GTA gets a man arrested with a second-degree felony...

[WhipSmartBanky]

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/052604/met_15701637.shtml

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[Cornfedwb]

I don't remember a part in any GTA game that would cause an exclamation like that.. I wonder if the guys just trying to cover his dumb ass.

[CTLesq]

People like that enfuriate me. It just fuels the fire from people who don't play games to change the content of games to make them less violent.

Annoying.

[Cracka]

yea theres no part that made me say "THERES A BOMB IN THE BUILDING, THERES A BOMB IN THE BUILDING. EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GET OUT!".... i dont recall there being a part where there was a bomb in a building full of people...

note to self:
*If i get in trouble for doing something stupid, blame it on GTA*

[RBM]

I don't remember a part in any GTA game that would cause an exclamation like that.. I wonder if the guys just trying to cover his dumb ass.

Agreed. I don't recall any bomb in the game. Also, the story just doesn't make any sense. If you're on the phone with your friend and he screams to you that there's a bomb in the building and everybody needs to get out, most people would ask questions and not gallop over to the night manager of the store & have him call the cops. If the guy immediately hung up and refused to answer the phone afterwards, then his thin alibi of being too engrossed in the game to realize the connotations of what he'd just done over the phone would be....well, a thin alibi. :wink:

(CTL: you are infuriated) edit : Oh, my pleasure! :P

[CTLesq]

Thats for the spelling lesson.

[bignick]

People like that enfuriate me. It just fuels the fire from people who don't play games to change the content of games to make them less violent.

Annoying.

me too. That was kinda funny though.

[Scrubking]

I can't wait till San Andreas comes out. I swear we will see riots!

[Quackzilla]

I see more problems like this happening.

2 guys playing Banjo-Kazooie...

"You need to shoot that switch with an egg to get the jiggy"

Player and his "partner (in crime, lol)" get arrested for defacing public property.

[Squirms]

What a moron, he should be prosecuted for being a tard

[repetske]

This kind of story pisses me off. I can't believe a story like that would even be written. They should of said "Man that calls in bomb threat, uses lame-ass excuse." The game that does kind of worry me is 25 to Life.

[BigDirty]

This kind of story pisses me off. I can't believe a story like that would even be written. They should of said "Man that calls in bomb threat, uses lame-ass excuse." The game that does kind of worry me is 25 to Life.

It would have to actually sell and become noticable to cause any kind of worry, and I'm thinking that it'll have the same type of reception as state of emergency did, a small pop, and a quick fizzle out. 25 to Life really doesn't look like it'll be a blockbuster hit in the vein of the GTA series. Also it's slated for a Spring 05 release, so it won't get caught up in the holiday frenzy.

[daphatty]

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[bignick]

all people do by writing stories like this is feed the fire. There is no such thing as bad publicity.

[x0thedeadzone0x]

I hate that the media is so paranoid about violent video games being the ultimate reason why violence in kids or whatever is going on, and then someone just makes it even worse and goes and blames it on GTA. Shows they can't handle their problems.

[batman2million]

was the a part in the game like that..where theres a bomb in the building?

[XboxMaster]

I know what will make us feel better. Just chant this five times: Fuck anyone who thinks GTA causes real-life violence.


EDIT: I was thinking, and the closest thing to there being a bomb in the a building in GTA was in VC when you had to control the helicopters with bombs on them to blow up a building that was under construction.

[donssword]

Of course no one has noticed that he claimed to be playing the game with a CHILD?!?!?!?!?!?!

WTF is a CHILD (yes, in all caps) doing playing GTA?!?!?

We should start a new cheapass forum thread called "dumbass" -- where we discuss the dumbasses who give our past time a black eye.

[x0thedeadzone0x]

There's also another part in the game. You have to dress up as a police officer, and set the bomb off in a donut shop or the mall or something. Remember? So that could possibly be it.

[Alpha2]

This is just plain hilarious. It's not an instance of someone blameing the game, specifically just a complete lack of contextual interpretation.

I wish I could see the court case on tv where he's playing GTA and going "see thisis the part where the building explodes and I was saying 'there's a bomb in the building!'...see, see? Look, it exploded!"

I'm sure the same could happen playing Super Mario 2!

"Quick throw the Bobomb! before it explodes!"

[rimsforsale]

all people do by writing stories like this is feed the fire. There is no such thing as bad publicity.

yup, and at the same time, we are helping... people reading it for various reasons, even to flame feed the fire to the ppl that write stories like this...