According to Louisiana news website 2theAdvocate, Louisiana Sheriff’s Capt. Spense Dilworth seized videogames from the home of a teenage murder suspect, Edward Neher, believed to have slain a West Feliciana Parish man on Tuesday. That in itself isn’t too disturbing. What’s disturbing is why this officer decided to seize said games. The reason: Jack Thompson told him to. That’s right, everyone’s favorite zany jackass suggested a link to violent videogames. According to published reports, Nehrer killed the man because he wouldn’t allow him to borrow his car. Thompson says this follows ”the same scenario in Grand Theft Auto.” John Bruce also had this to say:
“Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you’re a hit man or a video gamer”
To put this in (sarcastic) context, I give you Kotaku’s Eliza Gauger:
“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.”
In conclusion, there are now three constants in this world: death, taxes, and Jack Thompson wackiness.