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   MissingFrame, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 12:33pm

   
   

   Need for Speed is likely one of the most widely played game on the planet. I think the only people who are fooled by the connection also beleive that square-dancing leads to sex.

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   dataguy, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 1:04pm

   
   

   TFA didn't say if the game had been opened or not. Could be they were in a hurry to get home and play it.

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   Anonymous Coward, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 1:08pm

   
   

   "Need for Speed is likely one of the most widely played game on the planet. I think the only people who are fooled by the connection also beleive that square-dancing leads to sex."
   Damn, guess I should forget about that square dance this weekend...

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   Skeptic, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 1:13pm

   
   

   I had a similar problem to this when I was a kid, and I had to spend a few months in a detention center for teens. My problem? I kept jumping on turtles and mushrooms, thinking that I could collect gold coins if I did.

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   anon, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 1:16pm

   
   

   It doesn't seem likely that they were in a hurry to play it, since the game was released over ten years ago.
   
   ... unless the article didn't mention the actual title of the game. Was it "Need for Speed Most Wanted"? "Need for Speed Underground 2"? "Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2"? "Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed"? Shoddy, shabby reporting.

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   Firebird X, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 1:19pm

   
   

   only one repeating string of letters and emphasize my feelings towards skeptic's comments.
   
   lololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol olololol

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   Smoking Fetish Chick, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 1:24pm

   
   

   Reminds me of this quote I keep seeing on the web:
   
   "...It's stupid to say that computer games have bad influence on childern. If Pac-Man had influenced children born in the 80's, today we'd have lots of kids running around in dark rooms eating pills, while listening to monotonous and dull electronic music..."
   
   -Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc. 1989
   
   

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   Phaat Phuk, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 1:26pm

   
   

   i don't see where anyone is saying the game is to blame. knee-jerk techie reaction to the fact that the game was mentioned?

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   Anonymous Coward, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 1:44pm

   
   

   Apparently the Internet is to blame for the circulation of nonsense:
   http://markpasc.org/weblog/2003/07/23/pacman_quote_solved

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    Nick, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 1:47pm

    
    

    Wow Skeptic, I hope you get a 5 rating for Funny.
    I raelly loled when I read that.

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    me, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 1:53pm

    
    

    What if it were a DVD movie of The Fast and The Furious sitting on the front seat? Then the movie industry would be blamed. How about a little personal accountability?

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    A Funny Guy / The Poison Pen, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 1:57pm

    
    

    Wish I could square dance......

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    A Funny Guy / The Poison Pen, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 1:59pm

    
    

    Apparently the Internet is to blame for the circulation of nonsense:
    http://markpasc.org/weblog/2003/07/23/pacman_quote_solved>
    
    
    God that was so funny

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    mbuel76, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 2:14pm

    
    

    I think it's clear media does effect some people to go out and act wrecklessly. But it's like the officer said (From TFA):
    “Look, in the proper perspective . . . if everyone imitated a videogame such as that, we’d have to ban cars,” he said.
    But... it's not just videogame media that these few are imitating. What came first street racing, or movies about street racing or games about street racing? It's obvious that the street racing crowd existed before movies like the fast and the furious made it popular, and games like midnight club and need for speed played off the popularity more.
    Some people are just going to be ... sensitive to such exposure. Especially when the parents give them a high end car with alot of power. (mercedes at 18?)
    Here in washington there was an accident caused by street racing yesterday, that left one of the kids dead and the victims of the other cars not involved in racing injured.
    So I think it's a couple of things:
    1) the media is playing up the connection not the police.
    2) there is a connection. But like the police officer said, it's only one piece to the puzzle. These kids were obsessed with speed, their parents let them play games constantly that are innapropriate for them, watch the fast and the furious, hang out with the wrong crowd. It's but one piece in the recipe for disaster.
    If you are a parent you can prevent this behaviour, by promoting _safe_ racing behaviour. take your kid down to the track. Don't buy them a car that can hit 60 in under 5 seconds. (hell they shouldn't have a car that can hit 60 in under 10 seconds!)

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    wolff000, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 2:30pm

    
    

    "1) the media is playing up the connection not the police.
    2) there is a connection. But like the police officer said, it's only one piece to the puzzle. These kids were obsessed with speed, their parents let them play games constantly that are innapropriate for them, watch the fast and the furious, hang out with the wrong crowd. It's but one piece in the recipe for disaster.
    If you are a parent you can prevent this behaviour, by promoting _safe_ racing behaviour. take your kid down to the track. Don't buy them a car that can hit 60 in under 5 seconds. (hell they shouldn't have a car that can hit 60 in under 10 seconds!)"
    
    You are absolutely right if this was slashdot I would have defintely slapped Insightful on this post. Gamers are too quick to blame parents when games do have a small fraction of blame in these types of accidents. Parents are also too quick to blame the games when they should have been supervising thier snot nosed brats(can you tell I don't like kids?). Anyways great post, I tip my hat to you!

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    !mp, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 2:34pm

    
    

    Umm.. I know a lot of kids who run around in dark rooms munching on pills listening to repetitive electronica.
    Could Pac-man be the source of the rave subculture?

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    Ben McNelly, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 2:38pm

    
    

    There is logicaly a point that when you emulate a game alot, you get hyped up and want to do it in real life in some sircumstances. For example, my buddies and I were watching a cool video on google video of some German guys free running and jumping and crap, and it was absalutely awsome. So we decided to give it a try that night, with the same results as a kid who gets used to 0 model damage racing and goes and tries it in the real world. BTW, jumping off a 17 foot roof IS A BAD IDEA, I dont care what anybody else says...
    My point is, you will have more people street racing than hunting zombies, because of certain practicality issues. However, you cant go around blaming influences like video games for the stupid stuff people do. I personaly have more fun with mario cart that NFS and realy wish I had a turtle launcher mounted on my car.
    From a completly serious stance though, if you must blame sombody blame the whole frigging media industry, and while we are at it lets blame them for the spread of sexualy transmitted disseases, aborted children and broken homes because of thier pushing the evolope of sexual revalution for the last 40 years. Ok, that went from serious to half sarcastic real quick, but you get the point...
    

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    volition

    

    jdw242, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 2:40pm

    
    

    humans have free will, yet some societies choose to take away their ability to be responbile for their chosen actions, ergo stupidity grows.
    
    Having the game in the car is an irrelevant fact. Choosing to street race and killing someone is hardly something an inanimate object could cause someone to do. Did the game swing their arms behind their backs and 'make' them drive?
    
    so "Put the... reponsibility where it belongs: on the idiots behind the wheels of the cars."
    
    Blame isn't necessary; it's 2006.

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    Purist, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 3:16pm

    
    

    Why can't it be like it was before video games. People didn't race vehicles. There were no murderers or serial killers. Everyone loved police.
    
    DAMN YOU VIDEO GAMES YOU HAVE RUINED SOCIETY

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    Steve, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 3:39pm

    
    

    Ravers were former Pac*Man players?

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    THANK YOU!

    

    Anonymous Coward, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 6:10pm

    
    

    Preachin' to the choir!!!!!

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    One Question...

    

    Aaron, Jan 26th, 2006 @ 6:14pm

    
    

    I have only one question... Was the game driving the car?

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    Evidence

    

    Hedwig, Jan 27th, 2006 @ 1:18am

    
    

    Well... I just read the article, and it turns out that the police found more evidence that could explain the accident:
    
    They found a REAL CAR. Maybe the kids were driving that? Worse: they also found a GAS PEDAL and a STEERING WHEEL (maybe not on the front seat, but pretty close to it). So it could be possible that there is a connection between the crash and the (improper) use of these devices...
    
    No, serious, get real: they crashed because they were stupid.

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    Sparktikus, Jan 28th, 2006 @ 9:30pm

    
    

    Nah....in the 80's they mostly snorted. Pills were so 70's.

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    street racing

    

    they call me kc, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 7:09am

    
    

    i live my life a quarter mile at a time and for those 82 seconds im free haha rice for life hell yeah ford suck and your mom does to

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    Re: volition

    

    mike, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 9:34am

    
    

    I agree with you. If there is anything I have noticed over the years it is that, kids today are raised by the tv and as soon as there "little angels" do anything wrong it can"t be the kids fault. So the parents will tear apart the kids room to find anything relating to what the kid did and place the blame on so much as a movie poster!

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    creatures of habit

    

    R Anderson, Feb 27th, 2006 @ 1:25pm

    
    

    I don't think it has anything to do with intelligence levels. Human beings are creatures of habit and its been prove we are affected by TV, games, etc and those experiences can become learned behavior. If a kid has had a habit since they were old enough to hold a controller of driving a virtual vehicle at wreckless speeds, running from cops, and thinking they were immune to death, what do you think they will tend to do when behind the wheel of a real vehicle? I suspect that at the least, they would react in in certain circumstances out of that habit.
    

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    w/e your article is pointless

    

    Anonymous Coward, Mar 23rd, 2006 @ 7:22am

    
    

    It's pointless to blame a vido game for all the worlds problems.... This is just a load of nonsense distributed from people with nothing better to do.

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    I agree with the argument!

    

    Sam Butler, Mar 23rd, 2006 @ 7:34am

    
    

    Yes i believe that violence on tv and in video games, play a very important part in shapping peoples attitudes and perspectives. A person after playing a game such as this (need for speed) would diffently be left with an imprint, condoling that, speeding and disrespecting the rules of the road are enjoyable.Also that these acts can be done anywhere that the conditions are suitable! Even on a popular highway in Toronto. These imprint are not only jeopardizing the players lives but the lives of every other motor vehicle opperator on that highway.

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    the Anonymous Coward, Apr 3rd, 2006 @ 7:18am

    
    

    The idea of a world where people do not take responibility for their actions, and blame it on a video game.... It just sickens me, i know that a person can be temperarily thrown off... to a degree by a video game but that is no reason for that person to mimic or imitate set video game. the driver is the cause of this crash not the video, the cab driver, or any other element of the accident.

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    i am highly offended b this article

    

    the Anonymous Coward, Apr 3rd, 2006 @ 7:22am

    
    

    i know your getting tired of hearing from me but i got nothing better to do, people must be taken up and made responsible for their own actions.... the person that drove that car was the only thing that really matters if he hadnt decided to have a street race then none of this would even happen. i would hat to think that if i ever get murdered, run over, beaten, stabed, etc.... the tradgety would be blamed on a video game, if you want to race do it leggaly! join a race track!

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    the Anonymous Coward, Apr 3rd, 2006 @ 7:24am

    
    

    .... i typed in the subject wrong last time..... good bye i am too discusted to type anymore.

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    Racing games

    

    colonel poopy pants, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 7:08am

    
    

    I do not understand what i am saying. Can you tell me what i am saying officer. I feel special!!! Can you tell me if you are a gorilla. You are a monkey boy and i have problems.

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    Racing games

    

    colonel poopy pants, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 7:13am

    
    

    I do not understand what i am saying. Can you tell me what i am saying officer. I feel special!!! Can you tell me if you are a gorilla. You are a monkey boy and i have problems.

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    Don't know

    

    Mr.STUPIDITY, Apr 28th, 2006 @ 8:50am

    
    

    I know where you live

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    Jessica, Jun 11th, 2006 @ 4:11pm

    
    

    I find this completly shocking for TEENAGERS to copy such a horrible idea! there old enough not to do stupid things. but killing a cab driver? this is extremly unnesesary! I play need for speed and it is not bad. But imatating? If you want to play a game look at the rating like: rated E for everyone.
    that is sutible
    not things that are rated mature for kids
    This case had me shocked! R.I.P cab driver
    *sob*

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    Re: w/e your article is pointless

    

    Anonymous cowerd's girlfriend, Jun 11th, 2006 @ 4:19pm

    
    

    I agreee!!!!! sweetie pie*kiss*

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    ... wow

    

    TheSMRTone, Jan 9th, 2007 @ 6:39am

    
    

    I both agree and disagree with most of the posts in here.. because I play NFS(alot), and in real life, (attempt) to drift, e-brake donuts, do donuts, and race... but the difference is I have a little tiny bit of brain to realize that an accident can really hurt... so do it somewere like a track or a realllly big empty parking lot(cops love that)... no use killing me AND someone else when they don't deserve it...

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