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Robbers Scared by GTA

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Bad luck for the burglar by Insipid+Trunculance · · Score: 4, Interesting

    that he was in the US.In our small country , England , the Govt would charge the old lady , for scaring the burglar.

    On a serious note , this is a very big issue.Unlike the US , where the rights of home owners using force against burglars are quite clear , in the UK this is a grey area.Home owners can use reasonable force only and that is decided by the courts.

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  2. Along the same lines.... by niew · · Score: 3, Interesting
    A friend of mine was kicked back on his couch in his boxers watching a movie (home theater type setup)...

    There was a knock at the door, he opened it a crack to answer it (he was in his boxers). The door was forced open and he was pinned to the floor by a bunch of heavily armed cops!

    It seems a neighboor had heard somebody yell "Everybody get down!" followed by some gun shots, put 1 and 1 together and came up with 3...

  3. Simple answer. by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Dont own only one gun. Or one knife.

    "Officer, he broke in, and had just picked up my other gun and i was forced to shoot him!!"

    Same goes for knives. THe only problem is, sadly, you can no longer just beat the crap/wound someone breaking into your house, you have to kill them to make sure you dont get sued or arrested.

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    1. Re:Simple answer. by austad · · Score: 4, Interesting

      A cop friend once told me that if someone breaks into your house, it's technically illegal to shoot and kill them. However, he said that you bet your ass he would shoot and kill anyone that broke into his house. He also told me that if it ever happens, to make damn sure you shoot to kill, because if the person lives, you'll end up in court getting sued or going to prison.

      As far as I'm concerned, if someone comes into my house and forcefully comes through my locked bedroom door, they do not have good intentions. They will either be shot or chopped up with a razor sharp samurai sword.

      Oddly enough, there have been a couple of incidents lately in my city where burglars have been breaking into occupied houses around 5am, tying up the occupants at gunpoint, and then stealing all of their crap.

      Get yourself an alarm system, it's a good deterrent, and has the bonus of alerting you and waking you up if someone does decide to break in. With a properly installed alarm system, you can be reasonably sure that the bumps in the night are nothing. I've was robbed once at a house I was renting, they took a bunch of stuff. And, one of my roomies was home at the time, watching TV in the basement. A second time, we had an alarm system. Someone worked the back door open and it set off the alarm, they ran away. They are lucky they ran away too because they would have only been seconds away from being shot.

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  4. Come on people! by Fulkkari · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Most likely the burglar didn't get scared of the sound from GTA because it sounded like cops. When he heard the sound he probably just figured out someone was at home and decided to escape. Burglars want to do their business alone... not when the house is packed with people.

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  5. Along those lines by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What worries me is that if an ammendment can be legslated away "for the public good" what about the others? There are plenty of other ammendments that are troublesome, and the government has made attempts in the past and now to curtail.

    If they legslate away the second, then that's great prescident for them to say "We need to get rid of the sixth ammendment. Look at all the drug dealers and evil doers that get off on technicalities because of their scumbag lawyers. The defandant doesn't need a lawyer, they just twist the truth. Our Great and Noble prosecutors are only concerned with the truth, so that's all that is needed. Don't worry, this won't be abused, it just helps make you safe."

    I mean you can argue that basically any ammendment should be done away with to make us safer. In a perfect world, that'd be the case. If the government were composed of perfectly noble beings, than none of these rights would be necessary, because all they do is et in the way of the conviction of the guilty.

    However, that's NOT the case. Governments are corrupt, all of them, to some degree because HUMANS are corrupt. There are next to no examples of perfectly noble human beings. So things like the Bill of Rights exist to control that, and to protect people by ensuring the government can't do whatever it wants.