Student arrested for making a counter-strike map...

[GreyHam]

more post VT nonsense for you to enjoy...

Student Arrested for Making a CS Map
Zips @ 11:37 am pdt - general - 7 comments
Another in a series of paranoia induced freak outs, comes the news that a student attending Clements High School in Fort Bend, Texas was arrested for making a Counter-Strike map based on his school. The map was intended for use solely amongst the creator and his friends, but was discovered by concerned parents who then contacted the authorities.

As a result of this, the student has been placed in an alternative education program and is not allowed to attend his graduation with his peers. The original article contains a bit more detail, but due to high traffic the site may not work when you click to read.

A follow-up article states that they found swords in the student's room, though it is reported these were purely decorative. In addition, the school administration placed this issue at a "Level 3" meaning that "a student engages in conduct relating to a false alarm or report (including a bomb threat) or a terroristic threat involving a public school." Police officials also forced the student to delete the map and uninstall Counter-Strike from his computer.

"They arrested him," Chen said of FBISD police, "and also went to the house to search." The Lin family consented to the search, and a hammer was found in the boy's room, which he used to fix his bed, because it wasn't in good shape, Chen said. He indicated police seized the hammer as a potential weapon.

"They decided he was a terroristic threat," said one source close to the district’s investigation.

http://www.csnation.net/

[Kurrpt]

so i guess i shouldn't show my work the map I made of this building, huh?


<_<


>_>

[Bron-Yr-Aur]

Police officials also forced the student to delete the map and uninstall Counter-Strike from his computer.

:lol: That's authority.

[Kurrpt]

i hope he backed it up (the map)

[xizoesira]

He has a hammer! Terrorist!

[Kurrpt]

a hammer was found in the boy's room, which he used to fix his bed, because it wasn't in good shape, Chen said. He indicated police seized the hammer as a potential weapon.

imagine all the other poor, unsuspecting nails they are saving


/little tear

[Knifeboy]

ffs...

[Kurrpt]

it's nice to know that we are healing as a nation. I think with each, un-mitigated arrest I feel a little safer in my home

[Knifeboy]

And this kid was asian too? FFS!..

[Kurrpt]

he's asian?

i didn't notice that in the article. The FBI agent was named Chen, so he's probably asian.


can you imagine being one of the FBI agents on the case? Man, what a fukking waste of education right thurr

[ChodaBoy]

Overreacting parents at it again, and seriously - uninstall the game?

[Knifeboy]

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/02/student-arrested-for-making-a-map-of-his-school/ The real article is here, he's chinese

[Kurrpt]

yea, apparently its not kosher to practice killing while in school

[ChimPz]

This just goes to proof the the world will not be destroyed by nukes or whatever, but by anal-retentive mothers around the world.

Seriously, if you can't have anything in a room that can potentially be used as a weapon we might as well just start living in mepty, padded, spherical rooms.

[Dr Hooch]

My god guys what kind of a country you running over there

And i thought the english police were stupid

[ringworm]

what a sad state people have directed this country in

it snows, they dont call off school, a bus crashes, parents sue the school

the next time, they call off school at the hint of snowflakes, parents sue the school for them having to take off from work for no reason

its the ignorant, sue-happy parents of your generation that have made things how they are now

everyone is so scared of a lawsuit these days, we're damned if we do, damned if we dont

[c00kieKrisp]

pwned

[Knifeboy]

And here I live in a country where one of my friends was paid by my old school, to create a cs map of it, for a school sponsored CS tournament

[Akira]

It's not like this is the first time a school has been used for a CS map. If the kid made the map after VT, then he's a complete moron, but this is still ridiculous.

[peeted]

I have a freind who made a cs map of my school as a joke. I have 2 friends with samurai swords....maybe they are a really small terrorist ring.

Once again this is appalling, what law has he broken any way, on what authority have the cops forced him to uninstall the game?

[gregulus]

what a sad state people have directed this country in

it snows, they dont call off school, a bus crashes, parents sue the school

the next time, they call off school at the hint of snowflakes, parents sue the school for them having to take off from work for no reason

its the ignorant, sue-happy parents of your generation that have made things how they are now

everyone is so scared of a lawsuit these days, we're damned if we do, damned if we dont
This. Parents of students these days are absolutely ridiculous. Nothing is the student's fault anymore.

[c00kieKrisp]

video games are the devil

[ChimPz]

This. Parents of students these days are absolutely ridiculous. Nothing is the student's fault anymore.
It's not so much the parents that make me wonder, it's the legal system. After all, it's the thing that allows bullshit lawsuits like that. It also makes me question the competence of judges who do cases like that.

If it were me, i'd fine them for wasting my time and drawing away my attention from cases that actually matter.

[Danger Bird]

If you don't let kids release stress in ways like making CS maps of their school I think they're a hell of a lot more likely to shoot up a school.

[Smokey D]

Do you reckon we should have 'police or other authority figure unreasonably crack down based on generic misunderstanding' thread? All these threads bring up the same points.

[Jharaski]

Do you reckon we should have 'police or other authority figure unreasonably crack down based on generic misunderstanding' thread? All these threads bring up the same points.

Yes.

[GreyHam]

the map i made as part of my degree (no joke) was somewhat based on my halls of residence (after i notices what an amazing killing potential being stuck in a courtyard surrounded by three sides would be....)

[sweboy]

God bless America.

[Jaded]

the map i made as part of my degree (no joke) was somewhat based on my halls of residence (after i notices what an amazing killing potential being stuck in a courtyard surrounded by three sides would be....)

What was your degree in?

[Danger Bird]

Murderology.

[White Riot!]

lol @ stupid moronic american authority

[Iscariot]

the obvious course of action is to put a nationwide ban on asian students owning cs or any other fps because these things clearly contribute to homicidal tendencies

...

[pedro durruti]

What's the need for new maps when you've got dust_2

[Reaganista]

This. Parents of students these days are absolutely ridiculous. Nothing is the student's fault anymore.

he did absolutely nothing wrong

not even a little bit

Do you reckon we should have 'police or other authority figure unreasonably crack down based on generic misunderstanding' thread? All these threads bring up the same points.
this thread is about racism too though

[GreyHam]

What was your degree in?

i do politics and philosophy, but for my first year i got a free elective (open module, pick from pretty much any department) so i did computer games engineering, and the assesment was to make a hl2 deathmatch map

murderology... i like tat

[AmericanWeiner]

ok the real question they should be asking is was he playing as a terrorist or counterterrorist

[Lydisk]

My god guys what kind of a country you running over there

And i thought the english police were stupid

yeah

my god you americans have some crazy paranoid mothers

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

ok the real question they should be asking is was he playing as a terrorist or counterterrorist
haha

[funkyhoney]

i think that is possibly the stupidest thing i have ever heard...

[Dr Hooch]

It's not like this is the first time a school has been used for a CS map. If the kid made the map after VT, then he's a complete moron, but this is still ridiculous.

Why?

Who really gives a sh!t?

There've been school shootings before.

[PerpetualBurn]

I was actually discussing the other night about how our halls of residence would be ideal for urban warfare.

We were talking about its amazing potential for paintball, but I think we're an intolerable risk to the safety of others they way we come up with such potentially deadly ideas.

[Otherside]

perp im calling the feds right now

[Kage]

This enrages me beyond belief.


"Concerned parents."

That statement pretty much sums up everything wrong with our country.

[Dr Hooch]

I was actually discussing the other night about how our halls of residence would be ideal for urban warfare.

We were talking about its amazing potential for paintball, but I think we're an intolerable risk to the safety of others they way we come up with such potentially deadly ideas.

Airsoft > paintball boi

[thunderzstruck]

Airsoft > paintball boi

haha
youre kidding, right?

[griftadan]

yeah airsoft sucks ***

"i shot you!"

"no you didn't"

[Dr Hooch]

haha
youre kidding, right?

It's like comparing Unreal tournament to Operation Flashpoint


Airsoft's good because only people with better things to do than pretend they weren't hit play it

because full auto fire makes it a lot more tactical (they're probably not going to miss you on that rambo charge)

And because you can be all "look at me guys"





"Totally got an AK47"

[TheDarkHorse]

its ridiculous, and no, its not the first time its been said, im aware of that.

His school and the law are overreacting due to their ignorance of a computer game.

However, he really should know better. Fear and paranoia have not settled, but what could he have done? Should've just played dust2..its fun nonetheless.

[Kage]

**** that. He can make a map of his school if he damn well wants to.

[The Chemist]

Yay fascist theorocracy!

[Pastorius]

Concerned parents almost always have an IQ of lower than 70

[Steerpike]

Every time I think the American legal/justice system can't sink any lower I find a gaping hole in the floor.

When did Americans become such unbelievable pussies? If it weren't for the fact that I could never get through law school, I'd become a judge just so I could review cases like this and throw them out before the hour was up. But not before having the plaintiff's name legally changed to "Helpless McDipshit."

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

Or "Dick McBeef"

I am NOT going to kill people in my class right here.

[pearlsjam482]

ok the real question they should be asking is was he playing as a terrorist or counterterrorist

lol, if he was playing as a counterterrorist, why did they arrest him?

Every time I think the American legal/justice system can't sink any lower I find a gaping hole in the floor.

When did Americans become such unbelievable pussies? If it weren't for the fact that I could never get through law school, I'd become a judge just so I could review cases like this and throw them out before the hour was up. But not before having the plaintiff's name legally changed to "Helpless McDipshit."

This is something that I would look forward to if I was a judge.

[Steerpike]

lol, if he was playing as a counterterrorist, why did they arrest him?

Because video games are tools of the devil that teach happy, innocent children how to kill and enjoy it using methods that the most brutal militaries in the world embrace to turn recruits into heartless killing machines.

The fact that you're playing good guys is irrelevant, because according to the police you still drink enough mercury every day to be able to recieve kill messages from your ever-wily computer and it's seductive digital entertainment/homicide training programs.

[IsItLuck?]

I miss playing counter-strike. Then again I don't because everyone who played was a giant douche. This story is kind of rediculous.

[Independent_CA]

GOD F***ING DAMMIT LEAVE MY VIDEO GAMES ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously man, this is like one of my few escapes from reality that doesn't involve me being heavily intoxicated...at least not usually why can't they just let it be?!

I hate adults! And I'm saying this as a 21 year old.

Parents like this need to be sedated.

OH AND

This is my first post and basically first visit back here since Aug 14, 2006 so like...get excited or something. Figures it'd be video games that get me to break my silence. Who's still here from the old crew, anyone?

[TheDarkHorse]

bassrevelation was permed. I am he :wave:

[Independent_CA]

Hahaha, why'd you get permed?

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

lifestyle choice, hair is paramount

[CrossTheBreeze]

Police officials also forced the student to delete the map and uninstall Counter-Strike from his computer.
oh no, say it ain't so..... SAY IT AIN'T SO!

Dude I can't believe they are preventing him from graduating because certain individuals arrived at silly conclusions based on their overall ignorance and inability to use common sense