Teenage Arson Suspects Say GTA Taught Them How to Make Molotov Cocktails
Teenage Arson Suspects Say GTA Taught Them How to Make Molotov Cocktails
August 7, 2008
In the wake of Saturday's highly publicized cabbie murder in Bangkok, there's more bad news for Grand Theft Auto.
Police in Fulton County, Georgia say that three teens arrested for a series of car arsons claim that they used GTA-inspired Molotov cocktails to set the vehicles ablaze.
WSBTV-2 reports:
Fulton County officials said they have arrested three teens and charged them with 57 felony counts in connection with a recent series of car bombings with Molotov cocktails in the city of Milton, north of Atlanta.
Officials said the teens -- ages 15 and 16 -- told authorities they learned "how to do it" from playing the video game "Grand Theft Auto."
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Uhhhh...yeah...right.
And people still take this seriously.
This has to stop. Period
yes because the ever difficult recipe of stuff cloth down bottle of booze light and throw is so difficult they couldn't have learned it any other way...
"This appears to be homemade," said Milton Police Officer Shawn McCarty. "A glass bottled filled with some liquid, that's what's been tossed on the vehicles.
Um...where can you find Sprite bottles made of glass anymore????
I don't know where you live, but everywhere i have lived in and around Indiana has had beer bottles all over the place. I have seen a couple stores that still sell glass bottled soda, but not many. Maybe it is only the hick states that have glass soda bottles though...
No, our Wal-Mart has glass bottles of Dr Pepper and 7up up by the registers, and we're close to Dallas, TX.
still a little bit country, haha
Glass soda bottles are more of a collector's item. Yeah, you can still buy them in almost every store you walk into in Texas, but there's very few to choose from and the convient store clerk doesn't have a bottle opener.
go 2 a taco stand and ask 4 a mexican coke there made out of glass
Good work, Jack. Thanks to lying scumbags like you, criminals can now successfully convince people that they aren't responisble for their crimes.
Now I typically shy away from the usage of profanity in stories such as this but frankly, a Crock of Shit is a Crock of Shit. Grand Theft Auto does not teach you how to make Molotov Cocktails. Here's how GTA makes Molotovs.
1) From the parodoxical infinite storage you possess allowing you to carry virtually infinite weaponry, you wield a glass bottle filled with whatever liquid they are using, most likely gasoline.
2) Said bottle stuffed with a rag is thrown. Somewhere between the bottle leaving your hand and impacting on the designated surface, it is magically lit aflame.
Now where in that sequence did they show you how to make a Molotov?
As I said, a Crock of Shit is a Crock of Shit. Even John B. Thompson can smell it. He wouldn't touch this one with a 10 foot pole.
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I doubt that very much (your last sentence). Forget about Thompson not willing to touch this with a ten-foot pole. He will sure as hell dive into this one head-first.
The stunning part will be how he manages the dive with feet already both firmly in mouth.
So, so true.
And head firmly placed in his ass.
Man that must be painful as hell to have your feet in your mouth and your head in your anus at the same time. By all accounts, Jack Thompson must have no spine (like we didnt already know that).
JT may in fact be an as of yet unregistered species of jellyfish. It would account for his sting, and lack of intellect as well as his curious physical properties.
saying he has a sting implies that he has predators that he needs defense from. I say a new form of bipedal slug.
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I seriously LOL'd at this utterly bizzare series of comments
When I was little, my grandfather taught me how to make Molotov Cocktails. I didn't take this knowledge and act like a jackass.
He told me that in some parts of the world, the government would oppress people, and never to give up a fight for freedom. He said if all else was taken, your guns, your knives, you could still use gasoline to fight for your freedom.
He didn't say hey, go out and throw molotov cocktails at cars because it's neat!
What really happened here?
The kids learned how to make the molotov cocktails, and wanted to see if it would work. So they started throwing them at cars.
It's more likely than their story.
Useful knowledge indeed. I find that a lot of people forget that if a kid is taught to be responsible, it doesn't matter what he/she knows, they won't just go around randomly using whay they've learned.. Same idea behind martial arts training for children.
-Entertainment isn't the reason the world sucks. It's the reason we know the world sucks. For information on games and psychology, look up: Jonathan Freedman(2002)Block & Crain(2007)Grand Theft Childhood, by Harvard researchers Larry Kutner&Cheryl Olson
yeah... can we line up the parents of these kids and kick them in the ass, maybe we can jam JT's head up the oldest kid's parents ass, then go on down the line making a line of people with heads up their asses, then put the last person's head up JT's ass. Then we will have a neat little show watching them try to get their heads out. (Now that would be YouTube worthy video.)
I don't think there is one game where you actually construct weapons. More of like just upgrading them without the labor.
Aren't Molotov cocktails really easy to make? I thought they were just alcohol, a rag, and fire. Are they claiming that they didn't know how to throw a bottle before playing the game?
Well, imcompetent police believe that car thieves need a videogame to figure out that one of the steps in stealing a car is opening the door.
Agreed. Let me tell people this: If law enforcement in your town starts blaming any crime on any video game, it is a safe bet your town has an inept police force.
Either that or they're corrupt.
I thought only the suspects were blaming GTA not the cops.
Yeah, but if they get away with it, or the defense is used in court, then the cops were stupid enough to believe the suspects.
To be fair in the video clip only the media tagged the game. The man in the interview did not mention it.
And the cops would not be to blame for the kids getting off. The judge or the jury would be to blame. I agree with the previous posts.. Teach kids how to be responsible and you shouldn't have to fear them fire bombing cars.
Of course the media is going to be against it. Video games are killing their ratings. They want to keep adults away from them as much as possible, because people rather enjoy games than listen to all of the negative crap on the news.
I think we need to think of a way to protest against the media to try to get them to actually report on the facts and not the distorted truths to up their ratings....
It's not that easy. But should parents be accountable for neglegence?
Simple answer, yes
The funny part is how one could probably learn more violently destructive means of shenanigans from watching a few episodes of "Mythbusters."
Beyond minimal knowledge in some areas of the sciences, imagination's the only other needed ingredient.
Maybe it's 'bout time people started looking at better explanations for that ever-worrisome "why?" question? Nah, it's them damned vidjagames.
I just think we're all simply nucking futs. Simplest explanation for everything.
The root of the problem continues to be an unwillingness of anyone to admit they are at fault. Parents don't want to be parents anymore, and want/need to blame the shortcomings of their failed offspring on someone/something and the media and "moral crusaders" make it all so easy. I remember being kind of scared of my dad when i was younger. I wasn't worried that he was just randomly going to beat me, but i knew better than to stir up to much trouble because he would severly punish me. Now i'm a mostly responsible adult with a moderate respect for authority because of it.
the only problem there is that car doors don't have a round button with an equilateral triangle engraved on it.
岩「…Ace beats Jack」
Pretty much my thoughts exactly. Molotov cocktails aren't really something that requires much more than a description to build. Half the point of them is that they're easy to put together: Flameable liquid, bottle, rag, fire. Not hard.
-Gray17
Yeah, I know we keep pointing such out, but it really needs repeating. If this was inspired by a movie or tv no one would believe it.
Hmmm, now a really absurd claim would be that GTA taught them how to build a car bomb...
Depends on the level of sophistication you want. The most basic is flammable liquid + bottle + flaming rag. A common modification is to use styrofoam dissolved in gasoline as your flammable liquid - it burns hotter and sticks to whatever it splashes on. For the chemically inclined there's also a way of using sugar and battery acid (sulfuric acid) as an ignition method - the two react very exothermically in contact with each other, and this can be used as a more reliable fuse than a burning rag.
(I'm not going to ask how you learned that.)
The article says the kids just used Sprite bottles, rags, and lighter fluid. They were too cheap to even use the good glass bottles.
Using plastic bottles instead of glass isn't just cheap, it's self-defeating. Plastic bottles don't shatter, and without shattering you can't get enough oxygen to all the fuel to generate a destructive fireball or anything interesting. If they're lucky, these might act as some variant of a tiki torch, but they've got almost as good a chance of lighting themselves on fire with such a device.
Submitted by Anonymous - August 7, 2008 at 7:27 pm -040066.227.135.232
(I'm not going to ask how you learned that.)
Nothing you can't learn on the Internet or in any library with a decent science collection.
Alright, I misspoke. Replace "how" with "why."
Well, why not? It is better to know these things just incase a .... problem occurs in the future.
you might want to edit the copied timestamp so it doesn't include that IP address.
岩「…Ace beats Jack」
thanks! i'l try that tonight!
uh oh, now gamepolitics tought me how to burn down a hospital!
Powdered laundry detergent as well.
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Ahh, high school science class. Good times, good times...
I'm told that floating a thin layer of vegetable oil on top of your flammable liquid makes them safer, as it prevents the air space in the top of the bottle from filling with flammable vapour, so when you light your wick you're less likely to have it blow up in your hand.
That's one way. But I was always taught that flour, petrol and a bit of sugar is best.
Shows how inept and lazy law enforcement is.
simplist form yeah, I learned that when I was a kid. We used them to for a controlled burn back of underbrush.
Hunting the shadows of the troubled dreams.
hahaha ive honestly learned more about how to make a molotov simply through the last few comments then anything close to what GTA could have taught me. and i doubt that any of the people here who already knew these things figured them out through GTA. this is one of the most ridiculous blames on video games i have ever heard of.
just wait, video games will cause cancer soon. youll see
Does GTA 3 ever go into specifics on the inner workings of a molotov or does it just let you use them?
Thats the thing, the game never "teaches" you how to make one.
You just find 'em, and toss 'em.
This is another clear case of "Grand Theft Auto made me do it".
I don't recall anything in GTA that atcually gives you a how-to on molotov contstruction.
I do happen to smell two things. The distinct aroma of BS and stupid kids trying to weasel their way out of as much trouble as they can.
I've played every GTA aside from GTAIV and the GBA game and I don't recall any directions in how to make one, did either of those two tell someone how to make a molotov cocktail?
Not like making one is something that's a hard to find secret. I don't need a game to find that out nor do I even have to look it up, it's pretty damn easy to make.
Yeah, sounds like they are looking for the 'Get out of Jail' card by using Videogames because they don't want to take responsibility for their actions.
That's one of my greatest fears as of late. I mean, once you starting saying that video games can take the blame instead of the person who actually did the crime, soon you'll have people who never even touched a game in their lifetime can scream "THE GAME MADE ME DO IT!" and get away with anything.
Well hopefully that police in that city/area have a good computer forensics lab that can go through their systems and prove rather they played said games, how often played, etc or the more likely what websites visited to make a bomb, etc.
oh FFS.
you can USE molotovs in Gta, you can USE a plane, you can USE a machine gun. It DOESNT TEACH YOU IN ANY WAY HOW TO MAKE THEM.
tha fact that a molotov is a bottle, a fuse and something that burns means it hardly needs a video game to work out.
Its like saying gta TAUGHT me how to punch somebody.
FFS this is the problem with loud mouthed ASS hats like JT making so much noise and NOBODY in the game industry coming out to shout them down. Just us defending it. well its only gonna get worse. No smoke without fire is what ppl think.
So when I was tossing Molotov Cocktails(Petrol Bombs) at Police cars 15 years ago in Belfast, I learnt it from GTA also... *ahem*...
When I knocked up that chick a few years ago... Yep, GTA...
Remember when all those people went to war in the 40's? Oh Yeah... GTA made them do it!
zzzz
Which side of the conflict were you on?
I believe everyone was on the loosing side during the troubles.
pretty much from my recollections of it.
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Yeah, dosn't matter which "side" i was on, saying that part of my life, and thankfully many other peoples lives, is over. Surprised GTA hasn't been blamed on a few more bombings and arsons then it already has...
pfff tools, and gta never goes into detail on how to make a molotov it only ever lets you use them
I don't even remember them being in the two I played...vice city and San Andreas...
They were in San Andreas alright. In one mission yo uhad ot use them to burn down a house that a crooked cop pays you to burn.
I wasn't aware making a molotov was as easy as snatching the floating item out of thin air.
yay this is what happens lionel hutz is allowed to pass the bar! (search for info on the simpsons if you dont get the refernce)
I call bullsh*t on this one. If they said that the new Alone in the Dark taught them then they might have a very, very lame leg to limp on. How hard is it to put a piece of cloth in a bottle and light it?
Damn good point there.
So they collected a lot of hidden packages and then found the Molotovs on their front porch?
Frankly you don't even manually light Molotovs in GTA, much less learn how to make one.
Can't you walk around with a lit Molotov for ages in GTA as well? A surefire recipe for losing your hand in real life...
what about in RE where bottle plus gas = molotov?
I think they are referring to the concept that playing GTA gave them the idea of doing it to real cars. Still doesn't justify what they did, lots of people will do things like that in GTA and not do it in real life, in fact, the vast percentage of people can do so.
My question is, where are the parents, why are kids playing an M rated game? Did the parents buy the game for the kids? Why didn't the parents watch their children's gaming habits, as the government and other experts repeatedly suggest?
I can't say for certain without more evidence, but it sounds to me like a bunch of kids left with a console as a 'digital babysitter', and no-one monitoring what they were doing or playing. If that console had been a TV and the parents had simply left them unsupervised like that, then no-one would even question the idea that the parents had neglected their children.
It bears pointing out that in the games, applying molotov cocktails to cars tends to eventually bring about the attention of the police, usually already itching to shoot.
... wowww
what is this world coming to when people say that a video game TAUGHT them to put gasoline in a glass bottle and toss it? i could have done that in my garage before i even heard of gta.... not that i'd want to >.>
Guess we have people like JT to thank for this kind of crap, because of people like him, criminals have no need to accept personal responsibility!
anybody can go online to figure out how to make certain thing GTA is not to blame?
anybody with a half of mind can figure this out, people go online for a lot of thing for many different reasons. this is bull-s$&@*.
Seeing as how molotovs in the GTA games are already pre-made, I doubt it.
Saying Wikipedia told them how would be more beliveable frankly, given that they have an actual description on how it works.
So... you make molotov cocktails by buying them, fully functional from the word go, out of the back of a Rastafarian's car pending a phone call?
I wonder how long it took them to get their "like" rating up to 70%.
This really shows the ineptitude and laziness of police. If the cops in my town did this, I would move in an instant.
You know where I learned to make molotov cocktails? TV and movies form the late 80s and early 90s.
Another place you can learn is THE DICTIONARY:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Molotov%20cocktail
I think you'd have to be stupid to not be able to make these... These kids just said GTA4 becasue they knew it would up their chance of being in the news. Get caught? Might as well get famous!
Actually, I would argue that you would have to be pretty stupid TO make them, considering what their purpose is. But your point is well taken.
Plus everyone knows that if you want really good Molotov cocktails, zippo lighter fluid is a must. The naptha burns like crazy and also inflicts chemical burns.
Additionally, you can add (as preivously mentioned) dissolved styrofoam for a better burn, or kitchen dishwashing detergent for a better "sticky" fire (similar to napalm).
Incidentally, I learned all these things from a combination of science classes (did chemistry at uni), random info on the internet and science shows where they blow cool shit up... = P
Having knowledge is one thing and it doesn't really matter where you get it from. Doing something with the knowledge is your own personal responsibility. The book didn't make you throw the molotov, the game didn't make you throw it, the class didn't make you throw it.
I hope the little bastards get everything coming to them.
High proof liquor works as well, but it doesn't mix with styrofoam
Hunting the shadows of the troubled dreams.
Good tips. And don't forget: orange juice concentrate + gasoline = napalm. Watch the movie "Fight Club": it tells you that and how to make nitroglycerin. Cool shit....
...You know, I just realized something...our collective knowledge about explosives and incendiaries is kinda creepy....Oh, well...
Actually I was going to bring this up. They leave out several key processes and ingredients. Still, with the amount of instruction they DO give you it would make more sense than blaming GTA. BUT GTA is the popular thing to blame these days.
Wow, I love the county where I live.
riiiight. because it would be impossible for them to learn a moitov is a bottle of jack with a rag stuck in it from any other sorce...
In Soviet Russia, video games blame YOU!
lol. I love those Soviet Russia jokes.
I wish I was the officer interrogating those kids about their crimes... I would laugh at any attempt they made to blame a video game and try to get them to spill the beans on what really made them do it. But, unfortunately, that isn't the case.
YAY SOVIET RUSSIA!!!
More BS from The media. Hell they even showed how to make a molotov on an Episode of Cops once. So if this formula is the answer to all that is wrong in the world, the rise in Knife attacks could be blamed on World of warcraft. Hell the Americas Army game has you sit through actual wepons "training" (videos) that show you how to operate, us and maintain a large aray of wepons, from hand guns to RPGs. *sigh* God wont people just see the real problem, that parents just want someone else to raise there kids.
=Nothing is True and Everything is permitted=
Great, now they're not only arsonists who blame video games, but they're liars. Yes, GTA has molotovs. However, you can't make the molotovs yourself, they're premade for you. If anything films are more likely to have demonstrated how to make one as you usually get a close up of a rag stuffed in a bottle with a flammable liquid inside like vodka or gas. They're probably just trying to get out of it because they know people like Jack Thompson and Leland Yee exist.
I am really beginning to favor euthanasia for any criminal who uses video games as a scapegoat for their behaviour. Believe me, you start putting these little shits to death, and you'll see this bullshit cop-out go away pretty fast.
I'm being facetious, of course, but it's really getting out of hand. Mainly because senile lunatics like Jack Thompson continue to perpetuate it.
Kids have been vandalising cars pretty much since they existed. The excuses change, the behaviour doesn't.
I'm also oddly amused by any claim that someone 'learned' to make molotov cocktails from some other source. The point of molotov cocktails is that they're almost self-evident in their construction - if you were told to make something that would light a tank on fire, and given no other guidance, and only $5 to make it with, you'd probably come up with a molotov cocktail. Their simplicity and ease of manufacture is what makes them the weapon of choice for rioters and guerilla urban militias the world over.
....Seriously?
I hate this Country.
-"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Sir Winston Churchill
Don't hate the country; hate the people fucking it up and their reasons for doing so (if they have any).
The mere fact that they had to "learn" to make molotov cocktails shows their level of intelligence.
This is moronic
Molotov Cocktails take no brains to make. Just put a piece of cloth in a bottle of alcohol. Anyone who knows that alcohol is flamable knows how to make one
Actually, as far as I can tell, neither the article nor police actually place the blame on GTA, they merely reported the suspect's claims to have learnt it from GTA (Although apparently, they don't actually know how to make a proper molotov anyway, since they used plastic bottles, so that's yet another hole in their defense). It makes no mention of how seriously their claim is being taken, but hopefully it isn't believed by anyone.
Where did all of these people learn to blame their problems on video games? What medium braught forth this bigotry? It should be banned!
yes we should ban the lawyers
Shakespeare paraphrase moment there Cullarn?
Hunting the shadows of the troubled dreams.
Exactly, these kids didn't learn to bomb cars from GTA, they learned to blame GTA from a hysterical Media.
rep +1
Make them pay for the damages, confiscate their console/computer, kick them in the bllocks, slap the parents in the face & throw the lot of them into the street for public ridicule.
I know you lose a lot of nuance in text, perhaps the police aren't as gullible/negligent/corrupt/stupid as people think, perhaps the quote should read like this:
Officials said the teens -- ages 15 and 16 -- told authorities they learned "how to do it" *SNIGGER* from playing the video game *SNIGGER* "Grand Theft Auto." *RAUCOUS LAUGHTER*
So?
I learned about molotov's cocktails at school when I was 12. Schools should be banned.
-- http://pixelantes.blogspot.com/
i learned about moltovs from the A-Team.
Here are we -- and yonder yawns the universe.
They really need to retire the "video games made me do it" excuse, it's getting old...
After reading this I dont know who is dumber the police, the kids or Jack Thompson...
If I were the police officer or the prosecutor of these suspects I would not blink at the idea that GTA taught them how to make the weapons. For me I would say "Oh, that's a peculiarity" and just move on to find out the motive for using the weapons on someone. No way I will be going "eeeeee" with a greedy smile and thoughts of Take-Two's money going into my coffers.
So... GTA taught them how to do it, and not Rodney Corronado going school to school teaching students how to make bombs, and telling them that it's OK.
---You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
Really? I learned 'how to do it' from Wikipedia.
I bet the cops believe them when they tell them 'GTA taught me how to do it', or at least they don't instantly dismiss the idea. Why, because odds are they don't play grand theft auto and don't know that the game doesn't teach you how to make it.
However I bet the cops still place all the blame on the kids and not the video game.
Guess this is an example of giving the benefit of the doubt. Not that the suspect is innocent, but that whatever the suspect says is true, in a situation where fact checking isn't possible at that moment.
HAHAHAHAAAA! COME ON! REALLY? Oh fer the love of god, just shut the fuck up! How hard is it to make a molotov cocktail? All you have to do is know that
-flamable liquids are flamable
-glass containers can be used to carry flamable liquids
-a piece of cloth can be used as a fuse to light the liquids.
That's it. How hard is that to figure out? Took me less than three seconds. I didn't need "instructions" from GTA.
-Entertainment isn't the reason the world sucks. It's the reason we know the world sucks. For information on games and psychology, look up: Jonathan Freedman(2002)Block & Crain(2007)Grand Theft Childhood, by Harvard researchers Larry Kutner&Cheryl Olson
it scares me how many rational sounding members of this blog know how to make molotov cocktails, of course then ive been trained on how to break a mans neck, push his nose up into his brain, blind him with a punch, cause cardiac arrest by hitting the solar plexus, use a dao, a balisong, ninja stars, so on and so forth, so who am i to judge.
Ohh and id like to point out that videogames actually made me think those things were either impossible or too hard. Well Kung fu and Full Contact taught me otherwise.
The most rational people are the ones who know how to defend themselves and those they care for by whatever means available to them. Besides, as pointed out a couple dozen times already 1)How hard is a Molitov to make?) and 2) the dozens of differant places we learned. ((you realize if the neo-cons read this they will be sh%*ting bricks right?))
Hunting the shadows of the troubled dreams.
I thought you were just a jackass until I read this (push his nose up into his brain), but now I know you're full of shit.
wow, you are a complete moron. it is completely possible to push someones nose up into their brain, which kills them. have you ever seen the move "The Last Boyscout" or more recently "Resident Evil: apocolypse?" in both of these movies some one is killed upward blow to the nose. its completely possible. so keep your "im insecure about myself and if i cant do it no one can do it" bullshit to yourself
I have always said this...."The world is never safe as long as I still have a match"
hee hee.. Fire + flameable stuff = boom!
Stupid media eats this shit up dont they!
I wonder if a computer forensics lab went through their computers to see what evidence is there? More likely, they visited some web site about bomb making or maybe got their hands on the anarchist cookbook. We had this interesting case in my computer forensics class which was a suspected domestic terrorism case. The guy visited a CRAP load of bomb making, drugs(mostly weed), websites (also had a nice collection of fantasy/sci-fi art on the system). If I was the police there though, I would search their systems, at least then you could likely show that "GTA made them do it" is false.
*looks at watch*....Any minute now, Thompson will pull his head out of his ass long enough to read and post a fucked-up "I told you so" before ramming it back in to sniff the digested beef stroganof he had last night........Aaaaaaaaany minute now......Just you wait...
J.D.
We should blame Jack Thompson for this. After all, it would make more sense than blaming a game if you think about it. They could have got the idea to blame the game from Jack.
Sweet, more crap excuses that teens will use to get a light sentence on their heads. How come the courts never question where they got the games? The stores couldn't have sold them the games because they're underage, do you know how stupid a store clerk would have to be to not ask for ID? And how often clerks don't ask for ID...
I mean, seriously. Someone 18 or over must be buying the games for these teenagers, these underage adolescents. How come nobody tries to find out who? They just go out and automatically blame the video games developer when, in fact, it's most likely the childs parents who should be at fault.
-- Joshua Smellie
At fault for the arson because they bought the game for their kid? That train of thought still implies that games were a large factor, unless of course he (the kid) had a history of mental illness and the parents knew that the game could trigger a freak out. Then they would be at fault because they bought the game.
-Entertainment isn't the reason the world sucks. It's the reason we know the world sucks. For information on games and psychology, look up: Jonathan Freedman(2002)Block & Crain(2007)Grand Theft Childhood, by Harvard researchers Larry Kutner&Cheryl Olson
I was under the impression that making a moltov cocktail was a little more involved than picking up a glowing and floating bottle from some random rooftop.
Once again, a bunch of youths do shit that has happened since the 40's, hell probably even longer. However instead of "fighting against the man", their excuse is "video games made me do it". These morons probably think they have a get out of jail free card, and Jack Thompson will probably defend them...trying to push his ridiculous agenda (that is if he wasn't in such bad standing with the courts).
Honestly, I am 25 years old. I played GTA since it came out...I have never committed a murderous or violent act. Hell millions of people who have played it have not committed violent acts, yet a bunch of morons who lie out of their arses say that GTA taughts them how to make and use a molotov...bullshit. All that game teaches you is that it is a shiny icon that you pick up in an alleyway or ontop of a building.
Soak an electrically charged iron rod in salt water for a while, let it dry and mix it with the contents of an etch-a-sketch. There ya go. MUCH better than petrol bombs.
They learned it from GTA? Well, wikipedia told me that you make a molotov cocktail by filling a glass bottle with gasoline, sticking a rag in, lighting the rag, and throwing it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail
It also taught me that thermite is a combination of rust and aluminum:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
and that I can make napalm with equal parts gasoline and styrofoam:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm
It is clear what must be done: ban all forms of learning except what the state/church/emperor controls directly!
Forgot the key component on the thermite of magnesium powder as a starter element, otherwise you'll never get the iron oxide to burn.
High school chemistry... good times.
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Sorry for that oversight, but if you make any of those at home, kids, have my handle arrested, not its reference (had to make the C joke).
Back on topic to go on another tangent, Shadow Warrior taught me Kung Fu!
god damn i hate admitting the fact that i am from georgia. at least i can say i was born in louisiana. oh wait...
this type of thing pisses me off, because not only does it just fuel the fire, but it totally ignores the fact that it is learned behavior to use GTA as a scapegoat. just like the retard in thailand. yeah, sure, dont admit that youre just a god damned maniac, just say that "the video game made me do it!!" so that way you can paint yourself as the victim of corporate brainwashing.
Damn Prometheus and his fire!
Prometheus taught them how to do it, methinks.
Since when did they include the anarchist coockbook with GTA?
There's no point in blaming the Police for this; they are not at fault when some kids blame a game and the media snatches it up. All you're doing is convoluting the discussion with your own stupid bias.