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Posted by: The Canterbury Tail Mar 7 2007, 12:17 PM
Just what we need, and they mentioned Shadowrun by name in their defence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6425333.stm
Posted by: Angelone Mar 7 2007, 12:23 PM
Wow, Underwear huh? As sad as the excuse is he'll probably get off (pun unintended). I don't think there'll be any roleplaying or Shadowrun backlash for this because well, it's too damn silly.
EDIT- Besides what kind of runner robs an underwear shop? Not counting that diamond underwear monstrosity.
Posted by: cristomeyers Mar 7 2007, 01:49 PM
| QUOTE (Angelone) |
| Wow, Underwear huh? As sad as the excuse is he'll probably get off (pun unintended). I don't think there'll be any roleplaying or Shadowrun backlash for this because well, it's too damn silly. |
No more so than all the other idiots that do something stupid and try to blame the games they play. Remember when Dungeons and Dragons was considered a Satanic cult?
I mean, honestly, I've been playing Adnd for years now, and Satan STILL won't return my calls.
Posted by: Cray74 Mar 7 2007, 02:02 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6425333.stm
"A man accused of a stealing underwear from a shop in a knifepoint raid believed he was a female elf at the time, Belfast Crown Court has heard. ... He told defence counsel Anthony Cinnamond that within his small social circle he had been participating in a game known as Shadowrun. "
Joy.
[edit]Drat: Missed being first by 2 hours.
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=16849
Topic Merged from SR4
Posted by: Cray74 Mar 7 2007, 02:15 PM
| QUOTE (cristomeyers) |
| Remember when Dungeons and Dragons was considered a Satanic cult? |
It still is considered Satanic in some quarters.
http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=603
Posted by: cristomeyers Mar 7 2007, 02:37 PM
| QUOTE (Cray74 @ Mar 7 2007, 08:15 AM) | ||
It still is considered Satanic in some quarters. http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=603 |
Probably the same people sending their 8 year old daughters to "Purity Balls"...
Because if there's one thing your 8 year old daughter needs to worry about, it's sex and abstinence.
Posted by: nezumi Mar 7 2007, 03:16 PM
Hahaha!! Awesome. Nothing gets attention better than being a legal item implicated in criminal behavior.
I wonder what kind of run he was on that he felt he had to steal bras? Then again, he was playing a female, maybe he thought he couldn't buy them since he was SINless and his fixer wasn't answering.
Posted by: HullBreach Mar 7 2007, 03:29 PM
LOL, I cant wait to see the version they do of that old 'darkest dungeons' comic for this!
Posted by: PBTHHHHT Mar 7 2007, 03:45 PM
So he was larping... in Shadowrun? ... as a female elf...? Ugh.
Posted by: Blade Mar 7 2007, 04:00 PM
| QUOTE (Cray74) |
| It still is considered Satanic in some quarters. http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=603 |
| QUOTE |
| In D&D even lawful good characters kill many other human characters in the name of duty to eradicate evil. |
Fanatic and racist...
Posted by: HullBreach Mar 7 2007, 04:01 PM
Oh god Fark got ahold of this, some of the forum posts about it are a scream! Heres the link:
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2655470
Posted by: Lazerface Mar 7 2007, 04:53 PM
| QUOTE (Angelone) |
| EDIT- Besides what kind of runner robs an underwear shop? Not counting that diamond underwear monstrosity. |
http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_pictures/compdiff/lingerie.jpg
Posted by: Jestercat Mar 7 2007, 05:20 PM
...wonderful. Just what we need.
Anybody taking wetwork? This guy needs to disappear. 
Posted by: fistandantilus3.0 Mar 7 2007, 05:27 PM
Double Thread. Topics merged. Have a nice Day. Don't rob any underwear stores.
Posted by: nezumi Mar 7 2007, 06:19 PM
Wow, you can do that?? Awesome!
Posted by: Witness Mar 7 2007, 06:36 PM
I look forward to reading a sly reference to this wonderful story in some future sourcebook.
Although it might not do "Beho's" sanity much good.
Posted by: John Campbell Mar 7 2007, 07:50 PM
| QUOTE (cristomeyers) |
| Probably the same people sending their 8 year old daughters to "Purity Balls"... |
That term always makes me picture giant hamster balls to keep daughters in to keep them chaste.
Which would be both much less creepy and a lot funnier than what they actually are.
Posted by: imperialus Mar 7 2007, 08:11 PM
Fanpro so needs to publish this as 4th editions "food fight".
Posted by: cristomeyers Mar 7 2007, 08:13 PM
| QUOTE |
| That term always makes me picture giant hamster balls to keep daughters in to keep them chaste. Which would be both much less creepy and a lot funnier than what they actually are. |
Agreed. I saw that report on the news about these Purity Balls and I literally shuddered and the creepiness.
"Come on sweetie, promise daddy you'll be pure."
:shudder:
Posted by: ShadowDragon8685 Mar 7 2007, 08:16 PM
| QUOTE (John Campbell) | ||
That term always makes me picture giant hamster balls to keep daughters in to keep them chaste. Which would be both much less creepy and a lot funnier than what they actually are. |
This begs for a photoshopping.
Posted by: Kyoto Kid Mar 7 2007, 11:45 PM
He also said it "could be right" that Beho had intended to rob the shop - although he told the jury he could not remember what was going through his mind at the time.
...maybe one of his "chummers" could have helped the court by casting a Mindprobe on him.
Posted by: Lazerface Mar 7 2007, 11:59 PM
Is mindprobe admissable in the Tir na Nog court system?
Posted by: knasser Mar 8 2007, 12:22 AM
| QUOTE (The Canterbury Tail) |
| Just what we need, and they mentioned Shadowrun by name in their defence. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6425333.stm |
I'm sorry folks. I just... I don't know what came over me. I guess I'd been stuck as GM so long...
Posted by: Thane36425 Mar 8 2007, 01:43 AM
| QUOTE (Cray74) | ||
It still is considered Satanic in some quarters. http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=603 |
I got in a lot of trouble with the school officials for playing D&D in the 1980's. It didn't help that after a couple of negative stories in the press that some of the losers on campus took up the game, or pretended to, and made even bigger asses of themselves than usual, just to get attention and be jerks. Wasn't all bad though: one of them got their original "white box" edition of the game, the very first edition, confiscated. I managed to get in the principal's office and "liberated" it. Now if I could only find it again after all this time.
Oh, it wasn't that that got me in trouble: they never figured that part out. One advantage of having a very good rep was that you could sometimes do things and, if not caught red handed, no one would even suspect you were involved. No, they just got after me for playing the game in the first place, said it was corrupting or something like that. Wanted me to take up sports. Sure, I could give up D&D and hang out with a bunch of High School athletes with their DUIs, assault charges and who knows what all else. Thanks, but no.
Posted by: Wounded Ronin Mar 8 2007, 02:47 AM
I blame this incident on SR4.
Posted by: Squinky Mar 8 2007, 03:02 AM
Man, I bet that guy always gets the extra Karma for good roleplaying.
Posted by: PBTHHHHT Mar 8 2007, 06:43 AM
I like my games with less larp... 
sorry, that sounded just like a beer commercial, I had to say it. 
Posted by: Kyoto Kid Mar 8 2007, 08:25 AM
| QUOTE (Wounded Ronin) |
| I blame this incident on SR4. |
...yeah, he never would have been able to enter the shop before it closed under SR3 vehicle rules (providing he drove of course).
Posted by: Crakkerjakk Mar 8 2007, 09:10 AM
Buuuuurn......
Also, LARPers are effing weird.
That is all.
Posted by: hyzmarca Mar 8 2007, 01:40 PM
If Beho was a female elf then she must have been a lesbian; its a rule.
He was probably hoping to LARP a touching romantic dimly-lit 80s/90s-action-movie gratuitous sex scene with the other lesbian elf played by an actual lesbian, but went insane when he came to understand that lesbianism doesn't work that way.
Posted by: Cray74 Mar 8 2007, 01:42 PM
He's been convicted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6430683.stm
2 jurors bought the defense, 10 said it was BS.
His claims were supported by consultant psychiatrist Dr Jane O'Neill who told the court she thought that Boyd may have been dissociated from reality.
However her opinion was directly contradicted by consultant psychistrist Dr Frederick Brown.
He said he could find nothing to suggest that Boyd was suffering from a mental disorder that prevented him from distinguishing between fantasy and reality.
Posted by: hyzmarca Mar 8 2007, 02:11 PM
I do hope the the rest of his team gets some heavy weapons together and breaks him out of jail in a daring daytime assault.
Posted by: nezumi Mar 8 2007, 03:34 PM
| QUOTE (PBTHHHHT) |
| I like my games with less larp... |
And more NERPS!
Posted by: Kyoto Kid Mar 8 2007, 03:39 PM
| QUOTE (hyzmarca) |
| I do hope the the rest of his team gets some heavy weapons together and breaks him out of jail in a daring daytime assault. |
...but if they are familiar with Celtic Doublecross, they better not shoot a copper or they will be hunted down and summarily executed. I know, that was one of the shortest lived PCs I ever had (& she was the only decker with no gun skill).
Posted by: Trigger Mar 8 2007, 04:53 PM
| QUOTE (nezumi) | ||
And more NERPS! |
Nom nom....good ol' delicous NERPS, they do a PC good....when the PC in question is MacGuiver....
Posted by: flowswithdrek Mar 8 2007, 07:26 PM
Feck i've been looking for some fellow runners since i moved to belfast, glad i didnt hook up with this guy. Ive been trying to coax some skeptical friends to have a go at Shadowrun and now this happens. It is hailarious though
Posted by: Meriss Mar 9 2007, 04:33 AM
One of the admins on another (Warhammer 40k) forum site brought this up to those of us trying to carve out a PbP game. Sigh some peoples children, honestly. BTW LOL
Posted by: Smiley Mar 10 2007, 01:54 AM
Pfffft. He shoulda been playing a PhysAd. He might've gotten away with it.
Posted by: Wounded Ronin Mar 10 2007, 07:52 AM
If I were his GM I'd buy an animatronic troll figure, wind it up, and send it walking into the jail and claim that I'd hired a troll runner to rescue him.
Posted by: signoftheserpent Mar 10 2007, 09:03 AM
Great, another reason for people to laugh at gamers. Just what we need. This guy is a complete idiot. I hope his friends/group disown him, this is the last thing idiots like this should be doing as gamers.
Posted by: tisoz Mar 10 2007, 01:27 PM
| QUOTE (Wounded Ronin) |
| If I were his GM I'd buy an animatronic anatomically correct troll figure, wind it up, and send it walking into the jail |
There, fixed it for you.
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