Suspect Confuses Life with Grand Theft Auto Series
FairCityNews.com | Jul 16, 2009 | Comments 0
Stone County, MO—An attempted home invasion ended in a high speed chase, the chase of a detective’s car and a video game simulation.
Deputies responded to a home on Highway 248, to check a report of a home invasion. They arrested a suspect and placed that character in the front seat of a detective’s automobile, however, the suspect managed to get into the driver’s seat and take off at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour.
The suspect said, “I was fairly certain I was living ‘real’ life and then the cops placed me into the car and I was certain this was a ‘virtual’ situation that I could beat.”
The actions of the suspect consisted of a mixture of action, adventure, driving, and occasional role-playing, stealth and racing elements and gained controversy for its adult nature and violent themes.
“He said he enabled a cheat code that affected the weather, his wanted status and his health. We caught him in the end so there’s no cheatin’ the law,” said Stone County Sheriff Richard L. Hill.
The man hit one vehicle, blew out a tire, but continued to drive north on Highway 65 until the Missouri Highway Patrol was able to deflate the vehicle’s tires using stop sticks.
They eventually tasered the man when he tried to run, about a mile south of Ozark depleting his health bar. The 36-year-old suspect is in the Stone County Jail awaiting a digital jail break mission.
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