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Jack Thompson lets son get M rated game, his middle name should be "ASS"
killatia | 1:03 AM on 09.14.2007 23 comments




In What Jack Thompson would call a "sting operation" he had given his 15 years old son a credit card to get Bioshock from Best Buy. The kid must had a crappy cashier cause he got the game, and his father blamed Take-Two for it instead of the retail show.

[quote] The Best Buy retail clerk who sold this “Mature” game to Thompson’s 15-year-old son is Alysia. She asked Thompson’s son for his ID. He said he had none. She said, “I don’t really care.” She has a piercing through her right eyebrow, and she can be easily identified by Thompson and by store officials. She should be fired immediately. So should the store manager whose very same store sold Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to Thompson’s son when he was 10 years old (!) in a sting that he and his father arranged, just like this one.

…Just as Thompson and others have been saying and as the Federal Trade Commission has been suggesting, the notion that major retailers, and especially Best Buy, are effectively age ID-ing kids is a sham. [/quote]

its pretty shameful of jack not to only pull his son into his "cursade" but not even put the kids name on his press release.

edit: got my source http://gamepolitics.com/2007/09/13/jack-thompson-brings-son-into-the-family-business/



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Mxyzptlk's Destructoid Blog
Of course, blame the publisher instead of the clerk who wasn't doing her job. That makes sense.
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain's Destructoid Blog
Hell yeah, now the editors can cite you as a source instead of Joystiq.
killatia's Destructoid Blog
@A Gentle ChiefMan

updated with source of news.
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain's Destructoid Blog
I wasn't saying you didn't have one, I'm just saying that the front page editors don't need to cite Joystiq, a rival blog (Who we aren't on as good of terms as Kotaku).

Nice find, though. Funny how he's using his son as his henchman.
killatia's Destructoid Blog
@A Gentle ChiefMan

i kind of figured that but i though it would be unprofessional of me to not have a source.
Mxyzptlk's Destructoid Blog
Oh, try using HTML quote tags instead of BBCode ones, those should display correctly.
killatia's Destructoid Blog
yeah i could tell that the [quote] [/quote] tags donsen;t work here whick is odd since it does on a few other websites.
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain's Destructoid Blog
actually, it works everywhere else. For some odd reason, [quote] and [u] don't work here.
Volcanon's Destructoid Blog
Someone needs to run over this guy with a car, and then get out of the car and shoot at his corpse until it disappears. And when Mr. Thompson respawns at the nearest hospital, this process should repeat until he runs out of continues.
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain's Destructoid Blog
I'm actually planning to "visit" him, and give him a copy of a violent game (Haven't decided). I don't live far from Coral Gables, so it should be a fun pilgrimage.
Farktoid's Destructoid Blog
Mr. Thompson should allow his child to play Bioshock. Aside from the wanton cursing and gratuitous violence, there's a true test of virtue regarding the Little Sisters.

Honestly, this guy could care less about anyone's children. He just wants to be in the paper. And I think he should be in there, as a hilarious parody of anti-videogame activism. It makes us look so much better in comparison.
ZServ's Destructoid Blog
Chiefman: teh haloz 3.
Justice's Destructoid Blog
What a nutcase
Outer Heaven's Destructoid Blog
Chiefman: I'd be careful about that. He's been known to sue people spontaneously for practically no reason at all, and I'd bet he'd try to get some kind of assault charge on you if you did that. Clearly, he wouldn't have a case, but I'm sure the court fees would be a bitch.

Whenever he does shit like this it's really more sad than anything else. He's clearly a deeply insecure person with a massive inferiority complex, judging from his constant need to pull stunts like this in a desperate plea for attention. It's just...pathetic.
urbanyeti's Destructoid Blog
Jack Thompson: I got a great idea! I will show how wrong and corrupt Bioshock is by sending my 15-year-old son to go buy the game, thus SUPPORTING Take Two Interactive! That'll show em!!!
lem's Destructoid Blog
I wonder how many stores he had to try? I can imagine with his persistence that if one store had said to to his son he would of tried others till he got his result.
Garbz's Destructoid Blog
What the fuck?!

A woman actually let Thompson have sex with her?

Then she had his child?

She wouldn't by any chance have the head of a goat would she?
bleep's Destructoid Blog
Tack Johnson is a Son-of=@-BiaTCH!
BlindsideDork's Destructoid Blog
Like father like son?
Snaileb 's Destructoid Blog
Funny funny funny.
JesusXP's Destructoid Blog
can we file a petition to disbar him?

Or anything - I'm not an American, but can you guys write your congressmen or whatever you need to do to finally stop this crazy nuckfut.
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain's Destructoid Blog
Garbz, I think you're on to something.

And Outer Heaver, I think I can counter-sue for the court fees, if that were the case. Jack doesn't have Phoenix Wright on his back, either.


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