Bloke stabbed while queuing for GTA IV
Blimey, I knew it was realistic, but…
LITTLE DID I KNOW when I wrote yesterday that gamers would never experience the violence of GTA IV for real unless they were very unlucky, that a very unlucky geezer was about to be stabbed while standing in line to buy a copy and another had his jaw broken.
Queues formed outside many games shops when the much-hyped game went on sale and around a hundred punters had gathered at Gamestation in Croydon, South London, when a 23-year-old gameist was stabbed several times by a hooded passer by while standing in the queue.
The real cops were summoned and took him to a real hospital, where he was later discharged.
All this excitement was experienced at absolutely no charge to the participants, the knife wielder having legged it before the plod turned up, possibly in a stolen car. It would be nice to think so.
Meanwhile, another hapless gamer was on his way home having coughed up forty quid for the game, when he was set upon by a group of ruffians and relieved of his copy along with several of his teeth.
The miscreants punched the victim to the ground and gave him a good kicking, breaking his nose and jaw. Police described the villains as being clean shaven, so they obviously weren't avid fans of the game. µ
L'Inq
London
Times
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Sorry to destory your article..
Neither the guy that was stabbed or the attacker were actually in the queue to buy the game, the incident occured NEAR the midnight queue for the game..As usual, The Inquirer gets it totally wrong..
AT adds: Destory, eh? Take it up with the Times.
In England!
When I read the headline Chicago came to mind but jolly old London did not. I guess there are immature thugs everywhere.ouch!
Definition of irony? Being beaten up and having your copy of GTAIV stolen from you.Anyone sense a newsnight debate coming on?
@ Regulas
The UK is probably as bad now for violent crime as 1980s NY, in certain places anyway, if not worse. The problem is the current government, much as it as way back when, in the US.Not newsworthy
People get stabbed all of the time. If the guy had been stabbed in line while waiting to buy vegetables, it wouldn't have been published anywhere.INQ wrong as usual.
As has already been said they guy was NOT in the queue he was a passer-by, this incident had nothing at all to do with the queue for GTA IV a friend was in that queue and saw the whole thing.SM says: Well we never get the truth get in the way of a good story.
FUD
I remember right where I was when the Weasel news broke. Sacked in front the telly wearin me jim-jams whilst slurping a delicious bowl of toasted kerfuffles. A robbing hoodie, in Blighty? and during a mayoral election that is so brutally fought out over the airwaves. The sort of griminal activity that cast an egg of calamity over an otherwise sticky wicket of police in shorts in a row over escorts. Yet no vicar or spokesplod has advanced the motive it's San Andreas' fault! Wait until they up the congestion charge, and then grab the wanker with the forty quid. If this sort of Punch and Judy sleaze jokes is all that's on, have I got news for you; I reached for the zapper to conker them off. I was looking expressly for a raunchy Lebanese singer; but I guess any mangababy monkee can do.SM says: you're hired
A Bit Tasteless
However funny irony is, I don't think it's ever funny that a man gets stabbed repeatedly, maybe one stab is okay.here we go again
andrew, andrew, andrew, andreware you taking any illegal drugs while you write articles?
ex: E, weed, coke, crack, pain killer + vodka, spray paint, and etc.
AND
perhaps you did got a wet dream, where you had a 3P with C. Ronaldo & Rooney they poked you hard, and you loved it, so you can't tell the difference between a dream world and the reality.
"oh there were some people got killed in Iraq, Sudan, and/or London, its GTA!! the game."
"oh damn! there were some people driving like a nut crack on the high way, and dealing drugs, its GTA!! the game."
"oh MY GOD, there were some h00kers on the street selling their body for bullets in Amsterdam, its GTA!! the game."
very funny andrew, NO, i ain't laughing nor cracking up.
when you get your ass "fired" from the inquirer, oh guess what, its GTA!! the game again, because you want to steal your CEO's car and bang his wife, kill her and get your money back.
Andrew, use your (god) (nature) given brain in a more fashionable manner please, your sh!t is getting old, and it's still stinky! ouuuuu sh!t, i can smell it across the Atlantic, *p-uzz p-uzz i need to spray some air fresher, ouuuu what a "toilet mouth", ITS GTA THE GAME AGAIN ANDREW.
stinky~~ its ANdrewu, AN-druw is ZzTiNkii
(you suck as well for C. Ronaldo & Rooney, oh its GTA!!! the game's fault. because you suck & blow)