GTA4 sales halted after incident

[Luk3us 63]

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai video game distributor halted sales of "Grand Theft Auto" on Monday after a teenager confessed to robbing and murdering a taxi driver while trying to recreate a scene from the controversial game.

 

"We are sending out requests today to outlets and shops to pull the games off their shelves and we will replace them with other games," Sakchai Chotikachinda, sales and marketing director of New Era Interactive Media, told Reuters.

 

"We are also urging video game arcades to pull the games from service," Sakchai said. An 18-year-old high school student, now in custody pending further investigations and a trial, faces death by lethal injection if found guilty of robbing and killing a 54-year-old taxi driver with a knife at the weekend.

 

Police said the youth, an obsessive player of "Grand Theft Auto", showed no sign of mental problems during questioning and had confessed to committing the crime because of the game.

 

"He said he wanted to find out if it was as easy in real life to rob a taxi as it was in the game," chief police investigator Veeravit Pipattanasak told Reuters.

 

The youth, described by his parents as polite and diligent, was arrested late on Saturday after he was found trying to steer a cab backwards out of a Bangkok street with the severely wounded driver in the back seat, newspapers reported.

 

The suspect told police he did not mean to kill the driver, whom he had chosen as a possible victim because of his age, but that he stabbed him to death when he fought back, newspapers reported.

 

"Grand Theft Auto", now available in its fourth edition, has been criticized for depicting violence including beatings, carjackings, drive-by shootings, drunk driving and prostitution. Continued...

 

http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNe...K22888820080804

 

 

See it is retards like this that allow tossers like that Thomson guy to do what they do.. Ugh...

[TheBlackOut 7]

Oh, thank God, at first I thought it was for a country people actually cared about it...

 

But then I read Bangkok and that only means Thailand.

[General Leang 0]

Not another "GTA made me do it" murder. Are people really that impressionable?

[TheBlackOut 7]

Are people really that impressionable?

You know the answer to that already.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Are people really that impressionable?

I hope that question is rhetorical.

[Dr. Rodney McKay 0]

I've been needing a new PC case for awhile. Why don't they make a game about getting me a PC case?

Edited August 12, 2008 by Dr. Rodney McKay

[Masked Shah 5]

When I order my troops to shoe people to death...

 

I'm trying to recreate that shoe death scene from GTA... um... the .. yeah...

 

You don't believe me, I kill yoooou...