One of my favorite quotes from the 1995 Kevin Smith movie Mallrats is, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Sega.” Well, as an Italian father found out, hell also hath no fury like a teenage son who doesn’t want to hear your advice on how to properly play video game soccer. That’s what Fabrizio R. found out the hard way, when his 16-year-old son Mario went to the kitchen, picked up a 15-inch knife, and stabbed his father in the neck.
The quote of the article is this one from Monica, Mario’s mother. “Mario is obsessed. He’s forever playing on his PlayStation, and we bought him FIFA 2009 because we didn’t want him playing violent games.” It looks like it’s a little too late to discourage the boy from violence, don’t you think? Then again, the games don’t have to be violent to make the teenagers violent over them.
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