A Conundrum or Just Plain Old Stupidity?

Yahoo! News - Online Gamer Stabbed for Selling Cyber-Saber So, one guy stabs to death another guy that sold his 'saber'. The thing of it is, the 'saber' never really existed. It is a weapon used in an online game. That's it. A game piece, in a virtual world... How people are so into this stuff that they are spending hundreds of dollars on virtual product that doesn't even really exist is truly unbelievable. Now, somebody actually murders somebody else over it. People are out of their minds... Now the courts have to weigh in on it. The murder should be pretty obvious, but this started when the dead guy sold the other guy's game saber that never really existed. So, the dude goes to the cops and finds out there is no protection for virtual items even tho his buddy had just made $800 out of thin air (which means somebody else out there paid eight C notes for nothing real). Finding he had no recourse for his buddy selling what he 'owned' (but actually didn't in the real world laws), he lost patience and stabbed the guy to death, even tho he had offered to give him the money. This is just plain stupid. It's one thing to get ripped off by the con artists that haunt "feEBAY" and the crooks behind Paypal, but at least that's over tangible goods (well, most of the time. A woman just sold her name! She will be paid 15 grand to legally change her name to an online betting casino's website...whatever, that's another story). In this case, there was a murder committed over a non-existent item! Just sad. When will people start using that God-given grey matter between the ears?!