10 Fanatical Gamers Who Took Their Obsession Way Too Far

10. Japanese Woman Charged With 'Virtual Murder' - Maple Story

In perhaps one of the strangest legal cases relating to video games, Japanese woman Mayumi Tomari was arrested in 2008 for "murdering" her virtual husband in revenge for a virtual divorce which took place in the online game. The arrest, reported in the Japanese newspaper Daily Yomiuri, related to the police's suspicion of Tomari illegally using her husband's logon and password to steal his ID in the game and delete his character - while it is unclear whether or not she was actually charged, if found guilty she faced a potential five years in prison. Still, as we're about to see, "murdering" your husband in the virtual world is nothing compared to the lengths some gamers have gone to...