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Wow.. This so smells like North Korea. A bad joke here and there or getting too tempered after bad game and the police throw you into jail. Of course I hope that he really was just joking - I've even heard of video game rage that has done some real harm and never I have heard that anyone was jailed.

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>This so smells like China or North Korea.

Don't know if I'd be quick to compare getting beat-up after making a despicable "joke" within 6 months of a historic tragedy to having your entire family sent to die in a hard labor camp without explanation.

Or like Thailand, where you can get sentenced to 10 years in prison for insulting the royal family, or even for writing a fantasy story about an unnamed family which some interpret as being about the royal family:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/world/asia/thai-court-give...

No, in the DPRK you and your family would be sent to labor camps and possibly mass executed a few years later.

Give it some time, we'll eventually get there… after-all, NK hasn't always been like that throughout history…

Fine go ahead and downvote me, but while you stick your head in the sand, we're talking on hn doing and nothing about what is going on, while our government does stuff like this, and you think it is not going to get worse? Ha.

Sure, thats why it only smells like it. In this case only the boy is imprisoned and beaten in jail and his parents are extorted for half a million dollars to get their son back to safety.

>...extorted for half a million dollars to get their son back to safety.

http://money.howstuffworks.com/bail.htm

You realize that making bail doesn't mean you don't have to go to trial, right?

I think s/he was simply pointing out that a "$500K bail" does not mean that the kid's parents were extorted for half a mill. That is not how bail works.

I guess the U.S. is better than North Korea then. Aim high.

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