Posted by CmdrTaco ( 39% noise) View brown-eyed slug writes “The BBC is reporting what is claimed to be Britain’s first “web-rage” attack. A man drove seventy miles to assault his victim with a pick-axe handle after they exchanged insults in a Yahoo! chat room. From the article Det Cons Christopher Creagh, of the Metropolitan Police, said: “This is the first instance of a web-rage attack.” Det Sgt Jean-Marc Bazzoni, of Essex Police, added the case demonstrates the importance of protecting one’s identity on the internet. “Mr Jones had posted pictures of his family on the web and had chatted to Gibbons on an audio link,” he said. “It demonstrates how easily other users can put two and two together and also shows how children could also find themselves in danger.”” Dog bites man - by MikeRT (Score: 5, Interesting) Thread “Psycho attacks man over perceived slight” is the dog bites man story no matter how you wrap it up for media consumption. The man bites dog story would be “Psycho drives 70 miles to clean man’s snowed-in driveway with a shovel after an online exchange.”    He’s psychotic, what did you expect? Him to drive up with a bouquet of fresh flowers for the women of the family and a bottle of Dom Perignon for the gentlemen to savor over fine Cuban cigars?    This is one reason why I plan to live in the South as long as I live in America. Most of the South is still relatively sane. Someone comes at you with any sort of axe, ice pick, knife, etc. you’re going to be hard-pressed to find a jury that will convict you for blowing their head off.    I read stories online all the time about youths beating up or murdering people in Britain and the police harassing the 50 year old Brit who asked them to just be quiet. Who are the psychos? The punk youths, the British cop and the institution he represents. I thought the definition of psychosis is a pathological inability to tell right from wrong, and last time I checked, state power harassing law-abiding British subjects set upon by violent punks is the definition of injustice—right and wrong!—making the British legal system technically psychotic. Ax-handle control NOW! - by The Fun Guy (Score: 5, Funny) Thread Police report that this guy owns not just one, but several ax-handles! He’s an ax-handle nut! I wish the ax-handle lobby would own up to the fact that these things are not just dangerous, but potentially DEADLY!    Effective ax-handle control legislation is long overdue! Think of the children! Won’t somebody please think of the children?!? - by proverbialcow (Score: 5, Insightful) Thread “It demonstrates how easily other users can put two and two together and also shows how children could also find themselves in danger.” …which, in turn, demonstrates why children should not be allowed unfettered access to the Net. Of course, it’s probably just easier to pass legislation than to watch what your kids are doing - that makes it somebody else’s problem. Children - by Tsunayoshi (Score: 4, Insightful) Thread also shows how children could also find themselves in danger.     Fucking great, he pulled the “think of the children” line…expect politicians to get involved and new laws passed to “protect the children”. Sanity - by otacon (Score: 5, Insightful) Thread This doesn’t have as much to do with the internet as they’d want you to think, I mean the guy drove 70 miles with an axe, obviously he wasn’t stable to begin with.