We live in, very much, a virtual world. We do our shopping online. We get our news online. We have, *gasp*, sex online. People even get married online. I guess it was only a matter of time before these online marriages result in the virtual murders of spouses by their scorned widows.
Here are some excerpts from the article:
"The woman, who has been jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his ID and password to log onto the popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in May, a police official in the northern city of Sapporo said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of department policy.
"I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry," the official quoted her as telling investigators and admitting the allegations."
(LOL...anonymity. I guess this is a ground breaking case and should be handled with care since future incidents will be dealt in reference to the precedents that this case will set. We wouldn't want to compromise the integrity of this serious investigation...would we?)
In virtual worlds, players often abandon their inhibitions, engaging in activity online that they would never do in the real world. For instance, sex with strangers is a common activity.
(Eye-opening!)
The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their characters were happily married to kill the character. The man complained to police when he discovered that his online avatar was dead.
The woman was arrested Wednesday and taken 620 miles from her home in southern Miyazaki to be detained in Sapporo, where the man lives, the official said.
(Only in Japan....)
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