Highway Shooters Claim To Emulate GTA

Thanks to Yahoo! for their story regarding teenage stepbrothers who randomly fired at cars on a Tennessee freeway, killing one person and wounding another, and told police they were inspired by Grand Theft Auto's sniper mode. According to the piece: "From a wooded area near their home at the Smoky Mountain Country Club, the boys fired a .22-caliber rifle up to 25 times through a break in the trees at cars driving along Interstate 40 about two miles east of Newport. They said they were bored and decided to shoot at tractor-trailer rigs, just like in the video game, 'Grand Theft Auto.'" According to this IOL/Reuters article, "Prosecutor Al Schmutzer told Judge Ben Strand that the boys told authorities they were mimicking the video game by trying to hit the sides of passing trucks."

Comments

Sounds familiar

[BoomerSooner]

I did this as a kid (with a BB Gun) and that was before GTA. I guess I can blame it on the Duke Boys.

ohhhh...

[cabra771]

so that's what you're suppose to do in the game...
no wonder I suck playing GTA3.

Funny

[GigsVT]

There's not any tractor-trailers in GTA.

Sorry Mr. Prosecutor, got to come up with something better than that.

I was like this once

[one9nine]

When I was nine, I wound up in the hospital with three broken fingers becuase I tried to imitate Super Mario by punching bricks that were floating in the sky. Those were the days.

Re:I was like this once

[zsazsa]

Sorry mister .. but that's just baloney .. there aren't floating bricks in real world ...

Sure there are.

If I had only had the chance...

[Perseid]

Kids these days are awfully lucky. When I was a kid, we actually got blamed for what we did. If I'd had excuses like this childhood would have been a hell of a lot more fun.

even more important thing about this article...

[boomerny]

I was unaware that Tennessee was even a state still. Damn NY public schools.

In other news:

[AzraelKans]

A 40 year old man was arrested in Chicago this morning:

"He started acting weird" mentioned his coworkers, Timothy Arcade 40 year old, went and bought a bunch of aspirins and throw them in the floor across all the cubicles, then he proceeded to eat them while making a "snacka" "snacka" sound effect, several coworkers and security officers tried to stop him, but he elluded them succesfully, in his way he also grabbed some cherries that were in the middle of the office for no apparent reason.
When the police finally arrived and arrested the man, he stated he was just trying to emulate pacman after hearing this the policeman let the poor man go and went to burn down namco's office on chicago.

Later that afternoon , the police had to arrest Timothy again, after eating a large Pill in one of the corner cubicles he actually attemped to eat the coworkers that were chasing him.

In other news some other 40 year old, was arrested yesterday for soliciting but he was let go when he confessed he was just emulating Leisure suit larry. The police is looking for sierra's offices to burn them down.

VideoGames: the best way get you off the hook... always!