Video Games Midnight GTAIV stabbing!!

**QuikSsurfer** · 04-29-2008, 04:06 PM

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6190070.html

Midnight launches aren't always the gaming industry's proudest moments. The PlayStation 3 release in particular was riddled with launch-related crimes, including a mugging, a store robbery, a launch line hold-up, and a shooting.

Grand Theft Auto IV went on sale in stores around the world at 12:01 a.m. this morning, and already reports of criminal midnight launch madness are starting to filter in. BBC News is reporting on a pair of incidents, with news of a stabbing outside a Gamestation in Croydon and a mugging by another game store in Lancashire.

According to the news service, a 23-year-old man was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant as he passed a line outside the Gamestation. The victim was treated for several stab wounds and has since been released. The attacker, who police said appeared to be waiting in the line of about 50 to 100 people, was not apprehended.

In the mugging, an 18-year-old was robbed of his copy of the game and beaten as he walked home from the store with a friend. The victim was taken to the hospital with a broken jaw and a broken nose.

Police are asking for witnesses in both cases to step forward.

**QuikSsurfer** · 04-29-2008, 04:07 PM

Anyone remember the Wii Midnight Launch?? Everyone passed out cookies and cupcakes.

oaklandhater · 04-29-2008, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

Anyone remember the Wii Midnight Launch?? Everyone passed out cookies and cupcakes.

I was at the wii launch and the GTAIV midnight launch Last Night every thing was very calm.

The manger at Gamestop even let us play GTAIV on the xbox360 kiosk while we waited it was very nice.

**chasedude** · 04-29-2008, 04:44 PM

I miss this show!

**TinyEvel** · 04-29-2008, 04:57 PM

I walked into Best Buy this morning around 10:30 and there were about four "thuggy" people in line with the game. I capped all their asses and ran over three old people on the way out of the lot.

KCChiefsMan · 04-29-2008, 04:58 PM

The only Midnight launch I ever went to was the Halo 2 one. There was a bunch of drunk 18 year olds hootin' and hollering in Lawrence. I rolled up at about 10 til midnight and cut in line and got out of there in 20 minutes.

**TinyEvel** · 04-29-2008, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by KCChiefsMan

The only Midnight launch I ever went to was the Halo 2 one. There was a bunch of drunk 18 year olds hootin' and hollering in Lawrence. I rolled up at about 10 til midnight and cut in line and got out of there in 20 minutes.

Gangsta man, straight up gangsta!

KCChiefsMan · 04-29-2008, 05:07 PM

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Gangsta man, straight up gangsta!

why wait in line when you don't have to?

Taco John · 04-29-2008, 05:37 PM

I like the ironic karmic justice of some innocent being stabbed at a midnight launch of GTA. I wonder who are the biggest losers - the folks that stand in line at a GTA launch, or the folks that dress up and stand in line for Star Wars.

I'm going to go with the GTA losers, just for the fact that they don't have to be creative in the least. They just have to be losers.

KCChiefsMan · 04-29-2008, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Taco John

I like the ironic karmic justice of some innocent being stabbed at a midnight launch of GTA. I wonder who are the biggest losers - the folks that stand in line at a GTA launch, or the folks that dress up and stand in line for Star Wars.

I'm going to go with the GTA losers, just for the fact that they don't have to be creative in the least. They just have to be losers.

playing a game makes you a loser? It's karma that someone standing in line for this game got stabbed? huh? wtf?

Taco John · 04-29-2008, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by KCChiefsMan

playing a game makes you a loser? It's karma that someone standing in line for this game got stabbed? huh? wtf?

I never said playing games makes you a loser. This isn't chemistry class here. No hard words, or things to memorize.

KCChiefsMan · 04-29-2008, 06:01 PM

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I never said playing games makes you a loser. This isn't chemistry class here. No hard words, or things to memorize.

OK, waiting in line for a CERTAIN game makes you a loser? that's what you implied, I would like to think you could have figured out what I meant.

'Hamas' Jenkins · 04-29-2008, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Taco John

I never said playing games makes you a loser. This isn't chemistry class here. No hard words, or things to memorize.

JBucc · 04-29-2008, 06:14 PM

My vote for biggest loser goes to the guys who have their own board then spend all of their time on a rival board. Double lame if they only post in that board's political forum. Now if we could just find someone like that.

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 04-29-2008, 06:20 PM

Ali is The Biggest Loser.

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JBucc MVP Join Date: Oct 2005 Casino cash: $10004952	My vote for biggest loser goes to the guys who have their own board then spend all of their time on a rival board. Double lame if they only post in that board's political forum. Now if we could just find someone like that.
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