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Man blames Silent Hill for shutting down hospital power
Lydia Sung - Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 | 12:50PM (PT) 0 Like Favourites (0)


Tried to get toothbrush by pulling levers and switches

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With all the violent games out there taking heat for allegedly influencing crazies to murder and do other weird crap, Silent Hill has mostly sat under the radar despite its obvious mind f*cking qualities.  That is, until a crazy from the Netherlands showed up.

Identified as "Jan H." to the press, the 35-year-old man had snuck into a the Sophia Hospital's basement in April 2008 and shut off the establishment's power.  Why?  He blames psychosis and claims he thought he was playing Silent Hill at the time.

The hospital was without electricity for about 45 minutes and thankfully, no one died during the outage.  However, hospital staff had to manually respirate intensive care patients during that period.  During a court trial last week, Jan said he thought he was playing the game at the time and had "no idea of the true consequences of his deeds."  He was apparently trying to get a toothbrush by messing with the levers and switches that controlled the hospitals electricity.

Now we're a huge fan of Silent Hill, but no one remembers a puzzle that required you to find a toothbrush in a hospital basement.  Well, at least Jan wasn't hallucinating and armed with a rusty axe -- that would have been bad.

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    kspiess since Jun 2007 | Oct 28, 09
    BAN GAMES NOW!!!
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    THM since Jan 2008 | Oct 28, 09
    Hee Hee... maybe he would like to get authentic experience by switching off main electricity in the hospital...

    Well, my question is that,

    Did he see a naked nurse with a blood-stained knife in the main hallway of the hospital?

    I don't think so....
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    jdj1976 since Sep 2008 | Oct 29, 09
    or was it dark and gothic in there no this is just some random idiot who wanted to be on the news

    i say stick him in a hole and fill it up whit cement and no i dident get that from a game i got it from hystory channel talking about the mafia
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    THE GECKO STATE since Sep 2009 | Oct 29, 09
    talk about psycho, is there a lever that stamps a sign saying INSANE upon his forehead
    Last edited by THE GECKO STATE :: Oct 29, 09
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    Yorkieboy since Nov 2005 | Oct 29, 09
    Hmmm yes, BAN VIDEO GAMES! TEACH YOUNG PEOPLE THE JOYS OF SEWING AND READING OLD ENGLISH POETRY!
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    MrGrimm since Mar 2008 | Oct 29, 09
    What's next? Someone blaming Duke Nukem because a store ran out of bubble gum?
    Last edited by MrGrimm :: Oct 29, 09
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