A man has been sentenced to life in prison after killing his partner, who’d become hooked on Grand Theft Auto.
Carol Cannom, 46, from Lincolnshire, installed a 37in plasma TV in the couple’s bedroom and would regally stay up to the wee small hours playing the game on a PlayStation 3, night after night.
But Cannom’s relationship …
It'll be interesting to see how GTA4 takes the blame for this one, as it was quite clearly at fault - the violent scenes in the game caused her to lose it and "go postal" on her husband.
Oh wait, that wasn't what happened at all was it... Carry on!
...that video games make people kill people.... obviously he subliminally took in the "evil kill-people suggestions" whilst sleeping as his partner played.... so the solution is obvious, ban violent video games!!!!!!
My pro-gaming agenda aside, I really feel sorry for the kid, nobody should have to go through that... on top of that the poor kid is probably in care now too... which sucks.
As sad as this story is - my sincere condolencies to the family of the deceased - I can't help but wonder what the anti-violent-game lobby will be saying. Are we to expect messages warning us that playing GTA (or similar) may seriously endager OUR lives?
If gamers state that the victim was harmless and only amusing herself the retort will be along the lines of: 'Oh, come on. This is an isolated case! It has no bearing on gamers being in danger.'
We'll just have to wait and see what is said now the boot is on the other foot.
I'm surprised he called the police. All he needed to do was get in his car, then drive outside of the flashing red/blue detection zone and he would have got away with it.
Playing games *in the bedroom*, all night? Sleep depravation is linked to mental disorders in recent studies. He could have just moved the screen to the living room though.
Look, if my missus wanted to stop up all night playing games I'd deal with it, if I really got sick of it i'd leave. This guy must have had something else on his mind in order to murder someone!
Look, I don't want to condone stabbings, but haven't we heard a lot about sleep deprivation in all the news about Guantanamo Bay?
Sleep deprivation causes irritability, delusion and aggression. The man must of gone a fair time without a full night's sleep -- surely some leeway should be given for this...?
...preferred gaming to sex, if we are to take yesterday's article seriously. That gives her hubby/boyfriend sufficient motive to bonk her in the more literal sense, yeah?
What's your evidence for that? The sweeping and pretty baseless conclusion one could draw from this is that playing computer games increases your chance of being murdered (indeed, this case will have increased the statistic by 1).
All I can sweepingly draw otherwise is the opposite of your conclusion - that *not* playing computer games make you violent. Either read the article properly, or shut up!
....headphones? Back when I lived with my folks I had a big-ass set of very high quality headphones (still have them, actually). I could play F.E.A.R. until the sun came up and they wouldn't hear a thing.
Well, unless I shouted "OW! EAT LEAD YOU FUCKER!" of course.
"Cannom ordered her partner out of the bedroom while she played on the PS3. Painter retreated to watch portable TV in a cold conservatory, the BBC reported."
Her playing was so bad that the third person in bed went to another room. Cannom, Palmer (hubby/boyfriend) and Painter!!
come on guys, you're slacking, you should know there is *always* a way to twist any story to fit with a government agenda:
if this game had been banned then she wouldn't have been playing it so this incident would never have happened and another life would have been saved, therefore banning violent games will save lives, think of the women!
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Man gets life for killing game-obsessed partner
A man has been sentenced to life in prison after killing his partner, who’d become hooked on Grand Theft Auto. Carol Cannom, 46, from Lincolnshire, installed a 37in plasma TV in the couple’s bedroom and would regally stay up to the wee small hours playing the game on a PlayStation 3, night after night. But Cannom’s relationship …
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Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 13:23 GMT
D@v3
proof at last #
violent games make people violent
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 13:23 GMT
Anonymous Coward
King sized bed? #
Regally stayed up? exactly how does one do that?
Paris because she's been regally seen to
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 13:23 GMT
Mike Fortey
Queen-like behavior? #
You mean 'regularly', I think.
Friday's liquid lunch consumed a little too keenly, was it?
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 13:23 GMT
Anonymous Coward
how do you play GTA like a king? #
that is all
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 13:23 GMT
Code Monkey
Regally? #
Sorry to get all typo-Nazi but shouldn't that be "regularly"?
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 13:23 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Regally or regularly? #
Although either works in this context, I suppose!
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 13:23 GMT
James
Pretty strong evidence then ... #
.. that playing violent computer games can be harmful to your health.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:33 GMT
Greg
The question is... #
...how's Jack Thompson going to spin this one then?
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Anonymous Coward
What happened to the lesser charge #
of impersonating a monarch?
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
MnM
Not Playing GTA Turns Men Into Murderers #
How can this be?
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Regal eh #
It's bad enough playing GT from a throne while wearing a crown, imagine how mad he would have been if she'd played the game regularly.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Daniel Wilkie
Hmmmm #
It'll be interesting to see how GTA4 takes the blame for this one, as it was quite clearly at fault - the violent scenes in the game caused her to lose it and "go postal" on her husband.
Oh wait, that wasn't what happened at all was it... Carry on!
Woohoo, it's Friday!
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Law
more proof... #
...that video games make people kill people.... obviously he subliminally took in the "evil kill-people suggestions" whilst sleeping as his partner played.... so the solution is obvious, ban violent video games!!!!!!
My pro-gaming agenda aside, I really feel sorry for the kid, nobody should have to go through that... on top of that the poor kid is probably in care now too... which sucks.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Alan
Spelling #
Did she regally sit up playing GTA, or regularly sit up playing GTA?
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Regally #
Sir with this AK - 47 your really spoiling us.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Andrew Williams
Regally? #
Did she really play the game in the manner of a monarch? Or do you mean "regularly"?
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Luis Ogando
Fated #
As sad as this story is - my sincere condolencies to the family of the deceased - I can't help but wonder what the anti-violent-game lobby will be saying. Are we to expect messages warning us that playing GTA (or similar) may seriously endager OUR lives?
If gamers state that the victim was harmless and only amusing herself the retort will be along the lines of: 'Oh, come on. This is an isolated case! It has no bearing on gamers being in danger.'
We'll just have to wait and see what is said now the boot is on the other foot.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Nic Gibson
And yet #
'frequently' would probably be the word they needed.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
MaXimaN
Poor tactics #
I'm surprised he called the police. All he needed to do was get in his car, then drive outside of the flashing red/blue detection zone and he would have got away with it.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Martin Lyne
Hmm #
Playing games *in the bedroom*, all night? Sleep depravation is linked to mental disorders in recent studies. He could have just moved the screen to the living room though.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Andrew
OMFG! #
Nutter kills somebody. Ban games! All of them!
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Steve
Anti-proof at last #
Since the culprit here was the one not playing the game, clearly we have here evidence that *not* playing violent games causes violent behaviour..
Steve.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Looking for an excuse? #
Look, if my missus wanted to stop up all night playing games I'd deal with it, if I really got sick of it i'd leave. This guy must have had something else on his mind in order to murder someone!
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Whatever happened to diminished responsibility? #
Look, I don't want to condone stabbings, but haven't we heard a lot about sleep deprivation in all the news about Guantanamo Bay?
Sleep deprivation causes irritability, delusion and aggression. The man must of gone a fair time without a full night's sleep -- surely some leeway should be given for this...?
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
Gilbo
Blimey #
So now violent computer games are SO realistic they make an unconscious person lying next to you go on a murderous rampage?
Shame she wasn't playing the PC version. They would have had 3 more children by now.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:34 GMT
ooFie
Regally.. #
ah more engrish speaking learnt from Kim Jong-il off Team America - World Police.
arh erro!
*\. yeah I would of stabbed her too, Saints Row 2 is a much better game.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Jonathan
Addiction #
Goes to show how addiction can be bad for your health....
Anyone notice the age difference?
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Adverb? #
Regally used as an adverb. i.e. she stayed up in a regal manner?
Still, more proof of violent games being 'bad' for oneself. Ban them all, we should all be playing with furbies!
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Rog69
Good Behaviour. #
If he behaves himself in prison he'll get a Playstation in his cell.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Another one bites the dust #
Addiction claims another life.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Colin MacLean
Regal confusion #
Maybe she held the joypad with her pinkies sticking out?
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Regally played GTA IV? #
She gently waved to the assembled crowds before ordering her guards to steal their wallets?
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Lionel Baden
i can see the warnings .... #
Playing this can affect the people around you ........
lol
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Martin Glenn
Violent games my ar*e #
@ D@v3
Although it was the non-player of the game that comitted the crime, so by that understanding everyone should be playing games to better themselves?
A bit of Grand Therapy Auto, or Or maybe a line in Niko (tine) patches to beat the cravings
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Lol Whibley
you must enjoy #
trolling the typo-tards..
that aside, get counceling or play co-op.. don't be a 1-st person voyuer.. it'll end in tears.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Nate
She probably... #
...preferred gaming to sex, if we are to take yesterday's article seriously. That gives her hubby/boyfriend sufficient motive to bonk her in the more literal sense, yeah?
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Response to D@v3 #
It was the other person you stabbed the person who was playing Dave you muppet
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Aaron
Well that's a shock #
Y'know, I figured it'd be the woman killing the man. Isn't it usually, in stories like these?
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Jim Coleman
I clear cut case of... #
...NOT playing violent video games turning you into a killer.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 14:36 GMT
Chris N
Attacked with two knives? #
Surely he could have waited for the next mission and he would have got the Uzi.
errr maybe I'm confusing GTAiv life with real-life :-\
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 22:03 GMT
Anonymous Coward
@ D@v3 #
What's your evidence for that? The sweeping and pretty baseless conclusion one could draw from this is that playing computer games increases your chance of being murdered (indeed, this case will have increased the statistic by 1).
All I can sweepingly draw otherwise is the opposite of your conclusion - that *not* playing computer games make you violent. Either read the article properly, or shut up!
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 22:03 GMT
Craig
How considerate... #
“The couple’s son called for an ambulance, but Palmer grabbed the phone and told emergency operators: “I’m sorry. I think I’ve killed her.””
“Let me just make sure, we don't want to be a burden on the ambulance service...”
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 22:03 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Review Finder #
I love the way the review finder defaults to gaming for this story. No sense of irony whatsoever.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 22:03 GMT
Greg
Why didn't she just use... #
....headphones? Back when I lived with my folks I had a big-ass set of very high quality headphones (still have them, actually). I could play F.E.A.R. until the sun came up and they wouldn't hear a thing.
Well, unless I shouted "OW! EAT LEAD YOU FUCKER!" of course.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 22:03 GMT
D@v3
@Arron and Martin Glenn #
Read again...
"violent games make people violent"
Doesn't say that..
Playing violent games, makes the players violent.
Think.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 22:06 GMT
raving angry loony
proof? #
Thus proving that GTA and other violent video games do, in fact, cause people to become violent.
Just not those playing them.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 22:06 GMT
Chris Booth
Threesome! #
"Cannom ordered her partner out of the bedroom while she played on the PS3. Painter retreated to watch portable TV in a cold conservatory, the BBC reported."
Her playing was so bad that the third person in bed went to another room. Cannom, Palmer (hubby/boyfriend) and Painter!!
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 22:06 GMT
Seán
How considerate #
As a GTA4 addict it's how she would have wanted to go.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 22:06 GMT
DJ
And is this all? #
From the article: "Palmer, who admitted to the murder, will spend at least 14 years behind bars before being considered for parole."
14 years for killing another human being? Seems a bit cheap, doesn't it?
How about: "You get out as just soon as she's no longer dead."?
No wonder people do things like this.
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 23:50 GMT
Mike
well #
come on guys, you're slacking, you should know there is *always* a way to twist any story to fit with a government agenda:
if this game had been banned then she wouldn't have been playing it so this incident would never have happened and another life would have been saved, therefore banning violent games will save lives, think of the women!
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