Okay, that's it, this bollocks has gone on long enough. With Grand Theft Auto IV, as well as games in general, being blamed for murder, the corruption of our youth and the breakdown of American values, you'd think that anti-game sentiment had reached its ludicrous peak -- not so. Now, following a string of wanton plant destruction in a Swedish park, Rockstar can add another indirect crime to its list of supposed evildoings.
"I am very much considering getting surveillance," says Swedish park supervisor Gert Axelsson. In Lulea, old Gert has to deal with his plants being viciously and brutally attacked by chlorophyll hating vandals and naturally there is only ONE thing to blame.
Yep, Grand Theft Auto IV, "where you wreak havoc in the city." Of course, the parallels are distinct and many. After a round of GTA, there's nothing I like to do more than kick the sh*t out of a mulberry bush and squeeze nectarines to pulp in my almighty hands, before taking my revolver out and blasting a row of sunflowers in the temple, gangland execution style.
This has gone beyond a bloody joke.
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7:44 AM on 08.07.2008
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my dog died of natural causes last week - im going to write my member of parliament to have GTA4 RIPPED from store shelves
FUCK YOU GTA!
I think Rockstar needs to create a plant-ripping engine for the next game and have a mission titled 'Weedkiller' or 'AmBUSHed' or something that is actually clever, like they normally do.
But this is getting out of control. When will it end? How will it end? Eventually they'll end up blaming stupidity on GTA. I'm disowning humanity.
FUCK YOU GTAIV
This is just getting absurd now though
Next they'll be blaming heavy rain on GTA because "It rains in Liberty City and thus is the cause of all rain"
That comment made me spit tea on my monitor, im banning the site!!
IF THE PLANTS WEREN'T HIT, YOU MUST ACQUIT!
I'll see you there.
And People in northern Sweden (like the city Luleå) is well known for being... a little bit behind the times. I'm shocked he doesn't blame Rock'n'roll music or satan.
DARN YOU GTA!!!
But I guess I can't blame them, for a short while after I got into Final Fantasy I would walk into random people's houses and search their pots and bookshelves for stuff. Sometimes I would even touch their fire just so I could say ouch.
Is this news, really? One elderly citizen blames those darn kids, that listens to music with rocks in and whatnot, and it gets plastered all over. The news source is even a small local magazine, they might as well have reported about a missing cat.
I, too, hate how everyone blames games instead of parental ineptness but this is not worthy of reporting.
Before that, it was rap music.
Before that? Rock music.
Before that? Comic books.
Before that? Movies.
Before that? Jazz music.
Imagine that: Of all the things signifying the end of civilization, jazz is not the first thing that comes to my mind. These idiots will slowly die out, and hopefully our generation can learn from their mistakes and stop demonizing every single thing we didn't grow up with.
Because if this is the whole story... what the fuck..