Second Life

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This has to be the weirdest and saddest crime-of-virtual-passion story I've come across.

Kimberly Jernigan -- a 33-year-old woman from North Carolina -- was apparently distraught after her online relationship with a 52-year-old man from Claymont, Del., came to an end.

The pair apparently met through the online community Second Life and began a virtual relationship. The two finally met in reality several months ago, and the alleged victim ended the relationship, sending Jernigan into a downward spiral.

In early August, Jernigan allegedly drove to the victim's Pennsylvania workplace and attempted to kidnap him at gunpoint, according to local news station CBS3.com. When she was unsuccessful, according to the report, she returned two weeks later to track down the victim's Delaware address, and posed as a postal worker to do so. After four days of searching, authorities said she found the man's residence in the Whitney Presidential Towers on the 7100 block of Society Drive in Claymont.
 

On August 21, police said, Jernigan broke into the unnamed victim's apartment with a Taser, a pair of handcuffs, a BB gun, her dog, and a roll of duct tape. He wasn't there, so she waited. When the virtual ex arrived home he saw what looked like a laser beam projecting on his chest. He immediately fled the apartment and contacted the Newcastle County Police.

Police said that when they arrived, they found Jernigan's dog, Gogi, bound with duct tape in the victim's bathtub. Jernigan's reason for gagging her pooch -- "he was making too much noise." The dog was said to be uninjured, but the ASPCA is looking into possible charges of animal cruelty.

Approximately an hour after the incident, authorities in Maryland spotted Jernigan's vehicle at a rest stop on I-95. She was taken into custody after a brief struggle. Jernigan is currently facing charges of attempted kidnapping, burglary, and aggravated menacing, CBS3 said.

What's the lesson here, kiddies? Keep your virtual relationships virtual and don't bring it into the real world or some innocent animal may be harmed in the process ...

Wow.  That is seriously messed up.  Some people definately shouldn't be allowed to have computers.  I honestly wonder what made her snap though.  She seems to be a crazy person as is from this story, but she really did go well beyond crazy with the stalking and posing as someone else to get information.  Glad she was caught.  Feel bad for the guy though.

This totally should have ended up in normal off topic.   but yes you gets all kinds of things on the internet.

Very odd. See, that's why I won't even consider doing any kind of virtual relationship online. For the most part, it's just plain weird.

SL isn't to blame for this that person was totally tapped.

I have met many people rl from sl and other online games, made lots of fun friends from all around the world its not online thats dangerous you can find just as many psycho's in your local bar or club

First read about this incident in another forum and yes Second Life has nothing to do with it. That sort of thing is happening in real life as well.

Originally posted by kabal.yero

First read about this incident in another forum and yes Second Life has nothing to do with it. That sort of thing is happening in real life as well.

Eh? So you can name me another example of a woman breaking into a guys house with a BB gun (with a laser sight on it apparently), a taser, some duct tape and her dog? Then using the duct tape on the dog, leaving it in the bath tub and getting the hell out of there? And then getting punished by the ASPCA for what she did to the dog on top of what she did to the guy? Cause I'll be darned impressed if you can.

I'm not saying Second Life created this kind of crazy. But it is a breeding ground for this kind of crazy.

Originally posted by Raltar

Originally posted by kabal.yero

First read about this incident in another forum and yes Second Life has nothing to do with it. That sort of thing is happening in real life as well.

Eh? So you can name me another example of a woman breaking into a guys house with a BB gun (with a laser sight on it apparently), a taser, some duct tape and her dog? Then using the duct tape on the dog, leaving it in the bath tub and getting the hell out of there? And then getting punished by the ASPCA for what she did to the dog on top of what she did to the guy? Cause I'll be darned impressed if you can.

I'm not saying Second Life created this kind of crazy. But it is a breeding ground for this kind of crazy.

Okay let me put it this way.

Online games are just another way to meet socially, I met more crazies in rl drunken idiots in pubs, gangs of kids who throw bricks at your windows, who tie dogs to fireworks or drag a bag of kittens around behind a motorbike, rapists who stalk lone women getting of buses, date rape drugs.

Now if you believe that online life and sl breeds more crazies than your local town ?? I REALLY want to come live in your town because it would be so nice not to have to lock my doors.

Let me tell you a little story, my wife who I met 12 years ago, we had a wonderful life, both of us into many of the same things rpg, scifi, computers, we had loads of so called rl friends we ran rpg meets, we went to live action and made many many so called good friends, my wife was diagnosed with leukeamia 10 years ago and within 6 months all those friends disapeared.. we saw them in town and they couldn't even look us in the eye..

Now we have friends online from yahoo and online games that have lasted 10 years who know of my wifes illness who don't pitty her but treat her as an equal, we are in the uk but about 20 friends have come visit from america over the years.

We also have (counted them) 8 couples we know who met on games online and now are together rl, two even got married and one is looking forward to there first baby girl :)

Originally posted by calranthe

I met more crazies in rl drunken idiots in pubs, gangs of kids who throw bricks at your windows, who tie dogs to fireworks or drag a bag of kittens around behind a motorbike, rapists who stalk lone women getting of buses, date rape drugs. 

Now if you believe that online life and sl breeds more crazies than your local town ?? I REALLY want to come live in your town because it would be so nice not to have to lock my doors.

If you really have met people who did ALL of those horrible things, then I can't blame you for wanting to move to my town. It sounds like you must live in hell or atleast next door to it. In my town myself and my friends were probably to worst kids on the block and we mostly just made prank phone calls and harassed people over the internet. We never killed any small animals or raped anybody.

So yeah, sure, come move to my town. It sounds like you would be a LOT safer here. I would still lock your door though. Its just a privacy issue. You don't want anyone walking in on you while you are butt ass naked do you?

Then again you play Second Life... so maybe you do!