Grand Theft Panic
 

Sometimes violent video games can be good for children.

Sandy Wilson of Santa Fe, Texas, near Galveston, was looking after her three grandsons this past March when four armed men burst into the home, reports KTRK-TV of Houston.

The robbers held the family at gunpoint — until they heard a loud voice saying "This is the police! You're surrounded!"

The cops weren't really outside. The boys had been playing Grand Theft Auto (search), a wildly popular and very violent Sony PlayStation2 (search) game in which the main character commits various crimes while being chased by police and other criminals.

Nevertheless, Wilson said, the four hoodlums fled and were quickly caught by the real police.

"The police in the game were saying, 'Stop, we have you surrounded. This is the police,'" Galveston County Asst. DA Michael Elliott explained in court at one gunman's trial. "The burglar, unknowingly, thought this was the actual police and panicked ... being apprehended by PlayStation."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142117,00.html

LOL!!! Thats very funny stuff. By the way, I love GTA, it's a cool game :D. I especially like Vice City. They have cool 80's music... wait... I'm listening to "I Ran" (1983) by the Flock of Seagulls, a song selected for Vice City :).

Matt

stromberg, any chance the intruders were of latin descent? haavaa...

K911sc whats your problem?
I am not anti Latino I am anti criminal.
I dont Care what color you are If you break the law you should be prosecuted.
Get over your parainod self inflicted racism.

just noticed a pattern developing with your postings. is that something you can deny?

We are facing an Invasion in this country.
I am not the one breaking the law to get here.
What part of Illegal do you not understand.

Sorry that 95% of the invaders come up from the countries south of our border but they do.

This is just the facts.

Everyday I am going to post a Main Stream New artical on the issue of Illegal's coming to the USA.

So enjoy the reading.

So because I stand up for the law you call me a racist?
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http://www.stoptheinvasion.com/

http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/text/about.html

http://www.deportaliens.com/

i'd call you more/worse, but my pelican membership means too much to me. i did not call you a "racist", just felt i was seeing a pattern develope, as did others whom PM'd me applauding my call out of your topic selection as of late.

Everyday I am going to post a Main Stream New artical on the issue of Illegal's coming to the USA.

should we call this new quest of yours "the stromBERG" files"?

...and to make the situation worse:

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041110-123424-5467r.htm

Makes no sense at all.

We have had several groups of Mexicans that have moved into the Decatur/Huntsville area. I'd guess that not ALL of them have a green card since we've had at least one restaurant closed due to the illegal employees getting caught. The ones I have run across are honest, hard working people.

I'd love to be able to trade the immigration status between several of the hard working people I described above and the kind that are third generation welfare, fully able to work, but will not because they are lazy. Is there any way to swap a few out I wonder?

I need a taco

Let's all move to Mexico, can't be many Mexicans left there......:D

I'm amazed at the uproar of parents who are trying to get GTA recalled because there's a hidden nude version. How can these parents be more worried about nudity than the killing innocent people and cops. People never cease to amaze me.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050720/tc_nm/media_grandtheftauto_dc

Man, i tried and tried, but I can't find the naughty hack for xbox. Anyone done it? Maybe it's PS2 only?

They previously tried to limit the release/content of GTA because of violence against police officers etc, and have always lost. This latest imbroglio is based on the presence of additional offensive material.

To clarify, it isn't hidden, it is disabled. It isn't like you can stumble across it by accident, you have to specificly find and download a patch, put out by someone who hacked the game to turn it on.

I am more amazed about the "protect the CHILDREN!" shrieking about a game that CLEARLY ISN'T INTENDED FOR CHILDREN!.

It says so right on the box:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1121879897.jpg

It is hard to read in the photo, but it says:

Mature 17+
Blood and Gore
Intense Violence
Strong Language
Strong Sexual Content
Drug Use

Seems pretty clear to me, and if parents buy this for their kids, they are ****ty parents.

By the way, the strong language thing is an understatement. Heavy use of the "F" word, not to mention the main character "C.J." who is black refers to himself and all his friends as "nigga".

Now, you can download a mod from the internet that will show cartoons that look like they are having sex, in a game targeted at adults (that says Strong Sexual Content right on the box). How is this a big deal?

In order for your precious little children to see the cartoon C.J. banging his 'ho, they have to first:

Come up with the $50 to buy the game,
Find someone willing to sell them the game, (I am 37 years old, with a full beard, I got carded when I purchased GTA San Andreas at Best Buy)
Go out on the internet and find the patch, and install it.
Play the game for a several hours to get to the point where you meet your first girlfriend, then play another hour or so to get your "girlfriend" to the point she invites you in for "coffee". Then and only then, you see naked cartoon breasts.

For a lot less time and effort, you can find video of real people having actual sex, and much MUCH worse.

My guess is the sex mini game was something that was planned, but dropped sometime before the game was finished, and disabled in the code, but the preliminary artwork and game routine were never removed. There is no way to make it work without downloading the "Hot Coffee" mod. I say "preliminary artwork" because C.J. is fully clothed, and the animated "girlfriend" changes. The first "girlfriend" in the game is black. With the mod, when you go inside she becomes white.

You want to see what the all the fuss is about? One of the GTA News Sites captured the video and audio of a sucessful date, you can see it here:

The link is clearly not safe for work.
http://www.thenappycat.com/forum/media/misc.php?do=downloadfile&i=6313


If you don't want to download it, here is a synopsis: a nude cartoon woman, viewed from behind, performing oral sex on a fully clothed male cartoon, which is the player. You can see naked cartoon breasts, and a naked cartoon butt. Then the cartoons move to the missionary position, and then a couple other positions. There is an "excitement" bar on the screen that starts at about 50%, you move up and down (with the arrow keys) until the "excitement" bar reaches 100%. Acompanied by basic porn movie grunting and groaning, of course.

B.F.D.

It is much less graphic than Basic Instinct, or Original Sin, or Nine 1/2 Weeks all of which had a movie rating of "R", which is essentially the same as the Game rating of "M", ages 17 and over.

What is really absurd about this whole thing is you can have sex in The Sims 2, and that has a "Teen" rating. Does that mean Black people having sex in the 'hood is bad, but white people having sex in a hot tub is OK?

It is even more bizarre when you consider that it is Hillary Clinton calling for investigations, when her husband is the reason many youngsters first heard of oral sex.:D

Which is also a load of B.S. Killing is certainly part of the game, but those that you are required to kill in the game are criminals, gangsters and drug dealers. As the game is interactive, and the game world is full of all sorts of people, you can certainly kill police if you want, but there is no reward for it, in fact there are penalties, as more police come and try and kill you.

You can however get in a police car and fight crime, or an ambulance and take people to the hospital, or a fire truck and fight fires, all of which there are rewards for. That part always seems to get skipped by the game banning bunch.

Tom

A slashdot friend of mine is the voice of one of the cops in San Andreas.

Here are the codes (middle of page) but you'll need a hacked box: http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/hack/index.php

Good explanation: http://boards.thegfcc.com/viewtopic.php?p=79951

It says clearly on the box that it is "M"! What's wrong with nuditity anyway? It's a lot better than shooting at someone and seeing a pool of blood on the street, which is something you do a lot in the game. It's still a fun game though.

From what I hear it goes beyond nudity...

Someone described as in the same league as Sex in the City. That leaves it wide open. (No pun intended :D)

Not sure if this is in San Andreas since I haven't played it in a while, but in GTA Vice City, you could pick up prostitutes and then you would see the car a shakin'.