My sentiments exactly.
Neglected Child Dies While Parents Played World of Warcraft.

The crime isn't sensational, it's the addition of the video game that makes people react. Now everyone who has preconceived notions about video games get to cluck their tongues and realize they were right all along, games are addicting and terrible and cause nothing but pain and misery. In truth, this isn't gaming news. It's the story of bad parents. It's not a cautionary tale, neglect happens daily across the world for an infinite amount of reasons. It's sad that the story is getting pumped up and reported simply because the couple played a game while they were out, and it's even sadder that it's being reported as gaming news just for the shock value.

I motion we start doing this to everything. Kid has accident while you were talking on a cell phone? Cell phones are evil and addictive. Car crashes while you had the radio on? That damned devil-music again.

Great story to start a Wednesday with, ain't it?

Update: Good grief. Not five minutes after seeing that last story, I get hit with this one.
Russian Schoolboy Dies After 12 Hours of Computer Gaming

A 12-year-old schoolboy from Russia's Urals city of Yekaterinburg has died of playing computer games. After spending 12 hours at a local computer club, the boy fainted and was taken to hospital, where he died of stroke eight days later, the Novye Izvestia daily reported on Tuesday.

So not only are you going to murder your children from playing games, you'll have a stroke too. BAH.  ¶ 7:28 p.m.