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Robbers Scared by GTA
HellSpam writes "Some robbers tried to burglarize a poor old lady and her 3 grandsons. Her grandsons happened to be playing Grand Theft Auto:San Andreas, and the sounds of the police from the game scared them away! From the article: "The police in the game were saying, 'Stop, we have you surrounded. This is the police.' The burglar, unknowingly, thought this was the actual police and panicked ... being apprehended by PlayStation." Now, no more saying games are bad for you..."
the grandsons beat the shit out of the poor burglar..
A man ran in, pointed a gun at me, saw that I was playing Daikatana and ran off screaming.
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I wish the 3 kids then all picked up baseball bats and laid into the thief
before taking off with his car and finding hookers.
This sounds abit too much like something from the film "Home Alone" doesn't it?
Crime doesn't P(l)ay(station)!
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Are you sure that he didn't die laughing at you?
LK
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I was playing DDR when the burglar broke in, He got pissed, beat me and shot me!
That's ok, whenever you boys go "fill your car with gas", we'll always imagine you farting away in your ve-hic-les :-)
Somewhere in America:
Operator: "Hello, this is 911, how may I help you?"
Citizen: "HELP! I've been bloody burgled by two tall guys with fags and they are making off!"
Operator: "Is this some kind of a sick joke? Call when you have an emergency. "
I'm looking for a video game that randomly says "Thank you for ordering the Anniversary Special Bouquet. It will be ready for pickup shortly".
-aiabx
Just this guy, you know?
"I'm gonna give you to the count of ten to get your ugly, yella, no-good keister off my property before I pump yer guts full of lead. One... two... TEN!" *ACKACKACKACKACKACK* *pizza guy runs away all scared*
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Dude, this totally happened! This guy at work, he has a cousin who goes to school with one of the kids in the story. And he swears it really happened this way!
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Operator: "Hello, this is 911, how may I help you?"
:-)
Unlikely -- we'd dial 999. Take that smart guy
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If the burgler had just played Thief...
In the US we like our words to have phonetic relationships to meaning. Sound and meter very important and we like our words to be cool. It is not that we don't have "cute" words, but robbery (notice hard 'B' and "ery" sound) is cool and the word used to describe it shouldn't sound like a teddy bear picnic on lollipop lake. Burgle sounds like being tickled or at worst half vomiting in your throat, but it does not sound cool. Queer eye for the straight guy meets 'theft' and you get burgle.
On the other side of the coin, this is one reason British humor is so funny.
>Some robbers tried to burglarize a poor old lady and her 3
Why are old ladies always poor? Do non-poor ladies never get robbed (they should, they have more money).
The burglars who ran away are suing the owners of the home, the children, and Sony for causing them excessive job stress.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
In my opiniation, "burglarize" is a perfectionally validative wordification. How else would reportization of the securitial/policial forceship appearize to be importantive enoughly to be respectative by the massmediaship and influentate the societyness?
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Because "Hamburglarizer" was too hard for McDonalds to say.
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Aliens were trying to abduct my grandmother, but I was playing Halo and they heard me operating the Scorpion, so they ran away.
About 7 years back our house was nearly broken into. At the time I was an IRC junkie (running my own network and all). We used to play this wav file that had a guy screaming WAKEUP!!! and we would play it frequently late at night to get each others attention.
:)
For some reason all the thief did was open the window. For some reason he didn't go any further. Our best guess is when he was breaking in he heard a wave file yelling WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!
Ian
Ahh yes. The infamous "Proof by dictionary links." A much underused technique IMO.
Surely somebody who burgles is a burglator.
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
"Burglarize" is a perfectly cromulent word.
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don't worry
i'm sure he's read snowcrash, whih is probably why he bought it in the first place
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