According to an FBI report obtained by the Knoxville News Sentinel, one of the two assailants had given the other a hand-held video game that he played "virtually all day that day and much of the night." (GamePolitics later confirmed from an FBI filing that it was a PSP.) The victim loosened his bindings while the kidnapper played and, when the he had fallen asleep, used the opportunity to escape.
Both men have been arrested in connection to the incident; there is an investigation as to the mens' involvement in similar cases.
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bring it ds fans!
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Too easy.
You want at least 2-3 people per hostage so that if they get free, they can be overpowered even after taking one guy out. Has no one seen a decent kidnapping movie?
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no offense to any intelligent people living in the south.
None taken
Only in the south.
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I've lived in Alabama since is was in fourth grade. Aside from the acclaimed universities and physicians found here, my state is the home of a NASA space flight center.
Also, there's no reason to pretend that rednecks, hicks, and racists only exist in the South. It's simply not true.
i'd rather be a southerner than yankee scum. i bet you wear a lot of hair gel, white k-swiss shoes, and think the civil war was fought over slavery, club kid. do you have a shitty import car that's 3 different colors of primer, no muffler, a huge spoiler, and some neon lights???
/insincere prejudice statements
don't forget that prejudice can be against any race, religion, nationality or creed. don't assume that people from the south don't read this blog. don't insult me, my family, my neighbors, my city, my state, and my country by making stupid statements like that. and it doesn't make it any less offensive, to say "no offense" afterwards.
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I wonder what the legal status of these two upright and outstanding individuals were...
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It didn't matter what game it was.
The point is, he fell asleep while waiting for whatever game he was playing to load...
=D
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Next time I beat the fuck out of some guy in a motel room, while extorting him for money, bring ds and Elite Beat Agents.
Nobody can fall asleep watching the Divas bounce around to "September." Nobody.
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for instance:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/sony-under-fire-for-racist-advertising/
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Wonder what game torturers play? Sadly Manhunt 2 wasn't released, so we can't pin that on it. Must have been GTA:Vice City Stories. I'd get a pretty good kick if it was Loco Roco though.
I was hoping that they used the browser to email friends/family and let them know the beef.
2: "Hold on, I have to get to a save point!"
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Negative SPIN FTL!
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Or am I?
LAME!!!
Come on Sony PS3 can cure cancer but PSP can barely save hostages??? weaksauce
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JOYSTIQ NEWSFLASH UPDATE!
-POOP SAVES KIDNAPPER-
Joystiq, through its peerless investigative reporting ("we saw it on another blog") has learned that the kidnappers do in fact eat food!
Shortly before falling asleep (Ed- Criminals require sleep?) the kidnapper took a massive crap, leaving a steaming pile in the john. Tired from taking a massive poop (and torturing people like a jerk), the cowardly crapping kidnapper (Ed- alliteration sounds good and sells!) fell asleep.
While the lethargic lawbreaker lay(Ed -2 for 2!), the victim escaped. The tired torturers were later apprehended.
In a statement to the press, the victim thanked the steaming pile of poop. "If that dump didn't decide to come out, I would still be in there, forced to listen to my aggressor playing Ape Escape Academy." The poop refused comment. The mayor's office released a press release, giving the daring dookie (Ed- BAM!) a key to the city.
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Shame on you.
Now, shit- I need to go shoot something.
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1) There are more DS fanboys on this site consistantly posting; even on the PSP fanboys site.
-Maybe b/c the PSP games have more in-dept games and not just mini games or pointless games like Nintendogs.
2)Other than the stats of how many systems sold. The PSP or other Playstation systems has stories behind them of ppl actually playing them. (this story, the police in Europe caught playing in his car with a soccer game, the bus driver in US playing GTA, etc.)
-DS fanboy- "but the stats, its all about the stats"
Though I have a DS, the only thing making me play it is Glory Days 2 and the fact that I got all my games FREE---- R4DS baby!!
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Possibly in an even more hilarious course of action... The victim fired the memory stick at one of the kidnapper's eyes(try it! Those things go flying out of there with a good press down on the eject mechanism), and sliced the other one open with a case-seperated UMD disc. Yep, it would probably even get a nod from Frank Castle if the guy tried that. >:]
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