Achievement unlocked: jail time

If you've thought that hiring hitmen to "off" someone was simply a plot device you'd only see in the movies, you've thought wrong. Many people have hired so-called mercenaries to take out someone who has wronged them in the past, though usually for reasons that don't make you shake your head in disbelief. Today, a new reason to shake your head in disbelief was found-video game deprivation. Due to slipping grades, a boy named Cory Ryder was banned from TV and his PlayStation. In retaliation, he plotted to murder his parents.

Due to some threats he made to his parents, they decided to organize a sting operation where a police officer would play the role of a hitman. Naturally, Cory found his way to that very hitman and offered his dad's truck as payment. He was subsequently arrested. Now, we at SG love videogames too, but if you're failing school and your parents take them away, you'd think to try harder at studying first, kill parents as a completely off-the-wall nonsensical suggestion second. Like hiring the guys at the local YMCA that think they're pirates before hitmen. Trust me-it's a lot cheaper in the long run.