Mafia Boss Arrested While Playing Godfather Xbox Game
from the more-fun-on-screen? dept
There have been plenty of "mafia" or "mobster" related games available these days: on gaming consoles, on mobile devices and (especially) on social networks. It kinda makes you wonder what real mobsters think of them all. Well, at least in one case, we have an idea. Glyn Moody points us to the news that Gerlandino Messina, described as "Sicily's no.2 boss," was arrested last weekend and when police showed up to take him away, he was playing The Godfather game on his Xbox. The game, of course, is based on the movie of the same name and is all about the mafia. You see, in the virtual world, you don't actually go to jail (or get shot). Seems safer.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Games as tools
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and tha game was made by
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i hear the game company hired him
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A sting on a local crime boss is not, in fact, a minor thing.
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This is not any cat out of a tree. You obviously are ignorant to Italy/Sicily and how the mafia operates.
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By this time, it was already too late to run, so he saved his game and stashed his hard drive so that one of his nephews wouldn't come over and delete his save file while he was in jail. I would have done the same.
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Another charge! By far the most important of the bunch!
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Overreacting US police?
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??? This was in Sicily.
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Art imitates life
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That is correct
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Of course, game play also makes it easy to get away with living in a surreal world without the risks or damages involved in trying to create a similar reality. It can be such cheap painless fun that it clearly becomes a very different thing than the reality. Of course, this is related to the psychology of people requiring the thing to truly be different enough and not *that* close as to confuse.
As someone that has shot, squashed, and even dismembered a great many things on the screen back in the days, I can say that the more games I played, possibly the more harmless I became.
What we need now is an easy way for people to digitize the image of those that bully them to place in a game where they get to beat the crep out of them.
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