Violence dogs LA gaming cafe culture

By INQUIRER staff: petek 03 januar 2003, 11:23


A GAME OF COUNTERSTRIKE ended in a riot with around 100 people attacking each other with chairs and metal pipes, Reuters reports.
And a councillor in Los Angeles has called for a crackdown on Internet cafes, where disputes over games regularly spill out onto the streets.

An Internet café called NetStreet in the town was the focus of the brawl that left a number of people injured. One youth sustained a gunshot wound to the leg. The scrap was the latest in a number of incidents in and around gaming cafes. In July a 19-year-old man was shot dead as he returned from a session at the café. It is unclear whether the shooting was related to the gaming.

A Los Angeles City Councilman, Dennis Zine, told Reuters he plans to ask police to investigate the incidents with a view to introducing local legislation to more closely regulate gaming cafes. Zine suggests the cafes have become a focus for gang violence. Police have been called to more than 300 incidents in cafes since June in the city of Garden Grove south of Los Angeles, reports state. Zine suggests ages restrictions and security measures be introduced in gaming cafes as a way of dealing with the violence. ľ

kaj se res ljudem pere možgane s takim sranjem? ne govorim o igricah ampak o takih člankih in vseh politikih ki s prstom kažejo na igre in pravija "uga-uga-buga to ja pa nevarno".

v istem dahu pa imajo še dovolj zraka da bi odgovorili na vprašanje "kje je pa vaš sin ali pa hčerka" z odgovorom "ne vem".