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Los Angeles, CA: Police interrupt Hugh Hefner during a game of backgammon at the Playboy Mansion, investigating reports of shots being fired. (source)
Macon, GA: 18 year old accidentally shoots his 17 year old cousin in the chest while moving a gun during a card game. (source)
Bull Bay, Jamaica: Man pulls gun on police when they interrupt his dominoes game, and gets fatally shot. (source)
Dover, DL: Former trooper sentenced to six years for robbing a weekly poker game with two other men. (source)
Cambridge, MA: One man punches another who tries to take his Yu-Gi-Oh cards while playing in a store (the other claimed they were his cards. (source)
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Finally! A hobby market game makes Weekly Game Criminal Roundup. I was starting to worry that us geeks didn’t get worked up enough about our games. I mean, it’s one thing to get into a flame war on BGG, but another thing entirely to be roused to physical violence. Maybe this is the first step towards mainstreaming CCG’s?
Eh. Yu-Gi-Oh is about as mainstream as you can get.
Ok. Ok. You got me. Yu-Gi-Oh is as mainstream as a CCG is going to get. Still, I want to see shootings in Weekly Game Criminal Roundup when a DM kills off someones favorite magic user or someone flames Pandemic on BGG. That would be some cool game crime is all I’m trying to say! :)
You “want to see” that? Ummmmm….
Merely that it would be an interesting change of pace from the usual poker, craps, and dominoes -related game violence. ;)