Gangster Nation Makes the papers
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The following news report can be found on various news web sites.
A BRIT pupil obsessed by an American high school massacre used one of the killers’ names as he plotted an identical atrocity in the UK.
Teenage misfit Matthew Swift used the alias Eric Harris when logging on to play a violent internet game, a court heard yesterday.
Harris was one of two former students who shot dead 12 pupils and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado before turning their guns on themselves.
Swift allegedly adopted his identity whenever he played web game Gangster Nation, where players carry out crimes for virtual cash.
Jurors heard yesterday how Swift told one classmate he could not wait to leave school as he was “going to come in and shoot everybody up”, adding: “Mates will get it first.”
After a tip-off from a girl, detectives arrested Swift and his best pal, loner Ross McKnight, 16 – convinced they were planning a deadly bombing spree.
Obsessed by Columbine killers Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold, the Brit pair plotted to blow up a shopping centre near their homes in Denton, Gtr Manchester, it was claimed.
Then they allegedly planned to kill pupils and teachers at nearby Audenshaw High School, where they both studied, on April 20 this year – the 10th anniversary of the US carnage.
Both boys deny conspir-acy to murder and plotting to cause explosions.
Yesterday at Manchester Crown Court, former classmates of 18-year-old Swift revealed how his behaviour scared them.
Emily Dutton, 18, said she had attended a birthday celebration in April 2008 with Swift and 10 friends.
She told the jury: “He said he couldn’t wait to leave like the rest of us. He said that he was going to come in and shoot everybody up.
“We both just kind of went silent. I said: ‘What, even me?’ and he said: ‘Yeah, mates will get it first.’ I just kind of laughed it off.”
Philippa Knowles, 18, said pupils saw a film about the Columbine massacre at the 1,200-pupil school.
She added: “When I came out I was quite upset about the victims and Swifty said: ‘Look at the people who did it’. He seemed to sympathise with them.
“He said: ‘Think about the gunmen as well, about what they must have been going through.’ ”
She said that when she told Swift in December 2007 she was buying hydrogen peroxide to treat an infection on a belly-button piercing, he asked her to get him some as well.
She said: “He said he wanted to make a small explosive. He assured me it was nothing harmful. But I didn’t want him to get hurt, so I didn’t.”
The case continues.
Sender: Eden Time Received: 03/09/09 15:37
I would like to wish Angel a speedy recovery from her gn fam Exodus x
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not many sent in this issue in fact only one, if you spot anything odd or something funny said in chat then please forward it to me for publication and public humiliation ![]()
Sender: Raz Time Received: 30/08/09 19:56
Next times paper.
This guy is an idiot lol
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SOLUTION - Glass being held at incorrect angle. Rotate glass so that open end points toward ceiling.
SYMPTOM - Beer unusually pale and tasteless.
SOLUTION - Glass empty. Get someone to buy you another beer.
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Joey