Supposed GTA imitator gets 75 to life for murder |
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The news is saying that someone took their video game fantasies into the real world, and is now paying for it with a hefty prison sentence. While we don't necessarily agree with that connection, SF Gate's article about it does bear some mention. The founder of the Nut Cases street gang was recently sentenced to a minimum of 75 years in prison for killing an acquaintance of his.
Gregory Colbert, 27, was convicted in Alameda County Superior Court in December for the June 7, 2004 killing of 20-year-old Glen Phaso. Deputy District Attorney Michael Nieto said Colbert, already a convicted felon, killed Phaso either because he raped Colbert's good friend the day before the murder, or because Phaso refused to commit a murder that Colbert ordered.
According to the rest of the SF Gate report, the Nut Cases were a gang who were known for getting high while playing Rockstar's supposed "murder simulator" and then resorted to acting out what they played in the game. While the coverage manages to be fair with most of it, we certainly don't agree with how games are portrayed here.
For one thing, there seems to be a history of violence within the family. The report also notes that his half-brother, Demarcus Ralls, was also found guilty of a set of murders of his own. That would seem to indicate more of a predilection towards violence than a love of acting out game violence.
Still, to paraphrase the old adage, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophies.
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People who do this stuff dont need "help" from a game.
Its stupid to say that it makes people commit murder and stuff, I watched 007 last night but that doesnt make me wana go and murder people.
People just need an escape goat and games are just the current subject.
...reading the bible or koran on dope. I know people who have and they are borderline insane today.
Forget about GTA, the dude was in a Gang, a GANG
I wonder how he'll twist this to make it seem like the game is completely responsible for this gang's actions.
ROFL
Sorry, I know what you actually meant, but that still made me laugh pretty hard.
Heh, gangs didn't exist before GTA. GTA is the root of all evil!
someone is gonna die if GTA IV gets cancelled because of this type of crap,......woah no ones gonna die, dont blame GTA for this comment
Escape goats rock, where can I get one?
GTA isn't even that realistic. in gta, you can take almost any car that is parked, and drive off with it. Wouldnt the car be locked in real life? and in gta you can actually escape from cops and loose stars. lol and that wouldnt happen in real life.
first of all this story is retarded because if you kill someone over a game you have a problem but the defend GTA saying its not a murder simulator when it is i mean who plays that game to wonder around looking at all the people
I play it so that I can kill police, and hookers legally.
He should have saved.
not ANOTHER gta realist! remember that guy a while back, the article was titles "GTA Fan arrested due to attempted GTA" or something like that!
What a great band name!
If playing video games while high were all it takes, colleges would be pumping out killers not graduates.
i totally agre with joe i play it to kill people but in real life i would never dream of doing it
I've never seen rape in any of the GTA games. Were those guys in a modder gang?
common, now start blaming video games xD
Peoples just keep ruining their lifes...
Doesnt these peoples have any brains?
Blame the retarded kid.
THE ESCAPE GOATS!!!
THE ESCAPE GOATS!!!
THE ESCAPE GOATS!!!
THE ESCAPE GOATS!!!
THE ESCAPE GOATS!!!
THE ESCAPE GOATS!!!
THE ESCAPE GOATS!!!
who said that? u can get a goat to escape on in GTA??? lol
hahahah, hahahahahahha.. he really should hahahahahaha omg, hahahahahahaha.
I HATE THESE TYPES OF THINGS!! they make the game look bad, wen its the person thats fcked up!!!
This is just what i hate, people who are retarded and play violent video games which enrages them to copy what happens in the game... That said this also ruins the games reputation so for crying out loud GTA does not do ***** to the average 'NORMAL' human!!
So me while were at it we might as we'll blame some other stuff on GTA e.g. My car getting stolen maybe the guy was playing gta, the world trade center bombing (R.I.P to my cousin and everyone else who lost there lives) the guy might of crashed a plane into a building on san andreas or vice city.
The point is it's news reports like this that are sending GTA into the rubbish bin for ever.
wtf has this to do with GTA? This story doesn't have anything to do with GTA, it's to whole different subjects, it would be as stupid as talking about goats in a comment section of a psp blog. Hahaha wouldn't that be funny/stupid
I hope GTA 4 doens't get politicly correct cause of this stuff
are you all high cuz i am, haha escape goat
Some people are really screwed up...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kBVmfIUR1DA
I mean, that is the kind of retarded kid that does these stupid things... and I'm sure the kid didn't get that way by playing video games...
When I play GTA I masturbate uncontrollably. But thats just me.
well the game isnt exactly appropriate for certain people u say the make the game look bad think about it isnt killing people on the streets bad?
It's not just you.
So since they act out the game do they also belive the cops will spot them like there the only person there? Do they belive that they can just pay a fine a get out of jail? Do they also think that they can just hop into and car and just drive away? Do they also......You get my point. The game does nothing about drugs. So getting high and acting out stuff in the game is their own doing. Has anyone watched wrestling? What about getting high and acting that stuff out? Where do you stop? Those are choices that we as adults have to decide and live with the outcome.
I think you mean a Escape goat, lol
I just discovered in GTA:SA if you press UUDUL1L1R2L1
S C T S C T ...
Your character changes into Demetrius Ralls and you spawn a goat...
The goat controls kinda like the Dodo plane....
ESCAPE GOAT!!! HAHHAHAHAHHA!!! !!!!!
If GTA is producing gangsters and murderers, than Madden NFL is producing football stars. Atleast thats using their logic.
That's because you've never made it to the special bonus stage with the escape goat!
You're just mad because you didn't get first comment.
You guys making fun of that are a bunch of retards. Not funny at all...
I GOT INTO TOWNSEND HARRIS!
You retard, he meant scape goat. He only made a typo but you're the retard that couldn't catch the typo!
Sheep go to Heaven, Goats go to Hell
lol
I got in a car accident, I totally blame Need For Speed cuz you know you can crash but don't take any damage.
you are not alone my friend i dream of driving at 400+ miles per hour on a closed course track and crashing into others without sustaining large amounts of lethal damage to one's self.
You tried.
lmao, the reason everyone is laffing is because he is using the idiot term...
its not ESCAPE GOAT, thats how ignorant people say/spell it..
the real term is SCAPEGOAT
everybody murder other people and blame GTA?
wtf?
damn I should just go on the street and beat some people up and blame Street Fighter for that
Ya know, like the Mafia and stuff? They were around waaaay before GTA came out (and so were those stupid street "gangstas"). This proves that GTA was inspired by gangs, not the other way around. BTW video games don't kill people, the government does!
rockstar has stepped it up a knotch with their REAL LIFE VIDEOGAME!! wow... how did they fit gta in there again?
i was playing god of war 2 when suddenly i got an idea! why dont i go on the streets with my barbarian hammer or athenian blades so i did and when the cops came there lklike hey hey stop what r u doing and i said hey come on god of war 2 influenced me and the cops left
I think it's lovely how a) the media likes to play up niche statistics; (i.e. the fact that video games have been linked to few if any crimes) and b) it allows the felons to relieve themselves of personal responsibility for their actions.
I gotta say I liked all GTA games and had played all (except 1 and 2) but now I will not support the buying of this game. We can't escape the fact for long that this type of games can affect some people's mind and it didn't affect mine but should I really support a game that has caused people to ruin other people's life and their own life? The thing is not about violent games or shooters, it's the way that in GTA you can go up to NPC's and kill them easily and escape and all and uneducated people can imitate it. Look on google how many people accidentally killed themselves in the USA after imitating Saddam's haging, around 20 kids, and games like GTA can spurr lots of violent among people, and the factor is not the violence, is the way people can imitate with poor resources such acts and facility confounding life with this games. I have agreed to boycott GTA games and their clones because I have to face the facts that innocent lifes are being lost.
Lets ban anything with ANY kind of violence what so ever then. Movies, tv shows, books, even little kid movies like bambi should be banned, because we all know some kids just might dress up in a deer outfit, set the woods on fire to react the scene, and accidentally kill themselves in the processes. There are ratings put on these kinds of games for a reason, and most stores are very strict in monitoring the sales of these games and parents need to as well. I remember not too long ago that everyone was blaming music for all of the violence, killings, etc...but now they've moved onto video games because they don't understand them. Games don't kill people, but stupid people do kill other people...use your brain.
AHAHAHAHA u funny mo*****a
I found out u can help escape a goat out of a farm on GTA
They use it as such a reason to describe what they done. O yeh i played sum wipeout pure so i went and put 10 nos on the back of my car and did 700mph on the highway
Just yesterday i was playing mario,
then i had a sudden urge to run around outside looking for gold coins jump on turtles slide down green pipes and smash bricks with my head
I play GTA, an i havent even thought of killing anyone. There are sick people out there, that just happen to play this game, and all these journalists or whatsoever come along and say the game is the main cause. Its NOT, its the background of the PEOPLE that play the game!
yeah then i should do some drivebys with a sawed off shotgun and blame it on outlander for the old sega LOL
Just like people who "chuck rocks at space ships," right?
i can say from personal experience that pot heads are lazy and gamers are evin lazyier so what make u think that that has anythign 2 do with it. shoot a person has a better chance of killing someone from hearing about all the killing on the news or listening to rap music then playing a video game. maybe they should change from 18+ to not intended for dumm audiences. shoot i know 10 year old that have somehow convinced there parants to buy them gta and still know the difference from reality and fiction. blame all bad news on things u dont like thats the media way bash bash bash and if that dont work then bash some more. i dont think this guy who obviusly is dum for being in a gang anyways can blame any of his actions on videogames no idfferent than the insanity plea not saying it dont apply to some but other than that its an scapegoat (thats how u spell it) quit blaming bad choices on other elements and take responcability maybe this guy will learn this by the end of his sentance