Sometimes the world is sad and pathetic

Just in case there are any normal/reasonable/sane people reading, I'll give a little bit of background.

There are now many games online that involve spending huge amounts of time acquiring experience (which makes your character better) or items (which also make your character better, but are fungible in game). Lately, an interesting practice of selling accounts has begun to take place. It really makes a lot of sense when you think about it - people are buying something of value that they can't get any other way that doesn't take an absurd amount of time. But here's where it gets gross.

A couple of weeks ago a curious incident took place. A leading player of Gunbound was kidnapped and had his life threatened in an attempt to obtain his account's password. Incredible. Evidently, one of the four kidnappers' girlfriends met up with this gamer online (on Google's social networking website Orkut). They set up a date at a mall, but when the dude showed up, he got a guy with a gun instead of a hot girl.

That sucks right? It gets better/worse. He refused to give them his account's password despite the fact that they held a gun to his head for five hours. Yes. Five hours. Insane. They eventually just gave up and were caught later. This dude is such a dumb ass. But I guess he won or something...

Unbelievable you say? I agree. So I checked the source and it seems to be all good. That's so gross.