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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2005 1:07:20 GMT -6
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147722,00.html TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A lawsuit claims the video game "Grand Theft Auto (search)" led a teenager to shoot two police officers and a dispatcher to death in 2003, mirroring violent acts depicted in the popular game. The suit announced Tuesday seeks damages from the game's manufacturers and two stores that allegedly sold it to Devin Thompson (search), now 18. An attorney for relatives of two of the victims said Thompson, who is charged with murder, had played the video game repeatedly. Thompson is accused of killing the three men in June 2003 after being brought to the Fayette police station on suspicion of driving a stolen car. Thompson allegedly grabbed one of the officer's guns, shot him and the other two, then fled in a patrol car. The suit alleges Thompson purchased "Grand Theft Auto III" at the Gamestop (search) in Jasper and "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" at the Jasper Wal-Mart when he was under 17. The games, which depict police killings and other acts of violence, are rated M, meaning they are appropriate for those 17 or older. "What has happened in Alabama is that four companies participated in the training of Devin ... to kill three men," attorney Jack Thompson told The Tuscaloosa News, which reported the suit's filing. Named in the suit are Wal-Mart Stores (search) and Gamestop along with Take-Two Interactive Software, the manufacturer of the games, and Sony Computer Entertainment, the maker of the PlayStation 2. Messages left for officials of three of the companies were not immediately returned. There was no answer at the listing for Gamestop in Grapevine, Texas. At a December hearing, authorities said Devin Thompson, when he was apprehended, told officers, "Life is a video game. You've got to die sometime."
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Post by Luca on Feb 16, 2005 14:16:27 GMT -6
That is so *bullcrap*.
Why dont blame gun manufacturer or/and that police officer who let that kid take his weapon?
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Post by LW on Feb 16, 2005 14:21:13 GMT -6
That is so bull*crap*. Why dont blame gun manufacturer or/and that police officer who let that kid take his weapon? Where is the parents responsibility? |
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Post by Luca on Feb 16, 2005 14:24:54 GMT -6
Where is the parents responsibility? Yes.... How i could forget that. |
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Post by Rev. Agave on Feb 16, 2005 18:48:46 GMT -6
Grand Theft Auto rules! I still can't beat the Motorcycle mini-game in Vice City though.
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Post by LW on Feb 16, 2005 20:05:37 GMT -6
I still can't beat the Motorcycle mini-game in Vice City though. Bummer  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2005 18:33:20 GMT -6
What was wrong with these parents? If he played it so often, why didn't they notice and take it away from him? A video game can have some effect, but everything we see and hear has an effect. Our society has gotten to the point where we blame everyone but ourselves for our actions. He killed three people and he is to blame. He should be on death row to pay for killing 2 police officers and a dispatcher.
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Post by Baltimore on Feb 20, 2005 19:35:26 GMT -6
What was wrong with these parents? If he played it so often, why didn't they notice and take it away from him? A video game can have some effect, but everything we see and hear has an effect. Heck, no, CM! The parents, wherever they were, were probably counting on the kid to stay glued to the tube. That's some kind of parenting! Plus, if the "parents" knew the nature of "GTA" and let their kid stay zombied playing it, what can anyone do? I totally agree with you here! Take away all the hype, all the excuses, you still have those three dead men. This is what the kid set out to do!! Hopefully, he will be charged as an adult.  |
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Post by salemjones on Feb 20, 2005 19:52:45 GMT -6
GOARUNGA!!! ;D  |
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Post by eu.ro on Apr 9, 2005 4:14:18 GMT -6
That is so bull*crap*. Why dont blame gun manufacturer or/and that police officer who let that kid take his weapon? Appropriate question, by the way ......! |
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Post by dio on Apr 9, 2005 11:44:52 GMT -6
Excuses abound in todays society to explain away the actions of a murderer.Video games,music,easy access to guns,alcohol,drugs,hell I could name a thousand excuses.Yet reality tells me that long before most any of these things even existed people were still killing people.Video games are intended solely for entertainment purposes,I fail to see how pushing a few buttons on a joystick improves a persons aiming skills with a firearm,or how it can concievably be used as an excuse to kill.And why is it that most of those who kill as a result of a game,or a song are usually kids?Do adults not play these games or hear the song?The primary reason for killer kids tends not to lie in expensive toys,but in cheap parents.Perhaps if the parent were more concerned with what and who their kid was spending so much of their time with,and less time worrying who was gonna sleep with who on the daily Soaps,or where their next fix was coming form,just perhaps their children wouldn't kill people.How many parents actually sit dow to eat with their kid each day?How many actually take the time to ask the kid how life is?Do any still go on family outtings ?Do any still take the time to even care?Maybe if we started answering questions like these with a YES our kids wouldn't have so much time to learn to kill.
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Post by Felix2 on Apr 9, 2005 15:00:41 GMT -6
Well Dio, I have to admit that trading posts with your friends Shawni, Jason, Tony, Beedo and that absolote renegade FMK (missing in action), sometimes I come off the net and I am fit to kill! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by josephdphillips on Apr 10, 2005 14:47:41 GMT -6
From a legal perspective, these grieving relatives aren't going to get very far. It's the murderer who plays a video game and elects to murder, not the game-player who suddenly elects to murder upon playing a video game.
I'm not sure what I find more loathsome -- a murderer of police officers, or people who want cash every time they feel bad.
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Post by sally104 on Apr 10, 2005 18:20:28 GMT -6
WHat about personal responsibility
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Post by cynthiak on Apr 14, 2005 19:32:22 GMT -6
Things like this are so ridiculous. I agree with who ever posted about the parents. We got my son an XboX and when we began to see how much time he spent on it, well, lets just say it is now collecting dust on the top shelf of my closet. It makes me so angry when people start these stupid frivilous lawsuits. And as far as holding that officer responsible because he "let" the kid get the gun...well, thats just about as ignorant as anything I have ever heard.
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Post by rayozz on Apr 15, 2005 23:16:03 GMT -6
Why not remove the playstation for a while, as a responsible parent, and let them earn it back.
OK a 17 year old, can be difficult; but there are other ways. Don't know how your power system works in the US, but we have separate lighting, and general power oultet lines. I have been known to turn off the general power to his room, and just leave the lighting on.
No computer, TV games etc. Read a book, do homework, go to sleep; or come and sit with his parents.
Works every time.
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Post by Macklin on Apr 22, 2005 10:42:45 GMT -6
17 years old....why didn't this kid have a job tassling corn ? slinging hamburgers, washing cars, doing a paper route or mowing lawns ?
Oh I forgot he is a teenager, and his brain wasn't developed enough to hold a job !!!! So he had to lay up on his parents while they probly both worked to feed and cloth is ass.
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Post by DeadElvis on May 5, 2005 10:27:59 GMT -6
Grand Theft Auto rules! I still can't beat the Motorcycle mini-game in Vice City though. I'm still stuck on the RC helicopter mission near the beginning. Frustration caused me to set the game aside for a bit. |
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Post by gotchawidurpntsdwn on May 6, 2005 14:14:47 GMT -6
This seems a little far-fetched to me.
I play video games (have played GTA)
and I'm not shooting anyone.
I think this is the border of Reason and Excuse.
Perhaps there were further environmental factors though?
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Post by stephr on Jun 7, 2005 9:21:59 GMT -6
In my opinion, I think when violence in youngsters is blamed on violent games, it is simply parents looking for something to blame. They don't like the idea that they've raised a violent child, so they say "oh it's all those violent video games that does it".
Most children and teens spend time playing these sort of games, and do they all turn out to be killers. No!
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