Thailand bans Grand Theft Auto IV

[-HP-]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/techn ... 540623.stm

Holy shit, death sentence for this guy!? They don't fuck around on Thailand do they?

Police claim the 18-year-old confessed to stealing the taxi and said he killed the 54-year-old driver after he fought back. The teenager could face the death penalty if he is found guilty.

Bangkok police Captain Veerarit Pipatanasak said: "He wanted to find out if it was as easy in real life to rob a taxi as it was in the game.

[dux]

Good. Beats crowding up the prisons even more. Dumb idiot.

[Thrik]

At least they didn't just take a small fine and then let him back out onto the streets after going on a mass murder throughout the whole city.

[kleinluka]

Retarded. :roll:

[Jetsetlemming]

They didn't ban the game, Thailand's largest game retailer pulled it from store shelves. Big difference.

[2d-chris]

According to the article, the guy didnt actually have the game? Still, I guess he could have played it around a friends.

The point here really, is one not of game related violence but a nutter influenced by what happened to be a game, he had as much chance of running out of a hardware shop with twin miniguns trying to act the scene from terminator2. This is why the news died as fast as it has, just another nutter.