Two For One Special On Stupid Game Crimes [Crime]

Published: January 8, 2008, 3:30 pm

Tags: crime, postal 2, south, tony hawk s underground 2, video game violence

While most of the gaming world focuses on CES, Game Politics patrols the streets, keeping an eye open for video game related crime. Today they've uncovered not one but two different recent criminal outings blamed the influence of gaming violence. First we have Gaston County North Carolina, where three 19 year-olds went on an arson spree, setting fire to eight cars and one vacant home before the police finally stopped the madness. The reason behind the suspects' burning ambitions? Postal 2. No really, Postal 2. Police say three Gaston County teens--Sean Jones, David Ellington and Paul Jarrell charged with setting eight cars and one vacant home on fire--got the idea from a video game, "Postal 2".Personally I am hoping this was some sort of typo, and what they meant to say was, "got the idea after being forced to play through Postal 2," as I can definitely see that being the logical result of such trauma.Then a bit closer to (my) home, we have the Lafayette, Georgia arson at a

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