Man armed to the teeth tries to settle score with online gamer

A 21-year-old Massachusetts man drove to Wisconsin last week looking for a 17-year-old boy he met playing World of Warcraft online. Police say Trevor Lucas had four semi-automatic hand guns, four loaded, large-capacity magazines, two stun guns, three pepper spray containers, two assault knives, two expandable police batons and seven sets of handcuffs. (Wisconsin State Journal)

Comments

[sometimesilie]

FUR-REAK! On a leash!

[sometimesilie]

Maybe he just wanted to train for an upcoming tourney?

[LimeGreenLizard]

Seven sets of hand cuffs? Kinky...

[Phranqlin]

What was he going to do with 7 pairs of handcuffs? The kid only has 4 limbs....

[Russ]

Wisconsin wins this week! All Florida has is a fake bomb. Some dude drove all the way from Massachusetts to Madison with SEVEN PAIRS OF HANDCUFFS! No way Florida can top that by the end of the week. I take off my hat.

[NitroPress]

"...and was unable to move as a result. Police retrieved him from the bottom of the pile of equipment. He offered no resistance but commented, 'Jeez, and I can carry enough hardware for a village in WoW!'"

[RockyMtnMac]

Buddy?

[Russ]

And isn't "armed to the teeth" a fascinating phrase, when you think about it?

[IronOre]

Man, I have thought of doing that many times after some little punk with quick reflexes gunned me down playing a FPS game. Maybe those games are responsible for some violence...

[Just Joe]

"Assault knives"?

[American Veteran]

"And isn't "armed to the teeth" a fascinating phrase, when you think about it?"

Russ, isn't that role playing in a vampire game?

[USMerc]

Aw, ya'll...he just heard about our little Florida/Wisconsin wager, and decided to help out the cheeseheads! Thanks crazy guy, for giving us the points to pull ahead this week!!!!!

[jojo]

Maybe he was convinced this kid had extra limbs because he was kickin his ass at a video game....hence the need for 7 sets of handcuffs. Just a thought!

[not you]

The term originated in Port Royal Jamaica in the 1600s when pirates were constantly looking for ships to loot and their guns were very primitive.
As a result, pirates could shoot only once before a long reloading process. Consequently, they needed to carry a gun in each hand, and also perhaps in each pocket. For extra power, they would also hold a knife between their teeth. So to be 'armed to the teeth' means to carry the maximum number of weapons possible.

[RockyMtnMac]

Dearest Merc,
There are 2 from FLA today, and only 1 from the Cheesehead state.
You're still behind the rare-fine crazy of the Sunshine state.
No one out-crazies Florida.

[Lambiepie]

it doesn't mention bail
does that mean they actually might keep him in custody?

[kevy]

Merc...the victim was from Wisconsin so it doesn't count. The perp was from Massachusetts. That a point for MA.

[David]

There is more to this story we should get to know.
Gamewise:
Did the 21 year old RMT gold in order to buy the 17 year old presents? Was the 17 year old playing a male or female character? Was the 21 year old playing a male or female character? Were they Alliance or Horde? Were they in a guild together? What Server?

Lifewise:
How did he know where the kid lived? How did he send him messages if the kid had him on 'ignore'? Did the kid take any of the messages to the police? Did the 21 year old buy the guns after he was out on bail for felony firearms possession? If so, how?

[LimeGreenLizard]

Hmmm... I'm wondering if the handcuffs had pink fur...

[Lou Sussler]

I don't know Not You.

from http://www.word-detective.com/090699.html

I had always assumed that "armed to the teeth" had something to do with the "knife in mouth" school of personal armament. Like many folks, I have a dim childhood memory, gleaned from old pirate movies, of buccaneers swinging aboard a captured ship....

But it turns out that "armed to the teeth" is just one of many uses of the metaphorical phrase "to the teeth," meaning "very fully or completely." "To the teeth" has been used as an equivalent to the popular "up to here" (with hand signal indicating the neck region) for quite a long time, since around the 14th century. You could, it seems, just as well be "fed to the teeth" if you had eaten a large meal, or even, if sufficiently exasperated, be "fed up to the teeth" (at which point you might arm yourself to the teeth, I suppose).

The first modern use of "armed to the teeth" was in an 1849 speech by the English industrialist and statesman Richard Cobden, who, speaking of his nation's defense budget, asked "Is there any reason why we should be armed to the teeth?" He obviously hadn't been watching enough pirate movies.

[USMerc]

dammit.....

[JayB]

"Glaustah, they're always from Glaustah..."

-Rescue worker from The Perfect Storm

[kestrelmas]

Holy...whoa. I play WoW and I've never seen such special-K brand of Crazy online before! Even Stalkerella was not this bad!

I bet this guy plays a Tauren Warrior. All the crazies tend to. ::nod:: And I bet they were both on an RP server. My guess is the 17-year old was RPing a girl to make extra money (seriously, hang out in Goldshire, or worse, Silvermoon City or its suburb, Brill), Mr. Crazy was showering him with gold, demanded RL pics and contact info... fast forward a few months and BAM we get this.

::sighs:: If I knew what server this guy was on, I'd roll opposite faction and pound him into hamburger, to feed the skinny Belves in SMC.

[pms]

This is easy...let this goon keep all of his weapons, but put him on a plane and drop-ship him to Iraq.....if he survives, he goes free.....if not, well....then he doesn't. It could be like his very own personal video game.

Or....just shoot him in the head and save the jet fuel.

[nellagain]

What about the weird photo on the right. Vigil for health care is right.

[kevy]

I like the story on the right "smile, you're on cannibis camera." The poor guy should've gone home an gotten a ski mask before trying to disable the camera.

[Tank]

Kestrel, I just gotta say "Thanks!"

"I'd roll opposite faction and pound him into hamburger, to feed the skinny Belves in SMC" is by FAR the geekiest thing I've read all week!

[David]

kestrelmas;

yeah I was wondering if it was a roleplay server too. Thought about the 17 year old playing a female character, then realized 'probably not' due to the 17 year old informing the police about the request for nude photos. Usually the guys that cyber as female don't admit to it in real life.

[mianne]

Kevy, makes me wonder... You've got someone who can spot a surveillance camera hidden in a tree at 4 in the morning, and yet doesn't think to mask his face?

Hmm, cops detect marijuana patch, confront property owner who disclaims any knowledge of its presence, cops set up cam, owner asks punk down the road if he wants a free video camera, owner then moves his crops once the camera is removed by the patsy.

Sounds like the outline of a plot for a Law and Order episode.

[kestrelmas]

Anytime, Tank. ;) I'm one of those "rare" girl gamers, and I do gender-pretend to keep the guys from drooling all over my anorexic toons, or to be taken seriously as a competent player (I can't tell you how many times I've heard, "GRLZ CANT TANK LOL"). I have female toons, and it gets annoying playing them at times.

Probably right, David... I thought about that after I posted my comment... the kid would've linked a picture of a female model or something... Ah well. Maybe the kid did that and the guy found out and got ticked?

[David]

kestrelmas, maybe he did.

Someone on a gaming forum pointed out that with all the gear he brought; it may not be the first time the 21 year old has done something like this. Hopefully the police think the same way and really check his background out.

[Corpsegoddess]

I think this guy is confused. That sounds more like your inventory for Resident Evil, rather than WoW. I mean, no epic weapons? The guy's a n00b.

[sometimesilie]

Only casually acquainted with RPG games, but even I know enough to know that the games allow a character to travel around with a large inventory of weapons and supplies. Since only 1 weapon at a time is "equipped", you aren't actually overburdened. This is actually quite a clever strategy if this 17 yr old Wisconsinite resided within a videogame...

[NitroPress]

I can now admit that I ran a female toon back in the Half-Life days who acquired quite a following because of her x-rated tag sprays. I REALLY have no idea what I was thinking; I was and am much too old for that kind of idiot behavior.

[Krash]

I agree about Florida insanities.
Imagine demanding thumbprints from a man
with NO arms, in this day and age, what
with the Americans w/ disabilities laws and all.

These are COLLEGE educated people telling a man
with NO arms, but plenty of ID, that he can't cash
a check on his wife's account without a thumbprint!

Alright folks, its Sandwich-toss time!
Who's first?

[anonymous]

Large Capacity Magazines, Is that ones that hold more than 3 rounds?

Assault Knives, do they make up for lack of real life ninja training?

So many misleading terms.

[Leroy Jenkins]

I guess he had no chicken?

[Leroy Jenkins]

I guess he had no chicken?

[Navy Chief]

@PMS - Iraq is so last war. Send him to Afghanistan. That's where the action is these days.

[foe]

this has nothing to do with wow or the victim in WI. HE was a very sick person, who should have been put away long ago. i know, had police order against him a while ago after he threaten our family. he truly believes he is way above the law, but this time he lost.

[not you]

hmm, interesting.. thanx.

[For The Horde]

They must have both been alliance...

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[CHLZ]

I knew this guy
met him at a lan party
he was totally sane when I talked to him :/

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