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Vengeance
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« on: Dec 13, 2004, 07:49 AM »
ABC13 Eyewitness News
(12/11/04 – SANTA FE, TX) — A video game notorious for violence and mature content may have actually saved a Santa Fe family.

Back in March, Sandy Wilson was taking care of her three grandsons when a group of men attempted to burglarize her home, pointing a gun at the kids.

The children happened to be playing a video game called Grand Theft Auto at the time. The game has dozens of random police scanner messages, which blare out calls such as "This is the police! You’re surrounded!" Believe it or not, Wilson says the burglars heard that message and thought police were outside the door waiting for them.

Galveston County Asst DA Michael Elliott explained, "The police in the game were staying, 'Stop, we have you surrounded. This is the police.’ The burglar, unknowingly, thought this was the actual police and panicked ... being apprehended by Playstation."

"Thinking that it was pretty funny," recalled young victim Chaze Fisher. "How they were, like, ran off, and they got all scared over a game."

Police arrested the four men. Samuel Woodrow received a five-year prison sentence this week. Ronnie Farris is serving four years. Lucas Griffin got probation. And Zachary Brandenburg’s trial is in January.
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elmono311
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« Reply #1 on: Dec 13, 2004, 08:19 AM »
Amazing! Someone actually wrote good news about Grand Theft Auto instead of bitching about how violent and bloody it is!
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« Reply #2 on: Dec 13, 2004, 08:52 AM »
Haha, yeah, I saw this posted on another forum the other day. It is indeed amazing that something good happened as a result of GTA instead of a bunch of patsies bitching about it.
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« Reply #3 on: Dec 13, 2004, 11:34 AM »
Well, I'll declare the apocalypse upon us when The Matrix causes some kid to revive his dying nanny and Doom's fantabulous physics are the basis for some new research project that yields equations for teleportation... Until then, I'll just chalk stories like this up to either "media accidents", or brief moments of clarity... neither of which will occur again for a long long time
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« Reply #4 on: Dec 13, 2004, 09:51 PM »
I was hoping it was going to end with the kids going gangsta on the robbers using the fine-tuned skillset obtained from countless hours of GTA play.

But it didn't.
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« Reply #5 on: Dec 13, 2004, 09:54 PM »
I was thinking along these lines: VG Cats
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