Grand Theft Auto pulled off shelves after teen murders taxi driver

[se7en]

Grand Theft Auto IV is one of the most popular video games of 2008. However a lot of controversy has been surrounding the game due to its content. MADD, Mother Against Drunk Driving, recently spoke out about the drunk driving content of the game soon after it launched earlier this year.

Reuters is reporting today that a Thai video game distributor has pulled the Grand Theft Auto IV off the shelves after a teenager confessed to robbing and killing a taxi driver in an attempt to recreate a scene from the video game.

“We are sending out requests today to outlets and shops to pull the games off their shelves and we will replace them with other games,” Sakchai Chotikachinda of New Era Interactive Media, told Reuters.

After further investigation, Police said the teenager, a big fan of Grand Theft Auto, showed no signs of mental problems and had confessed to committing the murder of the taxi driver because of the video game.

The teenager said that he did not mean to kill the taxi driver but wanted to see how easy it was recreate a scene from the game and stabbed the driver to death when fought back.



Grand Theft Auto pulled off shelves after teen murders taxi driver

[miss.myra]

omg the taxi driver was killed in some sort of elaborate government consipiracy!!!!!111

[ebbomega]

He should have beheaded him, and then through the quickening would have absorbed his power.

[Revolver]

^thai tastes good.

[thebobman]

Coming up, tweens lop each-others limbs off trying to recreate scenes from Soul Calibur IV and is Loco Roco responsible for your child's inner ear disorder? You'll be shocked at what's been stumbled upon... By our journalists, not your tipsy kid.

[matéo]

The world would be a better place if everyone played Viva Pinata.

[GSG9]

i dont care how sane they find the person to be, if you shank a taxi driver out to re-create a scene from a video game, your face is on dictionary.com under BATSHIT CRAZY.

[ebbomega]

This kinda reminds me of those kids that do acid, think they can fly and jump off a building.

To quote Bill Hicks: "What a dick!"

Come on, everybody! Let's let this kid evade the responsibility for a heinous crime because he learned it from a video game! That's not someone that needs to be removed from society at all! It's all the video game's fault!

[miss.myra]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

This kinda reminds me of those kids that do acid, think they can fly and jump off a building.

To quote Bill Hicks: "What a dick!"

Come on, everybody! Let's let this kid evade the responsibility for a heinous crime because he learned it from a video game! That's not someone that needs to be removed from society at all! It's all the video game's fault!

is that sorta like 'hey kid, let's evade this crazy fucko's responsibility for killing this dude on a bus because we are paranoid and don't trust our government! no, that's not someone that needs to be removed from society, ITS THE GOVERNMENT!'

honestly, we're taking a lot of accountability away from people who do dumb shit these days.

[ebbomega]

"Whatever happened to 'crazy?'"
- Chris Rock

[GSG9]

"when i was a kid, they would get outa school at 2:30, and go home on a little ass bus, just so they could only bother other crazy kids"

[Bevvy Swift]

Originally Posted by miss.myra

is that sorta like 'hey kid, let's evade this crazy fucko's responsibility for killing this dude on a bus because we are paranoid and don't trust our government! no, that's not someone that needs to be removed from society, ITS THE GOVERNMENT!'

honestly, we're taking a lot of accountability away from people who do dumb shit these days.

though i see your point, its hardly the same thing myra.

one is a theory surrounding a suspicious and savage murder, not suggested by the guilty party. IF (yes i said if) it is true, it would completely annul any responsibility for said murder, and is definately something to be considered when passing judgment on the culprit. essentially hes %100 responsible or %100 brainwashed and not responsible.

the other is either an admission on the culprits part that the video game played a major role in his murder, or an attempt to pass the buck to the video game, to avoid maximum punishment. true or false, this murderer is a danger to society and should either be in jail or a mental facility.

[thebobman]

Bottom line: At no point did Rockstar Games instruct or encourage this wanker to go out and murder another human being. I mean, for fuckssake, GTA IV is a THIRD PERSON PERSPECTIVE GAME! Its pretty fucking evident that your using a hunk of plastic and wire to move a fictional charcter around a fictional setting.

But say we give this asshole the benefit of the doubt. He wanted to see if real life correlated to Liberty City in GTA IV. Well, doesn't GTA IV take place in New York City look-alike Liberty City? So shouldn't Liberty City cabbies be akin to New York City cabbies? So what the fuck was he expecting trying to jack a cab driver in another frickin' hemisphere? If you're gonna layout a line of bullshit try not to leave holes in your logic you could drive a truck through.

[GSG9]

yea your right bobman. if it were in NYC, he'd be off scott free.

[ebbomega]

If he were in NYC, he probably would've been shanked himself.

[Bevvy Swift]

actually if he were in NYC, he wouldnt have been able to stab the cabbie due to plexiglass barriers smartly installed in each cab.

[GSG9]

after decades of getting their asses mugged, they finally wised up. :D