In the video game Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories the point of the game is to kill cops, get the girl, and get the money. You have sex with prostitutes and then kill them when you’re done. Sounds lovely doesn’t it?

Well the Boston Herald doesn’t think so and believes the ads for the Rock Star video game on MBTA trains should be taken down. Of course everyone is pissing and whining about first amendment rights and youth violence. City Councilor Mike ross and a ton of other people have set up a petition for the greedy and ad hungry MBTA Train General Manager Dan Grabauskas to take down the ads.
My opinion? Well, these games are good to get your real aggression out instead of doing it in the real world. When the nightly news tells me how the prison populations keep growing I laugh and think “well, if 1,000 prisoners are locked in for 10 years and people get locked up every year without those 1,000 being released…..” of course it is going to grow as our population grows and sentences increase in length. Someone hire a statistics teacher for the nightly news please or get them good stories. No wonder people are turning to YouTube for entertainment. Read