Three teenagers in Atlanta, Georgia have been arrested on 57 counts of firebombing cars with Molotov cocktails over the last week.
Six vehicles were bombed and each teenager faces 19 counts including arson, criminal damage to property and possession of explosive devices.
When arrested however, the teens, ages 15 or 16, each said they learned “how to do it from playing the video game ‘Grand Theft Auto’.” After the incidents, investigators went to the local Wal-Mart and found receipts containing Sprite bottles, red rags and lighter fluid. Surveillance footage did the rest.
The incident is the second in under a week in which real life crime has been linked to ‘Grand Theft Auto’, Rockstar’s exceptional PC and console game.
In Thailand earlier this week, the game was pulled from shelves after a taxi driver was killed in what the murderer called a “recreation” of a scene from the game.
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Sony has announced that it will be recalling over 440,000 Vaio branded notebooks worldwide due to the fact that wiring faults could cause overheating.
The notebooks in question are 19 separate Vaio models from the TZ series that were manufactured from May 2007 to the present.
Sony says that “wires have been put in the wrong position near the hinge, while a flaw in the circuit board that controls the screen also may cause overheating.” As a result, a few customers have been burnt by their laptops.
Sony did note however that there were no complaints in the UK and that “a product recall is not required” in the region.
The electronics giant has received 210 reports of overheating and in seven of the incidents users received minor burns.
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One month after being found guilty of breaking net neutrality laws, the large U.S. ISP Comcast has appealed the decision in hopes of having the ruling overturned.
On August 1st the Commission found Comcast guilty of improperly “throttling” P2P and BitTorrent traffic without letting its users know that it was doing so. In court the ISP admitted that it temporarily slowed down service for top bandwidth users when the network was congested.
“The commission’s action was legally inappropriate and its findings were not justified by the record,” Comcast Executive Vice President David L. Cohen added in a press release.
“I’m certainly disappointed they ended up appealing,” FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin said. “The commission has done a very thorough job on investigating the complaint. We thought we needed to step in and protect consumers’ access to the Internet.”
