Robbers Scared by GTA

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday December 12, 2004 @02:10AM from the crime-doesn't-pay dept.

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..."

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and then ... by klang · 2004-12-12 02:12 · Score: 4, Funny

the grandsons beat the shit out of the poor burglar..
1. Re:and then ... by vranash · 2004-12-12 02:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  With a large, pink, double dildo ;-p
2. Re:and then ... by Viceice · 2004-12-12 04:39 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  reminds me of a story i read in the local paper.
  
  These 2 burglars planed on robbing the home of a lawyer while he was out, as they had staked out the place and figured that his wife would be home alone during the day time.
  
  So one afternoon, after making sure the lawyer had left, they put their plan into action. Unbeknown to them, the lawyer's son and his buddies from his hockey team were in, fresh from a game.
  
  So these 2 guys walked in with a knife each, to find 6 fuming mad built up guys with hockey sticks + 1 old lady.
  
  One got away, one was handed over to to the cops after being beaten to a pulp while being "aprehended".
  
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This happened to me once by Nine+Tenths+of+The+W · 2004-12-12 02:12 · Score: 5, Funny

A man ran in, pointed a gun at me, saw that I was playing Daikatana and ran off screaming.

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What I wish... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-12 02:13 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Home Alone? by Peden · 2004-12-12 02:15 · Score: 5, Funny

This sounds abit too much like something from the film "Home Alone" doesn't it?
Yeah Right! by Lord+Kano · 2004-12-12 02:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Are you sure that he didn't die laughing at you?

LK

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Re:"Burglarize" by SlimFastForYou · 2004-12-12 02:59 · Score: 5, Funny

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. "
This could help in other dangerous situations by aiabx · 2004-12-12 03:09 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Home Alone by BitwizeGHC · 2004-12-12 03:13 · Score: 4, Funny

"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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Re:And your source is? by corbettw · 2004-12-12 03:15 · Score: 5, Funny

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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In Other News... by Dystopian+Rebel · 2004-12-12 04:01 · Score: 4, Funny

The burglars who ran away are suing the owners of the home, the children, and Sony for causing them excessive job stress.

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Re:Urm... by SharpFang · 2004-12-12 04:06 · Score: 5, Funny

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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And in other news by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-12 05:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Aliens were trying to abduct my grandmother, but I was playing Halo and they heard me operating the Scorpion, so they ran away.