Car Thief Tries To Blame GTA For His Actions

from the nope dept

One thing I have never considered when writing up all the different examples of major media jumping into the blame-video-games pool with both feet is that there are actually a great many people in this world that enjoy watching the news and don't think it's anything more than a dolled-up theater of false controversy. But, unfortunately, such people exist. Apparently, they even exist in American colleges, because here's a stupid tale of one Auburn lacrosse player who stole a truck and then tried to blame his own actions on Grand Theft Auto. Must have been a cable news fan, given that imitation is the best sort of flattery and all that.

Around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning, according to Baton Rouge police, Burgess hopped in the open cab of an idling truck outside a bar, not realizing or not caring that there was a woman in the passenger's seat. He tried to speed off with the woman along for the ride, but ended up ramming into nine different parked cars before the woman was able to jump to safety.

During questioning Burgess allegedly told an officer that he “wanted to see what it was really like to play the video game Grand Theft Auto.”

You just know the news coverage of this incident attempted to create the first recursive loop based solely on stupidity, running his "excuse" all over their broadcasts. Unfortunately, Burgess is full of crap. See, I've played enough GTA to know that he certainly did not want to see what the game was like if played in real life. Otherwise, he'd be admitting he wanted to experience this. But, no, Burgess didn't attempt to experience any of those parts of the game in real life, did he? That's because he just wanted to steal a truck from out front a bar, because lacrosse just ain't exciting enough. He can attempt to pawn his stupidity off on a video game all he wants, but he'll still be charged with hit and run, theft, and kidnapping all the same. Meanwhile, millions of fans of GTA will go on playing the game without behaving like an idiot.

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