What's interesting about life, is that it doesn't imitate video games. Well, it's not really supposed to. I mean, think about it. What would you do if they made a video game on sitting in a cubicle? Made a game about administering web servers? Wooot! Hold me back.
So what do you think was going through the mind of Tyrone D. McMillian, a suspect trying to evade police on a high speed chase through several towns in New York?
Oh...I should mention, Tyrone feels he is quite the leet video gamer...but if I recall, those are high priced sports cars -- not Ford Explorers, which McMillian chose to drive.
"I've been playing a lot of ’Grand Theft Auto' and ’NASCAR' on Playstation, I thought I could get away.” McMillian says bluntly.
Well now. You don't hear that every day. Of course, this also was after he slammed his vehicle not once, but twice into police cruisers, injuring one officer. Nevermind the fact that he tossed his girlfriend's 11-year-old daughter and her 10-year-old cousin out of the car to lighten the load perhaps?
The video game-trained driver was charged with three counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, one count of second-degree criminal mischief, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of resisting arrest.
News source: The Dayton Daily News
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So what do you think was going through the mind of Tyrone D. McMillian, a suspect trying to evade police on a high speed chase through several towns in New York?
Oh...I should mention, Tyrone feels he is quite the leet video gamer...but if I recall, those are high priced sports cars -- not Ford Explorers, which McMillian chose to drive.
"I've been playing a lot of ’Grand Theft Auto' and ’NASCAR' on Playstation, I thought I could get away.” McMillian says bluntly.
Well now. You don't hear that every day. Of course, this also was after he slammed his vehicle not once, but twice into police cruisers, injuring one officer. Nevermind the fact that he tossed his girlfriend's 11-year-old daughter and her 10-year-old cousin out of the car to lighten the load perhaps?
The video game-trained driver was charged with three counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, one count of second-degree criminal mischief, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of resisting arrest.
News source: The Dayton Daily NewsWhat you have just experienced is the first of many stories that will appear on Neowin.net. Since the weekend is slow in terms of tech news, we will try to enlighten you on the strange news that you may not have seen on your late local news. Neowin's Strange News of the Week will hopefully show you, our esteemed readers, that your life isn't all that bad. -- BOOG
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Another incident the game inspired was where a person was in a police office being questioned. He proceeded to take the investigator's gun, shot the investigator and another officer there, take the investigator's car keys, and drive away in the investigator's car. Sound familar? When he arrested by the police a few hours later, he said "hey man, wats the big deal, life is like a video game."
ps2rules27, it is also a scene in GTA, and if you doubt that incident happened I could hook you up with the name and phone number of the police champlain who told it to me.
BTW which GTA game had the escaping from jail bit? I don't remember anything like that in GTA3, VC, nor SA. Although I haven't played them in a while, memory is quite rusty. If it was in the original topdown GTA, London 1969, or GTA2, then that was before GTA was really mainstream so I doubt that moronic suspect had played it, not that he didn't do this.
I'm sorry Jack, but if you would actually play these games once for yourself, then you could get your facts right. This scene never happened in GTA and you can't just rely on what other people tell you from what they hear from someone else.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4280806.stm
That doesn't proove the game influenced him... it shows he's a moron.
The only thing it implies is that morons like to blame the media for their stupidity.
Is that whats "in"? Using GTA as an excuse to get out of jail?
you guys are gonna do this every week?
bad gta bad
I guess instead of viagra you use a mushroom and a fire flower huh?
justice system (ie: judges and intelligent juries) that either throw out stupid lawsuits,
limit liability or reject stupidity and start holding people accountable, then crap like this
will continue. Unless the person charged is deemed "insane" or an IQ of a lightbulb, then
it's not: your parents fault for not giving you attention, the fact you wet your bed, bullies
called you names in school, bla bla bla.
Like the Eagels song... "Get over it"
e.g Lawsuits, Crime etc.
Maybe, just maybe someone is ploting to take them down. Hiring all of these people to make GTA look bad. YES..that's it..i've figured it out all now.
@^% You! Government you're not going to take me down with your political jargen.
TO THE PARK..For we must protest in spite of video game government conspiracy.
CHAKALATACKA.
He could be blaming it on the game to get away as well, and not be speaking the truth at all, just using it to drive the attention to the game debate again.
Sure, he's "dumb" in both cases, but I don't think necessarily "ooh i thought it was like the game"-dumb.
Pop Stars - How many people imitate Michael Jackson or Elvis (Its okay when people imitate them) and its accepted that Pop Stars influence people.
Movies - The Matrix for one - many kids (perfectly sane kids) were influenced by Neo, dressing like him, hairstyle, etc etc.
Games - Need for Speed - Now we all know that there are PLENTY of kids around the world doing up thier cars and vans and racing the streets, public streets, cos theve been hiped by THIS game.
We accept that these all influence people as long as they dont harm or kill other people. The moment one kills someone then we turn a blind eye say that its impossible for Movies, Games and Pop Stars to influence people.
Sure, yes we have to take responsibility for our own actions, but before we think of something or do it - there is an influence.
Cop: "What the hell were you thinking?!"
Man: "He was wearing a turban so I thought he was a terrorist!"
But the point is ... if you are so dumb to be influenced by a game like GTA ... then everything can influence you ! ... rigth ?
Please spare us the bull**** all your doing is lowering this "Tech News website" to a lower level than usual just do us all a favour and remove gta from the title and say something like dickhead kid broke a ****load of crimes and learnt via video games 2 which he mentions are gta and nascar.
The best one was a 30 year old man died from playing too much N64 when staying up for too long or something and his mom tried sueing Nintendo. LOL
If I ever die from playing a video game, I want the head stone to be the game console that killed me.
Of course Jack Thompson would argue that GTA made him do it.
Idiots do idiotic things. It's not a hard concept to understand. People should be defined by their actions, and this pretty much sums it up.
Also, nobody is responsible for your actions other than yourself - anything else is weak justification.
GTA is a scapegoat, rightly or wrongly. It made itself a scapegoat by chosing to be a game based around such controversial subjects. I personally do not see any moral merit in GTA - but I am also aware that IT'S A GAME, and I do not choose to select my moral values, belief systems or life decisions based upon game content.
I often feel that these people who blame games/films for their actions are sadly lacking any real-world experience to base their lifestyle on.
including correct approach by "law" and "ehm" incorrect ones when needed to save lives etc ...
i remember only handfull such games in total and only 2 were playable ...
that will stop whine about ammount of games where you play some outlaws, criminals and profi killers ...
"Billy was playing with his friend and told him to watch this cool trick, Billy proceeded to the top of a high building in town. Matthew, Billys fiends said "Carefull Billy, you could fall and hurt yourself". Billy explained "Dont worry about it, if I fall I will start off again at the hospital, only problem is I loose my guns".
No one has ever heard of anything like this, proof that Kids aint the issue, its grown "unstable" adults. I think someone had something about IQ test, there should be some sort of Mental Health test in all game retailers
Q: Do you plan to kill/maim/hurt anyone after playing this game?
Q: Are you considered by the people who know you as mad/pyscho/disturbed?
Q: If a Police office asked you to exit your vehicle, what would you respond with?
What in the good f*ck is going through these people's minds? I really hope it isn't the above.....
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