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.

Comments

Jack got the URL wrong

[jettoki]

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.

Actually www.pennyarcade.com was the website for a "Queer theatre" troupe.
http://web.archive.org/web/20021123192944/http://w ww.pennyarcade.com/

I guess it's a moot point to jokingly call Jack homophobic. His attacks on Islam have already painted him as cookie-cutter Christian Right.

Re:Wow

[Kierthos]

I think the point is, though, that anyone who already wanted Jack's e-mail and phone # and whatnot, easily had it already from the aforementioned VG Cats link because the creator of VG Cats made no bones about publishing it weeks ago. Bloody hell, Thompson makes a point of attaching it to practically everything he sends out, so it's not like he's trying to hide it to begin with.

Kierthos