Guy chokes a kid after being made fun of in Black Ops, we’re … upset | Joystiq
We read in horror today the story of Mark Bradford, a 46-year-old, jobless father of three from Plymouth, Devon (UK). After being killed and then taunted by a 13-year-old opponent in Call of Duty: Black Ops, Bradford tracked down his teenage opponent (in real life) and proceeded to mercilessly choke him. The attack was luckily thwarted by the teen’s mother and Bradford later admitted to one count of assault.
The author of the Joystiq article, Justin McElroy (their most hilarious writer), proceeded to talk about how horrible this was. Then, after the break, he made a joke about having to hide this from his boss before praising the man.
We hope shithead kids tell stories in hushed whispers about Mark Bradford. “No, no, he came for my friend Danny! He teabagged him like 40 times and like 30 minutes later, an eight-foot-tall guy in a trench coat shows up and made him eat 40 tea bags … at gunpoint. It’s true!”
I can’t believe he’d write that! Note that I don’t think he believes it was right. I’m pretty surprised though, not at the fact that people would joke about this but that Joystiq would publicly. Yet another reason to keep Joystiq as your source of video game news!