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Grand Theft Auto Led Teen to Kill

Posted by Zonk on from the personal-responsibility-is-for-old-people dept.

Varg Vikernes writes "FOXNews reports on a lawsuit that claims the video game 'Grand Theft Auto' led a teenager to shoot two police officers and a dispatcher to death in 2003, mirroring violent acts depicted in the popular game. 'What has happened in Alabama is that four companies participated in the training of Devin... to kill three men,' attorney Jack Thompson told The Tuscaloosa News, which reported the suit's filing. Thompson is also filing suit against Wal-Mart, Gamestop, Take-Two and Sony." Gamespot has coverage of this story as well. Thompson has made something of a career out of lawsuits of this nature.

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  1. Yeah, right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And Super Mario Bros. made me eat magic mushrooms.

    Oh, wait...

  2. Re:I'm pissed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ooo! Good thinking! I'm going to sue Will and Grace for teaching me to be really catty about other people's wardrobes!

    By the way, those shoes... I don't think so.

  3. Re:I'm pissed. by Sloppy · · Score: 5, Funny
    What's wrong with people that they think a game that allows you to beat up women, shoot cops and steal cars is fun?
    That's nothing. I used to play a game where I rode on a flying ostrich, and fought other people who were flying on buzzards. The thing is, in this game, the riders all carried really sharp lances, and yet, I would fly around rapidly and recklessly. It seemed fun at the time, but nowdays I realize that it wouldn't have been so fun if one of those lances had poked someone's eye out!

    The worst part is that, in the game, I sometimes killed a rare life form. It seems there was this pterodactyl, and I would hit him right in the mouth with my lance, killing him. This I did, with no regard for the scientific value in finding a live pterodactyl, after all these 65 million years. Just think, if we found a live pterodactyl in real life, we could study it and learn so much. But I cackled with glee at the poor animal's virtual death. Here I was, fantasizing about an act that carried with it, incredible amounts of scientific devastation -- permanent destruction of so much irreplacable zoological data. Damn, just thinking about it, makes me realize what a sicko I was. It's a wonder I didn't take up pterodactyl killing in real life. I hate to think what my life would be like today, if I had gone that way. That damn game should have been banned!!

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