Grand Theft Auto...There's Theft in This Game?

Forrest Gump once said "Stupid is as stupid does".

Well check out this New York Times story about a lawsuit against the game Grand Theft Auto.

From the article:

Lawyers who sued the makers of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas profess to be shocked, simply shocked, that few people who bought the game were offended by sex scenes buried in its software.

Any buyer upset about hidden sex in the violent game could file a claim under a settlement the lawyers struck with the game’s makers, Rockstar Games and its corporate parent, Take-Two Interactive. Of the millions of people who bought the San Andreas version after its release in 2004, exactly 2,676 filed claims.

Its true, sex sells! But the number of people who filed claims is not what is surprising to me. It's the stupidity of some people out there who actually purchased the game.

Check out more from the article:

For example, Brenda Stanhouse, who bought the game for her son, 15 years old at the time, said in a deposition that she did not know that a player in the game could “stomp to death innocent pedestrians.”

She also did not know that the game included prostitutes, that players could kill policemen or that “a player in the game can kill innocent pedestrians and steal money from them.”

“I’m aware that there is killing in the game,” Ms. Stanhouse said in the deposition. “I wasn’t aware of the stealing.”

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the name of the game is Grand Theft Auto, right??