Missing MMO Player Still At Large, Family Enlists Jack Thompson's Help
According to KARE 11 News, a 20 year-old man’s week-long disappearance may have something to do with the video games he loved so much. Jacob Prybl, from Forest Lake, Minnesota, disappeared after saying he was going to meet with a friend and no one has seen him since.
According to Prybl’s parents, Jacob was “addicted” to an unnamed MMO on his computer, having spent over $2,000 playing video games and was becoming increasingly isolated from his family. Jacob’s father said:
Over time he just became more and more engrossed in [video games]. It’s seductive… we don’t know which way to turn.
In the news report, Prybl’s parents seem beside themselves, mainly because there’s practically nothing they can do but wait and hope for the best: because their son isn’t a minor and there’s no evidence that a crime’s been committed, the police can’t do much and the phone company won’t release Jacob’s cell phone records.
I can think of little worse than to have one’s child go missing, but I’m fairly sure that enlisting the aid of Jack Thompson is not going to help solve anything. The Miami attorney issued a press release this morning, stating he was helping the family look for their son, but my cynicism refuses to let me consider the possibility that he’s doing this out of altruism. More likely, he’s going to use Jacob’s case as a cornerstone to go after MMO publishers for producing “addicting” games or some such nonsense.
Hopefully, Jack, you won’t use this case for grandstanding. Hopefully, you’ll stay out of the whole mess and Jacob will be found safe and sound. Until further information develops, we at GayGamer will keep both Jacob and his family in our thoughts.
Missing MMO Gamer’s Family Turns to Jack Thompson [GamePolitics]
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Posted to on 16 January 2007
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I wouldn’t hope too hard.
All Jack Thompson DOES is grandstand. He will market on this boy as long as he can.
::twitch:: gerund ::twitch::
That asshole is a sickening monster that does nothing but leech off of other people’s pain. I feel sorry for the boy’s family, because Thompson is taking them for ride.
I just hope someone will hear the cries of help emitting from Thompson’s basement before that poor kid’s parent’s worry too long.