Online Madness
A friend directed me to this news article. Apparently, a woman in Japan was playing a game online in which she had a virtual husband, who was a man she didn't otherwise know living in a city 620 miles away. Her virtual husband suddenly divorced her virtual self with no explanation and she got angry - so angry that she logged onto the computer as her virtual husband (with a username & password he'd shared with her) and killed his character in the game. Now she's in real jail charged with some crime related to manipulating electronic data and faces a up to 5 years in prison, if convicted. How crazy is that? Was the man actually irreversibly harmed? What kind of person reports the death of an online character to the actual police?