"GTA inspired London riots", paper claims
And while Codemasters’ F1 series hasn’t been credited for the success of Sebastian Vettel and I’ve not yet read any stories thanking Populous for inspiring God himself, some people have seemingly linked Rockstar’s title to the tragic events.
Tonight’s copy of the London Evening Standard could claim that the London riots seen in the past 48 hours were “inspired” by famous games series Grand Theft Auto, MCV can reveal.
Two people – one a police officer in Tottenham and the other an Enfield resident – told reporters that they believed the popular game series was the catalyst behind the breakdown of law and order.
A member of the Evening Standard news team confirmed that at the time of speaking, the GTA quotes were to be included in the article. However, the source would not rule out the possibility of alternations being made before the paper hits presses.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/gta-inspired-london-riots/082762
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Graphic_DesignPosted:
-Ant-Well Said Ant & Thats Right, Blame Us-Rozy- 1st the norway bomber trained from Modern Warfare 2, now riots inspired by GTA! video games are changing the world.
Nah, the media always jumps at the video games industry for anything bad in the world.
Baby-JesusPosted:
I'm doing roots just because I can get free thing like video games shoes and money
System32Posted:
Blue_Berry_kush not true because it was actuly the death of a gun man that didnt even shoot its been proven that it was a police bullet that was stuck in the police radio no joke bro serious
It doesn't really matter, anyone that pulls a gun on cops deserves to be shot right there and then. They shouldn't wait for him to shoot one of them before they shoot.
System32Posted:
-Rozy- 1st the norway bomber trained from Modern Warfare 2, now riots inspired by GTA! video games are changing the world.
Uhm, as far as I noticed while playing both these games... you don't kill innocent people on an island in MW2 ( Just an airport but you can skip that mission :P ) and you don't have any rioting missions in GTA IV. These are just the papers trying to get people to read their articles by putting stuff like this in it... it's pathetic.
CreeperPosted:
puttin the gta part away its kinda scary the riots have spread across the country and towns and cities just near me are rioting..
-TRiiXxy-Posted:
nothing like gta lol if it was gta they wouldnt of left all this behind http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/8689273/London-riots-aftermath-of-the-violence-and-looting-in-Tottenham-Brixton-and-Enfield.html
Blue_Berry_kush_JrPosted:
not true because it was actuly the death of a gun man that didnt even shoot its been proven that it was a police bullet that was stuck in the police radio no joke bro serious
SDPPosted:
DeagleUK Never in a million years would a video game inspire someone......
thats what everyone thought, and yes the right wing terrorist guy in norway was using mw2 to train? maybe mw2 inspired him.. you never know?
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