of mankind.

People kill others for a variety of reasons, most which are incredibly foolish. Just last night, I heard about a woman who, when asked to leave a vacant apartment, beat the asker (another woman), then showed up the next night with a gun and shot into her apartment, hitting the woman. So, you have these people who, for whatever reason, either lack sense of priorities, have no control over their tempers, or just don't care about others. And you hear about them, because they're not the norm. They fascinate other people, because that is a world so different than ours that we can't understand it. We get caught up in questions about how he could do such a thing, how he felt later. There's entire sections dedicated to them.

What we don't hear about is the flip side. The people who do good things for others aren't written about in the news, because it just doesn't make a story that people will wonder about. What if someone gave another person an X-box they had so patiently waited for? It wouldn't make the news. People might say, "Oh, that's nice," but they don't remember it for long. It doesn't stick in their minds.

If it's really bothering you, maybe try to stay away from bad news for a while, or find a place dedicated to good news. There are some sites (like this one) that are just for that kind of thing.

You are right. . . That is so screwed up!

CowboyFromHell,

Is it the contradiction in actions that bothers you most about this? I never heard this story and that was the most troubling thing to me, when I read your post.

Taking another human life to give a unnecessary gift...

The recipient of the gift wouldn't die if they never got an X-box. The death had nothing to do with survival. It was greed. Very unsettling to think about.

have you not played call of duty before? its pretty badass