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A WoW player living in Indianapolis was arrested after he used in-game chat to threaten to blow up a plane, Register to unlock hidden link is Register to unlock hidden link. The eighteen year old later told Johnson County sheriffs that he "was going to board a plane at 7:30 to Chicago and that (he) was going to try and kill as many Americans as possible".

His boasts were spotted by a Blizzard employee who called the police after seeing that the WoW player had made serious threats. When arrested, the man claimed his computer had been hacked into and then explained he had meant the statements as a joke. He had apparently made them because he didn't believe that, contrary to popular belief, that doing so wouldn't alert the police.

A Blizzard representative is quoted as saying that the chat logs were "very serious" and didn't seem to be just jokes however she declined to show the logs to indystar.com. The man's PC was seized as evidence and the cased turned over to the FBI. We'll let you know more as we hear it but the moral message here is simple: don't threaten to blow up planes in Azeroth. It's not smart.

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Author: SUPPORT@WEBLOGSINC.COM (Lesley Smith)
Category: azerothbomb-threatsindystar.compolicewow-bomb-threatswow-crimewow-related-crime
Publish Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:00:00 EST
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