Online Treachery
March, 2003
Online TreacheryShawn Woolley was a junkie. The floor of his Wisconsin apartment bore testament: fast-food wrappers, dirty clothes, chicken bones. He rarely answered his phone. He had stopped going to work, instead staying home to play EverQuest, an online role-playing video game. Woolley was an epileptic, and his marathon sessions triggered frequent seizures.The 21-year-old had been evicted from his previous apartment after he sequestered himself to play the game. "He stayed in his apartme...