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Schizophrenic guy kills, says GTA told him to do it |
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Y'know, law books in the future will soon come to include the classic "GTA defense." Look at the sheer glut of criminal acts that perpetrators attribute to titles in Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series. It's practically become the next gen version of the insanity plea.
Over in London, a teenager loaded with "skunk weed", a high-strength kind of cannabis, murdered a 51-year old woman. Why? According to a report from ThisIsLondon.co.uk, Ezekiel Maxwell, a paranoid schizophrenic, committed the crime because "gangster voices" from a Grand Theft Auto game told him to do so.
Maxwell apparently believed that he was Carl Johnson, the main character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The crime happened on September 5 last year, but we're guessing that the reason this has come to light now is due in part to the recent rash of "skunk"-related crime pieces in London papers. Of course, the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto IV may also be part of it, but that's kind of far-fetched.
We should also note that Maxwell had been smoking cannabis and "skunk" as well as taking cocaine since he was 14. He had also been diagnosed as a schizophrenic. Unless there's something wrong with your head in the first place, playing a violent videogame won't turn you into some kind of homicidal maniac.
Via This Is London
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then again,i hear a voice that tells me to rescue a princess...
so if anyone knows any princesses for me to save,send me a message.
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VIc Vance from GTA VCS
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Stupid Southern Fairy. Its always fookin London.
Northern Monkeys FTW
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kids that smoke weed an do class A's should not play GTA and then make up a lame excuse.
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The guy is seriously messed up, GTA isn't the cause and I'm shocked that they even reported that minor detail.
But because they have, people will probably take it seriously and Jack Thompson will get a few more recruits. To those people I say; You're just as deluded as Ezekiel Maxwell.
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this ***** is clearly trying to get some sort of lesser sentencing, give him life in prison
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Sickening how drugs are blamed for everything. Marijuana makes people less violent and is one of the mildest drugs there is.
He's a schizophrenic, and has a chronic mental disorder. While 14 is too young to use any drug, his parents are to blame for that. He likely uses drugs because of schizophrenia, but the schizophrenia led him to kill. That's one of the reasons how dumbasses in the USA got weed illegal in the first place. They said some guy with schizophrenia killed his family because he smoked weed. That's what led to Refer Madness, the most rediculous anti drug movie of all time. Schizophrenia is a disease you are born with, it isn't caused by drugs! What are you smoking?
My god you are the stupidest person I've ever seen on this forum.
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despite the fact that coke is a million times worse
if he was smokin up some super cronic, he probably wouldnt of been able to move, let alone kill sumone!!!
and if he could move he'd probably only get as far as his fridge
dont you just hate the uneducated :)
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I thought sane people take out there frustrations from the real world INSIDE the video game.
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You do realize our country was won by......gunfights; you know, in WARS. Dumbass. That's why all americans have the right to bear arms, LEGALLY NOT ILLEGALLY.
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Like Red forman says; DUMBASS
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In Manhunt you get voices in your head when you wear the headset but it don make me go and kill some one with a plastic bag!
There should be a New Law. "You can never blame a game for your crime" You inbread morons
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STop taking this guy serious. As in Stop thinking he is REALLY blaming gta... he is simply using it as a scape goat to get off.
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give the *ucker the death sentence n' be done with it.
Murder is murder......no excuses
if anything it was the cocaine that screwed his head up, he was probably freebasin' that stuff or somthing
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nothing wrong with it as long as you don't become a complete head
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Where are the people to put a stop to these kinda blamings. A while back a little gil jumpped off of her kitchen counter with a broom and blamed it on harry potter! then, also with columbine, they blamed Doom! There should be a law on it saying no blamiing a movie or game.
thats my 2 cents lol.
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and if you think it's not real - then i'll flukkin kill you too
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I agree that it should be Illegal to blame video games. And the blame should be soely shifted to the accused caregiver(s) Skizopherenia is a SERIOUS disorder with SERIOUS concequences if the caregiver isnt attentive. This isnt an article why people shouldnt play GTA, this is an artical about why people should yake Skitzophrenia more seriously
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Secondly, to reply to the individual who posted that schizophrenics should refuse to listen to the voices that they hear. As someone who works with schizophrenics, I can say that this view is completely uninformed. Unlike other mental illnesses where the capacity to distinguish between reality and fantasy remains basically intact, individuals with severe schizophrenia simply have no ability to make the distinction. Even the concepts of "reality" and "fantasy" are virtually meaningless to them.
Thirdly, if we decide that games like GTA should be banned because they cause schizophrenics to commit crimes, we should also be banning the Bible. In my years of working with schizophrenics I have known many of them to do commit terrible crimes, including murder, but in most cases the schizophrenics explain that they were compelled to commit their crimes because the devil of the Bible told them to do so, not because of violent video games.
Just my two cents.
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http://www.apa.org/releases/videogames.html
I'll stick to the facts. My mom took away the South Park N64 game that my cousin had bought me for Christmas one year because of the cussing and she had taken a copy of the SNES version of Doom that my uncle bought me the year that it was released because of the blood and violence and the Columbine Massacre.
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Besides, skunk weed sucks.
As a former pot smoker who suffers from manic depression and played GTA, the only victim I left in my wake was a bag of cool ranch doritos.
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My comment about killing wasn't meant to be real.
But the way people treat mental illness is horrible.
You try and be Schizophrenic - you try and see what it is like when you have no control over yourself. The times when you do have control you're barely alive. And people think that you're a horrible person.
Let me tell you something. I will go to heaven - I am a good person. Despite what this illness has made me do or will make me do.
I fight harder then you can imagine - don't think that breaking the law has anything to do with wanting to. If someone breaks the law knowingly - then they should be jailed - if they do it unknowingly, like someone in a Psychotic state - then they should be given time in a mental institution. We aren't animals - we're human too.
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He must be following Personal Responsibility, which already rode off into the sunset, never to be seen again.
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PEOPLE WHO HAVE have schizophrenia have a physical discease in their brain. This does not mean they go out and KILL PEOPLE !.
a "PSYCHOPATH", is someone who KILLS!
What kind of ignorant authors publish on this this!!> ?
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How about oj simpson ,, nah it was DEFINATly GTA.
Osama bin laden ? HE played GTA too.
Get a *****ing life guys , Skizto's hear voices and kill people. THATS WHAT THEY DO> who gives a ***** what video games he played... THE PROBLEM IS HIS SKITZO BRAIN NOT THE GAMES> > > >
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in the early days it was made illegal to stop migration. Thats the simple truth.
Alcohol has a better chance of causing you long term harm. (alcoholism, liver failure)
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