Thailand Pulls GTA IV Following Murder of Taxi Driver
Popular video game, Grand Theft Auto IV has been pulled from Thai shelves following the murder of a cab driver at the hands of a teenage boy.
19 year old Polwat Chino admitted to stabbing and killing a cab driver in Bangkok in an effort to recreate a scene from GTA IV.
Local police say he "had wanted to find out if it was as easy in real life to rob a taxi as it was in the game.” The high school student purchased a knife in a local Tesco and went on to the Bang Phlad district of central Bangkok where he happened upon the victim. Chino stabbed the taxi driver (aged 54) 10 times and then attempted to use the cab as a getaway car.
Unfortunately, Mr. Chino neglected to factor in that not only does he not have a driver’s licence, he can’t even drive. His constant pressing of the horn while trying to reverse down a dead end street drew the attention of neighbours in the area and they called the police.
Chino paid to play GTA in a local games business. According to the Times, the boy said he needed more money to continue playing the game and that the taxi driver looked like an easy target.
Polwat recreated the crime for police and reporters (which is apparently common practice in Thailand) and has been charged with robbery, murder and possessing offensive weapons. In a police statement the boy said his parents don’t give him enough money to play the game and that, as civil servants, they don’t earn enough.
Polwat Chino could face death by lethal injection.
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If that is remotely true, that person it's totally psychopatic and would kill anyone for any reason, it's just happened to be a videogame.
It's easy to blame a massively popular product, or would you blame an iphone that it seems everyone has for making the last murderer kill, he owned one, so the iphone MUST have something to do.
If someone present a deep investigation that founds that gta4 makes a perfectly normal person a psycho, then i would be worried about violent games.