Damn it. Shit like this gets me so mad.

PSP: Get your own, dude. O_o

Seriously though, the world is getting sillier by the minute. THIS is the reason why I am content on my off days to just lock myself in the house and play games until I can't take it anymore. It's getting crazy out there.

Oh jeez... While I truly feel sorry for the family of the boy, I'm more concerned about the giant load of bad press this will give to videogames again. This is the PS3 launch all over again...

Wow, how messed up are you that you need to kill someone for a PSP?

There are a group of 5 people who keep attacking and stealing people/things on my campus. There are also lots of hills and busy streets. I'm concerned something similar is going to happen around here, not cause of a PSP. But just cause people are stupid.

A tragedy caused by stupid, greedy people, that just so happened to involve a PSP.

Let's hope it stays that way... that means you JT.

Shit like this is why my generation is doomed to fail. Last week in Vancouver, two kids were killed (and one of which was my best bud for a few years). Now kids getting killed over PSPs and whatnot just makes me wonder.

dunno what to say I have rewritten my comment 8 times. Such are the times we live in.

To tell you the truth the kids werent driving the truck. Yeah they should get tried for robbery, but murder? I dont know, that sounds sort of overboard.

@Gorlith:

Yea...i'm confussed...so If I beat someone up...and cause them to run into a street and get killed...I'll be charged for murder?

@Gorlith:

Their actions directly caused the death of another person. If they didn't try to steal the PSP he would have never ran.

I mean there are all sort of circumstances in these kinds of situations, but this is definitely one of them.

I'm glad those two are going to jail. They deserve it.

Felony murder is a law in all 50 states, not just FL.

I hate humanity. I think I'm actually looking forward to the zombie wars...

Dammit, all this for a PSP?!
What is this world coming to?

I bet a similar story about a boy being hit by a truck after being assaulted by some thugs for his iPod would be passed over in the mainstream news.

But no, a PSP is involved, and that alone makes it newsworthy.

Disgusting.

"Throw me the PSP, I'll throw you the whip!"

Ok. Now, it is sad to lose a life over a Sony product. So the lesson here, kids: just give them the junk. You can always get a new junk, not a new life.

BOOM! HEADSHOT!

no different than killing for sneakers or a cell phone.

RIP.

Anyone else find it a bit off-putting about the gawker artist image of the (I'm guessing dead) girl wearing a pink dress in the scorched forest when juxtaposed with this article?

Somehow makes this tragedy even more chilling.

@Gorlith: His running into the truck was a direct correlation with their assault. So yes, they should be charged with murder. I always wonder why when an innocent has a crime committed against them, there's at least one person worrying about the assailant(s). Fuck em.

"Initially the Florida State Patrol ruled the death an accident"

Reason #4,657 of why Florida is the worst state in the country. Florida is truly the hairy balls of the US.

Wrinkly and old, too.

@Gorlith: It's called "the domino effect". The boys set in motion the events that directly followed ;therefore, they are accountable. If they hadn't beat him down to try to rob him he wouldn't have had to run accross the street to get away and would still be alive.

That's pretty bad. At my brother's high school these two kids were trying to take this kid's PSP and when he refused to give it up they pulled out a knife and stabbed him and ran. The kid was treated immediately and was ok, but it still brings to mind the question WTF?

Actually, one of the reasons I went DS is because it was about half the price of the PSP way back when. I didn't want to play a PSP on the subway back then, and I don't want to now. DS seems like a safer bet. (of course, Advance Wars is the real reason I went DS)

I'm sorry, but I have to object with the sanity of Florida. The two kids tried to beat the one kid down and take his PSP. They didn't point a gun at the kid, they didn't throw the kid in front of a truck. As pathetic of an example they serve as people, am I the only one here that thinks that second degree murder is a bit harsh in this case? Manslaughter perhaps, but murder?

Florida's fukt up, kids. Stay outta the south...

what wrong with people.

@Gorlith: They were the cause of his death. Their actions led directly to his death.

Let's look at it from a video game perspective. In the second level of Dracula X chronicles, when Richter is running from that huge half minotaur kind of monster, he can potentially fall into a pit and die. Now, yeah the pit was there, but he would've jumped safely over it had he not been running from the giant monster chasing him.

Just like, honestly, this particular young man would have looked both ways before crossing the street and not jumped out in front of a truck. These two kids chasing him killed him. They deserve to go to jail. End of story.

Sorry if the video game comparison was tasteless. Just trying to get the point across that these kids need to be charged with murder.

@Bulletkkake:

FL is not bad only the people who come here. Poor kid died over a video game system that is no reason to die.

I hope those kids who caused his death get the Death Penalty and are tried as adults. Probally was his X mas present too. So Sad :(

Also, this makes me a bit fearful to bring my PSP with me. I take the underground to work down here in Atlanta, and I play my PSP a good bit on it. Nothing has happened yet, but I guess I should be more wary.

Is that a young Philip Michael Thomas?

its weird that this stuff continues to happen when the real price of technology drops and drops. For such lowlifes it seems to be less about the gaining an object, and more about the thrill of taking.
This is grim.

Christ thats a rather sad story. :x

'In Florida, anyone who commits a violent felony that results in death can be charged with murder'

that's reassuring.

@Solidius: Sadly, shit like this is nothing new. Kids in my generation were killed over their shoes.

and with any luck Jamila and Keith will be dead before the age of 20.
Death Penalty for the win.

@I_Hate_This_Place:

You can't just say "fuck 'em" what if you were in their shoes? Or in a situtation where you didn't want to kill someone...say for example...a guy beats up your wife...so you go to his house...kick his ass...he runs from you and gets hit from an 18 wheeler.

Dumb Kids? Check. Videogame? Check. Violence? Check. Miami? Check.

It's a Perfect Storm. Thank goodness there is someone to defend the surviving thugs from the industry that spawned them.

@crewwolfy: No, it's not to harsh. And yes, if you commit crimes, stay out of the south. We put you to death for it here.

Damn that's fucking depressing.

Its very sad, but I can't help but lol at the thumbs up.

how f*cking low can you get. That is terrible.

@Knoxximus: THey didn't see that ad.

I really don't know if the world is really getting more messed up though. I think it's that we are hearing about these things more often because we are open to more media. He could have been killed for something else of value. Still, A murder is a murder no matter what.

Killing a kid for his PSP: messed up. The government then turning around and kiiling them? Now that's just so messed up that it could only come from Bush Country. Eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind, and then no-one can play games

Cheers, Filthy

@Vecha: I sure as hell can say "fuck em". I worked my ass off throughout high school to get what I wanted, and if I couldn't afford it, I dealt with it. My family was poor enough we qualified for free lunch at school, but we didn't act like fucking idiots because we didn't have things. And the whole "put your self in their shoes" doesn't work in this situation, as everything they did they chose to do. It wasn't forced upon them to try and rob this kid. A PSP is not a necessity, it's a luxury. Someone died becuase they were to lazy to legally secure their own PSP. So again, FUCK EM.

@Bulletkkake:
I agree, Florida is the worst state for many reasons. The laws are toppsy turvey there. They have a law that lets you shoot someone if you feel threatened. Some dude mooned a woman with with a baby in the back seat, she whipped out a gun and started chasing him down the interstate, shooting at the guy for miles. She only got charged with bad driving and mild child negligence. No jail time. That state is FUCKED UP.

My first and foremost thought on this matter is: even in the face of a tragedy, the parents handled this thing exactly as they should've. Looking at the details on the kid, he doesn't seem like the type who'd run out into traffic for no reason and the police should've picked up on that. The local police were clearly incompetant and had the parents let it lie, two scumbags who shouldn't be on the streets would have the chance to pull this stuff again.

My second thought is how much of a tragedy it really is. The kids in question have a mile long criminal record compared to what sounds like a kid with boundless ambition and at least a good bit of intellect to back it up. That's something that's relatively rare. While I don't figure he'd have changed the world, he was still going to work to make his own place in it.

I side with the murder charges and I commend the kid for standing his ground. If these two punks were willing to rob the kid and continue to chase him once he got away, lord knows how far they were willing to go for a mere toy. Letting them off on nothing more than a burglary charge is not justice served.

It's crap like this that makes me scared to play the PSP in public, especially considering I live in Cleveland. Usually, I just play it on the bus or the campus buildings, and when I do play it in public I make sure that I'm not alone so this kind of situation doesn't happen.

@Filthy_O_Bedlam:
We've had the death penalty since before Bush, you know. If someone takes a life, they forfeit their own. That simple. That may seem too heavy for some people to deal with but it is reality.

@Raynre:
from rotten humanity to rotten humans?

@I_Hate_This_Place:

Not how justice works. That's mob rule.

@Vecha: Sounds like you're feeling some sympathy pangs for the two kids who where caught. Do you spend much time beating up/robbing people yourself?

I mean if these k