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"Judge sentences gamer to death 20-year-old who used Grand Theft Auto as defense for triple homicide sentenced to lethal injection. Earlier this year, Devin Moore, now 20, was on trial for the 2003 triple homicide of three Alabama policemen. While in detention for stealing a car, Moore grabbed the pistol of one officer and used it to fatally shoot a total of three of them. The defense mounted a case based on a childhood full of mental and physical abuse, as well as an affinity for violent games. One game in particular, Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto III, was singled out, because gamers can steal cars and kill cops in it. Moore had said he was inspired by the PlayStation 2 game. In August, a jury swiftly convicted Moore of the charges. And today, a judge laid down the most severe punishment the justice system allows. Moore will be put to death by lethal injection. Defense attorney Jim Standridge will appeal the case. The victims' families have sued Take-Two Interactive (parent company of Rockstar), Sony, Wal-Mart, and GameStop for their parts in the manufacturing and selling of the game. By Tim Surette -- GameSpot Posted Oct 7, 2005 4:43 pm PT"

10/12/2005 7:52:58 AM

They were just looking for someone to blame.

On a side note, the other day I was walking around the local palace and I found this giant hourglass. I decided to stab it with this funky looking dagger I found and this crazy sand went all over the place. Then all these people turned into zombies. Only through my amazing agility and wall running skills was I able to escape. This would NEVER HAD HAPPENED if I hadn't played Prince of Persia. I am gonna sue Ubisoft for making me do it. The emotional trauma alone was just too much.

[Edited on October 12, 2005 at 8:14 AM. Reason : u]

10/12/2005 7:56:40 AM

i was thinking about pistol whipping everybody at the gas station yesterday, and i have halo to blame for that. the day before that, i felt like running up the wall in wal-mart and coming down on this 80 year man with a 27 hit combo and decapitating him... i have ninja gaiden to blame for this.

10/12/2005 8:07:50 AM

I cleaned up my apartment...because of Katamari

10/12/2005 8:10:39 AM

i run around eating little dots - after a while my vision blurs and i start to see weird things, like ghosts!

[Edited on October 12, 2005 at 8:11 AM. Reason : s]

10/12/2005 8:10:50 AM

you know

in the game

you die

10/12/2005 8:20:56 AM

lol
he must didn't go to the gym in the game or something

10/12/2005 8:22:12 AM

i eat magic mushrooms because of mario brothers duh

10/12/2005 8:31:16 AM

i organized my closet...thanks tetris

10/12/2005 9:48:51 AM

Blaming the game is bullshit. He deserves to die. The victims' families need to get slapped in the face for suing the game companies too.

I bet if someone became a brick mason because they played so much Tetris you wouldn't hear anything about it. As soon as someone kills a cop and they are a teenager or in their 20s, blame it on the video games!

10/12/2005 9:49:12 AM

i always zig zag around cars when i'm crossing highways because of Frogger

10/12/2005 10:18:26 AM

I dont get why they sued wal-mart and gamestop. you can sue one, that one being the store that you actually bought the game from. is their claim we dont have the reciept anymore so his 2 favorite stores for games were wal-mart and gamestop

10/12/2005 10:20:47 AM

GAME OVER

10/12/2005 10:23:25 AM

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"I cleaned up my apartment...because of Katamari"

that made me chuckle

10/12/2005 10:28:33 AM

he got

10/12/2005 10:36:08 AM

If the cops had played video games, they would have just started bunny hopping like crazy until the kid ran out of ammo. They could have then ran after him and pistol whipped him to death.

10/12/2005 10:46:41 AM

^they def. woulda hopped on a large ostrich and hit him until he layed an egg. (joust)

10/12/2005 11:07:47 AM

and the prosecution walks away with another pwnt n00b

10/12/2005 11:18:42 AM

you know, if the kid had just hid in a box, they would have never found him

10/12/2005 11:37:24 AM

10/12/2005 7:06:56 PM

this is a form of suicide bomber.

Parents tell kid, "look we are in a lot of debt, mainly because of you. so here is the plan. You kill 3 cops, we blame it on a video game, we sue, we get millions you die and are in heaven with 70 virgins. sound good?"

10/12/2005 7:15:21 PM

This was a pretty good Law & Order episode.

10/12/2005 7:55:38 PM

Umm, the judge wasn't sentencing a gamer to death... he was sentencing a murderer to death. That's a shitty headline.

10/12/2005 9:30:05 PM

yeah really, a murderer who just happened to play video games

10/12/2005 9:32:44 PM

you know, if he really thought life was like a video game, he should have remembered the part where the gta cops come and run over you with their cars and shoot you

10/12/2005 10:36:18 PM

I swear, the world is full of fucking morons. I'd love to fucking gorillakick the family members in their faces for doing some dumb shit like sueing.

YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS WERE COPS, THAT IS A RISK YOU TAKE WHEN YOU SIGN ON FOR A JOB LIKE THAT!

10/13/2005 3:26:18 AM

Man, if life had respawn, I'd be able to do a lot more shit.

10/13/2005 5:23:29 AM

LEEEEERRROOOOYYYYYYYYY JEEENNNNKKKIIINNNNNNSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10/13/2005 6:54:52 AM

families should sue the police department...

20 year old kid whose only training was playing video games was able to outdo THREE "trained" police officers...

that's some shitty departmental training right there

10/13/2005 6:55:53 AM

Maybe he killed them because they stole his cloudsong. I know that would piss me off.

10/13/2005 7:28:14 AM

Maybe he was nice enough to go through the trouble of adding them to his party, and they went and took all his materia and made him go on this fairly long lame-assed quest to get his shit back.

10/13/2005 7:36:44 AM

he was probably waiting around forever for a fucking raid party

10/13/2005 8:25:23 AM

If ninjas ever start randomly attacking me in the street, somebody come bail my ass out of jail.

10/13/2005 9:05:37 AM

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"families should sue the police department... 20 year old kid whose only training was playing video games was able to outdo THREE "trained" police officers... that's some shitty departmental training right there"

dude, he probably just used cheat codes

10/13/2005 12:34:10 PM

gg

10/13/2005 12:58:47 PM

http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/prey_alone?mid=64550271

meh, kinda relevant (if you watch it all the way through).

10/13/2005 1:06:13 PM