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Failed 'Second Life' Romance Leads to Attempted Kidnapping

by Tim Stevens on August 25, 2008 at 05:01 PM

Failed Second Life Romance Leads to Attempted KidnappingIn 'Second Life,' players create elaborate avatars and participate in fanciful deeds (and misdeeds), often engaging in virtual romances that rarely survive longer than one of the game's many failed virtual banks. One relationship, though, was apparently a bit more serious -- or so thought North Carolina player Kimberly Jernigan, who attempted multiple real-world kidnappings of her in-game beau after their relationship ended.

After the two met in the real world the relationship apparently ended. Jernigan first showed up at the employer of her 52-year-old former virtual lover and attempted to kidnap him there at gunpoint. Failing there, she went to his home in Delaware two weeks later, broke in, and waited. He walked in the door and saw her pointing a gun with a laser pointer at his chest (it would later be found filled with BBs, not bullets). He fled the premises, and she did too apparently, later being apprehended at a Maryland rest stop. She's being held on charges of attempted kidnapping, burglary, and aggravated menacing. It all sounds like a typical day in the world of 'Second Life,' but obviously real world authorities weren't too interested in playing along. [From: cbs3.com]

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