Grand theft auto has a lot to answer for
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- 5timuli0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/h…
"The 18-year-old high school student is accused of stabbing the cab driver to death by trying to copy a scene from the game."
See, I hate this shit. Trying to copy a "scene" from the game? And what "scene" would that be? As usual, the people reporting are the people who haven't played the game or done their research.
Sure, you could pull a taxi driver from his cab and stab him to death, but you could also choose not to, just like you could choose not to in real life.
- sherm0
I'd like to knock someone off in the name of police brutality.
- utopian10
games for the child
- SoulFly0
He couldn't afford to "play" the game.
In some poor countries where very few kids have the console, there are arcade houses. It is just like a traditional arcade, but not with actual machines, just a bunch of xbox, or playstation hook up in a room, and the owner charges by the hour. It was probably around $1 an hour of play, so obviously his $15 allowance was really short of a lot of game playing for the month.
- Jimbo820
I played this game from the very first edition on my Amiga 1200, people were outraged back then when the character models were made of 12 pixels!
The guy who killed the taxi driver is obviously insane, and to possibly try and divert attention from his actions he's blamed GTA? Maybe.
He said he wanted to see if stealing a car was as easy as in the game. As easy as pushing the Y button. Yep. Stupid mother fucker, let him fry.
- formed0
This debate won't ever be a simple one.
Those of us that started on Atari 2600 systems will, most likely, look at games like Grand Theft as at least slightly disturbing.
Personally, I think the blame is society wide, including Hollywood horror/torture flicks. I am surprised it isn't a lot worse. My issue is that you can show a guys head getting cut off in gruesome detail, but not a little nudity??
In the end, though, humans have been barbaric and psychotic from the beginning of time.
- void0
He couldn't afford to play it... so I went and killed someone... not really the games fault that.
- benfal990
I dont get it.
"He confessed that he committed the crime because he had copied it from the game he played,"
"He wanted money to play the game. His parents, who work as civil servants, did not have enough money to give it to him"
WTF? He own the fuckin game or not ?!?
- set0
definitely the knifes fault
- mrdobolina0
ban knives
- set0
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well you can take it as far as you want and say that society has a lot to answer for but I'm afraid that the only person ultimately responsible is the boy himself, come on.
- rounce0
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Actually, I think that the stupid fucking boy's parents have a lot to answer for.
- set0
Re: Grand theft auto has a lot to answer for.
Actually, I think that stupid fucking boy has a lot to answer for.
- JOSF0
- omgitsacamera0
If I called Roman's Car Service, i'd shoot that driver after he drives me. He is so fucking rude!
- chossy0
The difficulty with this is that obviously the kid was unhinged and he is nuts but, we all watch scarey movies and hopefully none of us want to kill folk, but the main difference is that you are not actively involved in the movie. In the game you physically kill folk so there is quite a difference between a game and other forms of violent entertainment.
- cannonball0
Give him the chair. At that age if you're that stupid you should be electrocuted... hard.
- chossy0
Thank fuck ismith and detritus don't play GTA.