Comments on: UPDATE: Daniel Petric Convicted, Sentenced For Killing Mom Over Video Game

By: Imperfectly Me

Imperfectly Me — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:46:00 +0000

I was just so shocked being that I have lived in major and I do mean major cities before to find a city as small as Wellington mentioned was interesting to say the least …BTW kudos on the website it is an awesome albeit somewhat dark but very informative website.

Oh and one of those cities I haved lived in was the illustrious San Diego Cali, home to Andrew Cunanan (I know I probably spelled that wrong)

By: Max The Cat

Max The Cat — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:23:51 +0000

Small? Who’s small? I’ll have you know we are the second largest website with the initials PYSIH on the web.

LoL…Just kidding IM. I know how you feel. I live in a small city in Central Connecticut. There’s no more that 40,000 people living here, and in the past couple of years we’ve had two murder cases that made the national news, and not just a quick mention either. I’m talking days of coverage. One was the Petit Family home invasion/murders, and the other was the murder of a young college student by a stalker. I guess no matter where you go, you just can’t get away from this crap.

By: Imperfectly Me

Imperfectly Me — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:46:34 +0000

OMG!!! I have only been lurking for a couple of days now (posted twice but thats besides the point) I moved to Wellington last year it’s a little itty bitty town (no I do not know any of the people invovled) just didn’t think I would come across something happening somewhere I lived that is this small on a website like this…well it really is a small world.
And yes he deserves to burn in Hell for what he did

By: GameFreak982928

GameFreak982928 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:09:18 +0000

Sick fucking Bastards. Both him AND his Father if you ask me. I wouldn’t be surprised if he started driving a fuckin’ van with “Halo killed my wife and threw my son in jail” written on the side. The excuse for giving him such a short sentance (which, with my experience, he won’t be serving the full length of due to some stupid fuck up in the system)? “He doesn’t understand the severity of his crime.” If you don’t realise how serious it is to kill your own fuckin’ mother over a Video Game of all things, than you SHOULD be in jail for the rest of your life. Just you wait. We’ll be seeing this fucker in the headlines again in our lifetime, I guarentee it. Next time, though, his Father will probably be seen in another section also: The obituaries. Stupid fucker, Throw his ass in jail and cut your ties with him. He killed your wife, the love of your life, and tried to fucking kill you too, dumbass!! I don’t know who you think your son is, but whoever the hell he was when he was first learning to ride a bike or went on his first fishing trip with you, is GONE. He’s now a cold-hearted killer who wasn’t sorry at ALL for what he did to his mother, YOUR WIFE, and he tried to keep you from getting help! Remember when your daughter was outside, and he kept telling them to go away? Remember when he put the gun in your hand and tried to frame you for killing your own wife?! Remember when he stole the van and, as a final act, ran off WITH THE GAME?! Think about it!! He cares more about a FUCKING GAME than he does getting his dying father! And Sir, let me make it PERFECTLY CLEAR that Video Games didn’t make him do this: I have over $7000 worth of video games, and I never so much as shoved anyone in my life, yet alone glare into my mothers face with cold, dead eyes and Consciously pull a trigger and blew her brains out.

I’m sorry what happened to the mother, and I’m sorry that the father and sister and her husband have to live with this terrible event. As for that fucker, I’m just about as sorry as he is: NOT AT ALL.

By: Galen

Galen — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:51:51 +0000

All of you have failed to look at this from a psychological perspective. This is called a case of a little something called “obsession” (aka: addiction), or an “act of passion”. When Humans become obsessed with objects, people, fantasies, etc… they act erratically when it’s taken away.

Examples:
Ex-lover kills ex and new lover in pre-meditated manner.
Killing over money-disputes.
With drugs or alcohol taken away, person becomes irrational and violent.
Religious zealot kills “perceived” enemies.

Children have done this many times before, including when their music/television/skateboarding/other obsessions are taken away. It is important to instill the idea that violence is never okay under any circumstance, and that obsessions must be avoided to help balance the mind. These two ideals combined will prevent a child from ever enacting what this one did (unless they have chemical imbalances).

It is impossible to call this boy evil. Evil assumes the boy enjoyed it and purposely caused harm to people for greedy goals. He is confused and psychologically unstable for reasons most of you cannot possibly comprehend, and only with extreme counseling may he possibly become “normal”.

It’s very animalistic behavior and needs to be looked after early in childhood by formulation of rules and protocols. Restricting hours of television-watching and being involved as a parent are extremely important. When your child watches a rated R movie, watch it with them. When your ten year old son wants to play a video game, set some ground rules for when/where it can be played and for how many hours. Preview the game yourself ahead of time. If its ESRB rating is 14+ and he’s 10, either don’t let him play it or make sure to watch him play it. Also, make them take breaks every hour or so. Make them go to the library a couple hours a day during the summer and subtly monitor them to ensure it’s happening, or send them to a friend’s house and ensure the friend’s parents don’t let them play video games together. The point is not to take away video games altogether, but to restrict a potential obsessions enough so they do not become obsessions and cause irrational behavior.

As for reprimands for not following guidelines, that’s a whole other story, but this really does come from improper (not “bad”, since that assumes the parents know it’s the wrong kind of parenting) parenting. The child is old enough to make his own choices, yes. Is he evil? No. Should he be locked up and given a large amount of counseling to help him adjust? Yes.

I have been a gamer since the age of 4 (I am 25 now), and was restricted enough during my childhood that I was prevented from becoming obsessed most of the time. If I started to show signs of obsession over a game, my parents would force me to stop playing. Now I healthily only play games for an hour or two a day because I learned a habit of moderation, thus causing me to become tired of the game after a certain amount of time has passed.

Hopefully this has been informative.

By: Lousy_David

Lousy_David — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:50:31 +0000

P.S. Games are not to blame…
Too many kids play video-games.
Not enough kill their parents for the game to be the blame.

I play video-games…A lot. Probably more than he did…My parents shall live.

By: Lousy_David

Lousy_David — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:48:13 +0000

I however, DO know him.
Sat two seats away from him in class the day it happened.
Didn’t like him that much. But never thought he’d do this. Everyone thought it was a joke when we found out about it. (We learned of this incident as early as 10 p.m. the night it happened. We were riding home from the away football game, the marching band was at least.) Quite the shocker for little Wellington.

Anyways…
Do I think his father is wrong to forgive him? No.
Do I think he’s wrong to try to lighten to sentence?
Hell-Freakin’ yes.
23 is all you get for murder plus attempted murder now? Pathetic.

Biggest problem in this case : They are involving “god.” A thing that nobody can prove exists. Let the law take over, (as it is doing)and leave it at that.

By: ApriL

ApriL — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:59:49 +0000

I remember when this happened, tons of people were/are quick to point the finger at the game. IMHO, it wasnt the game it was him. If he liked to skate, be on the internet, telephone whatever, if his parents took away whatever he got off on it probably would have been the same thing. My Grandmother used the tactic of taking away whatever we loved dearest and that was our punishment. I had my make up taken away (in high school) i hated it but it worked, my sister was a phone talker and had that taken.. i know how frustrating it can be to have something you are somewhat addicted to taken away… so i dont think games are to blame.