Grand Theft Auto habit contributes to partner's murder
by Justin McElroy 
{ Apr 1st 2009 at 9:20AM } 
Since the mainstream media isn't great with specifics when it comes to writing about video games, we don't know which PlayStation she was using, or which GTA she was playing. But it sounds like GTA might not have been the only problem in this relationship. For example: Though the PlayStation takes The Telegraph's headline heat, the story mentions "Palmer had also become convinced that she was having an affair, and went into a violent rage when she told him she wanted him to move out in November last year, threatening that he would never get to see their children again."
... So, yeah. It's either that, or the PlayStation.
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Ethan @ Apr 1st 2009 9:31AM
Whatever will turn heads.
happy shmappy @ Apr 1st 2009 9:35AM
I swallow turds
Jerk Face @ Apr 1st 2009 9:36AM
D :
Zeus.:God @ Apr 1st 2009 11:46AM
Oh yeah, baby- I got plays for you...
>:D
Cody @ Apr 1st 2009 12:52PM
ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLL
golobulus @ Apr 1st 2009 9:35AM
the hell does this have to do with GTA? press saw an opportune moment and they capitalized. that dumb-ass is just insecure and mentally fucked.
Feba @ Apr 1st 2009 9:58AM
More like the defense saw something they could use to make it seem like the wife's fault.
Jake B @ Apr 1st 2009 12:14PM
Some nut from my town in Alaska got arrested for a murder streak down in Colorado that was totally random. In the paper up here the police mentioned "violent video games" as being a possible culprit. I could play violent video games for months and not feel the urge to go on a murder streak, you have to be deranged to do that!
F1: Basu Gasu Bakuhatsu @ Apr 1st 2009 9:35AM
They've really cracked the case on this one. They've gotta have fuckin' Sherlock Holmes writing for them or something!
michael @ Apr 1st 2009 9:36AM
cue Jack Thompson saying the 63 years old man (I read this artcile on GP and Kotaku) train on GTA and claming anyone playing video game regardless of the age are murderers in 3...2...1
Jtenma @ Apr 1st 2009 9:37AM
I started laughing when I read this BS.
Wow. I wonder though, I'd like to met the person who really believes it is the PlayStation's/GTA's fault.
Grant G @ Apr 1st 2009 9:43AM
Wait....
He killed his girlfriend who was into video games?
What a piece of shit! He killed one of the few!
I hope he gets brutally ass raped in prison.
Temidien @ Apr 1st 2009 10:03AM
I wish my gf would kick me out to play video games. The only games I can get her into (she watches me play a lot but doesn't play much herself) are Final Fantasy and Castle Crashers.
Still though, the whole cheating thing...
Morisato @ Apr 1st 2009 10:09AM
Just buy Rez...
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/31/ps2-bundle-the-girlfriend/
Crusty Magic @ Apr 1st 2009 9:45AM
Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Fooled
Rhamsey @ Apr 1st 2009 9:47AM
did you know that before videogames, everyone died of natural causes? no one ever stabbed their wife before space invaders gave them those horrible thoughts.
harvsorrow @ Apr 1st 2009 9:51AM
Can't we all just share our GTAs?
james @ Apr 1st 2009 9:59AM
lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0buVonl8Qs&feature=channel_page
Temidien @ Apr 1st 2009 10:04AM
TROLLS GO HOME!
Dropeti @ Apr 1st 2009 10:05AM
You got rick rolld :P
Morisato @ Apr 1st 2009 10:06AM
I knew it was coming up with the Amazon MP3 ad popped up in the first few seconds... haha... I just didnt know when it was coming.
Zeus.:God @ Apr 1st 2009 11:50AM
Yeah- foiled again... That horrible Amazon "buy now" link popped up in the video before anything started.
Dis @ Apr 1st 2009 10:15AM
"I'm sorry. I think I've killed her." creepiest/craziest part about it to me
Blackbyrd82 @ Apr 1st 2009 10:29AM
Wow...just wow. But wait a second, hasn't the media taught me that it's always the person [i]plays[/i] the games that's turned into a murdering automaton? I'm confused.
Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Apr 1st 2009 10:38AM
?????
JR @ Apr 1st 2009 10:43AM
I hear he really killed her for saying the Playstation's technical capabilities are superior to the 360's, knowing that was pure blasphemy he murdered her in the name of all that is right....and Peter Moore
kbeehaze @ Apr 1st 2009 11:42AM
He killed her cause she got her period and he thought it was the red rings again. 360 sux
Saria the Cat @ Apr 1st 2009 12:29PM
kbeehaze: Please go away. You know nothing about women, periods, or rational thought.
-Vexx- @ Apr 1st 2009 10:48AM
If you could see the expression on my face right now.
sirshabz786 @ Apr 1st 2009 10:49AM
the last line cracked me up..... :D
rov947 @ Apr 1st 2009 11:01AM
If only he had known that she unlocked hot coffee...the moans were for not.
prodigy69 @ Apr 1st 2009 11:15AM
The Press are going to love Postal 3 then..
SuperGayParade @ Apr 1st 2009 11:15AM
APRIL FOOLS!! LOL!!!
Oh... wait...
Fearghus @ Apr 1st 2009 11:50AM
The article said they had been together 30 years, since he was 32 and she was 16! Sounds like he had issues already.
MisterSquared @ Apr 1st 2009 12:05PM
The real reason he killed her: she would call him on his cell phone while he was working to see if he wanted to go drinking with her...every five minutes.
Bobulous @ Apr 1st 2009 12:12PM
Yeah, GTA is definitely responsible. Not because he was disturbed or anything. It was the games. God damn you, Nolan Bushnell, you and all your perfidious spawn.
Elven_Star @ Apr 1st 2009 12:29PM
sad
Saria the Cat @ Apr 1st 2009 12:31PM
This is sad news for everyone.
Lookhappy @ Apr 1st 2009 12:33PM
When she kicked him out of the room she shoulda given him a ball of yarn, or a scratching post or something, so then he wouldn't have gotten so bored!
Phizzy @ Apr 1st 2009 1:08PM
LOL! This is the best April Fools ever. GTA murder wahahahaha
Jake @ Apr 1st 2009 1:18PM
Oh come on it not PlayStation, in fact it is the Xbox360 version of GTA4, that make people like that.
Since the XBox360 GTA4 got the extend version, PS3 GTA4 has already finished the game already, once that make people keep on playing this is when the extension pack release on the XBox360.
It not the PS3 it is the Xbox360
bud_toker_13 @ Apr 1st 2009 1:59PM
ok first the news dont know jack cus i have seen reports on the ps3 and in the vid thy show with the report showed a xbox not a ps2 and gta is on both the ps2 and xbox and ps3 and 360 so was it a ps or a xbox no one will know the news just hears video game and assume its a playstation ans seconed the wife probubly wasent puting out cus she was to bisy playing games to service her man and he wint nutz do to blue balls not gta i have playe every gta ther is and i was playing doom at age 6 and i love the most violent vid games and i have never thoght killing my nabor would be fun and i have never slep with a prostatute then jumped out of the car and beat her down with a base ball bat to get my money back vid games do make violent ppl vilolent parents make violent ppl that just hapen to play vid games and befoe the vid games it was movies but look at the most violent times in history ther were no vid games or movies to influince ppl so find another comen denominator
danielsdesk @ Apr 1st 2009 2:45PM
So wait, this isn't April Fools?
Zackoakes @ Apr 1st 2009 10:12PM
no i think its real
Lav @ Apr 1st 2009 4:24PM
It sounds like the marriage thing inflamed him but the lack of GTA (coping mechanism?) pushed him over the edge....
I do not really know the story or care but I am not defending or attacking video games every time a story like this comes out.
Josh @ Apr 2nd 2009 11:19AM
I feel sorry for the kids. Really, really sorry.
And I can do nothing but look down upon and frown at the misinformation and false accusations spread by this "newspaper". There always has to be a scapegoat, doesn't there?