Woman Kills Baby For Interrupting Farmville Session

[charlie and algernon]

A 22 year-old woman from Jacksonsville, Florida has pleaded guilty to killing her baby son over a game of...Farmville.

Alexandra V. Tobias says her three-month old child, Dylan Lee Edmondson, had been crying while she was trying to play the popular Facebook casual game. This angered Tobias, who told authorities that she shook the baby, had a cigarette to calm herself down, then shook him again. It's believed he "may have hit his head during the shaking".

Dylan's death was classified as second-degree murder, a charge that carries the possibility of a life sentence in prison.

http://kotaku.com/5675176/woman-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville-session


:wtf:

[HopeHoops]

1. You know your online social status sucks when a Farmville pig de-friends you.

Seriously though, that's just a really sick story.

[charlie and algernon]

3. This is the dark side of "The Social Network"

I have a feeling we'll be seeing a documentary or some thesis in a Psychology journal detailing how facebook got a millions of people around the world to sit at their computers and click their mouse all day long.

I got sucked into Mafia Wars for a few months, but I finally realized how stupid it is just to click a mouse to see a page pop up saying I just killed someone. I broke out of it, but there are millions who can't. I have facebook friends who are adult parents and their facebook walls are covered with those game notices and achievements. They must be every free moment playing those "games."

[HopeHoops]

4. Think they'll tuck in a chapter about DU?

:evilgrin:

[charlie and algernon]

6. Hell, Ken Burns could do one of his 9 part documentaries on Internet addictions.

And I think he can fit in a section on DU, lol!

[snooper2]

2. And people say GTA should be done away with..

Farmville...killed your kid over farmville...

Bet this girl had real good parenting herself :eyes:

[jmm]

5. I bet Farmville wasn't the only thing keeping her from being mother of the year. (n/t)

[blueamy66]

7. Farmville

I just don't get it.

[BuelahWitch]

9. Twenty years ago it would have been soap operas

or something else.

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