| GTA Banned in Thailand |
 GTA Banned in Thailand Wed, 6 August 2008 Copycat teenager kills taxi driver
 Too obscene?
"The police are empowered to immediately arrest shopkeepers if they find any GTA games on sale," said police spokesman Ruangsak Jaritake.
"GTA is banned mainly because of its obscene content - under the criminal law article 287 that prohibits reproduction, distribution or possession of such material," he said. He said the police will work with the Culture Ministry to check that online gaming sites are properly licensed and will block websites which offer violent games. - news.com.au The 18 year-old student who is believed to have killed the taxi driver may now face the death penalty or life imprisonment, despite insisting he is too poor to buy video games.
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