Coralcola Presents... Team Kill: Vol. 1

Welcome to Team Kill, the periodic Coralcola series paying tribute to those gamers and game developers whose ignorant views and foolish actions give fuel to the Jack Thompsons of the world. These idiotic and reckless game enthusiasts, whether intentionally or unintentionally, reflect poorly on the gaming community at large. So watch out gamers. By the time you turn on the news, it may already be too late to dodge that errant grenade. You will have fallen victim... to a Team Kill.

Today on Team Kill, we give the one-finger salute to a couple negligent parents in Korea. As the story goes, the couple went to their local internet cafe to play some World of Warcraft, leaving their infant daughter alone at home. Five hours later, they returned to find the child lying face down, dead from suffocation.

The couple, now in custody and legally screwed, defended themselves, claiming that...

"We were thinking of playing for just an hour or two and returning home like usual, but the game took longer that day."

Well, dumb couple, I think there may be some flaws in your logic, as I find nothing "usual" about leaving your baby alone for an hour or two, especially on what can be implied is a regular basis. Allow me to explain.

Have you seen the price of day-care? This article says that,

"Depending on where you live and on the quality of the daycare, costs can range from $3,000 to $15,000 a year (or $250 to $1,250 monthly)."

Why, you might ask? You see, babies don't do really do anything for themselves. Sure, they cry, shit, and piss on their own, but certain functions need to be facilitated by adults. That's why people pay so much for day-care. If they can't be with their babies at times, they don't have a choice. Of course, letting their children die isn't a choice they consider. Maybe that's their problem.

Anyhow, good job dumb couple. I'm sure your infant would have died no matter what hobby you used to neglect it, but thanks for picking video games as your preferred weapon. As you rot in prison for the coming decades, I hope they don't even give you an N-Gage.