Special Needs guy beat up over his GTA 5 copy

[waj9876]

There's a special place in hell for people who commit crimes against those with special needs.

It's the one where the fire ants continuously enter every hole in their body. And by fire ants I mean ants that are literally on fire. A hotter fire than the one that already surrounds them. As well as being reborn as a literal piece of shit. That is then set on fire.

I fucking despise the couple that did this. If you couldn't tell.

 

[Jadak]

If you're going to go to all the trouble to rob a special needs man, I'd hope you'd make off with more than just a single video game to return to Gamestop. Their exchange rates are horrible. It would barely pay for the gas used in the robbery.

To be fair, if they stole the receipt as well and the game was presumably unopened, they may have been trying to pass it off as their own recent purchase for a full refund, not the shitty exchange rates for trade-ins.

Regardless, $60-$70 is a pretty shitty payoff.

 

[Ryotknife]

I have travelled to the US three times and i must say, overall, the random encounters with strangers in the US i had were a hell of a lot less hostile than i get in Melbourne Australia.

Most people were friendly straight away, and then almost scarily friendly when they realised i was an Aussie.

Even the quite intimidating Puerto Rican gang i accidently stumbled across in Miami were really helpful when i asked for directions back to my hotel. Even bought me a hotdog.

That's probably because you were a tourist/foreigner, we do tend to be nice to visitors. We are just asses against other Americans, or people who want to become americans. A gallop poll showed that 90+% of Americans like Canadians, and you cant get 90% of Americans to agree on what color coal is.

There's a special place in hell for people who commit crimes against those with special needs.

It's the one where the fire ants continuously enter every hole in their body. And by fire ants I mean ants that are literally on fire. A hotter fire than the one that already surrounds them. As well as being reborn as a literal piece of shit. That is then set on fire.

I fucking despise the couple that did this. If you couldn't tell.

Soo....You would send them to Louisiana then?

Offtopic: I think I have an explanation for Florida. The heat makes you crazy. A lot of the crazy that goes down in the US seems to concentrate on the Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida corridor, which are also the hottest and most humid sections of the US.

To add to the list of crazy things that happen in this corridor in the past year, we have the naked guy high on bath salts in Florida who jumped off a roof onto an old man, defecated on his porch, and masturbated inside the old mans home while a shotgun was pointed at his head.

Then we have an incident where a man doused a woman in gasoline at a gas station, lit her on fire, and then proceed to chase her with a machete around the station.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Don't be an ass. I've lived in Arizona for seventeen years, a state that's likely bigger by itself than whatever country you live in, and have never come close to seeing such a thing, and can say with reasonable certainty that if someone saw it happen, they'd do something about it. I wouldn't stand idly by, either.

Not the point. The point being that that kind of story seems to come exclusively from the US (I know it's not the case, but still). I've yet to hear of someone being mugged over a game that the thief later tries to resale for next to nothing in any other part of the world.

The United States is a massive place with as many demographics as entire continents. One shitty spot the relative size of a dime doesn't reflect the whole.

When all you hear about the country as a whole comes from said shitty spot(s), it's difficult to come to another conclusion. And I'm not the only one thinking that.

 

[MysticSlayer]

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Wait, South Florida? Are you talking, more specifically, about Miami?

I've seen the whole 'let's hold the mattress on the roof with our hands' deal just about all over South Florida, but I guess for geography's sake I'll say Dade/Broward, since the West coast doesn't count. Miami does take the cake though, as I've seen the vast majority of cheeseball things in Miami. Second to the mattress nonsense is people towing cars in neutral, tied with rope to another car that shouldn't be towing anything (as in, no towing hitch).

Yeah, I've spent most of my time in Florida north of Broward and obviously north of Dade, and I don't think I've really ever seen that kind of stuff in the South-Central Florida or Central Florida regions. Still, stupid stuff happens everywhere, but Miami was among the worst I've seen. It still doesn't top Richmond, Virginia in terms of the sheer stupidity I've seen, but that might be because I had an excuse to move to Central Florida within a few months after moving there. Also, I found most of the stupidity in Miami more comedic. Richmond just frightened me.

 

[saintdane05]

What? No! This game does not induce violent tendencies at all!
I swear, us gamers are just asking for Fox News to make fun of us.

 

[GoaThief]

I have travelled to the US three times and i must say, overall, the random encounters with strangers in the US i had were a hell of a lot less hostile than i get in Melbourne Australia.

Most people were friendly straight away, and then almost scarily friendly when they realised i was an Aussie.

Even the quite intimidating Puerto Rican gang i accidently stumbled across in Miami were really helpful when i asked for directions back to my hotel. Even bought me a hotdog.

Hailing from the UK and experienced very similar things to you whilst travelling in the US (and elsewhere for that matter), it's a very friendly place compared to what I'm used to. Medium towns with little wealth over here are some of the most downright hostile locations I've been to. Random acts of violence and craziness are so commonplace, I honestly find inner city Bristol/London far more relaxing which can perplex some people.

 

[glider4]

A lot of incidents have been happening lately. I can't wait for fox news to report that it's GTA 5 and it's evil magic powers of corruption that are making people do bad things rather than the fact that it is an extremely high profile release that millions of people intend to buy meaning that conflicts will inevitably happen.

 

[ReinWeisserRitter]

Not the point. The point being that that kind of story seems to come exclusively from the US (I know it's not the case, but still). I've yet to hear of someone being mugged over a game that the thief later tries to resale for next to nothing in any other part of the world.

You should hear of some of the things that have happened to people during the releases of Dragon Quest in Japan, then. There are laws that apply solely to that series because people go fucking apeshit over it.

When all you hear about the country as a whole comes from said shitty spot(s), it's difficult to come to another conclusion. And I'm not the only one thinking that.

That's what happens when you're the most exposed country on the face of the planet; when everyone in the world is looking at you, chances are they're going to see more, and people have a tendency to only look at what they want to see. When was the last time you saw a happy story come out of the middle east? The horror and the desperation are all people cover, so that's all you hear about. In your case, you're looking for negativity to dwell on in the United States, but we as a species behave pretty god damned badly overall; your country's probably a regular offender itself, but the rest of the world isn't waiting to scrutinize everything it does, so chances are it hasn't been on worldwide news lately.

 

[hooglese]

Looks like someone committed Grand Theft Grand Theft Auto... V