Police: Video game rage ends with mom attacking kids - Polidicks

[release] [IMG]http://kpho.images.worldnow.com/images/16401404_BG1.jpg[/IMG] PHOENIX (KPHO) -A woman apparently upset her 5-year-old son was playing video games he got for Christmas was arrested on suspicion of choking him and threatening him and his 13-year-old sister with a butcher knife, Phoenix police said. Officers said they received a frantic 911 call Christmas night from a sobbing 13-year-old girl who said that her mother, Jutrina Tillman, had a butcher knife and was attempting to kill her and her little brother. The girl told officers that her mother had been drinking alcohol all night and was getting mad at her brother for playing video games he got as gifts. The mother slammed the game console on the floor and picked up the boy by his arm, dragging him into his bedroom and slamming the door, according to the girl's account she gave to police. The girl said she heard her brother screaming and ran into the room where she saw her mom trying to strangle him, officers said. Her mom eventually got up, ran into the kitchen and grabbed a 6 to 8 inch butcher knife, the girl told police. Tillman approached the screaming girl, pointing the knife at her chest, and also advanced toward the 5-year-old, threatening to kill them both, officers said. The children ran toward the front door while the girl called 911. As they reached the door, the mother grabbed the boy in a bear hug and tried choking him with the crook of her elbow, the girl told police. As officers arrived, they said they spotted the girl standing outside the house, crying and clutching the phone. The mother emerged from the house and attempted to enter a neighbor's house when she was met by police, according to investigators. Tillman faces two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.[/release] [URL="http://www.kpho.com/story/16401404/police-video-game-rage-saw-mom-choke"] http://www.kpho.com/story/16401404/police-video-game-rage-saw-mom-choke[/URL] And then soccer mums all go hurr durr video games are bad

Video games are bad indeed, it might get your drunken mom to beat your ass.

Some people just shouldn't have kids. A lot of people shouldn't, actually.

jealous she doesnt get to play mw3

This is exactly what I thought it'd be. Good thing the kids are alright though.

This woman seems an incredibly obvious alcohol abuser. I have to wonder if this was being investigated before she went batshit and tried to carve up her kids.

why are people like this parents where is the child snatching department of our government when you actually need them

[QUOTE=semite;33946783]jealous she doesnt get to play mw3[/QUOTE] Her son probably got a better killstreak than her so she went up in rival

total haker getting beat by mom an still get kilstreek WTF??

See the video games aren't the problem: it's how the parents react to them that causes trouble.

[QUOTE=Kopimi;33946850]why are people like this parents where is the child snatching department of our government when you actually need them[/QUOTE] Off laundering tax dollars somewhere when they're not taking children away from families who belong to an ideology they're against.

I can see this being used by anti-gaming activists, of course the story will be "adjusted" a little bit: "Games are so bad because they make children assault their parents and immediately tell on them when they're trying to defend themselves!" Jokes aside, what the hell is wrong with the woman? I know she's been drinking but she must've been drinking an entire barrel of vodka to become drunk and crazy enough to threaten and almost kill her children!

Just love my county for being 4th dangerous county in the usa.

[QUOTE=Kopimi;33946850]why are people like this parents where is the child snatching department of our government when you actually need them[/QUOTE]Too busy destroying legit families for $$$ to care.

Why would people do this? She shouldn't really have kids. I mean, she almost killed her kids over something so small and stupid to get pissed off from? I bet the anti-gaming activists will find a way to twist this, video games don't cause violence, stupid people do that most of the time. Same with alcoholics.

The ironing is delicious in this story.

delicious ironing [editline]29th December 2011[/editline] topped off with a side of ironing board mmm

more parent of the year award threads, i missed thee

"Here, have these Video Games for christmas. But don't you dare playing them or I'll murder both of you.

[QUOTE=semite;33946783]jealous she doesnt get to play mw3[/QUOTE] nice pun

Guns and cars need licenses, rearing children doesn't. Makes sense.

[QUOTE=Groat;33949701]Guns and cars need licenses, rearing children doesn't. Makes sense.[/QUOTE] how do you expect to license the one unified subconscious goal of the species?

[QUOTE=Groat;33949701]Guns and cars need licenses, rearing children doesn't. Makes sense.[/QUOTE] Honestly "licenses" wouldn't help at all, but making CPS a lot less fucking lax would help loads. I've seen too many unfit parents keep their children because they played nice-nice with the social worker, or because they have a relative in social services.

I'll bet drugs are a much more important factor than video games in this story!

[QUOTE=Groat;33949701]Guns and cars need licenses, rearing children doesn't. Makes sense.[/QUOTE] It does, actually. It's in our instinct to copulate and pump out babies. You have a major problem if you think a license is required to act out one of our primal instincts. With the way you're thinking, we may as well put a genetic switch on how many eggs or sperm a person produces, and instead of sex, a couple will simply mail their zygotes to some birthing facility. There, the egg will be fertilized, and the embryo/fetus will rest in a heated jar for 9 months before it's mailed back to the parents as a bouncing test-tube baby. There will be no more tales of storks when it comes to childbirth, but a mail van and a sterile laboratory lined with shelving and coolant.