Report: British "Canoe Husband" Had a Secret MMO Life
Report: British "Canoe Husband" Had a Secret MMO Life
July 17, 2008
According to a BBC report, 56-year-old John Darwin (left), on trial for faking his death in a canoeing accident, had an adulterous fling with a US woman he met in an unspecified online game.
Darwin's wife, Anne, revealed the MMO details yesterday while testifying for her own defense. The couple is charged with fraud in the case. From the BBC:
The court heard she eventually found out her husband was having an affair... Mrs Darwin said her husband turned secretive when he joined an internet role-playing game.
She said: "It was like a virtual world which was played over the internet. The people who played it became characters in this world and they had money to buy and sell things and they used to cast spells on each other. He became rather cagey when using the headphones and speaking into the computer if I came into the room. It was obvious he was in conversation."
Mr Darwin later flew out to Kansas in the US to meet a woman, who his wife believes he met while playing the game.
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My state was brought up O_o
Nonetheless, this can't be blamed on the game, but on him for having a secret life.
My ex-wife made a lot of "special friends" by way of MMORPGs. She didn't fake her her own death and disappear or anything crazy like that, but she put a bad taste in my mouth for enjoying playing MMORPGs on my own. I expect this is much more common than gets out.
We need to remember that his wife is fighting to escape a couple of years in prison. And British Prisons are much harder than Yank Jails.
~You Could Be Mine, But You're Way Out Of Line..~
The British have something harder than liberal beatings, murder, and rape?
Marmite...on EVERYTHING!
Mmmmm. Marmite! Ohhhhhh goooood!
Eastenders.
Yes.
~You Could Be Mine, But You're Way Out Of Line..~
British prisons have something worse than Bubba? Holy crap, I'm never breaking a law in the UK. Except, my jail time would be a lot less in the UK...hmm....
US prisons are the worst in the developed world! A large proportion of the guards are brutal, rape is common, hand cuffs are used regularly, women have to wear prison uniforms, the cells have bars instead of doors, the food is awful, etc.
Yeah, seriously, I'd MUCH rather go to an English prison. You don't hear of half of the nasty stuff that goes on in US prisons, and there's no Unicor (look it up) in English prisons.
...and this is a bad thing? Frankly, if you're convicted of a crime in the US without a reasonable doubt, then the fact that you have it hard in prison is no skin off my back....you deserver everything you get, especially if it's bad. I think it's horrible that I live in a state that doesn't enforce it's death penalty. Instead we spend our tax dollars keeping some baby-killing pedophile alive so that he can appeal again and again....that's the sick part.
So far this article doesn't annoy me. As long as she keeps things on the "he was a jerk because he found someone else" bent I'm fine. The moment she blames the game proper she becomes a flaming idiot. Though really in my mind if the marrage was failing to that degree she should have noticed it a lot sooner.
Sounds more like second life then anything else. She should be glad that the woman was at least legal age.
I don't supposed she ever tried to roll a toon? In this case, it would be the same as any hobby. He could go out Antique hunting and meet some lady who was also interested by antiques, while his wife didn't like them at all. Same thing would happen.
What I'm trying to figure out is... this is apparently about insurance fraud. Looks like he and she conspired to fake his death then collect the insurance. What does that have to do with him having an afair? If I was him, I'd be worried about a ticked off wife that just got a lot of money, and the fact that the police wouldn't know I was actually still alive. She would be picking up a shovel from the local hardware store shortly thereafter. No one would miss him because he was already supposed to be dead.
Maybe she's trying to say that she wouldn't have been involved in the insurance fraud scheme with him because he was cheating on her with some floozy he met on the interwebz? Or.. something..
People really do come up with the most BS things to try to use in their defense..
People should note that this is the fourth time that her story has changed.
Firstly, she told everyone her husband was dead
Secondly, she told the Police that he must have lost his memory when he was found
Third, she told everyone that he had contacted her only after being 'dead' for several months.
Now, she knew he was having an affair and that he left, and didn't die...
Feel free to come to your own conclusions from that.
It was like a virtual world which was played over the internet. The people who played it became characters in this world and they had money to buy and sell things and they used to cast spells on each other.
Oh well, THAT narrows it down. :P
That's just so pathetically wrong... I sentence that man to be taken out back and kicked to death for using a MMORPG to date...
I resent that... I've met some of my closest friends online and yes met them then offline as well. My current fiance and a friend of mine's gf who he currently lives with met on WoW. The 'sick' thing isn't that he used it to date and make friends it's that he did so while married and behind the wife's back.
Though from the sound of the wife constantly changing her story one has to wonder wether or not this story is just some falsehood to make him look bad.
I'm not sure which is funnier; the fact that she thinks accusing her husband of having an affair will absolve her of her fraud charges or the fact that their surname happens to be "Darwin."
Like a jewish man named hitler.
Or a possible future president named Hussien.
I lolled, then I thought about it some more, then I really lulled.
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I'm sure the Middle East is full of countries that will have a future president called Hussein. I very much doubt that any country will ever have a president called "Hussien" though, LOL.
well if you sit down and think about it for a second... a possible prez named "Obama?" I know it's a stretch, and I don't hold it against the guy (probably one of the few examples of obama subjects I don't take issue with), but... rhymes with...
Ha. They act like this is the first time something like this has ever happened.
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