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"after the five hours ... he didn't tell them his password."

And that my friends is why he's so pwnes the game.

What a hardass. He wasn't going to give in unless Bruce Willis himself tortured the shit out of him.

Picture from very appropriate movie.

This is the funniest thing I've read in a while. The mental images alone will keep me chuckling all week.

Typical: internet chick promising free love turns out to be man with a gun. If I had a dime for every time this kind of crap happened. . . . .

respect.

@LORDofDANCE: Jack Bauer would be much more effective. Trust.

Gunbound is hardly an RPG

@jawzxy: Please. Jack Bauer is good at what he does because John McClane is his hero. Fact.

The only person who could extract info from this dude is Chuck Norris himself.

This is how low criminals are sinking... LOL xD

Maybe they were just the world's most pussified "criminals." I mean, they're kidnapping game geeks fer chrissakes, and then they can't even get the guy to give up a passwd that's most likely a combination of his cat's name & his school locker number. How's that going to go over in prison?

Hahaha, I loved the pic! It's fucking related! Zé Pequeno FTW! :D

lulz... this is how creative criminals in Brazil can get. You won't believe the schemes they manage to pull out just to get some money. Like cutting hair from women to sell, and stuff like that.

Oh, I'm brazilian btw.

About GunBound.. never played it. But it really is kinda famous around here... at least among kids. :P Think Worms... same type.

if i were trying to get information out of someone, id have gotten past just pointing the gun at them after 5 hours...
then again, shooting a guy for a password prolly aint worth going to prison for...

I heard this is how Nintendo plans to combine the Wii and social networks for better workouts. Before, kids sat enduring simulated torture while playing an RPG. But now, kids can actualy experience torture while playing video games.

gunbound its not an rpg... its a shooting game u morons...

City of God was such a fucking awesome movie. Check it out if you haven't seen it. It's American History X but Brazilian Style baby.

How could they have abducted him in a shopping mall? Wouldn't the other shoppers have seen what was happening and alerted security?

@FubarGuy: He's a world leader in GunBound. Somehow, I think he doesn't have time for a cat.

@FubarGuy: Well christ, time to change my password...

Wow. What a lame idea.

"Guys, it's time we moved up from knocking over failing convenience stores and mugging street-corner beggers."

"Like robbing a bank?"

"No, I was thinking more along the lines of stealing an account on some little-known video game. But, you know, from somebody that's actually good at it."

I would have shot him in the leg first, then force him to enter his password, shoot him in the other leg if he refuses again, then threaten to shoot him in the testicles. Unless he's retarded, you'll have his password in less than 5 minutes.

Wow BASMAN, you put some thought into getting that dudes password. Damn!

Sao Paulo and Brazil in general have reputations for being pretty crime-filled areas. I guess what's surprising is the pre-meditation of this crime. I've had a similar incident happen to me when someone stole some valuable cards I brought with me to school. You get a reputation for having something really awesome, and then people know who you are. There are people out there who will watch for something valuable and take it from someone when they are not looking. This guy was not just the victim of theft, but because his account was so valuable the thieves upped the ante.

-tom

alright, we have to decide right now, who was more hardcore. the kids who protected his house with a ninja sword while two robbers came in or this guy.

i'm voting for this guy.

Great job of Photoshopping the logo onto Zé Pequeno. Not so much on the guy to his right.

Awesome story. Guy is a hero in the leastest sense of the word.

Nah, all this dude had to do was sit and shut up. Who knows, the kidnappers could have been pussies. The katana dude charged the robbers with a sword (and in my imagination, loudly screaming), and chased them. This dude is a douche in comparison.

The Simpsons was right, Brazil is the land of hot women and perceived lawlessness.

The best part would of been if the kid fell asleep while being interrogated.

That's some fortitude he has there.

Great choice of picture! That guy has some serious balls. If someone threatened me with a set of salad tongs I would give up a Gunbound acct... but then again I hated Gunbounds community. The game was nice; the community just sucks.

Thats why we should be grateful for living in the US, despite our country's problems.

So the gun didn't work out. You had a far more effective tool at your disposal, guys - the girlfriend! He can hold out long with that gun to his head but let's see how long he lasts when we squeeze a pair of breasts in his face.

I a m bit dissapointed to gizmodo!

How come no one suggested to hack the little kids computer?

Brasil is probably crowded with good hackers who could do the trick for a bit of what they where trying to get.

I guess that is why criminals are criminals.

Hmm, maybe just a little bit crazy.

But honestly, what would they do? Kill him, have absolutely no chance at getting the password, then get charged for murder?

I will say with this:

Video games = bad.

I think I'll get alot of crap from this, but hey,

Bring it on.

this truly makes me proud to be brasilian :)

Now THAT's a hardcore gamer!

This guy is a dummy... He couldn't tell if they were going to shoot him or not, he risked his life for an online game account.

Unless he could actually tell they weren't going to shoot him, like the guns were toys, or the safety was on or something.

He just didn't tell them because he has been playing this online game for so long he has forgotten how to talk to real people.
That or he never logs out so he doesn't know his password. The funny part is if they kept him for five hours he was probably so Jonesing to play, he would have logged in if they just sat him infront of a computer.

gunbound is more like worms than an rpg

To me, anything turn-based with experience points, gear and powerups is an RPG, even if there's not really a story to it.

Combine Brimful & Kohono's answers: install a keystroke logger on the girlfriend's computer and have her ask the guy to show off his skills.

Man, that's just too easy. I'd do it myself if I didn't know I'd be reading about myself here in two weeks.

lets highly publicize this story so a bunch of other stupid kids get ideas like this in other countries. i imagine a wow account would be worth more than whatever game this was over....

I think this guy thought that if they did kill him, he would respawn back as his last save point and that he had purchased insurance for all his important items. ^_^

Being a World Leader in Gunbound should give you an account well worth over $8K, but hey, morons are morons. Also, wouldn't it be easy to locate a "I'M SELLING MY UBER HIGH RANKING ACCOUNT FOR THIS MUCH!" It's like stealing a national treasure and expecting not to get caught, especially when you're small time idiots like these guys who actually think threating to kill the guy you need the password from is a great way to interrogate someone.

Although, kudos to them for the 5 hours of effort they put in (or lack there of, what which way they did it.)

codiferous = stupid

Omg that's hilarious, I love that picture too.

picture is FANTASTIC, nice photoshop work on it as well. good reference for this article.

as many posters before have said, they couldve done this without any guns. either have the girlfriend lure him back to his o