WoW player harrasses woman in-game, gets beat up by woman's husband IRL

[dmiller68]

Bronco Carson, a World of Warcraft player from Mexico, reported to police on Saturday that three men broke into his home and beat his arms with clubs and totalled his computer. The reason? Carson had been repeatedly ganking the WoW character of the wife of one of his assailants.

Carson reportedly told police that he had been "making it hard for her to get far in the game." The woman had already threatened Carson online, and Carson said that he had already been constantly harassed in-game two weeks prior to the attack.

And then Carson made the mistake of giving the woman his address, telling the woman that "if her husband was man enough to just come meet me to settle this."

The result? Carson got two broken fingers and a fractured wrist during the assault. His computer and entertainment center were also totalled by his three attackers before they left. "I knew that I might be messed with in the game but I didn't really expect her husband to come looking for me," said Carson. "I couldn't have been more wrong."

Now let this be a lesson to everybody. Taunting people behind the relative safety of the Internet may be fun, but don't be stupid enough to give out your real home address. If you do, then it's a whole new ballgame.

Has gaming gone too far, or stupidity... Who the heck gives thier address out to a person you have been a pain in the butt to?

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[Quo]

absolute stupidity. on both sides. Unreal.

What if the guy had been smart enough to give out, say, his dumbutt friend's address? Or the address of a former boss, etc.?

[Peench]

Wow. I agree, people shouldn't be harassing people online or offline. So big man online wasn't so big when people came in and worked him. I don't condone the behavior but the guy shouldn't have been a jerk online.

[grife]

du-du-du-dumbass

[Swagger]

i wish this would happen more often.

[BrewCityUpstart]

I woulda gave out Peench's address. Imagine the funny post the next day at PGL- "You know, the weirdest thing happened to me yesterday..."

[Lord Sam]

Originally Posted by Swagger

i wish this would happen more often.

I agree, this stuff is awesome!

[Serren]

Hopefully JoeSacto will post some of his WoW stories! Classic stuff.

[oldskoolluva]

Classic........................................... .............

[Desi Cuse]

LMAO

[Joe Sacto]

Originally Posted by Serren

Hopefully JoeSacto will post some of his WoW stories! Classic stuff.

Nah I was more old school than that, I played Everquest for many years.

Those mmorpg's are like a drug and SoE had me hooked! This guy that gave out his address is an idiot and deserves to be beaten. Seriously, he might as well get back online when he buys a new computer and tell people his credit card number.

[Gordon]

I guess he should have power-leveled so that he could defend himself.

Was he able to get back to his body for his equipment?

Did he lose any experience?

Where was the cleric and why were they not doing their job?

Gamn Guild gang-ups.

In any event I guess it goes to show that the husband was not man enough to do it by himself, which is why he needed his friends.

[Calypsi]

Funny thing is you can't be ganked in WoW unless you are on a PvP server. The guy was stupid to give his address but the woman was a retard to play on a PvP server and then bitch about being ganked over and over. Hello, thats an everyday occurance on PvP servers, its why they are flagged PvP and I would bet that that woman has repeatedly ganked people and just couldn't take it when it happened to her. Care bear players shouldn't play on PvP servers.