Be careful with your online wives - lol

TOKYO – A 43-year-old Japanese piano teacher's sudden divorce from her online husband in a virtual game world made her so angry that she logged on and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.

The woman, who has been jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in mid-May, a police official in northern Sapporo City said on condition of anonymity, citing 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.

The woman had not plotted any revenge in the real world, the official said.

She has not yet been formally charged, but if convicted could face a prison term of up to five years or a fine up to $5,000.

As in "Second Life" in the U.S., players in "Maple Story" raise and manipulate digital images called "avatars" that represent themselves, while engaging in relationships, social activities and fighting against monsters and other obstacles.

The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their characters were happily married, and killed the character. The man complained to police when he discovered that his beloved online avatar was dead.

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KGhaleon

I feel more strongly toward the man. Who the hell calls the police over an internet gaming dispute?

Clearly the man wasn't right in the head.

networker050184

KGhaleon wrote:

I feel more strongly toward the man. Who the hell calls the police over an internet gaming dispute?

Clearly the man wasn't right in the head.

I don't think either were right in the head.....

Mishra

Everytime an e-bully says 'you have no life' I'm linking this article to him.

But seriously, this happens all the time with other accounts and people stealing username/passwords for crap like WoW...

jbaello

networker050184 wrote:

KGhaleon wrote:

I feel more strongly toward the man. Who the hell calls the police over an internet gaming dispute?

Clearly the man wasn't right in the head.

I don't think either were right in the head.....

LAWL networker, people actually get married inside world of warcraft, see that part I didn't get, you can go to a church and dress up your avatar...

supertechCETma

I virtually could not care less. Get a second life

mamono

I've heard worse where it resulted in real life altercation. Here is one example.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-10025123-7.html?tag=mncol;posts

I've had friends that went through some rough stuff when something from the virtual world transfers over to the real world, its not pretty when that happens.

Kaminsky

W T F !

All of WoW, Everquest, Eve, Sims, etc are looking very nervous at this one. How the hell can this be a crime ?

My new sig: If I have offended anyone with my post, I do apologise. These are purely my own thoughts and, although taken on the spur of the moment, they were made with no malicious intent to any reader and were not meant to cause any discomfort, either mentally or physically, and were purely my own thoughts at the time of typing. I was not coerced into .......

Jevus !

Kaminsky

mamono wrote:

I've heard worse where it resulted in real life altercation. Here is one example.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-10025123-7.html?tag=mncol;posts

I've had friends that went through some rough stuff when something from the virtual world transfers over to the real world, its not pretty when that happens.

I would have paid real cash to see the look on the faces of those that discovered a dog duct taped into a bath to scare the ex partner on his return home and then trying to go for a shower....

Love dogs to bits but the look on their faces when they found that would have been priceless.