August 22, 2008 -
Utah's KSL-5 reports that a 27-year-old man who led state police on a 100 MPH chase before causing a fiery accident said that such risky driving had always worked for him in video games.
Daniel Savino survived the crash with just a bad case of road rash but now faces a laundry list of criminal charges:
As for motive, Savino told troopers this was his own video game adventure.
"I don't know whether he was trying to act out a scene in a video game or what he was trying to do, but he said it always worked for him in video games," Roden said.
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Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Yes Jack, nobody ever rode a motorbike around like an idiot until Video Games made them do it.
I notice you've now switched from causal link to copycat. A wholly different argument, someone chooses to copycat, they want to do it like something they have seen, which automatically confers knowledge of a difference between the two.
After all, should someone, God Forbid, ever start to copycat Jack the Ripper, we should then ban all those violent history books that tell us about him?
Anyway, about the article, as has been said before, I have a very strong suspicion it was actually said sarcastically.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
In summary, one case in millions does not an epedemic make, in fact, 100 cases in millions would not an epedemic make, and trying to stoke people's ignorance and paranoia does not an epedemic make either.
You keep setting your bushfires, we'll keep putting'em out.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
My career is just fine and my life is great.
12 more days, Jack. 12 more days.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
My god...that day...
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Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Come to think of it, I should've said 11 days, not 12. My apology for my error.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
You are lying again, you dumbass. YOU CARE ABOUT THE BAR because you keep annoying them with those stupid letters you keep sending them.
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Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
I'm surprised you haven't copycatted your hero King David and killed tens of thousands of people. Oh wait, the copycat defense is just a way for criminals to get off the hook, and you fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
岩「…Ace beats Jack」
岩「…I can see why Hasselbeck's worried about fake guns killing fake people. afterall, she's a fake journalist on a fake news channel」
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Dennis, verification please...I smell bull$hit
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Is that another one of those homeless conspiracy nutters on the street corner i hear? Give him a quarter, son. He needs it more than you do.
David "DavCube" Gagnon, Mature Human Being (that doesn't lie out his ass) and you're not.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Also, if you've been so right, you wouldn't need to keep trying to prove it
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
EPIC WIN!
i think that is possibly the best point made on these forums!
JT why do you care what us 'idiot moron frontal lobe fried' gamers think?
I mean you KNOW your right.......right JT? you do KNOW your right dont you?
So... why are you always on here to convince us? I mean take this analogy, if there is a wall painted white, but we say its painted black, then wouldnt you just stop talking to us, i mean you'd KNOW it was a white wall so why would you care what somebody else said if it was 100% wrong? Why would you NEED us to agree with you?
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Right or wrong you're still insignificant.
-Loudspeaker
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Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
You really should ocnsider yourself lucky your law license is jsut beign yanked and you're not being institutionalize,dl iek you should have been
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
A demented fool like you claims everything is great no matter what. You can go to hell for all I care, no one gives a s*** about what you think.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
So much insanity.
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Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Funny, when ever I ride a motorcycle in GTA IV, I always end up hitting something, flying off the bike, and losing most of my health, if not all of it.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
So he's a moron, then. Move along, nothing to see here.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
I imagine the whole thing can be summarized like this....
"WOOOOOH YEAH IMMA SPEED DEMON!
"*CRASH!*"
"Shit...uh....VIDYA GAMES!"
Dude's just scrambling a bunch of crap to in a feeble attempt to cover his ass from the fact that he was doing something incredibly stupid.
I mean, a fake name at first? And it doesn't look like he stole or shot or did some other criminal activity beforehand.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Seems to me that the guy/idiot was just joking after he got caught... *shrugs*
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Anyone notice no media frenzy over this yet?
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Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
If only things in video games worked in real life, then I could use a little door and place it on peoples foreheads in order to probe the darkest depths of their subconcious. I could also go to a summer camp for the psychically gifted where there are telekinetic bears, pyrokinetic panthers, and a kid in a tin foil hat who makes squirrel's heads explode.
Cake and brownies for whoever gets that reference.
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Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Really, the people who can't get that subtle reference are the ones who need cake and brownies. They have suffered enough.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Psychonauts!!! Wooo
Its sad to see people sticking with this defense. Give it up already for the rest of us, please?
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
I am of course receiving hundreds of apologies from mortified gamers around the world that "Jack Thompson Was Right."
Of course I was. And you were not. What you put into your little skulls comes out in behavior.
HOOAH! Jack Thompson, I'm still an Attorney and Dennis McCauley is still an Idiot
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
But this games-beget-motorcycle crash is an isolated incident, so shouldn't this man be "statistically insignificant" by your counts?
Oh right, only normal gamers that haven't acted out are statistically insignificant. Regardless of how much they outnumber the crazy ones. This is not how scientific analysis works. You cannot ignore the samples that don't produce the results you're looking for. With all your proven brain scan studies, it just takes a bit of junk science to make your whole argument invalid.
Suspect Lies on Video Games for Fiery Motorbike Crash
Apology? If you want my apology, go look in the dictionary between "amoeba" and "asshole". That's where you'll find my apology.
A point for anyone that can guess the movie I just paraphrased.
The suspect is clearly lying, and we all know that, even you do, Metropolitian Moron of Miami.
You will always be wrong, Jacky Boy. And yes, it truly is a burden being right all the time, something your infinitestimal brain wouldn't comprehend and something you will never know about.
Practice what you preach, worthless turd: Grow up and get a life.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
You fap uncontrollably when you watch a tragedy or incident like this, right? You sick bastard.
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Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
"Anyone who says, 'You [idiot]!' will be in danger of the fire of hell." - Jesus, as quoted in Matthew 5:22
looks like Jack's going to hell
岩「…Ace beats Jack」
岩「…I can see why Hasselbeck's worried about fake guns killing fake people. afterall, she's a fake journalist on a fake news channel」
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
We already knew that. Jack just won't realize it until it's too late.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
true, but unlike Jack, I presented proof
岩「…Ace beats Jack」
岩「…I can see why Hasselbeck's worried about fake guns killing fake people. afterall, she's a fake journalist on a fake news channel」
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
My God... Jack you were right all along, I'm nothing but a pathetic gamer living in my mom's basement, all I've ever done with my life was play games all day. I have to get out before my frontal lobes are completely fried.
Jack please respond to me and tell me what I should do now, give me advice on how to get a successful job as an attorney which was my dream before being sucked in by games and losing my way, tell me the secret to being such a great attorney so that I might one day emulate your success.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Cool use of /sarcasm.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
"What you put into your little skulls comes out in behavior."
Take some of your OWN damn advice, then, junior. Don't act like such a child in your 'immediate news releases,' with your 'picture book for adults,' and posting porn in a freaking court docket.
Isn't that what the people you hate so much do? (or at least you claim?)
Hypocrisy, Mr. Thompson. HYPOCRICY.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
I call no way.
You haven't received any apologies, Jack. Just admit it. This is clearly a case of someone covering his own ass, and everyone in the world can see it but you.
You're a lunatic. If you feel the need to sue me for saying so, go for it. You've never succeeded yet and you won't start now. You're grossly incompetent, which is good, because you're desperately trying to be an enabler. You're trying to enable murderers and child abusers by giving them an easy out. That's a shocking stance for a man with a son to take. I wonder what he thinks of your advocacy of child abuse?
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
I honestly wonder if JT actually even believes what he spouts. I got to say i agree 100% that is is him enabling criminals to use such a defence.
I wonder what JTS response would be if something ever happened to him or his family( and god forbid it ever does, even though i dislike JT immensly i wouldnt wish that on anybody) by somebody who claimed 'video games made me do it'.
would he be the lawyer defending them to get them off? or would he be the one saying 'what a load of BS im putting you behind bars where you belong'
I think i know which one it would be.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Ya know Jack I started to read your response, but then I realized it's the same Jack different day...
Here's real news for you Jack... You're insignificant.
Yep. You did read that correctly. You've been defanged whether you want to admit that or not is immaterial. Your ability to sue everyone under the sun who opposes your viewpoint in a malicious attempt to bend them to your will is at and end. Lawyer will no longer be a part of your life unless it beings with "ex". That fact makes you pointless in this game that is video game regulation.
You're a fossil Jack. A throwback from a time when gamers simply played games rather than defend them. You cried wolf loud enough the ECA was born. You've done MORE for the pro-gamer movement than anyone else could Jack. Bravo.
On an end note you will NEVER be remembered as an anti-gaming advocate. You will be the history's footnote on the subject of gaming becoming mainstream and therefore politically active. Your law career was defeated by your own actions just as your anti-gaming movement was.
Congratulations on going the way of the Dodo bird.
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Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
I am of course receiving hundreds of apologies from mortified gamers around the world that "Jack Thompson Was Right."
And then you woke up and discovered that your life and career were still a sorry shambles of what could have been.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
I hope JT realises that all these emails were in fact linking him to the humourous G4 sketch 'Jack Thompson Was Right'. I mean, why would they refer to him in the third person while adressing him? Only the man himself does that.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
hahahha! never even thought of that!
a gamer would never email him in the third person.
only JT is narcissistic enough to refer to himself in such a way.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
And your wrists must be awful sore from writing them.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
You mean the emails with the heading "Oh this is an apology" and then when you open it, it ususally reads as: Sorry that you are an insane douche bag, Jack. Go forth and have a 'sexual departure' (means Jack go #@%& yourself)
Then yes! You had hundreds.
Actually humble apologees? Ummm I think 0, unless all your fake emails you send to yourself count?
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Perhaps we should subpeona your ISP/email service to verify that you ACTUALLY received such emails.
After all, we all know that YOU receive favorable view by that Demon-Pretender-To-The-Throne-Of-Heaven that you worship for lying and deceiving. Not for telling the truth.
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Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
I think all we'd get are lawsuit drafts, and gay pornography... :P
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Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
John Bruce, my narcasistic friend, I doubt that you have received a single apology, besides my apology email that you are a scum bag. There is nothing for us to apologize for.
What you see in this article and other articles you have requested apologies on, is that because of people like you, these idiots who cannot control their inhibitions are given a scape goat that would not have been otherwise available. You are the reason these people are using games as an excuse. If it weren't for you, these people would have simply been idiots who broke the law.
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Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
I don't know why you guys even try to talk to him. He's not listening. Why I don't get credit for being a basically non-felonious taxpayer as an example of a good-behavior gamer; and yet this guy gets credit as an example for being a moron who apparently wants to die is beyond me. Maybe I'm not understanding, 1 good example is too small to represent a sample size, and one bad example is proof he was right?
The guy's just a douche. No two ways about it.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
So the best evidence you have to support your insipid crusade is the words of felons whom are grasping at the latest iteration of the sad old "The Devil made me do it" defense. A defense that scumbag lawyers such as yourself make to try to make a quick buck at the cost of personal responsibility.
You are not right and you have never been right. And no matter what you say or do people are still responsible for their own actions. There are three cops in the ground right now because of Devin Moore. And you attempting to absolve that fact makes you no better than Devin himself.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Just because you write the letters yourself and sign them "I'm a pin head gamer nerd" doesn't make them real Johnny boy. I know the old saying is that if you tell a lie enough times it becomes the truth, however more than just one person needs to tell said lie, not just little Johnny Thompson.
Perhaps you should get someone to proof read all your stuff before hand, perhaps even an editor, even though it was obvious you didn't use one in that neurotic rant that you call a book. FYI, Hitler wrote a book too, also of his own rantings about how he thought the world should be, and the title was, like yours, regarding his own struggles. Compelling comparisons I think.
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Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
"but he said it always worked for him in video games,"
Maybe he should've just stuck to doing it in games. The character in-game doesn't feel the same pain someone in real life would.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
This is Darwinism at work... unfortunately the dimwitted simpleton almost killed plenty of normal people in the process.
I can see where he's coming from though. I can't tell you how many times i've steared a car with a playstation controller.
Re: Suspect Blames Fiery Motorcycle Chase on Video Games
Didn't all the idiots try pulling this stunt 10 years ago... It's not my fault, it was television and the movies!!! Then before that, it was the radio!!! Then before that, it was the telegraph!!!! Then before that, it was written on a stone!!
Why take responsibility for yourself when you can just blame someone or something else? Remember eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines. =P