Today, in the strange but true category, Reuters is reporting on an incident in Spain where real world politics has spilled over into the virtual world of Second life. Spanish political parties are accusing each other of a form of virtual terrorism, saying that rival party members have attempted to burn down each other's party offices in the game.

MADRID, May 17 (Reuters) - Spain's bitter political wrangling has spread to Second Life, where supporters of socialist and conservative parties are accusing each other of trying to burn down party offices in the virtual world.

"They have thrown bombs, entered the building with submachine guns, lit fires, everything you could imagine," an official from Spain's ruling Socialist Party, using the Second Life moniker Zeros Kuhm, told Reuters.

In the real world, hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters have flooded Spanish streets over the past year, accusing the government of capitulating to Basque separatist guerrillas ETA.

"We have complained to the Second Life commission about the terrorism," a spokesman for the conservative opposition Popular Party said.

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