NY Post Says GTA Worse Than Molesting

wiredbeat2000 writes "The New York Post has an inflammatory article which argues that Take Two's Grand Theft Auto is worse than child molestation and more harmful than second hand smoke. The story, which appears in the business section, calls for an outright ban of video games it claims are no better than snuff films, and concludes: 'Stay away from this [Take Two] stock - far, far away - and you'll be doing both your wallet and your fellow man a favor'." Lucky the author hasn't checked out Manhunt yet, huh?

Masturbation in public

[Uma Thurman]

Whew! Thank goodness that's still OK.

Re:Yet another member of the "padded earth society

[Beatbyte]

Don't waste your time with videogames. I've seen handguns go for $500 and less. The youth is MUCH more concerned about dancing pixels than the reality outside. Cut your hair, buy a handgun, and welcome to the real world!

priests

[Anonymous Coward]

Grand Theft Auto is worse than child molestation

Twenty bucks says this opinionist is a moonlighting catholic priest.

Handguns?

[Demon-Xanth]

Why should I go out and get a handgun when I own two rifles? ...and for the record, Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than those two rifles have.

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Re:Masturbation in public

[Anonymous Coward]

funny thing is that a friend of mine was walking in the 'shop district' of town late one night and noticed a homeless man standing in front of the victoria's secret shop, rocking back and forth slightly. at first my friend figured this guy was really, really drunk and having trouble standing up. then he realized that this guy was actually wacking off while looking at the giant-sized posters of supermodels in lingerie. i guess i never really gave much thought to where and when homeless men masturbate. now i know. do i get a +5 informative for this post?

Re:This is how the real world views you.

[MrHanky]

If you geeks want to be taken seriously when you [...]

Why this sudden obsession with being taken seriously? It's all fun and games for us.

Irate Michael Jackson Fan

[sammaffei]

Probably, just mad because he can't trade in his "Thiller", "Bad", and "Dangerous" CDs for the GTA double pack.

Re:ookay

[th3space]

I heard that rags everywhere (dish, oily, et all) were uniting to be disassociated from the cesspool that is the Post.

horse..soundly..beaten..while..dead.

Re:Whaaaaaa????

[blueZhift]

"Dwarf-throwing is illegal?! Did I miss a meeting?"

So that's why Lord of the Rings had to be shot in New Zealand!

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Time for a meeting

[tprime]

This guy needs a "one on one" meeting with Tommy Vercetti.

This just in...

[jetsfandb]

Reading the New York Post is worse than playing GTA.

Re:Oh btw as a person who lives in the Tri-State a

[bedessen]

Totally. This is like the third or fourth "article" on slashdot in the last 6 months or so that's been based upon someone mistaking the NY Post for a "newspaper" and not a dead fish wrapping device. Could we PLEASE get a feature added to slashcode that automatically rejects any submission with a link to nypost.com in it? And calls the submitter names?

Re:e-mail the guy, like i did!

[Zork the Almighty]

Whenever I want a letter to be read, I include a little bit of white powder in the envelope.