Look out! These crazed GTA players are out for out brains! My god what a bunch of morons. The kid probably reached his adolescent stage and started acting out like most kids that age do. The teenage years are tough parents, but don't blame them on games.  

This is all the proof we needed....

That the human race is collectively stupid.

E. Zachary Knight
www.editorialgames.com

Grab your pitchforks! We'll teach these video games not to mess with our lives!

Corey: The kid probably reached his adolescent stage and started acting out like most kids that age do.

Exactly my first thought reading the excerpt.

"Little billy never used to be aggressive unil he began growing 3 centimetres a day, getting facial hair & going through drastic hormonal changes that radically alter behaviour. All of that was caused by GTA4!"

I love the way that the end of the article mentions the removal of the GTA4 ads in portland & chicago as if there was some form of causal relationship rather than them acting out of fear of a thompson initiated DOS attack on their faxes.

Interesting that "Peter" played games other than GTA, good thing that the 360 version of GTA4 has the "Influenced childrens behaviour" achievement so the cause of the influence is irrefutable. Is Peter 17? If not, why was dad not noticing the things on the case where it describes the content & thinking "Hmm, not sure he's ready for this yet" or sitting with his son whilst he was enjoying the new game, just to see what all the fuss was about? Also, gotta love dad's name: Greg Within, it's like "Intel Inside"

It is slightly encouraging to see Wellis mention that the game did not incite the altercation but he ruins it by immediately saying it affected his behaviour as if it was the only thing that did.

ahhh sorry, I actually wasn't familiar with that one. Does El Diablo have especially pleasant bowels? I'm not sure I'd want a house there...

*Gasp*

Vague metions of stuff! Unrelated events! We have a slow news day for the stocklen record.

"My son Peter was never really aggressive, but once he got into video games, 'GTA' being one of them, he started to push, hit, talk back, and just become a different person."

Doc: I'm sorry to tell you that this is serious and there is nothing we can do.  Your son has become... a teenager.

Good to see this type of nonsense relegated to small-town news. Complete bullshit - Move along, nothin' to see here...

Actually, the article is pretty lame - one mother saying, "my kid has become more aggressive" and one dude saying, "I feel a little different." I guess it's the kind of thing that can spiral if some video game hatin' nutjob uses it to file a lawsuit (*cough*), but other than that it seems like run of the mill save-the-children propaganda. It isn't really all that dire compared to a lot of the stuff that's being said about GTA4.

They are just using it as a scapegoat! They rather blame it on something so they can look like the innocent party! Just like what Cartmen did in the Southpark movie.  It is pathetic, and I am sick of both the treatment of GTA IV and people's selfishness!

IT's because of the water I tell you, the water!!!

Where has gone the time where we blamed strange behavior on radio antennas and chemical in water. Well there was alo subliminal messages.

it's all because of a secret conspiracy by the government to enslave our minds!!!

*Head Hit Keyboard*

Look, GTA does not cause violence in people.  The game provides a free roaming experience.  Players are not forced to play, nor forced perform excessive violent acts.  They must choose to perform violent acts within the virtual setting.  Any impulses the player has to punch someone out of the storyline are impulses that are already present in the indivdual.  Start looking inward at the people who are becoming violent, because there are repressed issues that Peter and Mark are going through.  Be a parent and figure it out.

If someone paints a picture of a murder scene, stop blaming the paint brush.

GTA raped my mother and killed my father!

I'm waiting for someone to blame GTA for their daughter getting her period next.

My boy started wearing track suits and speaking in a russian accent. GTA4 is the devil!

For some reason our american society is just based on agression and violence in general.  These young kids, teens and adults just CRAVE violence, however video games aren't the only thing to blame, violence is in the news, movies, music and video games, not just video games alone.  Any kid can turn on the news and see lots of violence there.  Changing life events such as going to college (I have personally seen 18 year old males crying on their first day of college) and puberty have an effect too.  You are still growing at age 19 and the body changes radically during puberty.  The best thing to do as a parent is talk to your kids and keep an eye on them and know what they are doing and what they are into.  They will behave better if they have support and someone to talk to.  If parents actually parent then it shouldn't get too out of hand. 

Run to the hills!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok the company I work for has a production plant in Stockton, California.  I have never seen so much high security fencing and barb wire IN MY LIFE until I drove through the downtown area to get to our plant.  Crime and violence went up because of GTA?

TOTAL CRAP!

We have a corporate mandate that ANYONE going down to that facility must be at least 25 miles outside of Stockton and cannot stay in the city of Stockton due to employees and consultants who stayed in that area being mugged at gunpoint.  To further the issue police would simply shrug and say it happens all the time.  These events that trigged the policy happened a year ago in March 2007 to June 2007.

Stockton is a cesspool of criminal activity.  If you want proof use any of the earth mapping programs and zoom in on the old downtown area.  You'll know it when it looks like a whole bunch of small prisons next to each other.  Use the Stockton airport as a landmark and move north from there.

-Loudspeaker
"Volume helps to get a point across but sharp teeth are better."

Wow. People are fucking stupid. So your teenage son is 13, just hit puberty, and is acting aggressively. But it's a videogame's fault and not nature? MORON.

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Yeah, I live in a town just north of Stockton; and when you go into Stockton, if you value your car you better park it in a well-lit place and hide everything remotely vaulable because it will be broken into. You really can't have nice things in Stockon because then you're just asking for it to be taken...

Stockton is not the place you want to be alone in for sure, you'll find yourself in trouble fast.

Quick, quarantine that town before the idiocy spreads! It will be Resident Evil just with idiots, not zombies.

To the 19 year old: Was the person you were in the altercation with a total dick? Sometimes people get into fights because of assholes pissing them off.

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Before I played GTA I was a stable teenager from a middle income family.
After playing it I found myself involved with gangs, shooting up on hard drugs, my parents divorced, starting doing hard drugs and prostituting themselves and I was beaten regularly by both my parents and their immigrant drug buddies. I also started worshipping Sa-Tan and now cut myself to gain admittance into the cabal of True Power where my D&D character Black Leaf will once again rule the cosmos!

Damn you GTA IV for ruining my idyllic life and plunging me into vicious cycle of violence and parental neglect!
Curse your suave graphics and witty dialogue for changing the kind of person I am and altering reality around me like somesort of Hellraiser cube. Why oh why did I attempt to unlock your achivements for points when INFACT I was unlocking the end of morality and decent Western civilization! I was ASSAULTED by lewd pornographic graphics and dialogue that would make my grandmother say "Well I never!" in a way you know just carries the wisdom of ages.

This is just Pong all over again *sob*

I feel your pain man....samething happened to me.....DAMN YOU GTA44444444!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!