Car News

As I've mentioned many times before, I use Google Alerts to pick up
stories in the media about D&D and other roleplaying games. Last week,
something strange happened with my alerts. On March 23rd, it sent me
an alert about Christopher Gribble, a participant in a horrible home
invasion/murder incident that happened in October of 2009. The article
from the New Hampshire Union Leader seemed to suggest that Gribble's
involvement in Dungeons & Dragons was one of the things that kept his
homicidal impulses at bay:

http://www.theescapist.com/gribblearticle1.jpg

This could have been a first. I mean, we've seen an impressive decline
in articles that attempt to connect D&D with criminal behavior, but
this could be one of the first times a news story has directly
suggested that playing the game could have the opposite effect for
someone with extreme violent impulses..

When I clicked the link, however, I discovered that the article didn't
contain any of the text found in the alert.
http://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Taped+Gribble+confession+continues+at+insanity+trial&articleId=18045922-4720-4c83-a74e-e2715497bd8d

I did a search for the text on Google, and found a link to the same
article:

http://www.theescapist.com/gribblearticle2.jpg

I had no luck with the Google cache, either, and an email to the
reporter has yet to be answered. I'm guessing that the article had a
quick revision of some sort before I got to view it. This isn't
anything new - the same thing happened at SFGate during the coverage
of the Columbine massacre (http://
www.theescapist.comadvocacy99.htm#0499COLUMBINE-sfgate), and I'm sure
that's not the only time an article has gotten a substantial revision.

If anyone happened to see a copy of the original article, or knows how
I can see it for myself, please contact me. Thanks!

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