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Take-Two Interactive and Sony Sued Over GTA
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently Take-Two Interactive is being sued by the parents of two kids who killed a man. I remember reading about the killing incident a few weeks ago, but this is the first I've read about an actual lawsuit. The part that I found most interesting was that Sony will also be named in the lawsuit because GTA was exclusive to their console." Update: 09/18 16:27 GMT by M : The Independent has moved/deleted the story on their site, breaking our link. We've already mentioned this story anyway.
Oblig Penny Arcade
Reminds me of a great bumper stick I had just seen recently, read:
DUMBASS
It's Lack of Parenting
NOT
Video Games
*DrugCheese rants*
We should also sue the electric company, for without their power they couldnt play the game. And oh yea, lets not leave out the TV maufacturer. Maybe we should even sue the person we bought the house from, since this is where they played the game.
Seriously, give me a break. How about parents stop blaming everyone but THEMSELVES for their kids actions.
Don't Tread on Me
Or maybe we /.ers could file a class-action suit against the parents for perpetuating the moron gene?
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i got a new plan:
1.) buy gta 3
2.) kill that bitch english teacher who always marked me down for incorrect semicolon usage ( damned c++ syntax leaking into my writing )
3.) parents sue take two/sony
4.) parents pay bail
5.) runaway to southeastern mexico and live it up on a private beach under the name 'juan sanchez'
if they would've completed the mission's objectives. The giant MISSION FAILED that popped over their heads should've been a give away.
*runs up to passanger side door of police cruiser and tries to open door; runs to drivers side and drives away*
What is music when you despise all sound?
Zobmies with RPGs?
Back in my day it was the RPGs that had Zombies.
(uh.... you were talking about role-playing games, weren't you?)
(Spudley Strikes Again!)
The article mentions that they were trying to recreate a scene from GTA. Does anyone know which scene specifically shooting a .22 at people in cars refers to? I played through Vice City and don't remember sniping folks in cars. (Could be wrong). I DO remember doing other things to people in cars though...
Had they had driven to the mall and tried to break all the windows in under 5:00 minutes, would this might be a legitimate case?
"We came home and found our son lying dead on his bed from a gunshot wound. He had his headphones on and there was an Ozzy record on the turntable[1]. So we called our lawyer."
GF.
[1] An archaic device used to create an analog sound stream from an arm with a small device that amplified the sound made by a needle rubbing a vinyl platter etched with a spiral groove starting on the outside and slowly going toward the center. The vinyl platters were called "records" and were interchangeable. The "record player" rotated the disk in a circular motion while the arm tracked the groove as it moved from the outside to the inside of the "record"[2].
[2] In the southern hemisphere, the "record" spun in the opposite direction.
Lots of petrified grits
If anyone (like, for example, the UN) complains, then I will sue Tony Blair and Dubya for being bad role models...
P.S. Does anyone have a small army I can borrow?
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He invented violence.
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
What did you call those kids???
/. using their 1337 speak that I REALLY had to look at your 2x10^7 (What WORD is that supposed to be???) for quite a while before I figured it out...
I am so used to seeing Haxorz on
You were just using good ol' geekspeak!! Rock on!
---"What did I say that sounded like 'Tell me about your day?'"---
In related news, RockStar Games sues The United States of America, for influencing them in making the GTA series.
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
I tend to think of the McDonald's lawsuit by the people that just found out the food is bad for them.
I used to think that all those suits should be thrown out of court immediately, but I've changed my opinion.
They should be given class action status. They should win. McDonald's will then be assigned all responsibility for every patron's health. McDonald's will decide your every dietary intake. McDonald's will assign workout schedules which you must follow under penalty of law.
I suppose someting similar can be worked out for Sony and kids. Sony will assign all extra-curricular activities.
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So if I actually had kids who went out and copycatted these kids, could I sue the original parents/kids for inspiring these crimes and claim back all the money they sued. It could form a chain... with the people committing the most recent crime always having the money. This is all madness...
The article reads:
This should instead read:
Hope this helps.
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
P.S. Does anyone have a small army I can borrow?
Why do you need an army for France? Just tell them your coming and they will surrender.
Oh my lord, if only...The dot-com days are back, boys! Start eyein' those Ferraris like you mean it! CHA-CHING!
Activison is sued for 55 year old man's death - apparently he played Pitfall constantly since 1983, and recently tried to jump on an alligator's head to cross a swamp.
Read the article asshat ... And this isn't in the US it is in the UK. Why don't you take your fucking idiotic, shithead, anti-American crap and shove it up your mother's hairy ass.
Erm...
Although you did put your reasoned argument in a polite, informed manner, I would bring these points:
Unless we (the UK) just annexed Knoxville, Tennessee, this is in the US.
Other key pointers include the lawsuit currency (dollars), easy availability of weaponary (you need to be a fairly hardcore criminal in the UK to get hold of a gun), and the subject of a lawsuit (not likely in the UK, maybe even not possible).
It may have been misleading, however, since this case was reported in a British newspaper. I would like to point out that our newspapers do also have excellent coverage of events beyond the UK. These are sometimes known as 'World' news or 'International' news.
Of course, one of the biggest selling games of all time is clearly causing the breakdown of law and order in society. GTA has only sold 20 million copies - what are the odds that one of those 20 million people would be some kind of freak anyway?
To call this all horseshit seems to be beyond the metal skills of Miss Bede and the family of Aaron Hamel, Jack Thompson and Craig Anderson. Let's just hope this kind of insanity doesn't really make its way to the UK.
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything." (attrib. Joseph Stalin)
Your first clue should have been where the kids were from. This is what happens when brothers and sisters marry.
Thank you for your service. Those of us who don't have to serve because people like you did really appreciate it. So in all sincerity, thanks.
If I went out and shot somebody today the media would say it's because I played Pac Man in my youth
Doubtful. If you munched him to death, tough....
You are all missing the point. Notice that the children involved were male! It is a statistical fact that 100% of all male violence is perpetrated by men or boys. Therefore, all men are inherently violent.
The solution, radical as it may sound, surely is to eliminate men altogether. Breeding could be done by Genuine Artificial Insemination. No male sperm would be used. A DNA sample would be taken from one parent and injected into an egg taken from the other parent. This would be returned to the uterus.
The price - the life of every man and boy currently on the planet - would be a small one to pay for the benefit of living in a society without violence, sexually transmitted diseases, rape, unwanted pregnancy or abortion {which DOES damage the women who have to do it, MORE than you think}. There would be no need for contraceptive devices which either have long-term health risks, or make sex less enjoyable {although any woman who claims to "enjoy" sex with a man is evidently suffering from delusions. Hetero sex is solely a means to an end and its necessity is questionable in any case. As an evolutionary necessity the man may feel artificially "good" following sex with a woman, but this is a typical example of male selfishness. Men get an endorphine-induced "good feeling" from anything that improves their OWN chance of survival. Women get the same "good feeling" from helping OTHER women}.
Beside the obvious advantage of there not being males, and therefore there being no crime or volence, this would restrict breeding to approved couples who would raise their daughters properly. It would be possible to impose a "parenting test" on any couple who wished to start a family.
In Soviet Rus- aw, forget it.
I suppose now you would Google the answers to all the questions. Crap.
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