Thailand Pulls Grand Theft Auto After Murder

Spindel · August 6th, 2008, 10:52 PM

Crime: Thailand Pulls Grand Theft Auto After Murder

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Sales of Grand Theft Auto have been halted in Thailand. On Monday, a teenager confessed to robbing and murdering a taxi driver in attempts to recreate a scene from GTA reports Reuters. The game's Thai distributor is pulling GTA from Thai game shops and replacing them with other games. According to police, the youth wanted to find out if it was as easy to rob a real taxi as it was in Grand Theft Auto. Newspapers are reporting that the teenager didn't plan to stab the driver, but only did show when he retailiated. The teen was arrested on late Saturday when he was found trying to drive the car backwards out of a Bangkok city street. The driver was found severly wounded and in the backseat. Ladda Thangsupachai, director of the ministry's Cultural Surveillance Centre, scaremongers:

This time-bomb has already exploded and the situation could get worse. Today it is a cab driver, but tomorrow it could be a video game shop owner.

The police stated the boy showed, and we're quoting Reuters, "no sign of mental problems during questioning." Meaning that the mental problems were only visible when he was stabbing a taxi driver?

Errrmmm... games are bad mkay

tHeArsENic · August 6th, 2008, 11:13 PM

Uhhhh he goin get a spankinnnn!....

Any kid who takes a game that literally is a seriously fucked up worthless individual.

**boffo** · August 7th, 2008, 01:10 AM

Apparently they have limited shelf space for games in Thailand. I must be desensitized to these stories if the thing that jumps out at me is that they feel the need to point out that GTA was replaced with other games they must have had sitting in the back waiting for space to open.

August 7th, 2008, 01:10 AM	#3
boffo This is my BOOMSTICK!!!! Join Date: May 2007 Location: Brantford, Ont. Posts: 19,407	Apparently they have limited shelf space for games in Thailand. I must be desensitized to these stories if the thing that jumps out at me is that they feel the need to point out that GTA was replaced with other games they must have had sitting in the back waiting for space to open. __________________ I can't see this so there's really no need for me to put anything here. Join the recently deemed official Nexgenwars folding team. Team number 78702

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August 6th, 2008, 11:13 PM	#2
tHeArsENic Currently Playing B3yond Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 156	Uhhhh he goin get a spankinnnn!.... Any kid who takes a game that literally is a seriously fucked up worthless individual.