Broken PlayStation murderer gets four years

[wraggster]

via joystiq

The High Court of Edinburgh, Scotland, has sentenced Alan Stirling to four years in prison for "culpable homicide" in the murder of a man who potentially broke his "computer" or "PlayStation" depending on who's talking. The BBC headline says PlayStation, the judge says PlayStation, but the reporter calls it a computer. So we're not sure if this is one of those cases where the brand name is tossed around to mean any console, like photocopies are Xerox and tissues are Kleenex.

Anyway, after a night of "drink and drugs" with friends at Stirling's apartment he awoke at 5 AM to the sound of one of his friends having knocked over the television, which apparently had the console on or near it. Stirling then repeatedly "punched and kicked" the man. He found the gentleman later in the lobby and attempted to help him, but it was too late. In this case, the BBC's headline of "Man kills friend over PlayStation" is just a tad misleading.

[SSaxdude]

Man, a new Playstation is a hell of a lot cheaper than the lawyer's expenses and lost working hours.

[Mr_Biggs]

this just goes to show that if you want to murder someone these days, make sure you dont have any handhelds on your person, and make sure there arent any consoles within 100 yards owned by either parties. otherwise you get headlines like this.

[ryan2006]

he only got 4 years fs

[dark heart]

he... killed someone over a playstation...
wow, that could be turned into good advertising. lol

[shadowprophet]

Oh this is just great. jack thompson will have a feild day with this.

[ICE]

PS3. Good enough to kill for!

[DarthPaul]

PS3. Good enough to kill for!

Hahahahahahaha!! Lmao!! Very funny.

But what the hell...This is serious. People is so terrible to date.

[Pilot_51]

I think the guy would be mad over anything broken that cost him a good chunk of money. The way I see it, it's the alcohol and drugs that resulted in him killing his friend, seeing how he tried helping him later when he was supposedly sober. Not only does it go to show that alcohol and drugs can easily get you in trouble, but that it can be fatal to your friends health (or yours).

As for the media and lawyers, there's no saving them from their stupidity.

[Basil Zero]

Oh this is just great. jack thompson will have a feild day with this.

not only that

but this person, he not only killed his friend over a machine of whatever it truly is, what makes me wonder more...

is why 4 years...for a homicide...