GTA Inspires Crazed Teen To Kill

From gameplayer: "A disturbed teenager in Thailand has robbed and killed a taxi driver.

"The young murderer claims to have been inspired by GTA.

"Apparently, instead of saving up his pocket money to buy the game like a normal person, he used his allowance to buy a pair of knives…"

[PoSTedUP]

it is what it is.....

[Spydiggity]

why does there always have to be more to it? this person did this because he/she saw, watched, played, listed to whatever. it's ridiculous. if you're gonna be a murderer, at least have the balls to accept responsibility for it. you're grown up enough to commit these crimes, but not enough to take the credit?

how come we never hear reports in the news that say: "today a person copied GTA by taking his girl out to a local comedy club."

[thebudgetgamer]

that allowed you to throw newspapers at houses that were not subscribed to the paper i was selling. so now i cant help but throw newspapers at random houses. but its not my fault the game made me do it

[THUNDERMARE]

Well, in the 60s we blamed the Rock-an-Roll, in the 70 we blamed TV, in the 80-90 we blamed the internet..... well human tend to blamed a lot of things eh

[chasuk08]

At 18 he should of had a job. Then he would be able to buy his gta rather than knifes, and come on hes still getting pocket money from his parents at 18.

[Idonthatejustcreate]

There are crazy people everywhere, granted some crazier than others. The important thing when a person commits a crime is to blame the person and not the reason why he did it.

If a person takes LSD/ritalin/Steroids and kills someone it's still the person that takes it who is to blame for acting like he did, not the drugs. The drugs are harmless if not consumed.

It's the same with this story. Games are harmless as long as they still are fiction and games.

[strotee]

GTA4 inspired me as well; it inspired me to trade it in for MGS4.

But on a serious note and this goes without saying, it disgusts me how people blame others/games for their actions. It's stories like these that get the attention of the media and then politicians attempt to pass more legislation (I'm looking at you Hilary Clinton) in an attempt to "think of the children". This is a damn M-rated game; make it an Adults Only rating for all I care. I'm an adult, I'll be damned if some depressed kid can't handle what's displayed or uses it as a scapegoat to avoid pointing the finger at the real culprit.

Just remember, every time you point the finger at someone, there are 3 pointing back at you.

[pow3r of t3h c3ll]

Thats exactly what it inspired me to do as well!

[Skynetone]

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[geda]

let's stress the "disturbed" part of "disturbed teenager"

[hay]

And Ratchet and Clank inspired me to collect bolts.

[supahbad]

and COD4 inspired me to join the army, and get paid to kill someone

[va_bank]

Did they mention that you don't get to re-spawn?

[supahbad]

people in thailand are crazy anyways. its good that they pulled all of the games off of the shelves though because it shows that the country does care more than they used to, much more order now

[THUNDERMARE]

Well, We care a lot about useless stuff, the kid is obviously from a poor broken family, damn it (I'm thai so I know). Ah and yes, a lot of crazy and stupid people here.

[Rayko]

people in the US are even more crazy, look at all the stuff that´s going on there...woooh, lucky I don´t live in the US.

[CAPTelmo]

I love that the police comment that the guy appears to have no mental issues... apart from being ever so slightly sociopathic that is.

Sociopath - a person, as a psychopathic personality, whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.

Sounds about right....

[supahbad]

really, sociopaths are known for being able to blend in to ormal society, until they kill a cab driver

[va_bank]

...that said "GTA made me do it".

Yep, found it:

http://tcritic.com/archives...

[mc]

the us army inspires more teens to kill. in iraq

[mistertwoturbo]

Instead of finding out the real psychological reasons why a person would do that, it's just too damn convenient for the press to blame it on a game.

[Enigma_2099]

Here we go again...

[cr33ping_death]

"Fat Princess to inspire people to eat more food"

"Gears of War 2 to inspire murderous locust to destroy civilization"

"Uncharted Drakes Fortune inspires people to look for treasure"

"Bioshock inspires loon to begin building underwater city"

i cant wait to see those headlines in the media. Some people dont know how to fix their problems so they turn to an escape goat mainly targeting music and video games. but no its never the parents fault or no the person isnt already depressed or crazy, no of course not its a video games fault. i hope our generation knows better than to blame stupid sh!t like this on forms of entertainment and not the individual (26 by the way :).

[silverchode]

blame the parents not the game.

[ia_studio]

You can't avoid crazy people to do crazy stuff, is crazy.
Do you think crazy people know that they're crazy? They don't they have to blame on something.