The next evolution of LARP?

[Jay Myers]

You know you have a gambling problem when you literally bet your life
and those of your loved ones. Well ok, if you just bet the lives of
your loved ones then it isn't such a problem. Especially if you win,
and who plans on losing?


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7857016/

Three killed over role-playing game in Brazil
Man allegedly offered his, parents' lives if he lost game

SAO PAULO, Brazil - A 21-year-old man and his parents were killed
after the man agreed to be murdered along with his family if he lost a
murder-mystery role-playing game, local media reported Saturday.

Authorities said the man and two others were playing characters who
might be murdered depending on the outcome of the game. After Thiago
Andrade Guedes lost, he allegedly allowed the other men to carry out
the killings, just as happened in the game.

Guedes and his parents were killed on April 26 after being drugged and
tied to a bed, police said. Their bodies were found nine days later at
the home in the town of Guarapari, 440 miles northeast of Sao Paulo.

Mayderson de Vargas Mendes and Ronald Ribeiro Rodrigues confessed and
were charged with murder, police said.

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   Jay
-- 
"Gentlemen, it is a fact that every philosopher of eminence for the
last two centuries has either been murdered, or, at the least, been
very near it, insomuch that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and
never had his life attempted, rest assured there is nothing in him;
and against Locke's philosophy in particular, I think it is an
unanswerable objection (if we needed any) that, although he carried
his throat about him in this world for seventy-two years, no man ever
condescended to cut it."
  Thomas de Quincey, "Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts"