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GTA scares off robbers! lol

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What about some "Dumbest Burglar of the Year"-Award?:lol:

Source: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/121...videogame.html

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(12/11/04 – SANTA FE, TX) — A video game notorious for violence and mature content may have actually saved a Santa Fe family.

Back in March, Sandy Wilson was taking care of her three grandsons when a group of men attempted to burglarize her home, pointing a gun at the kids. The children happened to be playing a video game called Grand Theft Auto at the time. The game has dozens of random police scanner messages, which blare out calls such as "This is the police! You’re surrounded!" Believe it or not, Wilson says the burglars heard that message and thought police were outside the door waiting for them.

Galveston County Asst DA Michael Elliott explained, "The police in the game were staying, 'Stop, we have you surrounded. This is the police.’ The burglar, unknowingly, thought this was the actual police and panicked ... being apprehended by Playstation."

"Thinking that it was pretty funny," recalled young victim Chaze Fisher. "How they were, like, ran off, and they got all scared over a game."

Police arrested the four men. Samuel Woodrow received a five-year prison sentence this week. Ronnie Farris is serving four years. Lucas Griffin got probation. And Zachary Brandenburg’s trial is in January.

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HAHAH....finally people realize the true potential of the GTA games

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thread's merged into one.

exploder- general gaming
showdown- General Yib-Yab (Off Topic)

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gizmo r l337

funny that the guy didn't even notice the sound of the game was coming from the TV.

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LOL, the intelligence of some burgulars is quite amazing really.

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Amazing is what you'd call it?

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Saves them right!
LOL

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Yes, law breakers tend not to be very intelligent. ;)

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(1992, Tennessee) Nashville's Pancake Pantry restaurant is well known throughout the music industry, not only for its great pancakes, but for its star-studded clientele as well. It is not uncommon for the Pantry's sidewalk to be littered with long lines of customers waiting for breakfast and the chance to see a famous country star dining there. The man involved in this story may linger longer in our memories than the average country singer's career.
It seems one of the Pancake Pantry employees, noting how successful the place was, thought it would be a perfect place to rob. Early one morning, he climbed on the roof and reached the exhaust chute that hangs over the Pantry's large flat grill. Upon inspection, the perpetrator realized that he couldn't negotiate the tight passage fully dressed. He
disrobed and slid down the exhaust chute naked. This was the last thing he ever did.
Imagine the surprise of the opening crew for the restaurant that morning! As they prepared for the morning's breakfast, they were horrified to find a pair of legs dangling just inches from the griddle.

What happened to our would-be villain? It seems that the chute was so tight, there was no room for error. As he slid down the chute, he slipped and caught his own arm under his chin, where he stuck. He died by suffocating himself.

Paul Bordenkircher says, "I share this story not because I heard it third-hand, or even second-hand. I report it because I saw the it on local TV news, including a full video of the grisly discovery hanging above the Pantry's famous griddle."

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December 1997, Pennsylvania) A prisoner in the new Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh attempted to evade his punishment by engineering an escape from his confinement. Jerome constructed a hundred-foot rope of bedsheets, broke through a supposedly shatter-proof cell window, began to climb to freedom down his makeshift ladder.

It is not known whether his plan took into account the curiosity of drivers on the busy street and Liberty Bridge below. It certainly did not take into account the sharp edges of the glass, the worn nature of the bedsheet, nor the great distance to the pavement. The bottom of the knotted bedsheet was 86 feet short of the ground. But our hero did not reach the end of the rope. The window pane sliced through the weak cloth and dropped him to his untidy demise 150 feet below.

But wait there's more!

(3 November 1998) Apparently the prison rumor of the previous death did not reach a prisoner who was awating transfer to federal penitentary one year later. He tied eight bedsheets together and rappelled from his seventh-floor window, only to find the rope fell 25 feet short of the ground. Luckier than Jerome, he merely fractured his ankle and scraped his face.

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Clement Vallandigham was a well-known Northern Democrat who campaigned for states’ rights during the Civil War. In 1863 Vallandigham was convicted of treason for his speeches attacking the administration of President Lincoln. He was banished to the South, where he continued to voice his political views.
After the war, Vallandingham became a lawyer. In his last appearance in the courtroom, he represented a client on trial for murder. The accused man’s defense was that the victim had drawn his own gun in a fashion that caused it to fire, killing himself. To prove the defense argument, Vallandigham demonstrated the victim’s method of drawing a gun--using the loaded evidence gun as his prop. The firearm went off, and he lost his life--but proved his case.

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HAHA, how stupid can you be? :rofl:

*wonders why the buglars didn't looked outside the window to see where the police wass in order th see if they could make a run for it*

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I wonder why they continued running even after leaving the house seeing that there in fact was no cops around.

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It's simply a bit hard to believe for me. :uhm:

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Originally Posted by Biggus Dickus

It's simply a bit hard to believe for me. :uhm:

:withstupid:

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Originally Posted by Biggus Dickus

It's simply a bit hard to believe for me. :uhm:

Why? It worked in Home Alone 2, although it was a movie he used, not a game.

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great stuff there, riles :thumbsup:

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:lol: What an idiot.

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Oh dear me... DONT FIT DOWN THE SHOOT? NAKEY TIME!~!!``111 :moon:

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You know, someone should have those shatter-proof windows checked out....

Opps! Hmm, I would kinda make sure that wouldnt happen, but I guess you might forget a few things with the fear of repelling down the side of a 100+ foot building with bedsheets.

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This person obviously didnt understand guns and this thing they do called were they 'kill people'. Rember kids, never skrew around with a gun, and for crists sake PLZ make sure it isnt loaded!!!

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Originally Posted by mwace

Yep, you always should...

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(1996, Toronto) Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane of glass with his shoulder and plunged twenty-four floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry, thirty-nine, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower as he was explaining the strength of the building's windows to visiting law students. Garry had previously conducted the demonstration of window strength without mishap, according to police reports. The managing partner of the law firm that employed the deceased told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Garry was "one of the best and brightest" members of the two-hundred-man association.

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Yeah, sounds like he really was the best and brightest...:n0e:

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damn how can people be so stupid

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It's called too much self confidence. ;)

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Originally Posted by Ensign Riles

It's called too much self confidence. ;)

Nah, I think he honestly beleived those windows would hold him in the building - and I think thats a pretty cool way to prove it - problem is, it was wrong and he proved that. I think whoever told him those walls would hold anything should take a least some of the blame.

Still, I think the guy would be pretty cool I mean, who in an office, runs into walls to prove their strength??! Seriously, most people would like make charts and give you a buncha numbers, this guy did it a real way.. but again he was sadly wrong.

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Aren't glass outside windows in tall buildings meant not to break when you fall/run into them... would be kinda nasty if you would through your office on the 30th floor, trip, hit the glass only to go thorough it and plunge to your death... So running into a window to proof that it is save enough doesn't look so strange to me...

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Well, most window manufacturers probably don't plan on having to make glass that strong because most people are intelligent enough not to try and prove something like that. :lol:

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*ahem* wow......... dumba**..... tsk tsk tsk........

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Yeah,I heard that story..Funny it is

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Oh...My.....God

How stupid can someone be?! :uhoh: