no it's not. just because someone is building a map of his school or other places, this means nothing. there are lots of ofter red flags which you should look at.. but not if someone is being creative. many people created maps of their school without being a school shooter. doing that means nothing. i too created counterstrike maps from places i know from reallife in counterstrike. the map creator tool for counterstrike is really easy to use to create maps, thats too a reason people use this tool for creating maps of reallife stuff. if you would use blender or some other kind of software, you would have to do a lot of complicated stuff to be able to have a first person view of the map you build.. a lot of python scripts etc..so using counterstrike & the map maker of it makes it a lot easier.
I'd say it *is* a red flag, but should hardly be the ONLY red flag. And this headline has somewhat skewed what happened.
The police investigated after one or more parents of other children reported the existence of the map to authorities. The police brought the kid in for questioning and got permission to search his bedroom, but did not charge him with anything. They DID confiscate either 5 ceremonial swords from his bedroom, or else a large hammer, depending which account you read. Not sure if he got them/it back. The entire incident was classified more or less as a false alarm.
He was transferred to a different school after this all occurred, and potentially kept from participating in graduating ceremonies.
*Final thing to keep in mind:
This all happened in 2007.
2007 was the year of the Virginia Tech School Shootings, which left 33 dead.
From what I can tell, that shooting took place in April, whereas most of the articles about this kid seem to have come out sometime in May(?)
There may be no connection, but if that's the case, I think it's understandable, or at the very least expected that people might be a little on edge
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i don't speak about only this case. in germany & other countrys did happen this multiple times. in germany as an example a kid did build in the map creator tool for counterstrike maps a copy of this school because he wanted to be creative. he even changed the room layout etc.. it was really creative and the school was just like a "startpoint" / preset which he then altered. he told his friends about this and somehow the teachers heard about it. then they called the police. the police then swatted the home of this kid at night with a specialteam who had weapons, dogs etc.. they acted like this kid would build a bomb or something. they found nothing.. but the kid got thrown out of his school etc.. the police destroyed his whole life by this action. the kid had days where he needed to stay at the police, the whole home was destroyed because the special team searched for stuff etc.. in short.. just because this kid did build a digital map, his whole life got f*cked..
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instead of just ask the kid "hey, why did you build this map? is everything okay? can we help you somehow".. they didn't asked any question.. they just f*cked his whole (social) life. and.. they found nothing illegal / bad. this kid was 100% innocent.. but his life will never be okay because no school wants him anymore & his original school don't let them go there anymore. and this stuff happens everywhere.. not just germany. so yeah..
so instead that they help kids who feel not accepted by their social surroundings and who would really need help.. they f*ck over the life of innocent kids who did nothing wrong. not cool.
Ah, so the government was on top of that, but chose to ignore every red flag for the parkland shooting.
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In germany even children who just did build a map of his school (without putting npcs or weapons in it) got the police in their home, special forces with guns at 4am in the morning with dogs, losed their right to go to this school etc.. Even after the police found nothing the children didn't where able to go back to school... There where multiple cases of kids who basicly did nothing wrong or illegal and got really hard punished just because such things.. It's just shitty how this get handeld while kids who really have problems get ignored / overseen
The police investigated after one or more parents of other children reported the existence of the map to authorities. The police brought the kid in for questioning and got permission to search his bedroom, but did not charge him with anything. They DID confiscate either 5 ceremonial swords from his bedroom, or else a large hammer, depending which account you read. Not sure if he got them/it back. The entire incident was classified more or less as a false alarm.
He was transferred to a different school after this all occurred, and potentially kept from participating in graduating ceremonies.
This all happened in 2007.
2007 was the year of the Virginia Tech School Shootings, which left 33 dead.
From what I can tell, that shooting took place in April, whereas most of the articles about this kid seem to have come out sometime in May(?)
There may be no connection, but if that's the case, I think it's understandable, or at the very least expected that people might be a little on edge
so instead that they help kids who feel not accepted by their social surroundings and who would really need help.. they f*ck over the life of innocent kids who did nothing wrong. not cool.