'Grand Theft Auto' cop killer found guilty

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By Tony Smith
Published Thursday 11th August 2005 12:50 GMT
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Computer game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) has been let off the hook by an Alabama jury which this week found cop killer Devin Moore guilty on three counts of murder.

The jury rejected Moore's plea that he was not guilty by reason of mental defect arising from hours spent playing GTA and years of abuse as a child.

In June 2003, Moore was charged with the murder of two Fayette police officers - Arnold Strickland and James Crump - and a civilian police worker, Leslie Mealer. Then 18 years old, Moore had been apprehended by Strickland and Crump for allegedly stealing a car. Taken to the the local police HQ, Moore was later said to have grabbed Strickland's gun and shot all three men in the head.

According to the prosecution, Moore said at his arrest, "life is a video game, everybody has to die sometime". Prosecution lawyers also claimed there was no proven link between virtual violence and violent acts in the real world.

GTA publisher Take Two Interactive, along with games retailers GameStop and Wal-mart, and PlayStation maker Sony, still face a civil action which claims they are complicit in the murder. The lawsuit was filed by the families of the police officers killed by Moore.

GTA was developed by Rockstar, which this week was criticised for its Bully game, in which school pupils set about walloping each other. The game carries an 18 certificate, and so cannot be sold legally to anyone under that age. ®
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What a crock of crap. Some thug got a cop's gun and shot three people to death, and wants to blame it on a video game and childhood abuse?

Off with his head.

Dismiss the civil suit too. WalMart, with its multitudinal evils, is not responsible, nor are the makers of the game. The thug in question is responsible, and he alone.

Off with his head. Or did I say that already?
 
I wholeheartedly endorse the notion of killing the more exponentially stupid among us. If you sue a restaurant because you are too damn dumb to realize that coffee is hot, you need to die for the betterment of society as a whole. If you camp outside the president's ranch because your son was killed in an all volunteer army and you didn't say all you wanted to the first time the president spoke to you, you are a speedbump on the road of evolution and as such forfeit your right to continue consuming oxygen that could be better spent on someone else.

Simple, really.
 
I got him for ya.


Jeez, HL. It's only like once every fifth person. You mean that you haven't found four karma worthy posts by anyone else?
 
I've been out the last 5 days with a nasty stomach flu. When you're shitting 15 pounds of liquid every 30 minutes, nothing's that damned amusing.
 
You know, it's not him telling us about having to shit liquid every half hour that bothers me. It's that he knows how much it weighs.
 
Inkara1 said:
You know, it's not him telling us about having to shit liquid every half hour that bothers me. It's that he knows how much it weighs.
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No, I've been there. You know before how much you weigh. It's after the rush, when you're still light-headed from the pressure drop and fumes, that you step on the scale and see the damage done.
 
This morning's constitutional was the first since last Tuesday that did not require a second flush.




BTW, I don't think I've ever felt closer to all of you than I do right now. :D
 
It's the reason I have a cushy comfy bathmat in the bathroom. Slept on that a few times with my robe as a blanket. Ugh. Not fond memories. :sick:
 
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