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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 13 2018, @07:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the celebrity-has-its-shortcomings dept.

Late last month, a YouTube celebrity couple hid in their closet and called police while an armed, deranged fan ransacked their home.

Christopher Giles, who police described as "single, lonely and disturbed," had made the 11-hour drive from Albuquerque, according to documents filed in the 2nd Judicial District Court. And his phone was full of notes suggesting he had "developed a fondness" for the woman, Megan Turney, and a dislike of her boyfriend, Gavin Free.

Turney, 30, was made famous through her video blogs on anime, relationship advice and her life. Free, 29, is the co-host of a YouTube video series of slow-motion videos.

[...] According to that search warrant affidavit, around 3:40 a.m. on Jan. 26, Turney and Free awoke to the sound of breaking glass and a gunshot. They hid in their bedroom closet and called 911 while Giles searched their home for them.

When he couldn't find the couple, Giles left, encountering Austin Police Department officers on his way out.

The officers found Giles backing out of the driveway in his Lincoln sedan with a New Mexico license plate and ordered him to stop.

Instead, they heard a single gunshot coming from the car. An officer returned fire.

Giles was pronounced dead on the scene, a .45 caliber handgun near his hand, according to the affidavit. Turney and Free were not harmed.

[...] "Based on the footage seen it was apparent that Giles' sole intent was to cause harm to someone who resides there," the detective wrote in the complaint.

[...] Albuquerque Police Department detectives who executed a search warrant on his home in Albuquerque said Giles lived alone and was "an avid player of video games and was known for watching YouTube videos that were centered on his hobby."


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Wednesday February 14 2018, @01:06PM (5 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 14 2018, @01:06PM (#637574)

    Turney, 30, was made famous through her video blogs on anime, relationship advice and her life.

    Its interesting what passes for famous in the modern world. Apparently if you're sort of a soft core cam-girl, then having less than one thousandth the population of the USA subscribe and watch, or since male admiration of boobs on youtube is international, less than two thousandths of the world population subscribed makes someone "famous" now a days. Fascinating.

    Obviously this isn't a real problem, its just legacy media propaganda about their competition ruining lives. Its the 80s DnD scare all over again.

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  • (Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Wednesday February 14 2018, @05:12PM (1 child)

    by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Wednesday February 14 2018, @05:12PM (#637674)

    It's possible to be a "celebrity" but only to a subset of the population. Lots of people probably don't know who Hideo Kojima, American McGee, Sid Meier, or Keiji Inafune are, but to certain groups of people they are well known.

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:41PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:41PM (#638226)

      Its the unity of purpose issue. At least 99% of people who do know Sid know him as a legendary computer game programmer, but if you wikipedia him you'll find he plays the organ and sings pretty well. His almost universal sole individual public identity is game programmer.

      On the other hand "anime, relationship advice and her life" is kind of a WTF is that exactly?

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday February 14 2018, @09:21PM (2 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday February 14 2018, @09:21PM (#637887) Homepage Journal

    I introduced a bill in the student senate to establish the Wargamer's Club so we could all get together for DnD.

    The principal heard about this and asked me in for a private chat. He would not permit the formation of the club until I got him to believe we weren't all going to kill ourselves.

    Around that same time - during high school - I asked my mom to give me a lift to a neighboring city so I could play Dungeons And Dragons with an adult man. Mom freaked, she never would say but I expect she thought that the dungeon was in a BDSM parlor.

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    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:00PM (1 child)

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:00PM (#638232)

      On a quick errand to buy some paint, I took my elderly MiL to the FLGS and she sees the tables and junk food trash and a DnD group rolling dice and asks in her old lady voice, "Is this place a gambling den?", which was good comic relief.

      As a laugh, I suppose if I were setting up a real illegal gambling den, the back room of a FLGS would be my first choice. Some snitch reports seeing card players, the police laugh and ask WTF do you think happens at friday night magic at a FLGS?

      Sometimes I think public schools should lay off the intense semester long stuff like "Woodworking I" (and I say this despite being a hobby woodworker...) and require some kind of hobby experience class where everyone gets at least a brief introduction to, well, every hobby. If you're gonna do "universal basic income" in one form or another it would be a public service to show kids some useful stuff to do. Broaden their horizons.

      Sometimes I fell into the hobbies I enjoy and sometimes there's crazy overlap (something like 90% of ham radio guys have called themselves amateur photographers at one time in their lives, for example, so virtually all hams know what a Pentax K1000 is (was?) I had one a long time ago...) I wonder whats out there that I've never even heard of. Anecdotally when the cub scouts visited the archery range, perhaps 10% of the boys actively bow hunted and the other 90% had never touched a bow or arrow.