Man chokes kid over Black Ops(WTF)

In Plymouth, England a 46 yr old man lost to a 13 yr old kid in an online Call of Duty Black OPS game and the kid called him names and was taunting him. So the 46yr old man found the kid's address and began to choke him, but the mom stopped the 46yr old and he is now charged with assault.
here is the link to read the article http://games.ign.com/articles/119/1197534p1.html

Ahhh, video games and real life violence. They surely go hand in hand.

First thing that came to my head.

The 46 year old dude couldn't accept Defeat, and decided to choke the kid in real life LOLZ

Lol, I thought of the same thing when I read about this on G4.

I read about this on Kotaku and laughed pretty hard.

How the hell did he find his address? If this guy had to get in his car and travel for a few hours just to find the kid's house and choke him...wow. I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often

Considering some of the people I run into online this needs to happen more often. Maybe some people will learn to respect others better instead of running their mouths.

^This

I'm pretty sure the kid deserved it. There is a reason why the game is rated Mature... Funny how most of the players are anything but.

I'm surprised they don't have a system in place for banning accounts from playing age restricted games till they reach the right age.

Easy.

Profit loss.

Many video game publishers begrudgingly agree to ESRB rating standards because it can directly affect their profit margins. Publishers don't want systems in place that restricts the sales and use of their video games because that is a potential loss of profit.

I didn't mean restrict sales I meant their gaming accounts they use for online I hear so many other reasons for banning people online I don't see why they don't do it with age as well till they reach the right age. I'm not saying a permanent ban just one that last as long till they are the right age. I'm suprized it isn't some thing that isn't mandatory by law though it probably has to do with how they make the laws they would go over the top with it and it would get declined.

Well for one, that isn't up to the publishers or developers to decide. It is up to Micosoft, Sony, and whoever hosts PC servers to decide.

Besides that, I imagine it is a very difficult process. I can't vouch for PC dedicated servers or Sony, but in Microsoft's case I can understand the difficulty. The report feature is so easily abused by users simply because they don't like the other user. Should Microsoft actually ban the majority of cheating/vulgar/etc reports they receive, there would hardly be anyone left on XBL.

Aside from that, there are implements to prevent minors (well in this case those under the age of seventeen) but it is up to the parents to restrict access to consoles and servers with a password, but most parents are too lazy to get involved and would rather just blame the providers. That, and what are the odds the kid could crack the code and login.

Bet that kid isn't gonna taunt anyone ever again, is he?

It's not that parents are lazy it's that they don't care either till some thing bad happens but won't see that they should of done some thing before hand.

That's what happen to kids when they taunt and call people names whenever they win a stupid game(like that DOTA crap),
Serves him right , i wish he gets traumatized by this event and learn his lesson.Just enjoy the game, don't brag too much and don't call people names.