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'Grand Theft Auto' Credited With Saving Family's Lives
Okay, so this is something we don't see every day: A video game (specifically 'Grand Theft Auto,' of all things) is being credited with helping a teen girl save her family's lives.
The Ottawa Times reports that Audrey Plique, 11, pulled her Streator, Ontario family from the wreckage of their Jeep Grand Cherokee after it went off road, flipped four times, and landed on its side in a ditch. After the Jeep settled, she climbed out through the shatter rear window, and then helped free her family members and escort them to safety. She knew from 'Grand Theft Auto' that the car could catch fire and explode after such a serious accident.
Whether or not the whole car exploding thing was an actual possibility (see 'Mythbusters' exploding gas tank episode) is debatable, but young Audrey is certainly a hero.
This is good news for 'Grand Theft Auto,' given some of the blame the game has received for copycat murders in places like Thailand, which, ironically, announced this week that it was banning five games it considered too violent ('GTA IV' has alrady been pulled from store shelves there). [From: The Times via Shacknews]
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Subscribe to commentsScottSep 5th 2008 7:03AM
Emily,
Well stated!
Whiskey RunSep 5th 2008 8:07AM
No one needs a video game to tell them that you need to get injured people out of a vehicle and that it might explode. (That's what we have TV for!)
Zenman1976Sep 5th 2008 9:41PM
Actually if you haters bothered to play the game and absorb it as a whole piece of work as opposed to grabbing onto some singularly offensive moments you would find that although there are many unsavoury characters within it the main protagonist, Nico Bellic makes derisory comments about their actions at almost every turn.
There is also a strong anti drug message throughout the game and he will comment on the nature of peoples psychopathy in such a way that makes the "bad guys" seem like nothing more than sad and insecure "humans" within the game world, nothing is portrayed in a wholly glamorous form.
Not only that but the radio stations and advertisments do a bang up job of laying out an overall scathing perspective on today's politics, corruption, consumerism and overall violence and war based society.
Oh yeah and i friggin' love it.. ROLL ON THE DLC WE ARE WAITING..