Halo stalker arrested after making 2,600 mile trip

[TTR Dr Payne]

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/02/ha...600-mile-trip/

Halo stalker arrested after making 2,600 mile trip

78 Comments by Ross Miller Jan 2nd 2008 4:20PM
Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360



A 20-year old male was arrested in Spokane, Washington this past weekend for stalking a 15-year old girl he met online playing Halo (the report does not specify which iteration). The accused was from Saratoga Springs, New York, which means by our estimations he drove around 2,600 miles in order to drive past the girl's house and send her a text message.

According to Seattle news outlet KOMO-TV, the parents of the girl caught his license plate number as he passed and called the police. He has been charged with a felony count of stalking. Let this be yet another warning to all online gamers out there: don't give out your personal information, including where you live and your phone number.

[paintba||er]

Giving out your info is only really a problem if you're a young female...

[TTR Dr Payne]

Well i think if you gave out your info to somebody paint then you might run into an issue aswell. However, it definately wont be somebody coming to rape you, lol. It would be somebody coming to kill you

[Other]

Lawl that's funny but something is wrong with that story. They saw a car passing and recognized the license plate of a man from two thousand miles away that they'd never met?

Edit: Oh nevermind I read the article. Who the **** does that? I thought stalkers actually knew the people they stalked?

[Canadian Gamer4]

Well He couldnt afford stalker education... its not cheap..

[IllBashU]

thats just sad.... see this is why Nintendo had FC and no voice chat

[Gregtheman10]

yea i dont get the part about the license plate. how did her parents recognize it?

[IllBashU]

^ ya, i want thinking that same thing... may be he stopped in front of the house for like 5-10 min...

[TTR Dr Payne]

my guess is he told her the license plate, she then told her parents, who then saw the license plate.

I believe what happened was he said he was coming to rape her and her sister and hes going to be outside her house in his car, my license plate # is _______, she then told her parents to look out for it to see if he was telling the truth and they actually saw it and immediately called the police.

Thats the most logical thing i can come up with.

[Larock720]

Wow can you imagine how much money he spent in gas and food to get there why couldnt he just buy sumthing halo go toa streetcorner pick up a prostitue make her wear it then get sum freaky pleasure that dude needs to leave the country

[Other]

No if you read the story what happened was he kept driving by her house calling her, and one time when he drove by they wrote down his license plate number and called the cops. They didn't know his license plate number ahead of time.

[360 kingz]

lol my guess if shed go in he car he would of klled her