Father hires virtual assassin to kill his son in online game

A man in China hired virtual assassins to hunt down his son in online video games and kill off his avatar, according to local media.

The man named as Mr Feng was concerned about the amount of time his 23-year-old unemployed son was spending online.

He hoped his actions would deter his son from playing the games, he is reported to have said.

Brilliant, you can’t not smile at stories like this, but it does throw up some questions the most obvious being how do you hire an online hit-man?

Do you go to a dark spooky looking room in a hidden alleyway and instead of finding samurai swords on the wall you see toy lightsabers, and instead of a shady well trained figure you see a heavyset person with glasses slurping on a giant cup of cola?

As hilarious as this is Mr Feng has missed a trick instead of hiring people to kill his son online, he could have got them to hack into his account and delete it or bombard him with emails telling him to get a job.