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Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade
Anon1001 sent us the latest developments in the ongoing saga between Miami Attorney Jack Thompson and Penny-Arcade. So far the story goes that Jack has filed a wrongful death suit against Rock Star, claiming that GTA is a cop killing training simulator responsible for the murder of a pair of cops. He also
offered $10k to charity if anyone who would develop some ridiculous murder spree game. When someone did it, and he changed his mind and Penny-Arcade donated the cash instead. All of this is being documented on the Penny Arcade website, in phone calls, rants and comics, as well as an 'I Hate Jack Thompson' T-Shirt. (Note, Slashdot's parent company owns ThinkGeek).
He has now
called the cops claiming harassment. Update: 10/18 17:40 GMT by Z : It seems like this confrontation has been brewing all summer. The most recent altercation is just another link in the chain made by Thompson's reaction to Hot Coffee and his crusade against the Sims 2. Further, PA has put up the scan of the letter to the cops, and a photo of the check.
It's going to happen very soon now, as Jack is getting loonier and loonier. He keeps dancing around direct legal threats, because he knows what will happen. Soon he will slip, and soon after that he won't be a lawyer anymore, and won't THAT be a shame?
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
He also offered $10k to charity if anyone who would develop some ridiculous murder spree game.
What the fuck does that even mean?!
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IAAL, and I gotta say, Jack Thompson, YOU SUCK.
"These idiots have been so careless as to post on their www.pennyarcade.com web site what they are doing regarding the harassment of me."
In the same sentence he's call them idiots he gives the wrong web address.
Hey, looks like a written attack on Penny Arcade. They should counter sue on the grounds that they are not idiots :-)
I will offer 10K* to the first person who makes a game involving running Jack Thompson over with an 18-wheeler .**
*10k meaning a 10k text file composed of the words "Jack Thompson is a twit" , as opposed to 10,000 in money
**This is satire , a parody of Jack Thompsons Parody ***
*** This , like J. Thompsons Satire is poor Satire .
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Ok, if GTA is a "cop killing training simulator", then what does that say about the compentency of our police force?
I remember a spot in GTA 3 where I could hide under an overpass and the cops would all jump off the top to their deaths...this would continue indefinately and I found it rather amusing. And now that I know that this is what would happen in real life, I'm going on a crime spree rampage during which I'll wipe out the town's entire police force by crouching near an overpass.
Just one, and surpise, he's a lawyer.
-Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.
Jack Thomson is trying to SAVE YOU! Ever since the first Lemming exploded the video game industry has been corrupting your minds. You all clearly lack the ability to discern sliding a CG mock-up car through a crowded bus stop in Carmageddon from real world laws and morals. GTA and Bully will spell the end for all the decent God fearing folk of your great nation! Won't someone please think of the children?!!! *SOB!* *WEEP* *MOAN* What's Next?! GTIB?!!! (Grand Theft Investment Banker) GTE?!!!! (Grand Theft Election) What kind of example would that set for the financial and political leaders of the last bastion of freedom and high-holiness in the world?
..i'm immediately reminded of Walter Peck from Ghost Busters.
;)
Hopefully when the phoned up the police to ask them to arrest the Penny Arcade guys, the police officer on the phone said "You do your job pencil neck, don't tell me how to do mine!"
"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
Did anyone else realize.... Citizens United Negating Technology For Life Aand People's Safety
Have you ever considered that you might hate them, too, if you just took the time to get to know them?
I am not a crackpot.
Not Obvious, So Happy I Told. Somebody Has Easily Ruined Laughter Over Coward Kibosh
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
The most likely way that he would receive professional discipline would be as a result of one or more well-reasoned, viable complaints to the bar.
I believe this is the proper form.
Your argument implies corruption at every level of government. On what facts are you basing this assertion?
My guess would be the last ~10,000 years of human history.
What would Lemmy do?
Mad props for the word "disbarilarity", dude.
is a _damning_ indictment...
Jack Thompson proposes a game in which a father kills innocent people related in some way to gaming, as revenge for his son's death. Someone actually made that game as a mod--and this is irony, if you missed it--to Grand Theft Auto.
If JT wants anyone to play his game, and get vicarious revenge on the game industry, they have to purchase GTA to play it.
Well, I don't own a copy yet. Guess I'll go get one.
BTW, if your reply to this post defines "irony" for me, I'll fucking stab you. Damn, video games do make you violent!
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
I'm sure we'll all send our prayer to your office most of us really think you need all the help you can get. You seem to be losing your grip on reality, and are suffering some kind of delusions of grandeur and just a bit of a suicidal in the way you've gone and made your self a highly visable target; alarmingly a realativly simple google search on your office address turns up as the number one link, your complaint against California-licensed attorney, Mark Geragos who was attorney for Scott Peterson in his murder trial; that complaint as required by California law not only lists your office address and phone number but your home address, home phone number and cell phone number.
We are begging you to realise life is not a video game, you have no free extra lives in the bank, when some whacko finaly tracks you down and puts a bullet in you it will most likely hurt you very badly or kill you, Please be careful
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I would pay for a shirt that says Jack Thompson murders kittens!
Then again, maybe I'll say I'll pay for that shirt and recend my offer when someone prints it, I hear its what laywers do these days.
Things are about to get really interesting. Why? This quote from PennyArcade, updated at 6:30pm: "I don't think we can just ignore him anymore. --Gabe"
Translation: "Jack, you are about to be ridiculed like no other person in the history of the internet. Before this is over, you will be embarassed to speak your own name outloud, former friends will openly laugh in your face, children and animals will mistrust you, and you will reflexively spit at your own reflection out of disgust. And just when you think that things can't get worse, or perhaps it's all over, the fun will begin anew. "
Or, to paraphrase: "Jack, baby, you really fucked up."
That depends on if you kill or just subdue.
"I replied to a Jack Thompson email and all I got was this T-Shirt.
(And sued for harrassment)"
"Jack Thompson thinks I'm an Idiot Gamer.
(I think he's a Senile Douchebag)"
"Common Sense 16, Jack Thompson 0"
"Jack Thompson is a senile old moron."
"(Picture of an ambulance being chased by a car)
Jack Thompson: Turing Tragedy into Profit since 1975."
But what if the t-shirt says: "Tom Jackson is a dyslexic mother fucker"?
"That's so plausible, I can't believe it!" - Leela