dudelovesFinch1035
20-01-2006 13:28:30
Something a bit more dramatic, may have made better viewing......
A 20-year-old US man killed himself live on a webcam on Bulgarian gamers' forum www.metalgearsolid.org, AFP and other agencies report. Mitchell "Mitch" Lee Stuekerjuergen, aka "Kuja105", reportedly swallowed antifreeze and pills "after complaining about family problems and a lack of money", forum administrator Boyan Georgiev told Bulgaria's BGNES news agency on Wednesday. Stuekerjuergen subesquently died on 4 January in hospital in Illinois.
A certain amount of controversy surrounds the whole sorry affair, with some claiming that other forum members "thought the man was joking, even though he rambled for six hours about the effects of the substances and disappeared from view several times", as AFP puts it.
Indeed, one indignant Slashdotter fumed yesterday "Pulling from the AFP newswire, Yahoo, CNN, and others have been reporting about how a gamer broadcast his own suicide on a gaming forum via a webcam, and that members of the forum continued to ridicule the gamer while he killed himself. Gaming Horizon has just learned that this is completely untrue. The newswire reporter failed to check the facts, and, in turn, painted this simple gaming forum as cruel monsters."
As a result of the suicide the forum was recently "pulled offline via the request of a government agency pending an investigation regarding the unfortunate passing of TUS forum member, Mitchell Stuekerjuergen", as a site statement notes.
It is now back online with a number of tributes to Stuekerjuergen
http//www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/webcam_suicide/
afro_wolff
20-01-2006 13:34:35
Holy hell....linky no work tho
Berky34
20-01-2006 13:46:06
[quotef63eed7920="dudelovesFinch1035"]try now[/quotef63eed7920]
nope theres a comma in it
xigxag
20-01-2006 14:16:21
i read an article that said the report of him doing it live on the forums was untrue, and many were upset about the way the story was presented. I dunno, I read the thread at gamefaqs, in the metal gear section where he also posted regularly.
ilanbg
20-01-2006 14:58:29
Why in hell would he do that?
tracemhunter
20-01-2006 15:28:19
humans are the strangest species on earth...
crazyates
20-01-2006 18:34:10
[quote694c9fdf5d="tracemhunter"]humans are the strangest species on earth...[/quote694c9fdf5d]
true....i don't understand it either....
i feel bad for him...commiting suicide is one thing...but doing it in front of people on a web cam is something different...