Infinity Ward  of Modern Warfare 2 fame are offering a pair of night vision googles with a Prestige Edition of Modern Warfare 2. Now what may  come as surprise is that the British newspaper The Daily Star is claiming that the night vision goggles will be used for perverted nights out. Modern warfare 2 fans apparently are going to become a an army of “stealth dogging” and to spy on gay cruising spots.

Here’s what Spong is saying on his blog

Modern Warfare 2 Goggles Will Turn You Into A Pervert

Daily Star toots horn about “ogling perv” gamers.

Ban this sick filth! This week’s tinfoil hat wearing shenanigans comes from the Daily Star, who reckon that gamers buying the Modern Warfare 2Prestige Pack (you know, the one that’s insanely priced with thegoggles) are only doing so for ’stealth dogging’ and ’spy on gaycruising spots’.

Apparently the negative tabloid news piececlaims that obtaining the special edition game with pack-in NightVision Goggles will transform “geeky computer game fans” into an “armyof ogling pervs”. How ironic.

The newspaper even gets ‘gamewriter’ Rob Watson to say “I shudder to think of someone who may have ahard time with reality anyway donning these goggles for real mischief -or even worse”.

The funny thing is where exactly the ’stealthdogging’ and ‘gay cruising spy’ claims come from. Two separate,tongue-in-cheek comments made on computer game sites.

Onestatement from VG247 says “[The goggles are] good enough for stealthdogging/cruising and I think that’s all anyone really cares about”,while a post on PS3Attitude declares “you can put these bad boys on andbecome the Peeping Tom you’ve always wanted to be”.

Ah, theInternet. Glorious in its anonymity and misinterpretation of humour. Wewonder if print will really ever ‘get it’ at this rate.