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Georgia teen arsonists allegedly learned from GTA

by Alexander Sliwinski on Aug 8th 2008 11:45AM

The Grand Theft Auto blame-express keeps rolling on as three Georgia teens say they learned to make Molotov cocktails from the game. We must have skipped that level, is it the one with the points for the rape? WSBTV reports that the 15 and 16-year-old youths have been charged with 57 felony counts for a series of "car bombings" by Molotov cocktails.

The real kicker here is that police figured out who the arsonists were by going to the local Wal-Mart and sifting through receipts. One had on it the purchase of "Sprite bottles, red rags and lighter fluid," then the cops pulled the tape for the time of the purchase to identify the suspects. Poor guys, the game allegedly taught them how to make their tools of destruction, but not how to get away with the crime. Pro Tip: Hop in a car and drive until out of the police's radius.

[Via GamePolitics]

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Tags: blame, georgia, grand-theft-auto-iv, gta

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I can't wait until the day when these defendants get a prosecutor that has actually played the game.

"Show me exactly where you learned how to do this in the game"

DAM that GTA 4 I contracted genital herpes from a cheap Thai hooker and it's all GTA's fault, dammit another outbreak, I HATE YOU NICO BELLLLIICCCC!!!!!

GOOD GRIEF. I think, once again, the point is...why were 15 and 16 year olds playing a game rated for 17 and up? Granted, one year isn't enough to completely change thier life, but the blame still shouldn't go to the game companies if these kids were wrongfully playing GTA 4.

An excellent point. I don't recall any part of the game where they took me to the grocery store to buy the ingredients so I could make one myself.

This was in reply to RiccochetJ's comment. Oh the Joystiq reply button...how I loathe thee.

That's it...I'm taking a Molotov Cocktail to my keyboard...now where's my copy of GTA IV? I need to research!

yes...and looney tunes taught me how to make tnt.

You too? I hate it when it blows up in my face and I get black smoke all over myself.

People get really irritated with me whenever I paint a tunnel on the side of a mountain. They crash into it, then the lawsuits inevitably follow.

Chicks dig it when I dress up as a skunk and chase them.

PROTIP: buy the items from separate locations and in smaller quantities over longer periods of time...(Sprite@Jewel/Osco, different colored rags@Walmart, Liquor@liquor store)...duh!

...and how many movies already show molotov cocktail bombs?

...and how come they didn't learn to make pipe bombs from the original Terminator movie?

BUSTED!

You know where you can ACTUALLY learn how to make a molotov cocktail? In books.

Blame books, they're obviously the devil's tool. Charles Dickens you murderer.

I played GTA and there is no part that tells you how to make a molotov.

But I did google "how to make a molotov" and got about 9001 results.
My brother also told me how to do it.
Everyone knows how to do them,its kindalike common teen knowledge.

The "GTA TOLD ME" deal was already old,now its just getting annoying.

In B4 "why so serious?" ,I am just not in a good mood for a joke now.

I'd say it's much less of GTA4 teaching them how to do but rather giving them the inspiration to do it.
Obviously they knew/could figure out how to make Molotovs before they played the game.
When they used them in the game, they probably figured it'd be fwiggin schweet to do it IRL.

i was just wondering, is there any crime that wasn't learned from a GTA series?

Sorry Mickey.

Did you do it?

...

Then what are ya sorry for?

Yeah, a Molotov bomb is so hard to make, only videogame indoctrination can teach it to ya!

Lets make hand grenades
It's hours of fun in a little jar!
Let's make hand grenades
Try one out on your neighbors car!

Clearly they were influenced by Offspring & not GTA

I'm not being facetious at all here, but I really, truly learned what a Molotov Cocktail was and how to use it from Goonies II for NES.

Woah, woah, hold it! Gas is FLAMMABLE?!

Kid 1: Remember, if we get caught...blame Grand Theft Auto!
Kid 2: I thought we were supposed to blame Rock N' Roll, TV, or violent movies?
Kid 3:...no I think we're supposed to blame the internet!
Kid 1: No, no...that's so last century. Blaming videogames is where it's at!
Kid 3: Wait...are Molotov cocktails even in GTA?
Kid 2: Yes...but usually I just use grenades. They take up the same weapon slot.

Unlike Fight Club (At least the book) had a really in-depth instructions to creating explosives. Chuck Phalaniuk has said he actually researched all of the explosive making in his book and was sort of disappointed that the movie took it out.

Lol wrong game retards, you are thinking of Resident Evil... Oh wait is that Jack Thompson calling? Man this just prove that the real gamers are not the ones doing these stupid thing, these idiots are using games as an excuse to make them look insane and keep them from meeting with a man named bubba in jail.

Sorry Joystiq, but nowhere in the article does it say they learned to make the molotov cocktails in GTA, only "how to do it" which I assume means the firebombings themselves. And you do make cars explode with molotov cocktails in the game.

Of course this doesn't mean the game made them do it, but rather gave them the idea, which is totally possible.

They had a choice in the matter...But they did not say the game made them do it...

One could assume now that the game has influence. And from a stand point of whether or not he had accepted responsibility this game does seem to help you make that choice of wanting to blow up shit with the right information. But you can not help what is put out their...
O...Glass Jar, Nails, small bag of Gunpowder, and simple firework fuse. Works in crowded areas...But I came up with that on the spot...

Wait the kids re from Georgia, shouldnt we blame the parents for inbreeding and producing retards?

Come on now, be honest, we all learned everything we know from GTA. Its time we stopped denying it. Do not forsake thy GTA, Judases!

Does it work with plastic bottles? I'll have to check out the molotov Instructibles again..

Pokemon taught me animal cruelty.

after detailed study of gta4 I have also constructed a Rpg, I intend to market this to terrorist.

plain and simple. gta4=weapons of mass destruction.

in the words of the finest actor to ever grace televisions across the world:

"Kenan? Wait Kenan! I don't wanna...AWW HERE IT GOES!!!"

that's right, Kel Mitchel

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