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The fantasy world of video game street racing may have influenced two teenage boys accused of piloting real-life luxury cars in a high-speed contest that killed a taxi driver, police said Wednesday.

Why? Just because they found a PSP in the seat that had a game of Need for Speed in it? WTF were they doing driving and playing the PSP in the first place? That may sound harsh but, I feel this is just a quick fix to find a way to put the blame without having to really work hard enough to find out the real reason.
It sickens me whenever something bad happens and it gets blamed on a freaking video game!
People will go on on how smart the victims were before they tried to copy a video game. If they were that smart, there wouldn’t be a dead Taxi driver would there?

A copy of Need for Speed, a game that allows players to select custom cars and race them through crowded urban areas, was found on the front seat of one of the suspect’s cars following the late-night crash. “Here we have, in real life, two guys driving high-end cars at a high rate of speed in an urban area,” said Toronto police Det. Paul Lobsinger.

“I don’t think it’s a giant leap for people to say, ‘Wow, how does this go together?’ “

How does this go together? How does this go together? It bloody well doesn’t! It’s a fucking game people! If you can’t distinguish the difference between real life and a video game, you should not be allowed to play videos, see movies, or watch TV.
If the people want to be as so narrow minded to take the quick path to the most idiotic solution, we can go as far as saying, “The cop must have died chocking on a doughnut and crashed his cruiser into a pole,. (for example)”

The 18-year-old friends were racing a pair of Mercedes Benzes through one of the city’s wealthiest neighbourhoods on Tuesday night, reaching speeds of 140 kilometres an hour in a 50-kilometre zone, police allege.

Well I’m going to point the blind finger here. …. Racing a pair of Mercedes Benzes…through one of the city’s wealthiest neighbourhoods. Annnnd where were the rich parents? I don’t think a damn game had anything to do with it. I think this has a bit to do with spoiled brats that have parents let them get away with anything and have no idea what they do every night.

Read the complete story here. It really irks me to hear about this shit.
Now if there was something like some kid tried to jump outta’ pipes and smash a brick roof with his head while chasing magic mushrooms, well yea, I would say he’s trying to imitate a video game.

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