New Era Interactive Media have requested shops to pull Grand Theft Auto 4 from their shelves in Thailand after a teen murdered a Taxi Driver. The 18 year old student says that he robbed and killed the taxi driver to see if it was ‘as easy as in the game’.
To be honest, this isn’t the type of news I like reporting on NZGamer, so for more details of this sick and disturbing event head over to Stuff for the full article.
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COMMENTS (27)
I have to say, I find it hard to blame GTA. The student must have been a time-bomb. What if he got obsessed with any number of movies, historic events or books?
If he was really being true to the game, he would have driven off in the taxi and smashed it in to street signs, pedestrians and other motorists.
someone who is already capable of this sick s*** just blaming everything but himself. again.
Now he gets a dose of reality. Welcome to the 'jail level', stupid kid.
"Today it is a cab driver, but tomorrow it could be a video game shop owner." lol trying the scare shops into not selling it. I'm still yet to play this game >_>
The cops should have shot him repeatedly like in the game, even when hes lying dead on the ground.
See?! People always use GTA as an excuse to hate videogames! Even though it's not it's fault entirly, GTA gives video games a bad name.
wow will this be a excuse for future crimes ?
Blaming Gta IV
Blaming Gta IV
He must have been pretty screwed up in the first place to be able to do that, the game just gave him the idea. Like Wozza said it could have been anything that could do that.
if i ever get done for crime - any crime, im blaming gtaIV.
dont blame me for the parking ticket - gta made me do it!
dont blame me for the parking ticket - gta made me do it!
@ Geno: LOL. Then talk trash after he;s dies just like in the game to rub it in, then some cue card holder will run in front of him with the sign "Wasted".
I got a parking ticket the other day Fox, I couldn't figure it out as it never happened to me in GTA. I wasn't even far enough from the car for it to dematerialize!
^
You should have just kept driving Woz, once you get outside the flashing area on your GPS the council forget about it.
You should have just kept driving Woz, once you get outside the flashing area on your GPS the council forget about it.
Dear god, just heard the 10pm news on the radio, and this story is leading the news! Apparently it's up to a 3 year jail term for stocking it, and 5 years for an online retailer.
^lol sounds like some over-reaction bull helen clarke would be capable of...
They should just cut out the bits where you kill people and drive cars and do anything bad.
If GTA4 affected people, it would be in driving. People would drive normal cars and be all "why am I not driving on ice? - this feels....normal"
I think the religous fanatics and anti gamming lobby will have a field day. It is disturbing when you hear of 1 person out of millions who go to far and commit a crime this young man must be of very low intelligence if he has to go out and kill someone to see if it is as easy as the game any one who does an act like this is also commiting a crime against the entire gaming community as well, this is also an insult to the game developers.
I think if people who commit crimes and blame the game are really trying to say that they are mentally unstable but if you go out buy a game then do a crime then its Premeditated.
I think if people who commit crimes and blame the game are really trying to say that they are mentally unstable but if you go out buy a game then do a crime then its Premeditated.
Sounds more like a lack of a mental health system to me :(
Lol he didn't do it because of the game, he's just saying it to get out of having a lethal injection by blaming it on something else. Too bad he'll probably fail but i guess it was worth a try...
Did the cab look like one from GTA4? (Pics anyone)
Oh yeah, and the faggot deserves to die. And Thailand is -1
Oh yeah, and the faggot deserves to die. And Thailand is -1
Posted by Ubercuber on 6 August 2008, 07:53AM
If GTA4 affected people, it would be in driving. People would drive normal cars and be all "why am I not driving on ice? - this feels....normal"
LOL, that's so true! the driving controls on gta4 sucked, there was like zero traction.
If GTA4 affected people, it would be in driving. People would drive normal cars and be all "why am I not driving on ice? - this feels....normal"
LOL, that's so true! the driving controls on gta4 sucked, there was like zero traction.
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