A Louisiana news website has an unsettling report about the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff seizing video games from a 16-year-old murder suspect's home, based on a suggestion by anti-games zealot Jack Thompson:

Thompson said published reports that Neher told detectives he and Everette killed Gore because Gore would not let them borrow his car follows "the same scenario in (the video) 'Grand Theft Auto.' "

Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said an autopsy showed Gore was beaten to death but also shot in the face.

"Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you're a hit man or a video gamer," Thompson said, adding that the apparent repeated "pummeling" of the victim is consistent with scenes in violent video games.

Man, I hate that one mission in GTA, you know the one where you're trying to borrow that guy's car and he won't let you, so you just totally stomp his ass and blow his face off and score mad points. I always have to tank cheat my way through that one.

As a hilarious aside, the shooter was home alone because his mother, the exquisitely-named Happy Morris, was booked last week on "simple battery of a juvenile and unauthorized entry into an inhabited dwelling". The specifics? She broke into a house and slapped a fourteen-year-old girl.

There's undoubtedly a video game at the root of that particularly heinous crime, too. Nobody slaps fourteen-year-old girls in the face unless you're a Hot Dog on a Stick employee or a dating sim enthusiast. Eliza gauger

Read complete article here. [2theadvocate.com]