Some kid commits a murder? Jack Thompson is there, to blame video games.RELATIVES of three people who were killed by a 14 year old are suing the makers of Grand Theft Auto, Take Two, claiming his addiction to the game was responsible for the murders.
Yes, videogames are OBVIOUSLY to blame. The child was normal before the crimesl, minus the fucking fact that his father practically tourtered him as a boy.According to the Chronicle, Cody Posey, who was 14 at the time he shot his father, stepmother and sister, was found guilty of murder, but was sentenced to treatment in State Custody until he was 21.
The $600 million lawsuit is being engineered on behalf of the family by anti-game lawyer lawyer Jack Thompson who said that Posey obsessively played the game on a PS2.
Oddly this was never mentioned in the criminal court case. The Judge accepted that Posey developed post-traumatic stress disorder after surviving a car crash five years ago that killed his mother.
The only violence that the court heard about was how Cody's father burned his arm when the boy, then 14, refused to have sex with his stepmother, Tryone. It also heard how his father hit him 50 to 70 times and flung him across the room when he was just two.
for those of you who DONT know who Jack Thompson is, he is the self-titled "Crusader against Video Games"
now back to the case.
I've played the whole GTA series at least 3 times, GTA:III, Vice City, and San Andreas at least 4 times apiece, and I havent killed anyone, or even thought of it.
Its quite amusing to me that Parent can be ignorant enough to blame A Videogame over their own actions.
I mean honestly, if you beat your kid, light him on fire, and then throw him about, he is going to grow up fucked in the mind.
way to go Jack, for telling people that they can get closure by joining your cause.
se more of Thompsons ranting here
Last edited by stryyker (2006-09-27 20:14:48)
