Gamer kidnapped, tortured for password

barefoot serpent · 08-01-2007, 02:40 PM

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Gang kidnaps top RPG player

Tortures him for his password

By Nick Farrell: Monday 23 July 2007, 07:36

AN ARMED gang of four kidnapped one of the world's top RPG gamers and psychologically tortured him for five hours to get his passwords.
According to Gizmodo, the gang used one of their girlfriend's as a honey trap to entice the bloke who is apparently a world leader in the game Gun Bound.

After he turned up in a shopping centre in Sao Paulo expecting a date with a real life girl, the player found the gang led by a bloke called Igor and he was kidnapped. Apparently the plan was to sell the password for $8,000. After five hours they could not break the will of the hostage who apparently would rather risk death than hand over his passwords.

In the end they let him go. The Brazilian police then caught the four suspects, aged 19 to 27.

People -- be careful where you buy your passwords

Uisge Beatha · 08-01-2007, 02:45 PM

Day-um! Somebody is taking their gaming a touch too seriously.

How much do you want to bet his passwords were easily guessed (like a birthday) anyhow?

Shawnee123 · 08-01-2007, 03:05 PM

His password was "pleasedontbeatme".

Nice sig line, UB.

Uisge Beatha · 08-01-2007, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Nice sig line, UB.

Thank you, ma'am. It's all part of the show.

Bullitt · 08-01-2007, 07:10 PM

Damn that's just crazy. I used to play that game a couple years ago.. people were wayyy too hardcore about it. The game is like second life in that you can use you own cash to buy points in the game and buy upgrades and stuff. So the guy probably has a good sum of $$ invested in there.

DanaC · 08-01-2007, 08:09 PM

Man....that's like, serious grief playing.

elSicomoro · 08-02-2007, 12:44 AM

I'm going to stick with my passive PS2 playing, thanks.

richlevy · 08-02-2007, 08:52 PM

Hmmm, 'psychologically tortured', like making him play an Atari 2600 with a broken controller?

elSicomoro · 08-02-2007, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by richlevy

Hmmm, 'psychologically tortured', like making him play an Atari 2600 with a broken controller?

Or playing a game that requires the paddles with a joystick.

Uisge Beatha · 08-02-2007, 09:03 PM

That's rich, rich.

Rexmons · 08-02-2007, 10:29 PM

*ahem

08-01-2007, 03:05 PM	#3
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	His password was "pleasedontbeatme". Nice sig line, UB. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

08-01-2007, 07:10 PM	#5
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	Damn that's just crazy. I used to play that game a couple years ago.. people were wayyy too hardcore about it. The game is like second life in that you can use you own cash to buy points in the game and buy upgrades and stuff. So the guy probably has a good sum of $$ invested in there. __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass.

08-02-2007, 08:52 PM	#8
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Hmmm, 'psychologically tortured', like making him play an Atari 2600 with a broken controller? __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

08-02-2007, 10:29 PM	#11
Rexmons - Kavkaz United - Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 613	*ahem __________________ "Life's a bitch but God forbid the bitch divorce me..."

08-01-2007, 02:45 PM	#2
Uisge Beatha Lecturer Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 945	Day-um! Somebody is taking their gaming a touch too seriously. How much do you want to bet his passwords were easily guessed (like a birthday) anyhow?

08-01-2007, 08:09 PM	#6
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Man....that's like, serious grief playing.

08-02-2007, 12:44 AM	#7
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	I'm going to stick with my passive PS2 playing, thanks.

08-02-2007, 09:03 PM	#10
Uisge Beatha Lecturer Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 945	That's rich, rich.

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