The Register is reporting Yet Another Frivolous Lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto publishers Take Two:

The lawsuit maintains that Thompson's actions that day were inspired by the GTA series, games he is claimed to have played obsessively. The games amount to "training" for the alleged killings, the families' lawyer told local paper the Tuscaloosa News.

OMG OMG OMG WHERES THE AUTOAIM BUTTON IN LIFE I CAN'T FIND IT!@!#@ How ever will I shoot cops now??!?!? :(

Training my ass, unless you are controlling a gun weilding robot with a PS2 controller, thats one of the stupidest things I've ever heard...

Goddamn some people in the world are so unbeleiveably retarded!

Waaahahahahaha

OMG, what a complete loser, and how the hell can you "train" on a console using a spastic control pad.

hompson is now 18 years old, but at the time of the shootings he was 16. As such, the lawsuit claims, he should not have been sold GTA III and GTA: Vice City, which carry an M rating - for 'mature audience only', ie. anyone 17 years old or more. On that basis, the plaintiffs requested that the book also be thrown at retailers Wal-Mart and Gamestop for allegedly allowing Thompson to buy the games.

I hope they also throw the book at the parents of the boy who allowed him to play the games. They are just as responsible for it getting into his hands as the companies that sold it.

That of course is a side issue to the whole thing.

I wonder how many stars he accumulated on his killing spree. spose it depends what part of the city he made it to.

he'd be spewin if he was pulling into a paint n' spray when he got caught.

Anyone else notice that most of this sort of crap happens in the US?

It's not sony, it's not the developers/sellers of gta, it's american culture.

Trying to place the blame isn't all that effective at solving the problem of kids shooting up other kids.

They aren't stupid, and whether or not the game played a role in this is irrelevant.

If he wasn't playing GTAIII he'd be torturing pets or something. And we'd hear about him years later when the police find dead hookers under his floorboards.

and a bike and pimp clothes.

In breaking news the armed forces and police services have ditched all conventional combat training programs, and have instead moved into LAN cafes to play Counter Strike.

:/

aahhh another ass blameing games / movies for their actions. Take the consiquences of your actions you little s***!

who cares if the game caused it or not, theyre trying to get $$$$