[blacklineninja]

Just because you can drive well on the road or on a track in reality does not translate into a video game and vice versa, and just because slicing a Mexican drug pusher up with a chainsaw is amusing in Vice City, you wouldn't really want the mess on your Quiksilver jeans unless you had those sorts of tendencies in the first place.

If someone would be tempted to drive drunk/stoned as a result of playing GTA then damn, man, why is everyone growing up stupid?

Games have replaced movies as the new hate target of the horrified mothers brigade, a quick fix solution for pointing blame at for the state of society, rather than tackling the fact that criminals are not dissuaded or punished anymore.

There are some things you can do in games that are more fun in real life, you can't feel the surge of acceleration and the thrill of speed on your PlayStation. But street racing was going on in real life long before the games companies bought it to a console near you. Hey, it's somewhat safer than a pistol duel which was the old fashioned way of going out on the pull!

It's illegal and it's dangerous and I don't condone it, but people still want an outlet in real life for driving their cars competitively, despite the government/horrified mothers brigade whinging about how depraved it all is.

I recommend going to run what ya brung events and buying the available insurance when you get there and I feel there should be a lot more of them in more locations which would make an impact, but like anything you'll never completely eradicate illegal road racing, that's just the way it is.

Now if one more person tells me a car is just a means from getting from A to B I'm gonna fire a rocket propelled grenade up their ar...