Artemicion said:
They're actually offended, insulted, and absolutely dumbfounded over a middle school level insult in a video game. Enough to QQ about it to a local news cast.
I can't think of anything more pathetic.
I can... I was in the hospital waiting room on Tuesday, and some African woman decided to jump the queue. It didn't bother me personally that much, since I'd already been to another part of the hospital and I was gonna have to wait longer after I'd been triaged anyway, but I grabbed her and told her to just wait patiently like everyone else. Apparently that offended her, because she went on a tirade at me about "you don't tell me! Only the lady can tell me! I'm sick!" I was half trying to calm her down, and half trying to ignore her, because I knew anything I said would just exacerbate her.
Anyway, she was finally starting to calm down, but me being me had to get in the last word, so I mumbled that she was a crazy ***... Bad mistake.
She seriously *** lost it.
She started shouting about "how you call me bish!? I have children! I have husband! How you call me bish!?" She called her husband to come to the waiting room because "this man is attacking me". At one point she stood up, threw her hands to the air and just dropped to the ground in the most dramatic "faint" you've ever seen. I actually had to catch her to stop her smacking her head on the wall. Within seconds there were paramedics and nurses everywhere, helping her up and into a chair, yet for the next 20 minutes while people are trying to ask her questions about what's wrong with her (we were in the emergency department), all she can do is ask how I can call her a "bish".
Anyway, then her husband rocks up and she tells him all about it I guess, and he calls the police. When the cops arrived, myself and everyone else in the queue are dumbfounded, all I did was call her a bich, and the general consensus is that it was well deserved.
The cops talked to the angry husband for a while, who, it turned out, didn't even know who had "attacked" his wife, as he directed the cops to some other guy. I put my hand up and went and talked to one of the cops, who told me that this was all a waste of his time, and really didn't seem to give a ***about talking to me.
Anyway, the husband asked the cops if I was being charged, who told him there was nothing to charge me for. This made him angry, and he started swearing at me across the waiting room, so the cop warned him that now
he was in danger of being charged with something.
So of course, he said "what? Because I'm black?"
That's about it really, the cops took him outside and had a long chat with him, he came back later and swore at me a bit more though after the cops were gone.
All because I called his wife a crazy ***.