I might not have had it in me to laugh at a sadly oversensitive teenager killing himself over the Wii today, but I certainly can direct my scorn at Nassau County cops, who arrested a group of young teenagers that robbed someone outside a supermarket and claimed the kids were directly influenced by Grand Theft Auto:
Nassau County police cops have arrested six teens for robbing a man at a supermarket... The police add the teens arrested were emualting [sic] the characters from the video game Grand Theft Auto.
Police say later that night they were armed with bats and a crowbar and were walking down Stewart Ave. when they robbed a woman of cigarettes and struck a passing van with a bat.
Oh ... so what you're saying is, kids being sh*tty and destructive is the fault of GTA? Because last time I checked, rebellious teenage behavior dates back to James Dean -- in fact, far before him.It's awesome you did your job and all, but next time you want to try bashing videogames in the public eye, maybe try using some legitimate reasoning, asshats.
[Pic Via Natalie Dee, story Via GamePolitics -- Thanks, Brian]
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1:33 PM on 06.26.2008
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go colette you tell them!
"..with bats and a crowbar.."
i justed searched WIKIs for all GTA games and -crowbar- is not in any one of them
I'd rather see more focus on, you know, the actual games rather than morons blaming them for idiocy..
Kids crossing street on way to school.
Believed to be imitating Frogger.
Film at eleven.
dumb cops
People crashing their cars are imitating it as well.
@brainderailment
I'm in. Monkey bars 9pm sharp.
Do you have any more evidence behind your claim than the cops had behind their's? Do you honestly feel it's impossible for somone to be influenced by a violent video game (or book or movie or cereal box)? Personally I think all of these things can have an influence; that doesn't mean that they are to blame or that they don't have more good to offer than bad.
I think it gives us video gamers a bad name when we jump to our defensive stance and start name-calling . . . it makes us no better than the ones we are ridiculing.
Every time there's a "Video Gamer Kills 18 Old Laides with a Watermelon" story, I want to say something, yet I've held my tonque until now. Honestly, I'd like to see the level of discource on issues like this go up a few notches, and I think gamers could be the ones to make that move if we'd only stop strapping our armor on as soon as anyone says anything remotely bad about video games.
I totally agree with you. The posters of these stories are equally responsible for being defensive as well.
VIDJA GAMES ARE EVILS!!!11!!111!!
To blame it on a videogame has become the knee jerk reaction, you would think police that deal with criminals would realise there was more to blame than a disc and controller.
That's MY neighborhood right there. oh btw, NEWS FLASH: Long Island is the Official Home of spoiled rich twats going on crime benders to impress their friends because there's nothing else to do on this shitty island.