A strange story from Gizmodo: A Brazilian gang kidnapped one of the leading players of GunBound, a turn-based RPG-style multiplayer online game, hoping to obtain his password and sell the account. One of the criminals’ girlfriends arranged a meeting with the gamer via Orkut, the Google-run social network that is huge in Brazil. When he showed up for his date, the gangsters snatched him:
After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim’s head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000. And yes, the story gets even better. Surprisingly enough, after five hours the hostage wasn’t talking. The group leader had a gun against his head all that time but the guy didn’t say a word. At that point, the crooks gave up and decided to let him go. The Brazilian police then caught the four suspects, aged 19 to 27.
How many gamers would refuse to give up their passwords with a gun to their head? Hero or idiot?
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