Germany's Killer Game drive killed by lack of interest

by Griffin McElroy on Oct 19th 2009 5:00PM

A German advocacy group called Aktionsbündnis Amoklauf Winnenden, which is mostly composed of parents and friends of victims of the tragic Winnenden school shooting from earlier this year, recently attempted to host an event where owners of violent video games would dispose of their aggressive software en masse. The group rented out a sizable dumpster, hoping to fill it to its brim with Mature video games which people had spent their hard-earned money on.

We certainly sympathize with the horrible loss this group recently suffered, but even if they choose to vilify video games, asking people to throw their stuff away probably isn't the most effective course of action. The somewhat predictable results of this event can be found in a video after the jump.

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Tags: dumpster, germany, protest, school-shooting, violence, violent-video-games, winnenden

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Can someone point me towards the dumpster in question? Cause that would be AWESOME.

Ah, again, I fail to read the article properly. I hadn't realized the event had already ended.

Well, I could still use a copy of Grand Theft Auto, I suppose.

If I lived in Germany I'd be thinking the same thing: Loot the dumpster.

Or maybe this was a plan masterminded by the German equivalent of Gamestop to turn around and stick a price sticker on that dumpster.

You don't live in germany?

YOU LIED TO US!

looting the dumpster would be a great way to save those games. This gives me an idea for a counter event, adopt a game, people gather up abandoned and unwanted games and have gamers adopt them so they can all have good homes.

My fat zittle body iz from Germany, zee perzon I ate iz Dutch.

God Mystile, is there anything you -won't- eat?!

Bathwater, that I drink, not eat.

Oh Germany, when will you ever learn?

Take that censorship.

Actually, they did?

hopefully Merkel and her ilk are paying attention to this.

That dumpster is MASSIVE. I understand where they were coming from with this idea, but you think they could have at LEAST started with a more standard-sized dumpster? Maybe even just a trashcan?

Or . . . doggy bag?

Actually, 20 minutes after the end of this video, the dumpster was completely filled with copies of ET for the Atari 2600.

Adding lulz for the win.

Video games aren't the problem, disturbed people are the problem!

@Gamer4Life, true.

I was smoking once together with bunch of family people and they have had similar to US parenting problem sentiment. (I live in Germany right now, Frankfurt a.M. area.)

50 years ago wife having a job was an exception - and actually required permit signed by husband. Now: majority of wives have jobs. Or more like have to have a job because few families can live on a single paycheck.

End result is that the kids for the most of the time are left to themselves.

The empty dumpster isn't an indicator. Germany already has quite strict game censorship and it would get only worse as parenting becoming bigger and bigger problem.

hah yeah its a construction site dumpster; the trashcan in my bathroom is all they really needed :)

OH, the guy responsible for the shootings was a 4chan commenter. That explains everything.

ya, i'm surprised they're not blaming 4chan at least a little. ..

I'm pretty sure 4chan is one of the many things that has already been blamed.

4Chan? Did Jackie recently have 4 sons?

Was that a Yu-Gi-Oh card in there? O.o

Is that Gears of Wa.... oh nevermind, that's just brown rusty metal.

NOICE!

Blame the player, not the game.

wow, that's pitiful.

One of those games looks like the Hanna Montana game.

I'm more likely to kill people after playing that than I am after playing Counter Strike, I know that much.

Wait, how do YOU know what the Hannah Montana game looks like?

I saw it once when I accidentally walked down the Wii isle in Bestbuy...

In his defense, once you see Hannah Monana that shit will burn into your cornea.

So is she the super hero? Or is that Molly Cyrus? So confusing!

Aaaaaand cue the Price is Right fail music.

http://failureatlife.ytmnd.com/

Thanks for being one of those assholes that clutters YouTube with useless junk.
Try to find a song you've heard on the radio and you get 2.4 million results with 2.3 million of those being idiots covering the song with an out-of-tune banjo.

I laugh at them for their failure in this endeavor, sure their lose was a tragedy but blaming video games for disturbed individuals' irrational behavior is not cool. Every time I see people pull this shit, it disgusts me. I understand they are hurting from their loss but lashing out at others (gamers in this case) doesn't change anything really. These people would do more good lobbying for better psychiatric care and interventions from their government.

It's funny how much better this strategy worked 50 yrs ago w/books & a bonfire.

I wonder why they couldn't pull the same results this time around.....

That was in terrible taste, +1.

they were missing the fire. if the offer was bring your violent game down, throw it in a dumpster, douse it with gas and burn the game straight into hell.

DROVES would have turned out.

Anyway, I'm still amazed that people can blame video games for their problems. I mean, let's think. For example, Call of Duty 4 has sold well over 10 million copies. Now, how many cases of school shootings have we had? I'm gonna go with, maybe, 5. (That's a rough estimate, it's not like I did research or something.)

That means there's a one in 2 million chance that Call of Duty makes you bat shit kill crazy. Now, how about OTHER factors? Like their parents? Has anyone thought about blaming the parents? My parents raised me to avoid killing anything short of mosquitoes. It works out, you know? As a kid, I once tried nursing a bee back to health after my sister squashed it. I save worms from puddles, I take spiders outside.

Now, I can also play Gears of War and remember that I'm slaughtering bots, not people. Yes, violence is fun. Video games allow me to be violent without the guilt. So how about we think of games as a healthy outlet for aggression, not a demonic killing simulator?

Okay, I'm done being serious, back to light hearted wit, now.

I take spiders outside too!

I run and scream like an idiot! I can't even watch movies with spiders in them!

Being able to cut people in half in HD is the only thing keeping me from cutting people in half in regular vision.

I save spiders too! But that's because they don't have the capacity to be fucking assholes

Batman it doesn't look good you coming out in defence of this, you spend your nights beating random people in the street.

Random THUGGISH people!

But you're just being a bigger thug while wearing a ridiculous armored bat costume.

I wish I could host an event where people would bring stupid people and toss them in a giant dumpster. Now THAT would fill up fast!

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