Perhaps she should go to a virtual jail

Sometimes I think the times have simply passed me by. Consider., for example, the tale of a Japanese woman jailed after killing her virtual husband. That's right, not her real husband (I'm not even sure she's really married), but an avatar in some popular computer game called Maple Story (or, in English, Maple Story) in which participants can live out make-believe existences. What happened here, apparently, is that her virtual husband, without any warning, divorced her, so, in retaliation, she logged on to his computer and somehow killed his digital representation. Now it's not the killing part of the previous sentence that got her into trouble, it's the logging on part. So, for illegally logging on to someone else's computer she faces five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.