# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/61 "2004-08-12T22:33:51Z")
> [@Boyo Jim](#): > > Actually, I think that whole gang should share a single small and isolated cell for the rest of their lives. They can experience a life of finger pointing and screaming rages as they endlessly revisit the question of “Whose dumbshit idea was THAT?” Oh, yes, I like this idea. And could the cell be papered with large crime-scene photos, so they don’t forget just what it was that they did? ---
**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 12, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/62 "2004-08-12T22:52:35Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > Oh, yes, I like this idea. And could the cell be papered with large crime-scene photos, so they don’t forget just what it was that they did? I’ll pay for the pics. ---
**Author:** ![Heppie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@Heppie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heppie)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/63 "2004-08-13T01:27:34Z")
This actually happened about a half mile from my house. Erin Belanger was the main target of this violence and the one beaten so severely that even dental records were not able to identify her. She lived at the scene of the murders. Her grandparents have a winter home somewhere else here in town. Erin went to her grandparent’s house to use the pool a few weeks back and found Victorino and others had broken in and were living there illegally. She gathered up the things the squatters left (clothing and xbox), took them back to her house and contacted the authorities. Apparently there were several incidents between Erin and Victorino between then and the murders, the police were called seven times if I remember correctly. As has already been stated, this asshat should not have even been out in society. What they did to those people (and the dog) is just plain sick. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/64 "2004-08-13T06:32:46Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I’m sure the question of sanity is going to be raised by the sleazoid’s lawyers. Would a sane person beat someone beyond recognition over a videogame? For Victorino, it probably wasn’t about the video game; it was probably about keepin’ it real. Not that a sane person would take keepin’ it real this far either, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/65 "2004-08-13T10:47:26Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I’m sure the question of sanity is going to be raised by the sleazoid’s lawyers. Would a sane person beat someone beyond recognition over a videogame? I don’t know why this bothers me but it does. Why would it be more understandable if it were for drugs? Or some insult? What cash value would make a murder ‘reasonable’ in our eyes? ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887/66 "2004-08-13T15:20:32Z")
> [@Lady Ice](#): > > 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. What? No. _I_ was the one committing the grievous sin of hijacking, by asking you your location instead of responding to the thread. You didn’t hijack anything. Anyway, this is the pit, so: those worthless, stupid, idiotic, shit-for-brains, goat-felching utter wastes of useful organic chemicals can fellate the skeleton of my dead great-great-grandfather. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-please-im-outta-here-people-killed-over-xbox/258887.md?page=3)