Tuesday, November 18, 2008

I stuck to reading the online news for less than 15 minutes

Title just a pun from Hwei's. Anyway, the block is un-blocked already. Came across this news on the Net about a woman who was jailed for 'killing' virtual husband. What's with the 'killing' you ask? Well, this is a cut-short story of the whole incident...

They both met in a famous online game, Maple Story (Yeah, that cute I-kill-snails-to-level-up game) and over the past 2 years Maple Story developed a system where you could marry and stuff.


A very fair fight indeed.


Geng Yi and Grace?


One day, the woman logs on to the game just to find out she has been divorced by the husband! Without letter and lawyer informing some more! "How can!" she says. So instead of consulting a lawyer (maybe they were busy with exams), she took matter into her own hands.

What she did was she logged on to her ex-online-husband and killed the character. How she killed I don't know, since the characters are usually reborn after dying, just that there will be a deduction in experience points (to level up). When the poor man logged on his account, he realised his ex-online-wife killed him! So poor man became angry man and reported to the police about this. Then angry woman became poor woman when she was arrested by the police and if convicted, will either face up to 5 years in prison or fined US$5000.

The world is getting crazy don't you think so? Next thing you know wife sues husband for commiting online adultery.

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