# Check, please, I'm outta here. (people killed over Xbox) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 8, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887 "2004-08-08T15:38:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/21 "2004-08-09T13:47:19Z")
Well, it seems the ringleader has had a rap sheet that started 12 years ago when he was 15. I think the X-box was just an excuse. He’s a violent felon that never should have been released on probation. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/22 "2004-08-09T14:55:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Johnson called for all four to face the death penalty, although that usually is decided by a prosecuting attorney. I did see Johnson make this comment on the news, something to the effect that he felt this crime deserved the death penalty, more so than any other he’d ever seen. It was a pretty emotional statement for a sheriff to make on camera and surprised me a bit at first but they then added that at least one of the victims was beaten so severly that even dental records were of no use in trying to identify him. Thank goodness all these guys were caught. I see that Florida has reinstated the death penalty. Because of his violent past and the horrible nature of this crime, if Victorino is found guilty he’ll be quite lucky to escape it and just get life in prison. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/23 "2004-08-09T15:21:27Z")
A pop-up appeared on my computer shortly after I opened this thread informing me that I’d won a free X-Box game system. Yeesh! ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/24 "2004-08-09T15:56:29Z")
> [@SanibelMan](#): > > I’m gonna file this under “reasons to be glad I moved away from Florida.” Shouldn’t you be due for a name change, then? ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/25 "2004-08-09T16:00:03Z")
> [@furt](#): > > Shouldn’t you be due for a name change, then? Hmm, you might be right. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/26 "2004-08-09T16:03:19Z")
> [@Lady Ice](#): > > I heard about the killings, but I didn’t know it was over an Xbox. > > On a related note, get a look at this. > > [www.lsj.com/news/local/040807\_brother\_1b-2b.html](http://www.lsj.com/news/local/040807_brother_1b-2b.html) > > He supposedly killed his own brother over less than ten bucks. I think the parents need to take some of the blame for this one too, though – even if just for the way they named their sons: > [@](#): > > Printess Earl Jackson Jr., 28, was arraigned Friday in Lansing District Court on one count of murder in the death of Rahman Jackson, 26. I can hear their friends now: “What? Noodles got killed? And by the Princess?” ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/27 "2004-08-09T17:42:13Z")
> [@Lady Ice](#): > > I heard about the killings, but I didn’t know it was over an Xbox. > > On a related note, get a look at this. > > [www.lsj.com/news/local/040807\_brother\_1b-2b.html](http://www.lsj.com/news/local/040807_brother_1b-2b.html) > > He supposedly killed his own brother over less than ten bucks. Yo, Lady Ice, total hijack. You linked to the Lansing State Journal; does that mean you live in Lansing? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/28 "2004-08-09T18:03:38Z")
Anyone against executing these guys? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/29 "2004-08-09T18:47:34Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > Anyone against executing these guys? It’d me much crueller to lock 'em up for life… …with an Intellivision and three really lame cartridges. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/30 "2004-08-09T19:14:09Z")
> [@SPOOFE](#): > > Hey man, don’t fuck with a man and his \Halo\. Word. **SanibelMan** , if you’re in the market for a new username check my sig. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/31 "2004-08-09T19:56:28Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > It’d me much crueller to lock 'em up for life… > > …with an Intellivision and three really lame cartridges. Bwahahaha! How about a 2600 and _only_ the E.T. game? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/32 "2004-08-09T21:45:07Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > Bwahahaha! > > How about a 2600 and _only_ the E.T. game? Ya buncha goddamned bleeding heart liberals! 😃 Give 'em a Pong game with one controller. Oh yeah, and a severe beating everyday. Not enough to kill them, but pretty close. ---
**Author:** ![laigle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laigle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laigle)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/33 "2004-08-09T21:57:24Z")
Jesus. I can remember a brighter time in this country, when people only murdered each other for Nikes and leather jackets. These video games are destroying our culture! ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/34 "2004-08-09T22:04:35Z")
I wonder what the PS2 fanboys will do to one-up these dedicated X-Boxeers? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/35 "2004-08-09T22:47:20Z")
Ironic sequential threads btw Check, please, I’m outta here. (people killed over Xbox) Motherfuckers took our stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@Lady\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Ice)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/36 "2004-08-10T01:14:07Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Yo, Lady Ice, total hijack. You linked to the Lansing State Journal; does that mean you live in Lansing? Didn’t mean to hijack. Just thought it kind of was in tune with the subject and the whole “Florida is full of nutjobs” direction that the thread was going in. Nutjobs are everywhere and will kill over just about anything. I should have been clearer on that. Sorry. And yeah, I’m in Lansing. During the anthrax scare my location stated “In Bioports backyard”. Got a few comments on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/37 "2004-08-10T01:23:16Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > Anyone against executing these guys? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/38 "2004-08-10T01:53:52Z")
The suspects’ [probation officers](http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/09/fla.killing.probation/index.html) have been fired. > [@](#): > > Victorino, who was on probation for a 1996 violent crime, was arrested on July 29 on charges that he beat up a friend in a dispute over money – an arrest that should have sounded alarm bells with his parole officers, officials said. He posted $2,500 and was released shortly afterward. > > Department of Corrections Secretary Jim Crosby said parole officers were notified of the arrest July 30 and they should have filed a violation of probation report within 48 hours seeking an arrest warrant. ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/39 "2004-08-10T02:50:17Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > Word. > > **SanibelMan** , if you’re in the market for a new username check my sig. Hijack - if noone else wants it, I’ll take it. That’s a great suggestion… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/40 "2004-08-10T05:23:30Z")
These clowns are probably peering dully around their cells for a “restart” button. They want a do-over. Or at least some extra power, ammo, and armor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887.md?page=3)