GTA 5 Fan Hit With A Brick, Stabbed And Robbed After Picking Up Copy At Midnight

[Kalipo]

A 23-year-old man was hit with a brick, stabbed and robbed after picking up one of the first copies of Grand Theft Auto V at midnight.

The victim was attacked after he left an Asda store in north London just 80 minutes after the notoriously violent video game went on sale.

He was stripped of his mobile phone, watch and his copy of GTA V near the supermarket.

The man is now recovering in hospital where he is said to be in a stable condition.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "The victim had been shopping and was on his way home when he was hit with a brick.

"He was then stabbed and robbed."

Police, who were called to Princes Avenue in Colindale at 1.22am, said the motive for the attack was unclear.


GTA 5 Fan Hit With A Brick, Stabbed And Robbed After Picking Up Copy At Midnight

Define irony, Going and Buying a game that glorifies street violence and mugging and then being meeting street violence in the flesh and being mugged.

[super jumbe]

When we are told to watch Grand Theft Auto people act like Grand Theft simple!!!!!!!!!

[gc1966]

irony,i thought it was a brick????

[RedSpider]

Again, the game gets the blame. What if he was buying milk at asda? Would the milk get the blame if some cretins mugged and stabbed him? I've harboured murderous and psychopathic thoughts since I was a small boy - long before I ever played any GTA game - and I have never stabbed any daft sods that are dumb enough to cross my path. Not yet anyway. And if/when I do, I'll be damned if I'm letting any silly game take the credit.

[firemouth]

When we are told to watch Grand Theft Auto people act like Grand Theft simple!!!!!!!!!

Ok, so the best estimate of the number of copies GTA4 sold is 25 million, GTA5 should be around 1 million by now.
this gives not the slightest indication that GTA players act like GTA characters.
quite the opposite in fact!

[Canker_Canison]

Ok, so the best estimate of the number of copies GTA4 sold is 25 million, GTA5 should be around 1 million by now.
this gives not the slightest indication that GTA players act like GTA characters.
quite the opposite in fact!

It wasn't even a GTA player that committed the crime. It was nothing more than a mugging.

GTA isn't about street crime, it's about organised crime.

I may just pick a copy up & see if I get back into my old habits of killing prostitutes & trying to kill the entire population in the game.