Daily Mail: Dad Finds Ecstacy Pills In Second Hand GTA4

A father-of-two was horrified to discover four ecstasy pills hidden inside a computer game he bought from a High Street chain store.

The father says he got the game from a GameStation store, but the copy shown in the photo actually has a Blockbuster sticker. You make your minds up!

[KingKionic]

i knew this game was mature,but ecstasy? lol

[STEVIE_]

This guy looks like a junkie.

[Andronix]

Reminds me of that crappy joke:- A diner at a restaurant calls out "Waiter, waiter there's a fly in my soup" the waiter conspiratorially runs over to him and says "Ssshuch, stop boasting or everyone will want one!"

I don't know why the dad called the police, he should have tried to sell them. He could have made around £15 quid which could have gone towards the cost of buying his son another game, what a bad father.

[40cal]

He needs to just eat them and stop complaining. LOL

[Dino]

this jackass let his 12 yr old kid play a mature only game.

[Sonyslave3]

lol the drugs probably belong to his brother he probably grab his brother copy of gta 4.

[d0nT wOrrY]

or, he probably Fixme180 fanboy who get mad of no games to play and start to deals with pills hahaha

[Deadman64]

ya your both pretty wierd

[GUNS N SWORDS]

it's probably cause of the dudes this kid's been hanging out with, i mean how else did he manage to obtain the drugs with out any accomplices. (i was asked 10 times to smoke out when i was at some guy's place, when i was 17, i rejected all of them btw :)

i think this guy should eventually give his son "the talk" :)

[Spolodaface]

You said "no"? If I was offered free weed i'd be jumping for joy.

[christian hour]

Me too! Nothing wrong with a bit of free herb! Sure beats that poisonous alcohol crap everyone seems to find acceptable to some degree. Got myself some nice quality northern lights. Anyones welcome to join me for a smoke if they can find me :P

[Neo604]

doing crime while on x.

[squidyj]

that guy looks a little haggard if you ask me, i'm not sure i trust him.

[edhe]

Never mind him,

Don't trust the publication.

That 'branch' of the media do nothing but demonise and sensationalise.

[forcefullpower]

He looks Fvuked himself. I bet hes taken so many drugs that he forgot that he put it in there himself. He also get money from the article.

Druggies seem to be getting more ingenious about making cash for there habit.

[GameGambits]

There is no way in this world that guy in this picture does not do some illegal drug. He 100% looks addicted to something and that's not disputable.

My copy of Rapelay I bought came with a mouth gag and a 17 year old asian girl who was tied up.

[GameOn]

Was the girl wearing the gag and stuffed in a small box?

[christian hour]

Asians are known to be very small people. I'm not surprised one bit she'd fit in a game box!

[xabmol]

All I got was a sh*tty game. >_>

[enviable27]

Why is this guy letting his kid play GTA4 to begin with? Isn't this how lame stupid news reports start coming out on Fox News??

[Biphter]

They mention that the father was allowing his 12 year old son to play GTA IV, but failed to catch into the fact that the game has an 18 rating. BOING!

[MovieScouse007]

I bet this chavvy moron would blame the game if his son was caught with a gun/drugs/stealing a car/in a fight!
He lets his 12 year old play a game meant for 18's and over, his responsibility, but will avoid responsibility when it backfires on him!

[christian hour]

Well I think it's clear to everyone except the Daily Mail and it's readers (pronounced Sheeple) that this is just some careless father looking for cash. Where's the proof he found it in the box? I think I'm gonna claim I found child pornography in my Golden Grahams!

[oldsnayke]

That just means they have nothing of interest to talk about.

[disrupt3r]

So that's where i left them! :(

[DeeBee]

What I find ironic about this entire incident is ... look at the picture, see that number 18 in the red circle at the bottom left? Yeah it means something, like the game is unsuitable for people below that age ... say a 12 year old son for example! I can't believe they buy their, under age, child that game and then get all concerned for the safety of their son.

Couple that with the fact the father came out with this classic ... "They had Mitsubishi signs on them, which I recalled meant they were ecstasy pills" ... call me ignorant but I have no clue what an ecstasy pill looks like. I strongly suspect the pills were not in the game until way after it got to their home.

[FreestyleBarnacle]

My favourite is the last line.
'Although forensic tests were not conducted, it was more than likely they were ecstasy pills.'
If it had come from Cooking Mama do you think they would have concluded that it was valium?

[ShabzS]

period !! ... orange box weap your eyes out

[fossilfern]

Looks like he took some

[TheTCD]

I left a comment on the news article, but as all comments are screened by oppressors of free speech, I doubt it will get published.

Needless to say, I am not entirely pleased with this "journalism". There is supposed to be integrity in journalism, but I'll be damned if I can find any in this sensationalist article. But then, this is the Daily Mail, a paper that has pretty much single-handedly led a crusade against games for the best part of 15 years or more. I guess integrity is never that high on their agenda if it shifts copies to parents still stuck with the stigma that games are for kids, and that the 18 sticker on the front is nothing more than a visual nuisance.

The victim is not the parent if the parent is irresponsible enough to provide age restricted content to a minor.

But as I am amongst gamers, I don't really need to reiterate, do I?

[Phantom_T]

Back when I was younger,I would use game cases to stash things as well.
His kids just used the "THEY WERE THERE WHEN I GOT IT I SWEAR" line.
Being born yesterday,his Dad believed it.

[PS360PCROCKS]

Unless I missed something, where the hell would a 12 yr old get X?

[PS360PCROCKS]

"They had Mitsubishi signs on them, which I recalled meant they were ecstasy pills."
lol that dude looks like he knows, he looks like a junkie. Secondly, why are you letting your 12 yr old play GTA IV?

[laaakokaracha]

its pretty common to call up your dealer and ask for a "CD" or "game" instead of saying I want pills...

Well but its not common to actually place them inside a box :D

mhh coincidence that it is a xbox game ?! jk...

[tudors]

the guy looks like he uses, I could be wrong but he looks like he does to me, also when he said "They had Mitsubishi signs on them, which I recalled meant they were ecstasy pills" it sounded made up like he was trying really hard to make people think he only sort of knew that Mitsubishi was used as a brand of ecstacy.

[pacowles]

Damn, I didn't even get a manual with my used copy of GTA4...let alone four free rolls. Maybe next time this dude won't buy 18+ games for his preteen kid.

[No Way]

Damn, I bet the owner of those Ecstasy pills is pretty distraught, too..

[OhReginald]

look for youself!!

[lawrence360x]

Its obvious someone put them there either while shopping and thought was going to get caught by either a parent or some other authority figure . I say this only because when you trade in games they always check to see if the game is scratched, and I would assume it would have fallen out when the employee open the case to see if it was in good shape or not . Unless they do things different in that game store .

[lawrence360x]

@ pacowles that was f-ing funny lmao .