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    The fun just doesn't stop for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Even though the game is now over 3 years old, the media is still taking shots at Tommy Vercetti's escapades through the Florida sunshine.

    Today, CBS's prime-time news broadcast 60 Minutes covered a story (originally reported in March, while the incident itself happened in June of 2003) about an American teenager who attacked and killed two police officers and a 9-1-1 dispatcher.

    Devin Moore - an 18 year old resident of Fayette, Alabama - was booked by officer Arnold Strickland under supision of car theft. Moore was compliant when he was brought into the station for questioning, but he suddenly snapped, grabbing officer Strickland's gun and shooting him in the head. He then turned on officer James Crump, killing him as well, before preceeding to the 9-1-1 dispatch office where he shot and killed dispatcher Ace Mealer. Grabbing a set of keys from the station, Moore then stole a police cruiser.

    All of this happened within one minute.

    Moore was a fan of Grand Theft Auto - he played the game frequently. And as anyone who has played the game knows, the scenario involving Moore and the police station rampage definitely echoes gameplay aspects available in Vice City. The shocking thing is that someone would actually go ahead and do this in real life, turning satirical fiction and drama into a cold-blooded triple-homicide, all over little more than suspicion of auto theft.

    The not-so-shocking aspect of the story is that attorney Jack Thompson (the nefarious lawyer who has been chasing Rockstar Games for years) stepped forward to participate in the 60 Minutes story, tooting his all-too-familiar horn about how videogames (and Grand Theft Auto in particular) train kids to become stone-cold killers.
    "The video game industry gave him a cranial menu that popped up in the blink of an eye, in that police station," says Thompson. "And that menu offered him the split-second decision to kill the officers, shoot them in the head, flee in a police car, just as the game itself trained them to do."

    While it's fun to listen to Thompson prattle on about how the videogame industry (his views seem to echo theories in Huxley's Brave New World, which is always a nice touch), 60 Minutes has taken the decency to throw in someone with education on the matters of psychology. David Walsh, child psychologist, gives a fair and balanced look at how other factors in Moore's life contributed to his outburst.
    "Walsh says this diminished impulse control becomes heightened in a person who has additional risk factors for criminal behavior. Moore had a profoundly troubled upbringing, bouncing back and forth between a broken home and a handful of foster families."

    Eureka.

    Head on over to the article at the CBS website and take a look. It's well worth a read, and offers a balanced both-sides-of-the-fence look at violence in the videogame industry.

    Many thanks to zioxide for bringing the story to our attention.

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    CBS Article

  • #2
    It's never the fault of the parents or the kids. Always some huge company with money is to blame.

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    • #3
      Everyone is to blame and no one is to blame... We are all people, everyone makes their own decisions... Based on whatever reason you did it for...
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      • #4
        "Whatever happened to 'crazy'?" -- Chris Rock

        I heard jack the ripper liked violent movies too
        You ate some priest porridge

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        • #5
          Originally posted by jesus=terrorist
          It's never the fault of the parents or the kids. Always some huge company with money is to blame.
          huge companies with money implant subliminal messeges in their advertising and contrary to popular belief, there are many studies that show its effective, thats why they do it.

          in regard to this game, yes it does shape people. thats how stupid and zombie some people are. of course it will, believe it or not. the market should have the freedom to put out any game it wants but its a shame there is a market and desire for this trash

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          • #6
            Did anyone just hear something? <_<
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            • #7
              No, but it will make junior high students wear rollerblades and bash people upside the head with a twisted baseball bat. (Read Paranoia Agent :P )

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Tone
                huge companies with money implant subliminal messeges in their advertising and contrary to popular belief, there are many studies that show its effective, thats why they do it.

                in regard to this game, yes it does shape people. thats how stupid and zombie some people are. of course it will, believe it or not. the market should have the freedom to put out any game it wants but its a shame there is a market and desire for this trash

                You cant honestly believe that. You have to be mentally retarded to let a video game influence you enough to have it accualy make you go do something such as killing someone.

                The fucking kids had mental issues before.

                I play GTA games but i dont go picking up hookers and proceeding to beat the shit out of them with a golf club to get my money back.
                k8> (both my dad's are gay :( )

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                • #9
                  this is Oprah shit.

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                  • #10
                    Video games can addict people alot, I remember seing some forums of addicted people with some really weird and sad stories. Games can and do influence, but murder is complety absurd, and like Roggan said people that kill, lose their jobs, their life..always have mental problems.

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                    • #11
                      So anyways I played GTA vice city and i killed some dude just because i could
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                      • #12
                        prolly had shit parents

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                        • #13
                          Can A Video Game Lead To Murder?

                          hmmm

                          Can one go blind from matrubating too much?
                          May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.

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                          • #14
                            this thread has given me the urge to play (real life) gta

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                            • #15
                              Children shouldn't be playing 18 restricted games anyway
                              Well I did, I became desensitized to violence (a combination of movies too), I may have thought about ending someone elses life but I never did it, thankfully. Recently I resensitized myself.
                              Last edited by Superted; 06-27-2005, 03:49 PM.

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