Lawsuit against Rockstar Games

[Sleepy Jesus]

Put down the video game and walk away slowly.

[johngalt]

LMFAO! how stupid can you be? f them man. money won't bring their stupid loved ones back. i give no respect to them because they're just money hungry a-holes. i hope those kids get sentenced to death so i can **** on their graves. i'll just say i got the idea from postal 2 :rolleyes:

Postal 2 rocks

[semifamous]

This will continue until some company countersues for defamation and WINS....

That will happen soon, I hope.

[Edit] I don't think defamation is the legal word I want. I think I mean slander or libel or something along those lines maybe.[/Edit]

[Boffa Jones Veteran]

In Canada you can't really sue people like you can in the states. Is it like that in the uk as well?

[JodyWatts]

This is just an example of people not wanting to take responsibility for their actions !

[Iluvatar]

umm yea... those parents are retarded, there is a reason that they have mature ratings on them and apparently the kids parents thought that they were mature enough to play it. Guess not. :no:

[Blaise Veteran]

moved to Gamer's Hangout

[dougkinzinger]

:blink: You should seek help... seriously...

yeah dude....you've got problems.......

[Boffa Jones Veteran]

I mean if you get like that playing gta, fighting games must make you ballistic.

[grimreaper]

wow man i always fantasize about holdin a p90 rifle and start shooting on a street, and blowing buildings up with bazooka. OMG im a psycho.

[\\Coroner//]

Not exactly related but :

Here in Greenville SC a mother of a 2yr old girl thought it would be ok to leave her unsupervised outside while she got ready for work.

The little girl got mauled by the neighbor's dogs and is now dead. The mother claims "I was only away for 2 minutes."

Now here is the kicker : the dog owners are facing charges not the mother of the child for neglect.

Its a very sad, sad society when you cannot assume responsibility for your own bad judgement.

The details of how the dogs got to the child are irrelevant.

A 2 year old child should never be unsupervised and that is just plain common sense.

How can any rational/logical person assume a 2yr old can take care of themselves for any length of time?

[SimplyPotatoes]

uhh your very unread if you dont think dogs that attack a little girl are not normal dogs...and you don't care about the dogs owners either?

[Boffa Jones Veteran]

Although it isn't reallyt he mothers fault, if she had taken her kid wiht her , the child would still be alive

[HeartsOfWar]

Sure the mother used bad judgement to leave the child unsupervised, but her child was mauled by a dog. Even if she was wrong to leave the child alone, the mother still has a right to sue. Also, keep in mind that the only way the mother of the child can be sued is through the state. The owners of the dog cannot sue the mother, because the owners of the dog were not recipients of any damage; however, they can file a counter claim stating that had it not been for the mother's neglect, the accident would more than likely not have taken place. This counter claim would more than likely, if found to be true, would put at least half the guilt on the mother where it rightly belongs.

Of course it can get even deeper especially if the dog was supposed to be collared, if the child was left in a closed/open area, etc...

I'm sure justice will be done...

[Neo003]

America LAW man you gotta love it.

[Chi(mera)]

Its a very sad, sad society when you cannot assume responsibility for your own bad judgement.

The details of how the dogs got to the child are irrelevant.

A 2 year old child should never be unsupervised and that is just plain common sense.

How can any rational/logical person assume a 2yr old can take care of themselves for any length of time?

Agreed... :yes:

Also, back to the MAIN topic of rockstar games.....I think it would be funny for them to get the pants sued off of them. So hahaha.. I have like that games but have never been a big fan of the games :p

Plus wal-mart and all the other partners or whatever would have their ear chewed off, so the results are much more interesting! heh

[IndianPimp99]

Why can't people just go out and try to emulate that game with the naked volleyball girls? Atleast that would help other people.

[SimplyPotatoes]

Why can't people just go out and try to emulate that game with the naked volleyball girls? Atleast that would help other people.

haha (Y)

[twistedburn]

"We want to send a message with a huge verdict to Sony and TAKE2interactive and the entire video game industry that if they're going to continue to market adult-rated games to children with these horrific consequence, then we're going to take their blood money from them and send a message to their boards that they have to stop this practice or there will be other suits on behalf of other people, killed by these games," Thompson said

This lawsuit will not go anywhere. Even if they do deem that video games cause this kind of behavior in children, they still have to prove that the developers of these games are "marketing adult-rated games to children". They're not. Plain and simple, Rockstar/Sony/Take2 has never and never will market any of their M rated games to children. That's why the ESRB was set up. These kids should not have played this game in the first place.

But still, someone should pay for this and other crimes like it. I know, how about the negligent parents who let their kids buy this game (or buy it for them), and let them play it until they start convincing themselves it's real. These being the same parents that keep shotguns and ammunition in an unsecure area of their house where the kids can easily find and load them, and then leave the house with these guns without any intervention from the parents at all.

If any charges are put forth, I think it should be criminal negligence causing homicide on the part of the parents. But, if they're charged, the families of the victims of this crime won't get anything except for the comfort of knowing that maybe this will send a message out to other parents to watch/know what your kids are doing every once in a while and talk to them. But, then again, that won't exactly buy that oceanside condo they're looking for so it'd be much better if they go ahead and sue the game makers.

[MegaManXcalibur]

This lawsuit ranks right up there with those people suing McDonalds (and other fast food joints) for making them fat. Bottom line, if you can't be a good parent just sue somebody with a lot of money, and blame them for you inability to raise your children properly. There are also ratings on the games, yes when it rated Mature, and your kids arn't mature enough to tell right from wrong DON'T BUY THEM THE ****ING GAME!!!!

[evacsoul]

?There is no credible evidence that violent games lead to violent behavior,? he said. ?While video games may provide a simple excuse for the teenagers involved in this incident, responsibility for violent acts belongs to those who commit them.?

Actually, there's proof that violent video games can lead to violent bin generaleral... however, the problem is that you can't apply that on individual cases.

Also, game ratings are just a lure... the parents don't always buy the game for their kids knowing it's "rated mature." A 14-year old can often just walk into the store and buy it himself without getting stopped b/c of the game's rating.

[Nimdock]

Two days ago I went to the store and bought Fifa 2004, while I was waiting there was a mother buying a game (I don't remember which one) for her son (about 12 years old), I heard when the salesperson told her that the game was rated "Mature," that it contained, drugs, violence and sexual content... Did she care one bit? she just said "no problem" and bought it just the same.

Stupid parents, they should be penalized.

Also stupid kids, I remember when was ten I wasn't going out to kick or kill people because I saw it in some movie or video game, today's laws, specially in the United States make it easy to bring stupid lawsuits.