Deliberate crashing or just locked up?

[StellaInTheSky]

I was on Abassa just now to find some public ships, and I had to go AFK to answer my phone. I was sitting here, Monica was flipping her coin, and I watching people run around and the various discussions going on (gotta love Abassa sometimes) and noticed, as usual, a bunch of people doing the PVP glitch.

Now...I'm using my boyfriend's computer which has 2 very high-end graphics cards and is literally less than 3 months old. But I've been kicked off when I've been around the PVP glitchers several times. The whole screen locks up and I have to ctrl-alt-del to get the game to close.

But I want to know if they are able to crash other people while in PVP glitch. The reason I ask is because I witnessed a high-level pirate who was in glitch mode walk up to 3 other pirates who were AFK (this was on the 'less busy' beach with the tattoo parlor and the searchable well), and he would stand there for a second and then those pirates would disappear as though they had logged.

I have only ever experienced this problem when around the PVP glitchers (who, by the way, irritate me to death...LAG!). Is it them or the game itself?

Forgot to mention that he did, indeed, walk up to me and stand there a second before I froze up...