Games We Love but Wish We Could Love Playing
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These teens don't know where to place their shooting and driving skills from what they've learnt in GTA video games.
These teens have difficulty separating fact from fiction, fantasy from reality and this resulted a series of robberies. "It was quite alarming," The New York Post quoted Nassau County Police detective-lieutenant Raymond Cote.
Police have blamed Grand Theft Auto IV for a two-hour crime rampage by a gang of six crazed youths in New York.
Having already sold more than 8.5 million copies worldwide, the game sees players shoot police, sell drugs and car-jack vehicles. And in its real-life enactment these six youngsters' rampage involved mugging, several break-ins and an attempted car-jacking in Garden City.
"They decided they were going to go out to commit robberies and emulate the character Nico Belic in the particularly violent video game Grand Theft Auto. These teens have difficulty separating fact from fiction, fantasy from reality. It was quite alarming," The New York Post quoted Nassau County Police detective-lieutenant Raymond Cote, as saying.
According to the police, it was at 11.30pm on June 24 that the rampage began and teenagers Brandon Cruz, 15, Gurnoor Singh, 14, Samuel Philip, 16, and Jaspreet Singh, 17, opted to go execute their wild plan when they were looking for something to do while sitting in Memorial Park in New Hyde Park.
They then decided to act out the game, in which players live out the life of Belic, an Eastern European criminal who uses murder and robbery to rise to the top of the underworld in "Liberty City", which has a close similarity to New York City.
"They were bored and decided this was a good idea," said Lt Cote.
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But no, it can't be because these kids have nothing else to do with their pitiful excuses for existances can it? It isn't due to the fact their parents are ass-holes or because all they see in the garbage of a city they live in is crime and violence... it isn't because their leaders teach them violence is good or it can't be down to the fact no-one gives a shit about them (which is apparent by the fact they're doing this shit)... but nay, let's not blame it on the idiots responsible, let's blame it on a video-game, because that must be the problem. If they didn't exist society would be all fine and dandy wouldn't it?
Go team **tard.
In any case, blaming this on GTA is just wrong. What about Saint's Row, as well as MANY otehr games where you can do this? All in all, blaming it on anything other than their own thoughts and actions is just so goddamn stupid and irresponsible.
Couldn't the immitate a better game for crying out load, like Pokemon or Smash Brawl?
Morons have kids despite the fact they shouldn't.
Seriously though, how many times have we seen crap like this go down? Kid shoots someone, robs a place, does something criminally *bleep*, and we blame it on the controversial form of media of the moment. I think there was a school shooting blamed on Linkin Park or some other group a few years back.
If these kids were REALLY inspired by GTA, they are unbelievably stupid individuals.
Kids like these need help.
Though there is probably other information that they excluded. People just need to quit blaming games in general and look at themselves for a moment.
I'm not saying it has a curse kei?
But anyone can act like those kids.
Maybe it just have to be in New York.
Because the setting's really there.
But I don't mean to..you know..
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