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Kids Kill, Victim Sues Game Maker
qbproger writes "Sadly, two kids decided to go outside and start shooting cars. They were mimicing a video game they had been playing, Grand Theft Auto. I think it's about time parents started paying attention to the rating on video games." The family of one of the victims has decided to file suit against Take Two Interactive, presumably deciding that blame should be assigned to whoever has the deepest pockets instead of to those who actually did something wrong.
That totally sucks as an insanity defense, and I'm calling these kids on it. "It's-a Mario Kart, you honour!" as a plea? Now a that's a spicy-a meatball. (fr1st)
Well, there's a name I didn't expect to see in a news story about frivolous lawsuits.
Jack "2 Live Crew, Cop Killer, Dear Policeman I Am God, EverQuest Killed My Son" Thompson, Florida's leading disgrace to the legal profession.
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I think not! It's clearly a "crime simulator." I don't consider Microsoft Flight Simulator a game -- it's clearly a simulation, as its rules amount to replicating the reality of air travel. Grand Theft Auto clearly is attempting to replicate the reality of crime sprees, so why not just call it a crime sim?
I created my own player in Madden 2003 in which I placed myself on the New England Patriots.
Well when I showed up for training camp earlier this year they kept telling me to get the hell off the field. They wouldn't believe me that I really was on the team.
I'm seriously considering suing the makers of Madden for making me believe I really was on the team because they, of course, are at fault in this situation.
Until some kid walks into the hotel, runs over to the glowing, spinning tape, runs back out, heads right, outruns a car to hijack it, presses "X", hits "R1" as he fishtails around a corner on his way to the Ammu-nation, walks into the glowing disc, presses "X" again a few times to buy weapons, then auto-targets with "R1," I'm not going to believe that he learned how to do that because of Grand Theft Auto.
The game may present an idea, but there are far more steps involved in actually carrying this sort of thing out than those presented in a video game. What, did the kid run towards a spinning, levitating star after he shot at cars?
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Also, if they reach 1:4 loss:win, they should level up and win the game.
Well, unless the person was killed with the CD, wouldn't banning guns make more sense?
United States 14.24;
England and Wales 0.41;
Japan 0.05
And the sales figures for GTA: Vice City
United States: 5,221,935
England and Wales: 800,000 (extrapolating from full UK figures)
Japan: 0
Which just goes to prove that Take 2/Rockstar have a lot to answer for, the murdering scum.
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
Hi,
I happened to have seen Bowling for Columbine yesterday. In it the solution, provided by a very funny black entertainer. Make bullets $5000 a piece.
Bert
Who appreciates a lot of what Michael Moore makes.
PC manufacturers are guilty of perpetuating monopoly abuse by M$ until they include a partition with Linux pre-installed
Some guy named Kazaa.
Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon
One of the reason that many people are so cynical nowadays is because of the idiots who run rampant. Back in the good ol' days, a cave bear would have eaten them and we'd all be better off for it. Now we have to watch them launch lawsuits. Bring back the bears, I say.
UP WITH BEARS, DOWN WITH BAD PARENTS!
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
Mario has been prosecuted before for vandalism in Isle Delfino, as well as illegal drug prescriptions in Dr. Mario.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
This guy has an agenda and he needs to be watched out for.
Public offer: If you happen to know an impressionable game junky, I am willing to reimburse the cost of Hitman and Hitman 2 games, on the condition that you buy these games for the above mentioned junky and provide him/her with the home address of Jack Thompson. This offer becomes valid immediately.
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We all know games are what makes people kill. It's a proven historical fact. After all, it is well documented that Stalin used to play chess. We certainly cannot allow such murder-simulators to taint our children. I for one believe congress should ban any and all games on the market. I believe they should start with checkers and move their way up.
Some guy named Kazaa.
P2P - Porn 2 Pistols!
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.
...that they didn't even enable the invencibility cheat
I remember one Christmas when I was still working in a mall software store. This family comes in and the father asks me if I have any copies of Doom II in stock.
I say that we do and lead them over to it. The dad asks me what do you do in the game. It was at this time that I noticed a small cross pin on his suit. Feeling evil and a little bit bored I proceeded to tell him of fighting demons and imps, and describing the blood and gore in the game. All the while I was doing this the kid, who must have been about 13ish, was giving me a look that started out as "shut up man" and soon changed into "oh crap, I'm screwed."
After I was done describing the game the father handed it back to me and left the store without saying a word.
I shoot targets, not animals because deer aren't doing anything that bothers me.
;-)
Whereas the targets did... what, exactly?
Somewhere in Europe 1/10/2003. Reuters
A deranged 29-year old man was arrested somewhere in Europe yesterday evening. He was driving a reconstructed German world war two -era Panther tank and shouting "achtung achtung" madly, shooting with the tanks powerful 75mm gun and driving over every vehicle he encountered. A special unit of the local police had to use tear gas to get the deranged man out of his panzerkampfwagen.
The man later pleaded insanity, telling that he had been playing so-called strategy games on his PC computer. He especially mentioned a game called "Combat Mission - Barbarossa to Berlin." The man said that he really believed it was 1943 and he actually was taking part in the Battle of Kursk. "There was something different, usually i'm leading whole battalions, this time i was on my own", the madman said. "It was not entirely realistic, i like the Combat Mission graphics more."
The European Commission is taking the necessary actions to prevent males aged 25-85 from playing computer strategy games based on the history of world war two.
"Actually we might also ban them from doing military service, since they get to play very realistic and very bad wargames like infantry, marines and artillery there too. Hell, ban even wars these games are based on", said an unnamed source from the EU bureaucracy. "And the makers of tanks and other armoured vehicles are to be held accountable too - this is serious! The simulations are based on real vehicles!"
"Obviously these 'strategy' games are really evil to the psyche of adult males", said a psychiatrist from the Arkham institute of mental health and cybernetics. "Most likely we should ban people from watching war news on the television too - they might get influenced and start a real war in their neighborhood!
"Actually we might also ban them from doing military service, since they get bad influence there too. Hell, ban even wars - these games are based on real history you know" said an unnamed source from some bureaucracy in Central Europe.
"The military is not to blame", said a NATO general, "when we drive around with tanks it's nice and in defence of democracy, never mind a few loonies!"
Do you have children? Would you let your kids watch porn? After all, they'll just want to watch it more...
You wanna keep your kids from watching porn? Tape
you and your spouse doing it. Unless you're both
supermodels, there's nothing like a dose of parental
sex to scar a kid for life =D
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"We have imbeciles for kids, who can't distinguish reality from fiction. We have also failed utterly as parents to instill a sense of right and wrong in them, and have been so absent we didn't see this coming. We blame video games."
Nuisance suit, anyone?
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