http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,87414,00.html
I swear this is an Onion article that was mistakenly posted on CNN.
The Matrix made me do it.
:rolleyes:
Oh good GOD.
Well, it was on the FOX website, not CNN’s. Which makes it only slightly less Onionesque.
Ahhh, so that’s why they call it the Matrix “Reloaded”.
In the Great Debates forum:
Jeez. Some folks will blame anything to get out of responsibility for their own actions.
Even if you thought you were in the matrix, you would also know that killing someone in the matrix kills them for real. So there’s really no defense for murder there, as you know you were killing them.
Unfortunately, it’s very probable that if you plant a meme into the heads of 15 million people, a few of them will be total nutjobs who believe it…
The recent final episode of BUFFY gave me the same worry: all women who are potential Vampire Slayers are now actual Vampire Slayers. Ugh.
See, in the mail for Cecil a few months ago was a letter from someone who asked whether she was a Slayer, she kills vampires really well.
::: Shudder:::
Wow, Dexter, I have no idea whether I should laugh or cry about that.
Did you answer her?
Thanks for the GD link.
My mind is still boggled.
I bet pharmaceutical companies are avoiding manufacturing cherry red and baby blue pills like the plague right now.
Eh. I don’t see the big deal. Crazy people react to normal stimuli in crazy ways. Some people think Satan is talking to them through their toaster oven. This fact doesn’t doesn’t tell us anything about toaster ovens. Similarly, people who think the Matrix is an excuse to commit homicide are not a reflection on anything in or about the movie. They’re unable to interpret reality in any rational manner, why should we be surprised when they’re unable to interpret fiction in a rational manner?
And, of course, The Matrix has a long, long way to go before it catches up with the Bible as the primary inspiration for paranoid schizophrenics.
ARGH! DAMN YOU! ARGH!!!
weeps I don’t have cable, so I didn’t watch most of this season, so I was going to wait to see the last ep until I’d got caught up…
sob sob sob
Please, please, please use a spoiler next time. The show was only on last night.
So… is Doom finally off the hook?
Yes, Hauky, but not for long… see, iD software noticed the faltering rate of “Doom Defenses”, so they’re making a new one so as to maintain their record.
I think it’s humorously ironic that considering the main philosophical thoughts in Reloaded are on causality that we should be reading this story where the lawyers are getting causality all screwed up.
People like this don’t like violence because of The Matrix. They like The Matrix because they like violence. Always getting it backwards…
LOS ANGELES — The Matrix (search) has taken the entertainment world by storm ever since it created a cult-like following of fans in 1999, but in some cases the obsession may have turned to murder.
A number of separate slayings since the film’s debut have one thing in common: the accused were fascinated with The Matrix.
In February, 19-year-old Jason Reeds, Oliveton, NC, bought a shotgun similar to the one used by Keanu Reeves’ character Neo, and shot his parents to death in their home. He already owned a pair of “really cool shades” said a neighbor.
Reeds then proceeded to mow down one hundred and forty-five law enforcement officers attempting to arrest him. Jumping and flipping from rooftop to rooftop and producing over twenty types of firearms from underneath his trenchcoat, Reeds was able to elude and kill scores of officers chasing him for over forty minutes. “Some of our officers attempted to make the thirty yard jump from house to house, but they were unfortunately unable to make it,” said Capt. Gerard O’Toole of the Oliveton police force. The death of five officers jumping from roofs is not included in the charges against Reeds.
Reeds was finally apprehended after injuring sixty-seven officers in hand to hand battle. “When he kept breaking the handcuffs we managed to get on him, Sgt. Hanson had the bright idea of slapping for 'cuffs on at once… that finally held him,” beam Officer Jenkins describing the bloody conflict.
“The oddest thing is that we would never have apprehended him,” Jenkins added, “if he hadn’t stopped and tried to make a phone call.”
From the article
One thing?
Ummm, how about they all have people who committed crimes and now have a really weak defense strategy.
Sorry, people accused of committing crimes.