Jack Thompson Wants Miami GTA Bus Ads Taken Down

Where ya been, Jack? GTA IV’s coming out in four days and only now I’m hearing from you? I would’ve thought you’d have started raising a stink a week ago. Guess you’re waiting for the real s*** show to begin next Tuesday, right?

Well you’re certainly getting your engines warmed up. These Miami bus stop ads for the game (kind of like the ones in Chicago)? You wrote a nice little letter to the Miami Mayor detailing all the reasons why they are a threat to our harmonious American society:

“I was shocked today to see a six-foot-high advertisement for Grand Theft Auto IV, a hyperviolent video game…on the side of a Metro Miami-Dade bus stop located… near Children’s Hospital. In fact, the advertisement was adjacent to a kids’ park.”

Never mind that the ad (pictured to la right) is no more than a picture of an admittedly gruff-looking individual, but only a picture nonetheless. But oh! It suggests so much as you say:

“The Grand Theft Auto games have been obsessively played by a number of teens who have then copycatted the outrageous, sociopathic violence in the games and killed innocent people.”

You know, today I saw a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger online. He was shaking hands with some union leaders in LA. But then suddenly I remembered that scene in Commando where he rips a dude in half, and I immediately wanted to go kill people. For shame that Arnold should go around showing a visage that has been associated with such acts of mass violence!

PS: I think it’s funny how Thompson makes such a big deal about the fact that the ad is “six-foot-high”. If it were three and a half would you be making such a big fuss, Jack?