Forget GTA IV Bus Ads... Check These Out

April 23, 2008
Jack Thompson, Fox News and the Chicago Transit Authority want to ban bus ads for Grand Theft Auto IV.

But these multi-story ads adorn the graceful Hotel Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles and, somehow, the republic still stands...

Via: Xbox 360 Fanboy
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Kotaku reported about those a few days ago.

Hey Jack Thompson.



Eat it.


That is all.

There's also a gigantic wall mural painted in Brooklyn of Niko.

Just a matter of time before we read something about this involving Jack Thompson.

I could just imagine if Jack Thompson was either living or working in a building that had a big GTA 4 ad hanging on the building. HE WOULD REALLY BE GOING CRAZY

OMG that is awesome!

lol that would probably give joke thompson a fucking heart attack!

Thompson's probably trying to find some sort of legal loophole to property rights, which should be pretty hard seeing as he has no legal power since the Florida BAR castrated him.

[...] wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptJack Thompson, Fox News and the Chicago Transit Authority want to ban bus ads for Grand Theft Auto IV. But these multi-story ads adorn the graceful Hotel Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles and, somehow, the republic still stands… Via: Xbox 360 Fanboy [...]

LOL I can't wait for the CCFC to complain that its oversexualizing American's young females of tomorrow.......

If I owned buildings in the future I would do the same thing for a major GTA game.

I could just see Jack Thompson outside of the building rallying about them having the images for children.

Yes!!! Thats amazing!

That...
Is the most badass thing I've ever seen.
We should definitely drape one of these over Jack's lawn and see the fun unfold.

THAT IS SOO FREAKIN' COOL

Now THAT's what I call advertising.

That's a great artistic advertisement idea! Johnny Bruce Thompson/PTC/"miscellaneous watchdog organizations"-sucks to be you...

The guy on the far right was holding a gun, now holding money.

Lol

That reminds me of the movie pleasantville where an artist's work was destroyed so they painted on the side of the police station.

Take that and shove it up your ass Jacko!

Priceless...It's kind of like T2 just waved a big middle finger at Mr. Thompson.

Damn... o_o

I hope JT shits himself to death seeing this! Fudge the bus ads, this is epic. And those are some of the coolest ads I have ever seen. The only thing that would top this is broadcasting this on the clouds, that would rock.

Haha! Lets see Jack try it now! Woo-Hoo! Way o go, GTA!

Hehe.

It almost makes me want to play GTAIV,but alas,I don't care much for the game.

ROFL,HAHA (suk it nubs)

Also ,if the building owner allowed it there's not shit anyone can do as it isn't public property

I predict this angry e-mail in the next few hours:

"To the retards it may concern (sorry for the oxymoron):

You have banners on your hotel advertising pr0n to teh kiddies. You have two hours to take them down. OR ELSE.

Jack Thompson, vigilante, and you're not"

Sadly, aside from the word 'vigilante' and the chatspeak, i'm not exaggerating what that'll probably be.

You can't really see it, but it you blow up the picture, you can see JT with a pair of scissors trying to cut them down. Man has the heart of lion and the brain of a pea.....

Somewhere, Jack Thompson is having a brain anyeurism! :D

What did I say earlier in the last thread? Taking down a bus stop ad is nothing when you've got ads like this!

That... is... fucking... awesome.

touche, take 2!
touche!

TTPDBJT. Take Two Pwned Dat Biotch Jack Thompson. It's not great, but I'll take it.

I can't wait to see what Jack "the jackass" Thompson has to say about this. These next 6 days should be pretty interesting

That is just... wow... so totally freaking awesome.

We all know the message though; It's a big old fuck you to Jacko

Now THAT'S how you put up a gaming ad.

Hey!!!! Let's not stop there!

Maybe one day we can have GTA ads beamed directly into our head.

Sure, they might us brain tumors the size of footballs.
But won't it totally kick ass?

Viva la revolution de los jugadores! (Long live the gaming revolution!)

Yeah, I don't plan on playing GTA IV, only because I'm not a big GTA fan. I play mostly FPS's instead. But if I owned a huge office building, and if the workers on one side all agreed, I would totally put a poster for GTA IV on it. Or Mass Effect 2.

OOOOOOOooo! Just wait until the Project Origin ads come out! That'll get the PTA reeling.

Note: I'd put that on my building, too.

@Chaplain99

Yeah, me neither. Now MGS4, that would be a no question situation. :)

What would be even more cooler will be them laser project the trailer on to the clouds at night for all to see, ala bat signal.

Wow. Now that is an epic sight to see!

Wow, that is soooooooo cool. Hey Jacko, have you seen this? Isn't this beautiful

Best wallpaper ever!

Kinda reminds me of the trick you had to do for the movie studio in vice city, beaming the ad onto the side of a building with a searchlight.

When jack finally snaps & tries the jump off a building suicide route, we should try to catch him in one of those banners. It'll finally solve the question of whether jack's hate for GTA is stronger than the power of gravity, he may end up suspended in mid air...

As malcom said in Jurrasic Park:

"Nature will always find a way."

In this case, human nature.

Perhaps LA and New York are moral cesspools beyond hope of redemption. (I hear there are even homosexualists living there...)

@Shih Tzu
Perhaps LA and New York are moral cesspools beyond hope of redemption. (I hear there are even homosexualists living there…)

I've heard they respect women too! Clearly there's insanity at work!

Jacko.

F*ck you.

@Shih Tzu

How...dare you!

...You forgot Texas and Florida

And that sound, ladies and gents is Mr Thompson shitting himself

I think that at the beginning of next week there will be alot of fun from Jack Thompson's news appearance and nonsense letters warning about keeping the EXTREMELY DANGEROUS item away from kids.

I am getting very mad with these people trying to violate my freedom to play the kind of games I want.

TT should have a billboard constructed outside JTs home, to;

a)Piss him off
b)Instant-controversy and word of mouth publicity
c)PISS HIM OFF

That's a big poster!

Just thinking as an offhand, they could put a poster for a different product on each wall and rotate the apartment blocks by 90' every 30 seconds like those electronic billboards, that'd be cool, well, for everyone who didn't live in them ;)

That is so increadable Awesome

Thompson's gonna have a fit.
and when I say fit I mean tantrum
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