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Grown Man Tracks Down And Chokes 13 Year-Old Black Ops Player

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by Dan Ryckert on September 30, 2011 at 06:15 PM
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We've all been annoyed by racist, homophobic, loudmouth teenagers on Xbox Live before, but a United Kingdom resident finally snapped and took his frustration to the kid's doorstep. 46 year-old Mark Bradford put up with a 13 year-old's online taunts for most of the day, but eventually lost it and tracked down the kid's home address.

When Bradford arrived, he choked the teen until the victim's mother arrived and broke up the scuffle. After the cops arrived and charged Bradford with assault, he remarked “[The kid] went on and on and I just lost it. I hold my hands up, I lost the plot. In a moment of madness I went round to his house. I didn't know what I was going to do.”

As a fan of online FPS games, it's hard to not empathize with Bradford's frustration. However, driving to a loudmouth Xbox Live player's house (no matter their age) with your chokin' mitts ready probably isn't the best course of action.

Source: WowNews via Joystiq

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  • by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:19 PM
    Fox news will just love this.
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:19 PM
    ...Wow thats why i avoid game chat whenever i can.
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:19 PM
    Why didn't the guy just rage quit the game.
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:20 PM
    awesome
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:21 PM

    For *** sakes.

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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:22 PM
    Now if the parents had properly spanked that child, it would not have been necessary to have a complete stranger choke him for being an idiot on live.
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:22 PM
    Why you little-!
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:22 PM
    *** it, Fox News will have a *** FIELD DAY with this.
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:22 PM
    thats messed up. I dont empathize with him at all
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:22 PM
    They say that a hero will save us I'm not gonna stand here and wait...
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:23 PM
    THIS HUMAN DESERVES TO BE DELETED
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:23 PM
    Really? Wow, so me in 30 years
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:23 PM
    meh, as long as little kids are allowed to play M rated games they will always talk smack to adults or for the fact anyone else lol. Overall its just a game both sides *the aduilt and the kid* should of treated it just as a game have fun insted of smack talk like a mad troll then get very upset and go out on a person hunt to get reveange. i hope this kinda also proves a point if you talk to much smack some of those threats you get back can be real. maybe this will cut down on the massive trolling and flameing.
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:23 PM
    One of several reasons i dislike Call of Duty games
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:23 PM
    i wonder if that kid will keep acting that same way on xbox live now.. hmm i don't agree with the man's actions in any way. but still, kid probally deserved a slap in the face for sure.
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:23 PM
    That would be the barbaric Celtic blood in his veins... Personally i applaud him, kids these days need to be taught respect the hard way, we can't take the cane to them anymore so choking the little twats is what we have to do!
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:24 PM
    CHOKE THE *** OUT OF HIM!!!! Thats the biggest problem with online Console play. Way more annoying kids on console then on PC. Especially halo and CoD
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:25 PM
    What creeps me out about this is that he actually went to the trouble of TRACING his IP address to find out where he was, DROVE over there, clearly intending to do something, and CHOKED him. Not beat up, but CHOKED him. This screams attempted murder to me. There is no way this wasn't premeditated... even still, I know where he's coming from :/ It's one of the many, MANY reasons I don't play Call Of Duty.
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:25 PM
    People, that's why the invented tools as mute, block and file complaint. Jesus as if the media needed more wood to burn us....
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    by Friday, September 30, 2011 at 06:26 PM
    one word-- MUTE
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