Virtual divorce leads to online murder

The Internet never ceases to amaze me and make me chuckle with its absurd bits and pieces of news. We've heard of real life couples facing problems because of addictive games. But this is a new kind of problem. Some dude happened to divorce his online wife's avatar in 'Maple Story', a Japanese virtual world which can be best described as similar to Second Life. Women have bad tempers and cannot handle rejection well, so the story was bound to get a little messy. The 43 year old piano teach who was suddenly divorced by her virtual husband was so consumed with rage that she dealt with it by killing his character. The man was so distraught over his online murder that he contacted the police and had the woman arrested. Melodrama! The piano teacher had used log in information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their characters were blissfully married, and killed the character. Hence, she is in big trouble and charged as she gained illegal access onto a computer and manipulated electronic data. The virtually divorced woman can face up to 5 years in prison and a fine of $5000.

All this over a silly online game! Next time try taking slow and deep breaths, woman. It works and avoids prison. Really, people need to get a life, a real life, not a virtual one. Oh and the phrase 'Till death do us apart' should be banned, because we know it leads to a lot of crazy killings!

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