Thai Teen Kills Cabbie, Blames 'Grand Theft Auto IV', Game Pulled
by Rainier on Aug. 4, 2008 @ 7:44 p.m. PDT | Filed under News
A Thai 18-year-old high school student confessed to robbing and murdering a 54-year-old taxi driver with a knife on Monday, claiming he wanted to find out if it was as easy in real life to rob a taxi as it was in GTA IV. Police said the teen was an obsessive player of the video game, showed no sign of mental problems and confessed committing the crime explicitly because of the game. If found guilty, he faces death by lethal injection. Thailand currently has no game ratings, but the Thai distributor dropped the game due to this incident.
