Snark, Critic and Pop!

A 46 year old man tracked down and choked a 13 year old boy after he had killed the man in Call of Duty: Black Ops and taunted him about it.  After going to the boys house, Mark Bradford choked him with both hands and left him with a scratch.  Bradford was arrested, admitted assault and will be sentenced on October 24th.  He seems a rather sympathetic character, and I hope he gets off on this one:

“I’d been playing the whole day and he was baiting me and just would not shut up. I just lost it. In a moment of madness I went round to the house. I didn’t know what I was going to do. It wasn’t malice. I just grabbed him. I’ve seen him since and apologised. The injuries weren’t that bad but I do regret it.”

Now the truth can be told: JFK, Nixon, Castro, and Robert McNamara fightin’ zombies in the White House. I’m not a video gamer, but I must tip my hat to the sheer awesomeness of this intro to Call of Duty: Black Ops: (continue reading…)