@Dave: Bah, you got in there just before me, but I think you're onto something there. Here's hoping we're wrong!

Evidence... of lost sanity?

Methinks he has finally given himself to the darkside and is using that box as proof. Maybe he beat up a teenager for the game?

deep down he likes the game. He just doesn't wanna admit it.

Wasn't sure how this site works with thumbnails, sorry ImageShack

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/9605/jackthompsonev7.jpg

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Someone should photoshop the cover of a gay porn over the GTA label, lol. That'll be right up ol' Jackie's alley.

....

Still waiting for him to be disbarred. *sigh*

Good job the police warn kids not to go play video games with unshaven strangers these days...

... or ever

What's supposed to be scary?

The horrible stubble he wears, as evidence that he's not really taking care of himself?

The tacky floral shirt?

Or just more evidence that Don Quixote is secretly Rockstar's biggest fan? He's probably spent more money on their games than anyone else in the country.

All that is evidence of is Jack's failure. The series is up to the fourth iteration along with the PSP version and Vice City and Jack has failed to prevent any one of them from being released.

Congrats Jack, you win at losing.

He probably had his son, who would now be at least 17 since he was 15 when Jack-o did his "San Andreas sting" during the Hot Coffee ordeal. He's going to claim that it was bought illegally by an underage person, who in reality has every legal right to buy it because the rating system isn't enforced by law and because they're old enough to buy it based on the established rating to begin with.

@Thomas: Lol, really, but what is this evidence for? Evidence that Jack's a hypocrite since he did purchase a Rockstar game?

Evidence . . .

That he's been hit hard by the bar trial and his impending disbarment and now sits in a curtained room drinking stale beer and playing GTAIV, and that he will soon go on a kill crazy rampage in a public place with a shotgun.

Guess what the defense will be afterwards.

TEH GAMES MADE ME DO IT! I TOLD YOU SO!

Jack has an odd way of getting rid of his enemies... lets see, he buys their product... buys their stock... yells and screams about the controversy in a game that is built around creating controversy, thus giving them free advertising... Jack, you are your own worst enemy

Well, at least we know that he bought the game. We're slightly closer to having these game critics play the games before going on their lunatic rants about the downfall of the civilization.


But, if I was a betting man, my guess would be that the photo "evidence" would be because he got his (or someone else's) kid to purchase the game from a major retailer with relatively little trouble. In which case, file under "Anecdotal Evidence"

That's not Jack Thompson at all...IT'S A MASK! Look at those cheeks!

Wow, this guy really has an unheathy obsession with this doesn't he?

My guess is his son managed to buy it without giving ID.

Didn't he sign an agreement not to harass Take Two with threats of legal action? I don't think he's gonna try to have the game declared a nuisance or anything on that front.

Just a thought, we ought to ask for a larger version so we can have a Photoshop competition ;)

@beemoh
Not, really. Maybe tacky tourists perhaps?

Aww, I think it's kinda cute you guys! All the hate was just them not admitting their feelings, and now look at them, it's love!

Nice shirt.

That picture is going to be used for a lot of message board avatars...

Is,is he actually planning to play it before bashing it? Or are the theories of him being a closet gamer true?

That or he didn't show ID to get the game and is trying to laud that he was right all along.

He looks like he's gained some wait too.

Likely another "sting" operation, imo.

The photo begs for shops though.

Well congrats Thompson, by buying that copy you cancelled out any money you might have personally made Rockstar lose.

Yep, has got to be his kid.

Well done to john bruce, he's given R* $50.
If he got his son to buy it, then he just made himself complicit in making a child go against the PEGI guidlines. Good for him. Means nothing over there thanks to your freedom of speech rules, it isn't illegal. It just means that the store he bought it in has a lax policy on age verification.
Also that shirt. How many turkey's had to die? seriously.

@Strider

We knew he was going to get bent out of shape over it in some way. We're just amused by the picture Jack entitled "Evidence" and speculated on what he could mean by that.

Sort of a "Guess what wacky thing Jacky's done this time!"

At least he has good taste in shirts.

I'm surprised they let this nutcase in the store

Jack looks more creepy, and like a paedophile than he usually does.

"I, Hack Thompson, have just killed a policeman by beating him around the head with this game. See? SEE??? I TOLD you it was a cop-killer game!" *Gibber*

Jack, you're not being cryptic enough!
You gotta shake things up!
Instead of "Evidence" as the subject line, use "Carrots" or "Juniper."
I mean, c'mon. Jeez!

I hope its not "OMGZ an underage kid bought this" because that shtick is getting old.

If he was a real showman he'd get a LiveID, play through the entire game while letting people track his progress on Rockstar SocialClub, and then start spouting out press releases. I'd *actually* be interested in that

Evidence? Of what? Evidence that Whacko Jacko secretly loved T2 and R* and is supporting their business by buying their latest game?

Oh Jesus, don't tell me he's gonna try to play it off like his son bought it....Damn.

I think the question that needs to be asked is exactly how hold is his son now? I know his son hasn't been stuck at the age of 15 for the past two years has he? That would make him ~17 now right? There he is able to buy an M-rated (17+) game! OMG!

If his son is still 15 right now then that means Jack Thompson has mastered time control... DUN DUN DUN!

Just to point out Mr. Thompson just because your son got ahold of this game (if in fact he did) doesn't mean it's a common problem.

'Jack Thompson recommends GTA IV. Get 'em while they're hot!'

He is forcing his own son to play a pornographic game. He deserves to go jail for child abuse. Hope he drops the soap.

If this don´t explains the "attention whore" term, then nothing will do it.

*sigh*

Let me guess, Mr. Thompson, old 'stinger' did another vigilante half-sting with you when you camped out?

And let it be known that you are far too old to wear a hawaiian shirt in public.

*waits for acusations of sexual harrasment. I wouldn't put it past him*

Looks sunburned in that photo...

@Lavarock

Hint: He wasn’t wearing any pants in that photo.

that explains why the pic has the word "cropped" in the filename

Jack - Great game you have there. Also, SHAVE.

man...he might be a lawyer but he really needs to keep his appearences better...get a hair cut, shave, get a better wardrobe. maybe if you kept better, you would get a better appeal jack o

Damn,this is one stupid f*cker.

When will Jack learn that he is an idiot who's giving Rockstar free advertising?

Damn, Jack's one ugly dude, ain't he?

Jack: Ha! You sold this Mature rated game to my innocent young son! You are in deep legal trouble despite the fact that laws backing ESRB ratings exist solely in my bloated, Alzheimer's ridden skull!

Jack Jr: Okay dad, damnit can I drive home now? I have college applications to fill out.

Jack: What a precious little snoogems you are! Do you want papa to buy you a Happy Meal?

Jack Jr: For fucks sake.

Wonder which evidence was worse: the gay porn or the game?

Game: Possession of a game hardly proves anything. Unreliable.
Gay Porn: Unneeded. Hardly proves anything. Wrong. Obscene.

He did this stunt an hundred times. It's not that an hundred-and-one will work anyway.

It could be worse.

He could be HUMPING the box. Or the game disc.

Now THAT would be real scary.

Oh crap.

Evidence
That it exists, or that he is pissed because he specifically pre-ordered the Special Edition and Best Buy screwed it up?

Unless he means it is related to one of those flawed stings(not even going to bother touching that bit) he is always doing, didn't the last one he gave his consent or something along the lines of "It is OK, Mr. Casher I give my son permission buy that game" when they checked his son's age?

Again, I don't see this proving a darned thing because kids have easier access to R/UN-Rated movies(which Dennis points out that GTA4 is tamer then the stuff allowed in R-Rated movies) and explicit music then games.

Finally, LOL again! I think I will need to "carjack" a Pop-Secret truck or two for this round of JT entertainment... Things would be even more fun if got disbarred this week.

Evidence.... of a di*k head.

@Waffles

"(I don't think that won me over too
well with the judge...)"

I have evidence! Evidence that I dress in a lame ass tourist style palm tree pattern shirt!

I demand the complete picture so I can do a submission to www.halolz.com

Jack actually playing the game? Blasphemy! He's just showing it off here before he destroys it, and before his career is destroyed.

Good for him. He mentally molested his son into going into another store (probably pulled the kid out of school to go to about 150 stores) and guying a game without being carded. Of course, all he'll "testify" to is the one store that sold it, not the other 149 that didn't. Nor will he openly admit that he denied his son a day of proper education just to come up with this "evidence".

Heck, it wouldn't surprise me based one his past lies and deceit if HE actually bought the game but falsely claims his son did.

:: Yawn. ::

If I was as ignorant, bigoted, and as big a liar and deceiver as John Bruce was, I'd throw a few stories of kids from Miami who were killed or driven to suicide by other kids or adults who attend and are mentally molested by his church and by him, since such crimes are cause by exposure to peripheral causla links (such as video games, TV, or terrorist training camps like his religion and church).

While the idea of the FBI, SBI, local cops, and Homeland Security kicking down his door and throwing him to the floor charging him with being the cause of those kids' deaths while confiscating his gun (which he admitted to having in a podcast some time back and admitted to having a callous regard for Human life by admitting he'd proudly kill someone (not "defend" or "use appropriate measures" but "kill" someone)), I am more intelligent than he is. Rest assured, I will not abuse other people's Rights to push my personal, religious, and/or political agendas, unlike John Bruce would and HAS.

Nightwng2000
NW2K Software

OH SHIT! HE PLAYED THE GAME! NOW HE'S GONNA GO ON A RAMPAGE TO FURTHER HIS CAUSE!

Nice shirt, Jack. I actually do like it. :) Still don't like you, though.

Evidence that John bought one and I can't find one. Oh well, wasn't that worried about it anyway.

Dude, John boy, you need a shave.

I am starting to think of JT as I think of DB...good troll mate good troll.

@gp

id appreciate if you at least put up warnings for us before you showed pics of creepy old men =p

Seriously Jack, if you're gonna go on a massacre, don't. OKAY? It's not worth it just to prove a point.

Does he think submitting to you equates to entering it in as evidence for something?

Or did he just click the Send button a little prematurely so the mail got sent before he could put the text in it?

I wonder what his XBL gamertag is. XD

Wait wait wait.... is this picture NOT photoshopped? I saw this earlier and I'd never think that is actually his body that his face was pasted on.

he's probably going to hack the game to find something or put in something so that another hot coffee thing happens.

@AB

he’s probably going to hack the game to find something or put in something so that another hot coffee thing happens.

he isn't even aware of the backslashes preceding his quotation marks. what makes you think he knows anything about hacking?

ummm wait a minute OH DEAR GOD NOOOOOOOOOO MY HOME STATE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CLOSE THE BORDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Evidence...

..that 9yr olds can bye gta iv (jack obviously)

Using underage children, yet alone your own children to press your opinion on other people is cool.

@ cullarn

lol michigan the state with practically no jobs and i unfortunatly live there.

Should send it to Fark.com for the photoshop section. They'd have alot of fun with it.

Jajajaja you are so funny.... ¬¬
this is the biggest stupidity i ever see in my whole life.

En Español:

Juan: Chinga a toda tu reputísima madre, después, te agachas e intentas besarte el ano si es que te alcanzas, luego, te consigues un embudo, calientas todo el aceite que tengas en tu pinche casa te pones el embudo en el ano que acabas de besar (si lo lograste) y te hechas toooodo el aceite hirviendo.
saludos.

have a nice day. :-)

I kinda knew he was gonna buy/play the game. Likely looking for any neo-hot coffee or something along those lines.

jesus christ.

this man's ugly.

*yawn*

Does he have video proof this time? Or are we just supposed to take his word on it?

Let me know when a *real* crisis of youth happens...

he's getting older maybe he'll die of old age soon

Hm. So here is an image of Jack Thompson holding a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV for the XBox 360 console.

What's so scary about it?

It's not the shirt, it's not the fact that Jack has the game.

I would be scared if he said he actually enjoyed the game, but we all know he's showing "evidence" that he has the game, is going to play it, and pick out every little violent piece of the game that he can take it to the courts to complain about, harass judges halfway to Hell and back, break - oh I dunno, maybe two or more judge fax machines with the endless faxes, flood their e-mails with his complaints, and Jesus Christ why isn't his license revoked already?

Jeez, this guy is boring. What a drag.

im gonna have nightmares for a long time to come

why do i suddenly imagined JT going on a killing spree (in real life) and when caught he's gonna say "GTA made me do it"?

Maybe he killed somebody and said the game made him do it.

Is it.. evidence that the game has been released? Or evidence that the box is an object that exists in space?

Ummm... how about this for a theory? Jack Thompson is going to play GTA.... and then go on a killing spree?

Wha...? Seriously... for all his rantings and ravings about how GTA gamers are murder simulators, I can't help but think that if anyone was gonna *snap* and go postal, it'd be jack-IMRIGHTANDYOU'REWRONG-thompson

Someone's going to Photoshop that pic to change the GTA box to a pack of Mentos. I just know it.

First he buys stock in take-two, now he's buying their products? For someone who's vowed to destroy rockstar he seems to be going the wrong way about it. o_O

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/3637/jtgta4croppedev3.jpg

Jack Thompson:Aww dude, this game is f$#kin' awesome! Yeah! YEAH! How you like dat, BIHATCH! You see dat! F*&k yeah bitch, I rule these streets! I! RULE! THESE! STREETS!

Stinger: DAD! I'M TRYING TO READ MY BOOKS! KEEP IT DOWN!

JT: That's good son, reading is very-FUCK YOU, YA' BITCH ASS MUTHA F*$KA! LOOK WHO GOT F&$KIN' SHOT! HOOAH! HOOOO-MUTHA F&#KIN'-HA! I RULE THIS SH$T, COCKSUCKA!

I bet Jack was one of those people who robbed a copy of GTA at the midnight launch. That game is the evidence.
"GTA made me do it!"

Now now people. Just leave ol' JT to me. I'll be done with him shortly.

He's not the only one who hates the game...

http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=10832

Maybe he secretly wants us to all post a pic of ourselves proudly holding our copy of GTA4 and wearing our loudest shirt. I've got a few classic shirts that are way louder than his.

@Barry

Landower Baptist Church is a fake site.

Just out of my own curiosity, has Jack ever won a single case in his entire career? If not, what makes him think he'll win this one?

@Graze

His kid's probably too old for the stings now. I can just imagine Jack dressing himself up like a teenager...ugh. :)

Well, assuming that was actually him.

God, even though I don't believe in you, please, please, please make JT enjoy this game.

I would love nothing more than for Jack to be sitting in his living room playing through the game and actually enjoy it. Even if I never find out he enjoyed it. Just the fact that it would eat at him, the fact that he might recant. Remember in the old 'Grinch' cartoon when the Grinch's heart grows too big? That would be the greatest result.

But, JT is just going to wave it around and talk about cop killing. Or, he'll go on a real life killing spree to prove a point.

Well, two hours is a good break, back to Liberty City.

He looks kinda like a pimp in that shirt. I think it's the purple combined with the three days worth of beard growth.

Oh HOLY GOD! IT BURNS!

$2 says his son bought it in his "sting"

$5 says he bought it himself to play it through for "cop-killing" scenes.

$10 says it was a gift from someone.

$20 says a GP reader sent it.

and last:

$50 says Rockstar sent it themselves.

Good god, Jack's face is hard to look at in that photo. He looks dizzy and/or stoned. What did he do, run forehead-first into a tree??

@Trevor McGee

Yep. He loves wompin' on virtual hookers.

PHOTOSHOP CONTEST!!!!!!

[...] However, GamePolitics knows Mr. Thompson forwarded the snap himself, claiming it to be “evidence.” That’s the only word he purportedly wrote in his forwarding. So what’s this evidence of? Most signs right now point to some forthcoming announcement of how he found a minor able to purchase the game, but no one’s sure yet. We’ll keep track of where this mysterious road leads. [...]

Evidence: That Jack Thompson is a ignorant media whore.

And by the way Mr. Thompson (who I know will read this), no GTA game is a simulator. Simulators are designed to simulate something. Killing someone in a game is not simulating murder. You don't press a button on a gamepad to shoot a gun. When you press a button on a gamepad it does not kick back like a real gun. When you kill a person in a game their body does not disappear.

GTA is no more a simulation than Phoenix Wright is a lawyer simulation.

Now he's cam whoring?

They're coming to take me away ho ho hee hee ha haaa
To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds
And basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they're coming to take me away ha haaa

When he's disbarred I'm sure he'll have plenty of time to play it. And then he'll go on a rampage and blame it for his actions.

@ MasterAssassin

I had the exact thought when I saw the article. I'ma little bit scared of this guy right now.

Even if it is a sting the ony one they can lay the blame on is the retailer. Trying to say that an minor baught a M rated game and the Maker/Publisher is to blame is crazy (which we know jack is).

I don't believe it. But then again, the game *is* that fucking good..

I swear he is not a real lawyer. just part of rockstar's publicity team.

That picture is wonderful evidence of the success of Jack's campaign to stop GTAIV from hitting the shelves. Well done, sir.

yeah....

maybe he does actually work for rockstar....

ha ha ha!!!


Is it more or does Niko resemble Borat in terms of accent....

kinda prefer Carl Johnson already...

@ Matt
Oh yeah, we completely forgot about that "video games kill people!" lawyer in GTA4 = him. Now we are going to get some serious LOLs from that one!

Now that is probably the most likely reason, maybe that will be "update #2" material?

It is still laughable if he thinks that is going to be good evidence, or that Rockstar is going to get in trouble for that bit of satire. I'm betting it is the "Rockstar is using their murder simulators to make people kill me and threaten my real life" part he will go after. It couldn't possibly be libel/slander evidence, which is very hard to prove and highly unlikely to get a public "school shooting/first amendment" anti-video game figure like him anywhere.

Hmmm, didn't he do this before with some radio personalties mentioning his name? Fat load of luck he is going to have this time around, there is no in-game harassment of him here either.

HAHA Jack's funding "cop killing trainers".


I wonder if I was playing with him last night in multiplayer???? Oh noes, I better shower twice this morning.

Surprised he hasn't hit this thread to tell us how ignorant we are and how he's winning. I've got them right where I want them! MU_HA_HA_HA_HA_HA.

Can we get someone to animate that so his head is exploding, like in Scanners? There's gotta be a "Cronenberg Filter" in Photoshop or something.

I must say he is looking a bit haggard latley. I see the desperation and depression in his blank stare, his mind struggling to convince himself that this is some kind of victory. Very sad to see.

If anything he just helped GTA IV's bottom line and gave them more free advertising.

Way to go Jack.

Maybe in GTA V they could include one of Jacks "sting" operations as a side mission. :)

We need a shoop of this, something like "JT Seal of Approval" or "It's GREAAAAAAAT!" ala Tony the Tigre.

Evidence, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. However, even if he is going to announce one of his stings, he seems to have just a strong a grasp on what evidence is as the rest of his legal definitions.

What you have is evidence that you were in the vicinity of a GTA IV case, nothing more. You would need more evidence to indicate that the case has a game in it, to indicate that you were the owner of the case, or to indicate how the case came to be in your possetion.

I'm sure you will eventually regale us with a tale of how your son bought the game. Details that should be included would be how many stores he went to before he was able to buy it, how far you were from him when he bought it, did he have to lie to the cashier about his age, and did he pay in cash or with your credit card.

As for evidence, how about security camera footage?

Now, after all that, what you have is ancedotal evidence that a store employee may not have followed store procedure. You wouldn't even have evidence of anyone breaking the law.

I would like to nominate JT for Epic Fail (not the AotS Epic Fail, just a generally accepted Epic Fail).

I feel that no one, at least not in the last few decades, has failed as much as JT. Sure, some people have managed to fail so bad that they actually have done injury to themselves, but usually they only do it once. JT has managed to fail so much, and on such a grand scale, that he is in an entirely new class of fail. He is the DVD Rewinder of the legal system.

J@¢k +#0|\/|p50|\|, Y0u p#41|_!!!11!!1

One bit of "evidence" I doubt Jack has payed attention to on his shiny new box is just left of the bar code. The little icon for the parental lock feature that parents can set on their system if they, you know, give a damn.

Maybe he'll play it, go beat up a hooker trying to prove a point, then get shot down my cops. Then he'll respawn, try to kill a cop, and get shot and killed again.

Then, finally, maybe he'll kill one. and after he does, more cops will come after him and kill him. And he'll lose money.

And maybe then, the planets will align, and he will realize that this IS NO reward for killing cops - quite the opposite.

A man can dream, no?

I like his shirt.

If he told his son to buy it for him, wouldn't that count as parental permission?

Ah, his amazing stings with their sample size of one. The same sample size he claims proves nothing when it's applied to something he doesn't like.

Jack: My son bought GTA and was not carded! (possibly because in telling him to buy it I gave him my consent...) THIS SINGLE FACT proves the massive conspiracy to market games like this to children and to shove it into their hands and turn them into mentally molested killers!

Me: I'm 27, gainfully employed with no criminal record, am non-violent and have played games all my life.

Jack: THAT SINGLE FACT proves nothing moron!

@ yowzers

Most likely because he wants to shred the disc into tiny little bits and then turn it into a stress toy or something. Something self-promoting.

I wouldn't put it past him.

@Adrian

Honestly, I would be less surprised if monkeys flew out my butt, then if Jack-o got GTA4 pulled off the shelf. At the risk of using a slightly obscure hitchiker's guide quote, Jack has about as much chance of stopping GTA4 as a wet paper bag has of stopping a train.

Are those purple ganja leaves on his shirt?

Best marketing shot Rockstar could have ever hoped for.

BTW Jack, How's life in Margaritaville?

Thompson is a disturbed individual who one day might walk into a crowded McDonald's with an AK47 and take out as many as he can.

I tossed a link up there to the picture with the words "My precious" under it. Meh.

This makes me want to caress his majesticness.

@GRIZZAM 512

"HOOOO-MUTHA F&#KIN’-HA!"

Best. Quote. Ever.

You sir Win the Internet

MY EYES! THEY BURN!

Awesome Shirt!

Hey Thompson! What's your gamertag? I'm sure tons of people would love to play you on Live.

At least he can say he played it.

he can SAY it, but he won't be able to back it up. And if he does play it, it'll to get footage of the game's most violent moments.

[...] Link [...]

Finally, Evidence of him luring little boys with video game candy!

@Gary

ARE YOU F***ING INSANE!?!?!?

T.O.S.: *gasp* HEATHEN!!!

Shadow: Shut up! *rapid fires a machine gun*

T.O.S.: AAAAAAHH!!! *runs away*

-erm-

As I understand if you're 17 or older, you can buy this game on your own. If you're not of this age, you need a parent with you to buy this game.
There's no legally enforced carding rule nor is there law making this a requirement to purchase the game. In fact, the clerk in the store probably thought that the game was purchased for JT himself?

[...] Jack Thompson, by nature, had to whimper about this thing with no idea what this thing was. Though, since he's currently on trial pending disbarment, largely for EMailing gayporn to a judge and calling it a motion, he hasn't done much more than to EMail a jpeg to GamePolitics.com of himself holding a copy of GTA4 on the day it was released, with the subjectline of 'evidence', which we assume means that he'd got a kid to sting WalMart and buy the game before he'd turned seventeen. Meaning that Jack Thompson, disbaree, might not fully understand that WalMart's ability to sell things to kids, ESRB ratings notwithstanding, isn't actually illegal, any more than it's technically illegal for AMC to let a kid in to see a film rated NC17 by the MPAA; it's uncommon, and it begs the question of the importance of selfimportant, unimportant ratings systems, but it's not illegal, by law. [...]

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