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Hmmm, and we just instituted a Wii restriction in our house, we better watch our backs! Hughstan Schlicker, a 15-year-old in Phoenix, Arizona, has admitted that he shot his father with a 12-gauge shotgun because Dad cut off his internet use so Schlicker couldn’t go on MySpace. Sheesh, Hughstan, couldn’t you have just gone and used the computer at the library instead?

Police arrested Hughstan after the slaying at the Pueblo Seco Condominiums and accused him of first-degree murder.

After the slaying, “the defendant first called his friend and told her what he had done. He told her he was going to kill himself but she told him not to. She convinced him to call the police and deal with the situation,” the report said.

Hughstan told detectives that he used the Internet to communicate with his friends and since his father took the Internet away, he was “just so depressed all the time,” the report said. Specifically, Hughstan said he hated his father because he was restricting his use of the MySpace Web site, MyFOXPhoenix reports.