Queueing for Video Games Causes Violence?
Censorship, Crime and Punishment, Current Affairs, Loose Ends, Pop Culture April 30th, 2008Again on my recent theme of cause and effect:
Grand Theft Auto 4 queue man stabbed in head
A hooded male stabbed another man in the head and neck yesterday as they both queued to buy copies of Grand Theft Auto IV from a Croydon Gamestation store. The Register
Considering the people had not had an opportunity to play the game, we can hardly blame the game’s content for this incident. And I was not serious in suggesting that queueing causes violence. In this case, violent people chose to stand in line to buy a computer game.
Banning the game is like bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
AC1
May 1st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
… and so it begins …
Mothers Against Drunk Driving have called for tightening of restrictions or the withdrawal of GTA IV out of respect of the victims of drunk driving. Apparently the game does allow the choice of getting behind the wheel while intoxicated.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ju16X_-nwrLKNTDz01XO2wzB_e3AD90CH47G0
I wonder if they would call for a ban of the game because people might drunk drive to the shop to buy it?
AC1