Hearing a perfect storm of screaming epithets and slamming doors blowing in from an adjacent unit on the evening of May 7, a John Wallace Road residence called JCSO dispatch to report a violent domestic disturbance. Investigating, deputies spoke to the man’s youngish neighbor who admitted making a bit of a commotion, but said his wrath had been directed at the television, not his wife. Apparently, he’d been playing a video game with extraordinary gusto and let his enthusiasm get the better of him. His wife backed up his story, saying that her husband plays video games more or less constantly and “gets upset when he loses.” Officers relayed this information to the complainant who said that, in his opinion, the cyber-sportsman’s viciously insulting language made no sense in that context. In any case, he told the deputies, he was weary of his neighbor’s noisy disturbances and wanted him charged with something – anything – and he’d gladly offer testimony against him at trial. Hoping to pull his plug, or at least turn down his volume, deputies cited the virtual gladiator for disorderly conduct.
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