Although a teenager’s obsession with a violent video game may have warped his sense of reality, the boy is guilty of murdering his mother and wounding his father after they took “Halo 3″ away from him, a judge ruled Monday.

And then, to make it worse, this unbelievable, incomprehensible excuse spinning from the judge!:

“I firmly believe that Daniel Petric had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents they would be dead forever,” Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said.

Yeah, the teen is so very stupid that he can’t tell the difference between a game and reality. He figured he would just reboot his parents and they’d jump up and thank him for the fun…

We have here another example of Total Depravity’s grip on folk- and I’m not just talking about the murderer, I’m talking about the judge as well.

Prosecutors said Petric planned to kill his parents because he was angry that his father would not allow him to play the video game, in which players shoot alien monsters that have taken over the Earth.  On the night of the shooting, Petric used his father’s key to open a lockbox and remove a 9 mm handgun and the game.  Mark Petric testified that his son came into the room and asked: “Would you guys close your eyes? I have a surprise for you.” He testified that he expected a pleasant surprise. Then his head went numb from the gunshot.

It’s probably safe to say that young thug Petric will be awakened at some point in the future by his cellmate with the same line.