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Boston Police Arrest 2, Seize Guns After Violent Threats Made To Pokemon World Championships
Boston police have arrested two men and seized weapons over violent social media threats directed at attendees of the Pokemon World Championships.
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I don't play the Pokemon TCG, so I don't have much context for this.
Is there some sort of history with these guys? Traveling from out of state to shoot up a card tournament seems a baffling choice to me.
According to the article they were making threats to players online. though honestly this might have been one of those vanity shootings that are scarily becoming more and more popular. Also this was for the game championships
Yeah, I did read the article.
I was just wondering if this was some longstanding personal feud or just two people off their rockers. It just seems so strange to me to travel that far to kill people over a card game, championship tournament or no.
I think one of them competed in the tournament a few years back, but people can be straight up psycho.