Police in Winnipeg believe that a quartet of youthful offenders were acting out in video game-like fashion by stealing cars and fleeing from pursuing officers.
CBC reports on comments by Sgt. Doug Safioles:
They all play the game, they talk about the game, they tell their probation officers it's a game. It's a huge rush. They taunt the police on purpose to engage in chases.
Safioles, who did not link the teens to a specific game, made similar comments in May. At that time, however, a youth advocate linked the crimes to the region's high level of poverty.
Meanwhile, in Australia, the Daily Telegraph reports that Superintendent Dave Evans of the New South Wales police has blamed video games for a lack of responsibility on the part of teen drivers:
Video games can have a negative impact on young drivers because it increases their complacency and their indulgence in risk-taking behaviour. In games you race, you crash and it is a matter of pressing the buttons and off you go again. In real life it doesn't work that way, you can be killed.
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Re: Cops See Video Game Connection in Stolen Cars, Wild Driving
Yeah, and Mario kart taught me how important it is to avoid banana peels and turtle shells... though grant it, i haven't quite gotten the hang on of snaking yet
Re: Cops See Video Game Connection in Stolen Cars, Wild Driving
Really what I want to see in at least one game is a more realistic vehicle damage system. I roll my eyes as a series of taps will result in a car bursting into flames in GTA. As I've actually driven a real car I don't bring my experience of games behind the wheel. Quite the opposite. I bring the real life experience to the games and nitpick at the game. I don't see why they think that the river only flows in the other direction.
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Re: Cops See Video Game Connection in Stolen Cars, Wild Driving
Agreed, but the car manufactures get pissy because they think it will hurt their car sales... How shallow and unthought out do they think their consumers are? Oh wait, thats right...
PS - The $700 billion bailout gives $25 billion to the car companies, but requires them to invest it in ways that will progress the technology of American cars, but they refuse to take it because they want to use the money however they want, just like AIG did pretty much. (Lets go on vacation for a half a billion, woo hoo!)
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Re: Cops See Video Game Connection in Stolen Cars, Wild Driving
What the hell? Free money is free money. So what if it's essentially a $25 billion gift card for better technology that will still give them some kind of benefit. If this were truly a capitalist society they wouldn't get a single damn penny (and that includes subisidies and helpful tariffs) so they should be grateful (of course to be fair a truly capitalist society would have no MPG requirements and possibly laxer safety requirements as well).
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Re: Cops See Video Game Connection in Stolen Cars, Wild Driving
Midnight CLub 3 managed to get away with it.
Re: Cops See Video Game Connection in Stolen Cars, Wild Driving
I think enough people buy the game, and they pushed hard enough for it, that they got them to agree to it. I am sure they lost a few cars they planned to have in the game because of it too.
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The big 3 seriously need to just fall over and die already, you can only hold a companies hand so long before you just let them fall. Its the natural way of a capitialist economy damn it.
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I think the government should just wipe out their entire upper management, and put people like me in charge of it. I would use the money to make new technology any day. I think there is a long way those car manufactures could go if the people running the show were not so stupid.
(Like me as in want to go for new technology, not as in actually me, because I would need to know more about business.)
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Re: Cops See Video Game Connection in Stolen Cars, Wild Driving
And if you press the accelerator in time, you get a speed boost at the traffick lights.
Oh wait...
Re: Cops See Video Game Connection in Stolen Cars, Wild Driving
That, and Blue and Red shells make you wanna go faster...much faster.
...oh wait...blue and red...aren't they the same colors as the flashing lights of a police car?