Saw this on Joystiq.

For those who don't want to read the story, it seems that some kid made a map of his school for some game and uploaded it to a server so that he and his friends could play it. Don't know what game, but it was probably a FPS, like Quake 4. After it was found by someone at his school, the cops were called and he was arrested for terroristic activities. The reason; he made the map. And he had a hammer in his room. That could be used as a weapon you know.

Here is the stupid part of the story. Apparently I am a terrorist. I have a hammer and three knives in my bedroom, and while I never made the level, I had drawings and preliminary sketches for levels based on my college, high school, and work. Not only that, but a lot of people I went to college with are terrorists because they did the same thing. In fact, most people who have ever made levels are terrorists, because most at least think about making one based on school, work, their town, ect. Even if we don't make it, we think about making levels based on what we know.

So why was he really arrested? Because he is Asian and because an Asian guy went on a shooting spree recently at Virginia Tech. The Virginia Tech shooter didn't play video games, dispite what idiots like Jack Thompson might say, but because of guys like him, something like a level based on a school is going to send up flares. The fact that the level's creator is Asian is just throws more fuel on the fire.

A month from now, a year from now, this wouldn't be a problem. The fact that he probably was working on the level well before Virginia Tech, and may have even had it done before that, means nothing. The point is, he made the level, so he was obviously planning something.

Some people need some sense slapped into them and need to stop jumping to conclusions, panicking about little things like this.